Explain that to the insurance agency

[mikeman7918]

I posted a forum game like this a while back but after a rule change it lost momentum. I am reviving it because it was very fun, with the original rules.

In this game you have to explain the scenario specified by the poster above you to your insurance agency in such a way that they would pay for your "accidents". After that you post a scenario for the next poster.

Rules:

Don't say "it was on purpose" because it takes away the fun and no insurgence agency would insure it if it were not an accident.

No side conversations.

You may repeat scenarios, but don't over use one.

Here is an example:

Poster 1:

[insert excuse here]

You crash a space probe into the Mun.

Poster 2:

The janitor thought that the probe control software at mission control was a video game.

Your Duna mission explodes on lift off.

Poster 3:

An engineer left his sandwich in the fuel tank.

Your Minimus lander landed too hard and broke a leg.

Poster 4:

Bob thought that the cut engine button dispensed snacks.

[insert scenario here]

I think you get the idea. I will start by posting the first scenario:

Your cargo rocket prematurely stages.

[UnionPacific1983WP]

Jeb inserted a "FIRE ALL BOOSTERS" command into the probe's code, which it translated as "stage".

Your Eeloo base suddenly depressurizes.

[Spacetraindriver]

Tell your kerbalnauts to STOP PLAYING DARTS.

My train fell of a mountain with double sided super tape on the wheels.

[TrainEngie]

We tried to stop "Unstoppable"

You attempt to dock to the orbital lab with an orbiter with 2 scientists, and the orbital lab explodes. (Happened to me a few days ago in KSP)

[mikeman7918]

The lab contained tons of explosives for "scientific" purposes.

Your ship's docking port get's permanently fused with a station's docking port (which is a real and very annoying bug).

[TrainEngie]

We thought the ship was one of the modules for the space station.

Jimmy drowned under Pier 39 in SF.

[mikeman7918]

His space suit he had on at the time for a breach.

Your Duna rover flips upside down.

[UnionPacific1983WP]

The engineers put the wheels on the wrong way.

Your SSTO crashes into a train crossing the runway.

[Yukon0009]

Tell the train company to install raod lights.

The road lights explode.

[mikeman7918]

The engineers accidentally put explosive bolts in the lights instead of a Tungsten filament.

Your space plane's landing gears were jammed and didn't open in time.

[megatiger78]

we thought glue would help

there's a kelephant in the room

[justidutch]

It's not worth diskussing.

The lint traps in the ISS keep overflowing.

[Dman979]

Somebody forgot to hang their clothes outside to dry.

My plane can't fly upsidedown.

[mikeman7918]

The engineers did not mount the wings upside down.

Your rocket is too big to fit through the VAB doors.

[NeatCrown]

The aerospace engineers didn't make the rocket too big; The architects made the VAB too small.

Lithobraking.

[legoclone09]

Engineers forgot to make the engines re-ignitable.

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Jeb was left unattended in the VAB, and blew the space center up.

[RainDreamer]

All of Jeb's actions resulting in explosions has been categorized as "act of god" legally.

Your probe got too close to the sun.

[mikeman7918]

We gotta use that oberth effect.

You find that there is no fuel in the accent stage.

[legoclone09]

Jeb drank it all.

Probe got to far away from the sun.

[Noname117]

We sent an engineer to the sun to get it to output more energy so our probe mission wouldn't fail. For some reason, he just stopped talking to us and let the mission fail! No clue why! He seemed to be screaming a lot beforehand though.

You manage to total a plane by first landing it in the crater with the northern monolith and destroying its engines, and then using the dead aircraft as a ladder for the rescue craft (which, due to an engineering insight, didn't have a ladder on it), breaking the plane beyond repair when the rescue plane has to push it around to take off to the UFO at the north pole.

[EdusacconBR]

Jeb was piloting it

You landed a kerbal on eve and cant bring it back

[mikeman7918]

The president challenged us to put a Kerbal on eve, not to bring him back.

When a supply ship docks to your station it is found that all of the snacks were missing from it.

[Yukon0009]

No one told Jeb to go onboard.

The fourth wall is broken.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

It was an undetermined consequence of excessive application of asparagus staged star-core 125 kn solid rocket boosters in a meta-reality system matrix defined by sporadic spore applications. (Describes all of them )

Your new SSTO works perfectly, but when it lands, it breaks a runway light.

[Columbia]

The runway light was placed an inch too close to the runway's center.

You destroy the VAB by crashing a B767 into it.