As a human race, we’re all susceptible to making mistakes – but although our blunders can cause us embarrassment, they might at least give others a good chuckle. 

People from around the world have shared the hilarious fails they’ve spotted in a thread, and BoredPanda.com collated some of the best examples.

In one instance, a road maintenance sign urged people to drive safely, but someone  mistakenly spelt drive as ‘derive’, causing laughter among travellers.

A father had a nightmare elsewhere when he mistook a bath bomb package for toilet cleaner, and it created quite the sight.

One barber shop ordered a new sign to direct customers to their store, but it raised a few eyebrows after being put up the wrong way round.

A road maintenance worker made a comical mistake after warning travellers to ‘derive safely’, not ‘drive safely’ 

Another business advertised their ‘crack-resistant’ cement on a wall, but somebody’s sales technique largely flopped when the cement developed a large crack down the middle.

In a different instance, a maintenance worker appeared to have a bad day after crookedly painting the yellow lines on a road, causing equal amounts of confusion and laughter.

Elsewhere, another worker made a comical mistake after putting all the buttons on an elevator pointing downwards.

Meanwhile, a medal design caused a stir online after somebody won a third-place bronze trophy that read ‘3st’, not third.

A sales person’s technique for selling ‘crack-resistant cement’ using the material flopped when the cement did what it promised not to do

A father mistakenly misread a bath bomb package for toilet cleaner, but at least it made the loo look good 

A worker showed how not to order a window sticker after forgetting to add the desired message, meaning it read ‘Generic Holiday Message’ 

A barber shop ordered a shiny new blue sign for their store, but somehow managed to put it up upside down 

A road maintenance worker in the US clearly had a terrible day after painting the yellow lines on a road completely wonky 

The irony! The College of Architecture and Planning should know how to put up a sign correctly, but it clearly did not 

A maintenance worker confused people using a lift after putting buttons for up and down downwards 

A landowner attempted to prohibit people into their land using a gate, but it was not nearly big enough to keep unwanted visitors away 

A package design left customers disappointed after the tablet was sold on it being half the size it actually was 

A third place winner was left in stitches after receiving a bronze medal that read ‘3st’, not 3rd