Boy, it’s hard to say. I don’t live the kind of life that produces a lot Pyrrhic victories, any other kind of big victories, or big failures… so, I suppose, the last Pyrrhic victory I had was when I was on my way home from the beach, about 50 yards from my house and I decided, for some reason, to take video of my dog being really good and behaving really, really well in the car, because she’s such a total maniac under most other circumstance, I guess.
…. and because I was videotaping my dog in the passenger seat, behaving well, rather than paying attention to my driving, I ran into a tree and it was a little bit of a freak accident thing, because my Subaru Outback Wagon has all wheel drive, and I hit the tree at just the right angle, with my right front wheel, that my car actually drove up the tree, I just had the traction and I drove up the tree far enough to tip the car over, onto the driver’s side, and my dog and I were trapped in the car for 45 minutes. Neither my dog nor I were hurt, really. I had some very, very nasty bruises from the airbag deploying but that was it.
I got a ticket for inattentive driving and one for driving while operating a non-hand held mobile communication device but that one was dismissed, but I got some absolutely video of my dog behaving really well and being really good in the car.
Does than count?
The costs far outweighed the victory. I can assure you of that.
I think you have to have a pretty big life to have Pyrrhic victories. I think most ordinary people have ordinary victories and ordinary failures,