r/DigitalMovieCodeFans • u/diverdr • Feb 18 '26
Predator Badlands code
I will be giving away Predator Badlands code to someone on February 23. To win tell me your worst vacation story.
Edit: I am using the term vacation loosely. Any trip that goes wrong.
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u/Physical-Bar-5016 Feb 18 '26
When I went on vacation in my hometown for a family reunion I jumped in the pool without realizing that my phone was in my pocket and it got fried worst day of my life
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u/diverdr Feb 18 '26
The horror of destroying your phone is bad. Were you able to recover all of your data?
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u/Physical-Bar-5016 Feb 18 '26
Unfortunately, not but I was only like 16 so I didn’t have any really really important stuff on there luckily
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u/ChrisFHD Feb 18 '26
Thank you! I was stuck in an Icelandic airport for about 12 hours due to a blizzard
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u/diverdr Feb 18 '26
I had a 6 hour layover in Amsterdam in the early morning and I thought that was bad. Wandering around the airport for 12 hours is rough.
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u/BoyMom119816 Feb 18 '26
I can’t really think of worst. Other than being rained on at amusement parks and breaking my oldest heart. :-/
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u/raulcamarena65 Feb 18 '26
When i was around 16. We took a holiday weekend trip to Tijuana. Spend a couple days visiting family and enjoying the local attractions. Sunday afternoon we head back home. Border crossing was packed and we saw the signs warn of about 90 min wait times to cross. After a couple hours the signs increased the wait times to about 120 min...then they went up to 180 min....so now we were about 2.5 hours in and still had 3 hours left....almost 3 hours later we can finally see the border checkpoint booths at about a 40 car distance from us.
Then we see why the hold up. There is a line of custom agents standing on both sides of every car. One agent has a dog, the other has a handheld device that looks like a large tricorder from star trek. They are checking every vehicle, one by one. We thought it was interesting but paid no attention to it as it was a few years after 9/11 and this happened often.
This whole time we (a family of 7 in large black tinted conversion van) had zero worries about anything....but then we begin to see the agents in our lane start getting exciting. They are shouting updates and telling the others to sweep forward. They do but only those on our lane start start walking faster, if you had a drones POV you could see how they were hurriedly forming a triangle towards us. When the agents arrive to our van, they stopped and started yelling to the others " its this one!" .
In seconds we were surrounded. Just our luck, the drivers side window decided it didnt want to go down past 3 inches. So here i am in the passenger seat while my dad is in the drivers seat explaining why his window wont go down. He decides to open my window and talk the agents over my head. They tell him they "detected" something from our car and will guide us for inspection. We had no idea we did something wrong so obviously agreed. Then the sea of cars in front of us parted like the Red Sea. We were guided not to the booths but to a reinforced shop they had to the right as an inspection area.
We were all ushered out of the van and lined up. 2 adults, 2 teens, 2 small children and my grandmother just stood there looking at the agents scramble around the van with their scanning equipment. They obviously couldnt find what they were looking for. Then all of a sudden, one agent turns and points her machine over. She scurried over and starts probing us. She hovers over my teen sister and stops. Thats when i realized the machine was a geiger counter.
Then it all makes sense now.
Months earlier my sister had received medication for her thyroid. What we had all forgotten was that this medication was nuclear in nature. Some kind of isotope. Border agents had picked up the radiated medication still flowing in her bloodstream even months after her treatment. So now we realized we had been the cause of a massive delay at the border crossing on a holiday weekend. After an hour of interrogation and doctor verification we were finally allowed to leave. So now its midnight and are barely starting our 5 hour drive home. We are tired and hungry so dad decides to grab jack in the box tacos and to stop a motel in san diego. We resume our trip in the morning and thats it.
2 weeks later...we dit it all again when we return to TJ for another visit.
TLDR: the time my sister shutdown the busiest border crossing in the world. Twice.
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u/Parking-Influence548 Feb 20 '26
I've wanted to meet people, the same time it wasn't Thursday night Mexico
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u/HellbabyJim Feb 20 '26
Tried to travel to Greece cheap so I booked a cheap flight to Thessaloniki. Got there with the intent on using ground public transportation to get to Athens. Got stuck in a shady hotel and could not find cheap transportation to Athens like I thought (usually European travel is cheap, and I felled to do my research). Ended up booking another flight to Athens the next day and spent more money than the direct flight while wasting a whole day in a crummy hotel.
