They say that when you're facing legal consequences, the best thing you can do is shut your mouth and let your lawyer do the talking. That advice would have helped these 24 people, but unfortunately they couldn't stop their big mouths from getting them into even more trouble than they were already in. 

If you're filing a personal injury lawsuit against your place of work, you can be confident that the insurance companies are going to make sure you're actually injured. Therefore, it'd probably be best not to post a video of yourself winning a recent breakdancing competition to Facebook, but that's exactly what one man did. Needless to say he didn't get the money. Other personal injury claimers here even went back to work for no reason other than being bored, while still injured. That decision cost them money too. 

Read about those people and more in this collection of lawyers sharing their dumbest clients.