What is the stupidest way you have lost $1000?

[Popinjay]

Thanks to Diplomat for the inspiration, this is the better thread.

[Diplomat]

"There is no way you can get that girl's number, dude"

-Diplomat

[wacki]

I forgot to check the oil in the lawnmower. Replacement engine was about about a grand.

[JTrout]

"That's bullshit!"
-JTrout to a police officer.

[Cyrus]

That's as stupid as it gets.


(Stupid Loans To People - What Were We Thinking? would make for a great thread on its own...)

[cielo]

In the line of JTrout

"Hey, you aren't going to arrest ME are you?"
-cielo to running at me oncoming riot cop, who had full gasmask/helmet on and definetly didn't hear me. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] That's by far the most I've ever paid in rent for one night's stay

[bugstud]

hmmm, many good ones for this thread. Vegas or gambling on video games, take your pick.

[obi---one]

ON the bus from the airport to cabo, left my wallet on the seat on the way to my friends bachelor party. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

More than a grand though

[A_C_Slater]

Using ten hundred dollar bills to light ten cigars in the course of one evening at a Fat Cat socialite party in Manhattan. I only had $1500 to my name at the time. But I just so desperately wanted to fit in.

[ddollevoet]

I backed my car into my dad's truck while it was parked in his driveway.