How did this happen? Redditor hbmomo's mother was making a pie for Thanksgiving when the law of gravity took a temporary break and the stand mixer saw its opportunity for escape. It didn't make a clean getaway (see the counter), but the incident resulted in a priceless photograph. If you think hard enough, you can figure it out, but I'll go ahead and explain. The windows have blinds, and since they were pulled up, the cord was pretty long, and got caught in the beaters. It became an instant pulley! The wonder is that the blinds were attached strongly enough that it pulled the heavy mixer up instead of pulling the blinds off the window. But there are other Thanksgiving disasters that also cry out for explanation.
Last year, a friend of redditor alwaysangrythrowaway cooked this turkey. Was it marinated in Pepto-Bismol? Benadryl, maybe? Or is it just a food coloring prank? The poster said it had been rubbed in "neon pink salt" which others decided must have been pink curing salt, or Prague Powder. It contains sodium nitrate and is not safe to be eaten in this concentration. But we also learned that the friend burnt that turkey badly and it was not eaten.
These are only two images from a gallery of 50 pictures illustrating Thanksgiving disasters collected by Bored Panda. If your Thanksgiving is not proceeding in the manner you expected, they will make you feel downright thankful.