Four infamous IT meltdowns | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-01-30 | By Dan Tynan:

It's never going to be a good excuse for blowing a budget, but at least it might make you feel a little better about missing that vital little ($10,000 worth of) product off your initial estimates...

Of course, these are all government contracts - if a company did this, it would end up going under.

Maybe I should have used an image of a submarine instead...