More Evidence That This World is Full of Complete Idiots

[deespoohbear]

more evidence that this world is full of complete idiots:

1. police in wichita, kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.

2. a man in johannesburg, south africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each other's head.

3. a company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. according to industrial machinery news, the film's depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.

4. the chico, california, city council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.

5. a bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in st. louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.

6. swedish business consultant ulf af trolle labored 13 years on a book about swedish economic solutions. he took the 250-page morificecript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

7. a convict broke out of jail in washington dc, then a few days later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. at lunch, he went out for a sandwich. she needed to see him, and thus had him paged. police officers recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.

8. police in radnor, pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. the message "he's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

9. when two service station attendants in ionia, michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. they still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.

10. a los angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a steam roller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.

#4 definitely goes under the duh! category!

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[l.rae]

I'll say it again,.......stupidity is my job security.

[PerkyCardiacRN]

:chuckle :roll :chuckle

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

My best DUH! episode - I went into a cafe and asked if they had any low fat or fat free snacks (I am on a diet so low in fat that every time I pass a Mc Donalds sign my gallbladder faints!). The waitress pointed to a stack of Eclaires - and told me that they had no fat just cream! Believe it or not!

[emily_mom]

6. Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page morificecript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

I would have killed myself.

[Sable's mom]

ROTFLMAO!!!

Thanks.

[Anaclaire]

i'm with you emily_mom! if i had spent 13 years writing a book and it was shredded in a matter of seconds, i'd truly want to kill myself too!!! arrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!

otherwise, these are some of the funniest stories i've heard in a while! "truth is stranger than fiction." is the first thought that came to my mind.

deespoohbear, thanks for sharing!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Coldfoot]

Originally posted by emily_mom

6. Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page morificecript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

I would have killed myself.

I wouldn't have been the dead one!

[Sable's mom]

I have to agree with coldfoot - there would have been a murder before the suicide.

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

:rotfl:

[nurse-in-boots]

i think #8 was my fav!!

reminds me of the story of a guy that was picked up for rape. the guy denied even being with her, but the cops told him that they "lifted his prints" off her lady partsl wall... Guy confessed. case closed. :)