26 Times Someone Needed To Learn Better Planning Skills

There are a lot of people creating new things every single day, so it's not particularly surprising that not all of the things they create turn out too well. Nothing is ever truly perfect, but in some cases, these people should have really slowed down and gotten their act together before committing to their big screw-up. Often, this can be found in architectural designs, but we also tend to see it in some of the lesser-known products that are pushed a little too far back on store shelves.

The following instances of failed designs come from many different categories and have countless origins, and yet we really don't know what went so wrong. Whether it's the creation of an absolutely horrifying mascot or a building code violation that should have been prevented by simple common sense, we're more than a little disappointed in whoever laid this design out without a few more minutes of planning. Here are 26 disastrous results.