Join the club, buddy.
But it wasn't my brakes that gave out, it was me. I was drinking and driving and blacked out. I became conscious 3 hours later, 2am, and my car had stalled out in a water filled ditch, which I had my nose half-way submerged in.
It messed up the underneath of my car, too, cause I was kinda balancing on one of those drainage grates that stick up out the ground on one side when they are on an incline.
It blows.