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Description: From the 2017 Oscars infamous mishap to a bus blunder in Wales, here are 9 of the worst on the job mistakes. Subscribe to Knowledge Feed for awesome mysteries, discoveries, fun topics and all around AWESOME videos! 3. One Crew Two Calls Before the start of the 2012 NFL season, the NFL Referees Association went on strike, prompting the NFL to hire replacement officials. By the time the Seattle Seahawks hosted the Green Bay Packers for Monday Night Football, a nationally televised game, on September 24, 2012, the quality of officiating had become a huge controversy. Even casual fans of the game were starting to notice the inexperience of the replacements and the horrible, inaccurate calls that they were making; rulings that would often affect the outcomes of games. The NFL however was and still is a money making machine, and the league seemed perfectly willing to wait through the labor dispute. That is until the end of the Packers-Seahawks game. Down five points with no time left on the clock Seattle’s rookie quarterback, Russell Wilson threw a desperation heave into the end zone. Seahawks receiver Golden Tate and Packers safety M.D. Jennings came down with the ball simultaneously. Two refs rushed over, with one saying the Packers had intercepted it and the other saying that it was a Seahawks touchdown at the same time. Clearly, Jennings had intercepted the ball, but after review, the call was ruled a touchdown, ending the game and infuriating the Packers along with anyone who wasn’t a Seahawks fan. The incident made it evident that the labor dispute with the refs had dragged on for too long and highlighted the fact that the replacements were utterly incompetent. Two days after the game the NFL and the NFL Referees Association reached an agreement to end the lockout. 2. Attacking Your Own Army During the Austro-Turkish War, the Austrian army accidentally fought themselves in the Battle of Karansebes. A series of serious on the job blunders caused the entire incident. Numbering one hundred thousand the army of Austria set up camp around the town of Karansebes in modern day Romania. The army’s vanguard, a group of light cavalry, crossed a river to scout for Ottoman Turks. They didn’t find the enemy, but they did find a group of nomads that sold them booze. Shortly after drinking the vanguard met a group of infantry from their own army who also wanted to drink. When the nomads refused the infantry, a fight ensued, causing the vanguard and infantry to rush back to camp. As they arrived a corps commander confused the group for the feared Ottoman army and ordered artillery fire. The sound of battle woke the entire camp and immediately things turned to chaos, with Austrian soldiers killing each other thinking they were the enemy. Days later the actual Ottoman army arrived to find ten thousand dead and wounded soldiers and easily took the town of Karansebes. 1. Mulholland’s Disastrous Mistake Under General Manager and Chief Engineer William Mulholland, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power constructed the St. Francis Dam between 1924 and 1926. There were problems with the project from the word “Go.” Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, chose a defective foundation and ignored the geology of the surrounding area. Two huge cracks began to develop shortly after the dam filled with water that Mulholland deemed within exception for the size of St. Francis. Though the dam would miraculously stay erect for two years the project’s many flaws would turn into a catastrophic disaster on March 12, 1928. Just three minutes before midnight and twelve hours after Mulholland himself gave it a safety inspection the dam failed spectacularly. The resulting flood took the lives of an estimated 431 people. The disaster was the second worst in California’s history behind only The San Francisco Earthquake and is considered one of the worst civil engineering failures of the 20th century. William Mulholland formally retired in November 1928, and, reportedly devastated by the tragedy that he had unwillingly caused, would stay in relative seclusion until his death in 1935. The 1974 film Chinatown stars Jack Nicholson and the aforementioned Faye Dunaway. It takes an informative though mostly fictional look at the St. Francis Dam as well as the water issues that plagued southern California at the beginning of the 20th century.