More Evidence That This World Is Full Of Complete Idiots
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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 manuscript 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 steamroller and led police
on a 5 mph
chase until an officer stepped aboard and
brought the
vehicle to a stop.