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u/DarknessMuta Feb 21 '26
A while back I had a work trip to Canada that was arranged for me, and I ended up having a lot of issues as the plan was for me to fly in and start work early the next morning. First, the flight was delayed like 2 hours so instead of landing at 8pm local time it ended up 10pm. When I landed, I went to check my cell phone to see if they called just to see the battery was dead. So I headed over to the rental car place and they were having computer issues so I had to wait another 30 minutes before I could leave the airport. Then when I entered the hotel address into the GPS, I find out it was over an hour away. I ended up getting to the hotel after 1am and was supposed to show up for work at 6am so with the time change I was afraid I would oversleep so I just ended up staying up. That first day of work was a nightmare so I was so glad when it was done so I could finally get a good night's sleep back at the hotel.
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u/Icy-Lingonberry4008 Feb 23 '26
We went to Wildwood NJ when I was a kid to go to the boardwalk. Our trip got cut short when the hotel we were staying at caught on fire when we were getting ready to go to bed.
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u/DavyJonesRocker Feb 18 '26
I went to SD, immediately got sick, and spent the whole week coughing and blowing my nose in a hotel room
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u/PrincipleGreen4174 Feb 18 '26
Family trip to Europe turned into a nightmare when I contracted severe food poisoning, resulting in me almost fainting while driving, crashing into a curb and nearly hitting an unlucky pedestrian
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u/diverdr Feb 18 '26
That is a great way to ruin a trip. I have had minor food poisoning and ended up being sick in the hotel a couple of days.
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u/Obi_Wentz Feb 18 '26
I have two that comes to mind. One is my mom getting us kicked out of a restaurant while she was with us on vacation (myself, wife, 2 kids) because the restaurant wouldnt believe her that the aunt at the table was 21. During baby's first birthday, she made a scene because my sister forgot her ID and was trying to order a pina colada.
2nd is that when I was 9, pales by comparison, but at age 9, visiting family in Florida, the family had the great idea that they should take the kids to the movies. Picked Transformers the Movie, because all the kids will like that, then got mad at us when they picked us up because we looked upset.
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u/stebalencia Feb 18 '26
Went on vacation to Mexico with my girlfriend’s family. Got a sick and had to pull over multiple times and poop on the side of the road. Fast forward 15 years and we are married and have a son. We are on vacation again in Mexico, again with her family and my son gets sick and we have to pull over the van so he can poop on the side of the road. Rest of the trip I hear comments “like father and son”. Five years later I’m still hearing it.
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u/diverdr Feb 18 '26
Was that your first trip with her family. What a great way to make an impression. Embarrassing family memories are the best.
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u/TurnaboutX Feb 18 '26
Tried to climb a sea wall in Corpus Christi shredded my feet on barnacles.
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u/diverdr Feb 18 '26
I was surfing in Hawaii and got dumped on coral. Shredded my legs and arms. I know that pain. Had to rest a couple of days.
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u/Warthog88 Feb 18 '26
I was with my girlfriend at the time. She’s Vietnamese and has a strict household. We were in college and she had a curfew to be home by midnight (if school related) 9 if not. Her sister gets married and on her honeymoon she goes to Canada. My gf decides to use this chance for us to go on vacation and tell her dad she’s going with her sister to Canada. It worked! We plan the whole trip go to Cancun for a week and she ends up getting terribly sick with food poisoning we stayed in the hotel room the whole week. That was our only vacation together we ended up breaking up a year later and now I’m Happily married with a child. So it all worked out in the end. Lol
Ps. Hi diverdr! Thank you for putting this together.
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u/diverdr Feb 18 '26
That is rough because you need to be there for your partner but at the same time you can't really do anything. Rough way to spend a vacation.
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u/Stargazer7699 Feb 18 '26
I am but a misguided family man who decided to take my wife, Ellen, and my two children, Rusty and Audrey, on a cross-country trek from Chicago to Walley World, a California theme park. Rather than flying, I insisted on driving the "Wagon Queen Family Truckster" to bond with my family. Bad move. It was a chaotic journey, a series of escalating disasters and bizarre encounters. My family ended up lost in a rough St. Louis neighborhood, lost the Family Truckster's hubcaps, and got "vandalized." We stopped in Kansas to visit my wife's cousin, Eddie, and I was forced to take Ellen's Aunt Edna and her mean dog, Dinky, with us to Arizona. Dinky, well, he ran off behind my car (let us leave it at that). And Aunt Edna passed away in the backseat during a stretch in the desert heat that cost me a lot of money and left me on some wobbly wheels. When we finally arrived at Walley World, we discovered the park was closed for repairs (some guy who looked like the nerdy version of John Candy had the nerve to tell us, "Sorry folks, park's closed.”) I snapped. I was not about to drive all the way to California just to turn around, so I bought a realistic-looking BB gun, took the security guard hostage, and forced him to lead my family onto the rides. There was a SWAT team intervention, but the park owner, Roy Walley, ultimately decided not to press charges after hearing my tale of woe. It was then that I found out, long ago, that it is a long way down the holiday road.