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29 Things Ruined for Everyone by Just a Few Idiots

Roy R. Jul 19, 2025 12:22 PM EDT

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It's frustrating when something good gets completely ruined by just a handful of people with zero common sense. Behind almost every weird rule, closed-off public area, or annoying policy is someone who spectacularly ruined it for everyone else. These stories prove it only takes a few clueless individuals to create rules that punish us all.

Explore 29 infuriating yet funny examples shared by people who saw great things ruined because of a few selfish or clueless folks. From closing public spaces due to vandalism, to overly cautious rules at work because someone once made a huge mistake, these examples highlight how quickly good things can go bad when idiots are involved.

u/Notmykl In my hometown KFC would give cops the day's leftovers which encouraged the cops to have at least one cop car in their parking lot when they closed and were taking the day's take to the bank. Another business complained, jealousy probably, and no more free chicken nor a cop car in their parking lot at closing. — Save

My high school used to do a BIG breakfast buffet for graduating seniors on the last day of school. Bacon, eggs, pancakes, sausage, fruits pastries, cereal, grits, oatmeal, juice, coffee, basically anything you could imagine, and they'd let you miss your first period class to hang out in the cafeteria for it. It was a big deal that everyone looked forward to, the whole school would smell awesome, and all the other students would be seething with envy in their first period classes. Well, my junior year, the graduating class ahead of me decided to stage a massive food fight. There were grits on the ceiling well into the followingyear, and of course the principal was so angry my class didn't get a senior breakfast : (I'm still bitter to this very day. — Save

That's such a brutal way to miss out one class couldn't handle themselves and ruined a great tradition for everyone else. Totally worth being bitter about. — Save

Effective over the counter medications. — Save

I've got a very specific one. I went to see the Godzilla head up close on top of a hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It's been closed indefinitely cause some absolute fa were climbing on it and causing too many safety issues and one eventually fell, so we could only look through a window instead. — Save

A few losers in the senior class before us took beer and booze on their senior trip, hiding it in shampoo containers in their luggage. They got drunk and found out, and all senior school trips were cancelled starting with ours, the class of 1983. — Save

In Japan, a couple teenage hooligans went to a Kaitenzushi chain (Conveyor-belt sushl) and started licking the sushi and condiments while leaving them on the conveyor belt, all the while filming this for tik tok. Now half of all the Kaitenzushi chains have outright stopped having the sushi on the conveyor belt to be taken - you have to order it for it to arrive. The whole joy of Kaitenzushi is to take as it comes, so this is MASSIVELY disappointing. — Save

You just scrolled through 29 aggravating examples of how easily good things are ruined. Sure, you're mad—but at least you're not the person responsible for a new warning label on hair dryers saying “Do not use while sleeping.”

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Roy has been one of the internet's meme tastemakers for more than a decade. He and Phil started Thunder Dungeon in 2012 by posting the stuff they found funny, and it grew into viral photo and video creations, one of the largest meme community apps and one of the best sites for daily meme content. If you've spent any time online, you've probably laughed at one of his memes.