Brown's remarks were picked up because he was still wearing a Sky News microphone, an unfortunate act of carelessness that led to Labour's worst day of the general election campaign, one that may yet have polling-day repercussions.
The vegetation on Thursley Common was tinder dry, the heather and the gorse; all it needed was an act of carelessness to set it ablaze, and that appears to have happened in Spur Wood, a small copse of Scots pines in the centre of the reserve.
"Too many times an act of carelessness or a security breach has led to information going missing, and in some cases businesses have found themselves in a position where the data is non-recoverable," a Microsoft spokesman told the BBC.
"We admit that an employee of the channel committed an act of carelessness," the channel told the Kommersant newspaper Thursday, according to the Moscow Times.
Men, taught to toughen up, get angry and even a bit threatening -- or demonstrate their toughness through a studied act of carelessness, ending things with a barb about how little they cared the whole time.
The Ritz Carltons: A bit of carelessness.
A bit of carelessness may have cost Pakistan the game".
Last year's Los Angeles wildfire was neither an accident of nature nor an act of human carelessness.
Slovenia's envoy, who signed the deal at a powwow in Japan, called her own behaviour an act of "civic carelessness".
But the healing from this extraordinary act of corporate carelessness is far from complete, and there is important work to be done to minimize the chances that such a disaster will happen again.
