The unpredictability of everything is one of the few certainties working on a campaign, and any good political operative should have at least a couple of stories of huge screw ups for a late-night of drinking and blowing off steam. For instance, the time a candidate was accidentally given too many pain killers after emergency dental surgery and started telling a random story about a donkey showing up at a campaign rally before doing a great impression of Donkey from Shrek. One of my favorites is an operative who wanted to make a point about LA traffic so had someone in a car, someone on a bike, and a marathon runner race across town to a single point with reporters waiting. The goal was to have the car lose to the runner and biker. Unfortunately, the universe conspired to open up the freeways for once and the car won. Oops. It's mostly funny — unlike having your Porsche torched — and far better than Mini's lame stunt, which resulted in them not only losing to Porsche but also looking like a bunch of chumps. That'll make you bitter, just ask Death By Cornbread.
Ahem.