An even sadder case was that of Thomas Chambers, clearly a legitimate pastor, who managed to blunderinto about everything a phony church does, including corporation sole.
In between all the plotting and back-stabbing, the characters blunderinto a broad array of financial- and estate-planning disasters, from bad investments and messy trusts to poor business-succession plans and power struggles following health crises.
Two inquiries have been launched into the cause of a massive blunder that led to five years of research into the possibility of BSE in sheep being scrapped.
Even his allies agree that Mr Erdogan made a strategic blunder by passing the headscarf law instead of blending it into a package of broader reforms embodied in a new constitution.
The French forward let fly from fully 35 yards after cutting in from the left flank and Wiese made a terrible blunder, simply pushing the ball up in the air and into his own net to give the home fans an unexpected treat.
After ducking the question several times, Mr Lay eventually talks about such miscues as the firm's botched entry into the Californian retail market for electricity and a costly blunder involving North Sea gas some years ago.