Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 1

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I would imagine so, the nanny is a red tape litigator and knows how to game the system. She knows she has certain rights afforded to her by law but if I were them I'd do everything I legally could to make her life hell. For instance in FL AC is not required which I think is insane but one could legally take away the AC and their only recourse would be to withhold rent but if they aren't paying it than tough luck. There are all kinds of other legal ways to implement a crappy place as well

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man With Only One Arm Fined for Riding His Bike With Only One Brake

Bogdan Ionescu was slapped with a £20 fine by police and chastised for riding his bike in Cologne, Germany with only one handbrake, even though he only has one arm. Authorities finally apologized and reimbursed him—three months later.

German law dictates that all bikes require two handbrakes. Ionescu, who works at a theater box office, has had his bike modified within legal specifications so that he can control his right brake using his foot, the Telegraph reports.

Ionescu was pulled over and fined by police in March for violating road safety laws. Only after complaining in German newspaper Kölner Stadtanzeiger did police rectify their mistake. He's happy now.

"It's great news, I'm really happy," he told Kölner Stadtanzeiger. "It's good that this is how it ends, it's unbelievably good."

http://www.thelocal.de/20140701/police-sorry-for-one-armed-man-bike-fine

Those Germans are sticklers for the law

 

[guitarsingerguy]

Can I say it...men...?

For some reason it seems to be the guys willing to put their dongs in some sketchy places, whereas women seem to be more discerning about what goes up their hoohas.

Oh heck, when you hear of an ER case where someone stuck something up their nether region too far, it's almost always still a guy.

It's not our fault our G-spot is in our butts. It's a cruel joke I tell ya.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Jailed Woman Says She Was Just Buying Meth for a Birthday Gift

What did you get your sister for her birthday? Meth? If so, you and 46-year-old Utah resident Heather Rodriguez have at least one thing in common.

Rodriguez was arrested after she approached an off-duty cop Monday night, showed him a glass pipe, and told him she was trying to buy meth for her sister's birthday. Later, she claimed the pipe was her friend's.

The Daily Herald reports Rodriguez was booked on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia in a drug-free zone and attempted possession of meth. Her sister, presumably, has not yet received a birthday gift.

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/aa9... Birthday/id-a49dd76474bc4e38ac3b04cf169ab4da

Nothing says I love you like the gift of meth

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Colorado Teen Arrested After Falling in Love With ISIS Militant Online

Plenty of teens fall in love on the internet, but Shannon Maureen Conley, 19, fell in love with a man who says he's an ISIS militant in Syria. She was arrested in April for trying to board a plane to meet him in Turkey. According to court documents unsealed yesterday, Conley was committed to supporting ISIS and waging jihad against non-believers.

According to the Denver Post, Conley communicated with the militant, referred to in the documents as "Y.M.," from her Denver, Colorado home. Her parents and federal investigators tried for months to get her to stop, but she was determined to travel to the Middle East and East Africa and participate in terrorism. Her parents told investigators, "Conley believed she, as a Muslim, needed to marry young and be confrontational in her support of Islam. She conceded her knowledge of Islam was based solely on her own research that she conducted on the Internet."

Conley even enrolled herself in the U.S. Army Explorers, a nonprofit youth group, to be trained in military tactics and gun use. According to the criminal complaint, she and Y.M. determined she would support ISIS and "fight should it become necessary."

Conley is being represented by a federal public defender. If she's convicted of attempting to materially support ISIS, she will face 15 years in jail, a $250,000 fine, or both.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26077871/fbi-arrest-colorado-teen-suspected-supporting-al-qaeda

How could any tech savvy teen in this day and age think they could go unnoticed by the government for not only communicating with terrorist but wanting to go all jihad on some non-believers?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Postal Worker Straight Up Just Flings Packages Into a Ravine

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Receiving packages is usually very fun, but being a postal worker probably sucks sometimes. So launching some random boxes into a ravine like this USPS employee in Alabama seems more or less understandable, if not outright patriotic.

Here is the story, per AL.com:

The video was filmed on Monday, according to the person who posted it to YouTube (who asked that his name not be used). The poster, who said a co-worker's boyfriend actually filmed the incident, said the incident occurred on 17th Avenue South on Birmingham's Southside – a very hilly area overlooking Birmingham's skyline.

The postal worker, who has not been named, has reportedly resigned. He probably still feels pretty good, though.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/07/video_of_birmingham_postal_wor.html

Guess he just got sick of it all

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Bomb Maker to Judge: “I Know This All Looks Really Bad”

An Idaho dad who stashed so much pipe bomb making material in the crawlspace under his kids' bedroom that it took police two days to remove it all will be spending the next 13-25 years in prison.

Joshua Finch, 33, says that he believed that an electromagnetic pulse was going to knock out all the electronics in the nation, and that he needed the roughly 100 pounds of explosives, pipe-bomb making materials and the assault rifle that police found under his home to protect his family from the chaos that was sure to follow.

"I know all this looks really bad, but I wasn't trying to hurt anyone," Finch told District Court Judge Thomas Neville during his sentencing hearing on Monday. He had pleaded guilty in May to aggravated assault, possession of destructive devices or bombs, two counts of injury to a child and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

Finch's girlfriend notified authorities after he began mysteriously spending his nights locked in a shed while also trying to purchase guns and body armor on Craigslist. It took the Boise Police Bomb Squad two days to clear out the explosives from under the home.

Finch's defense attorney said that Finch's beliefs in the breakdown of society came from his parents, and that alcohol and student loan bills played a role in the case.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20...-gets-prison-for-having-bomb-making-materials

Always good to see crazies like this locked up for a long time

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Drunk Guy Claims His Dog Drove Him to the Store

Wesley Mark Terrell, a 60-year-old man from Oconee County, Georgia, had a perfectly reasonable explanation when cops asked him about the dog that was locked inside his car on a recent 99-degree day.

Obviously, the dog had driven him to the grocery store. To buy some corn. What's better than corn on the cob on a hot summer day? And with 4th of July fast approaching, why not stock up? With all due respect, I'm not sure why we're even still talking about this, officer? Also, Mr. Terrell was allegedly very drunk.

The best part of his explanation is how it doesn't even address the problem at hand. "Why was the dog locked in your car? It's hot out."

"Hey, don't look at me. He drove."

"Oh gosh, we're real sorry about that, Wes. Our mistake. You have a good day, now, would ya? And say hi to the missus for me."

Police measured the temperature inside the car at 123 degrees, and described a "stifling" smell from a gas can that was left inside. Terrell was charged with animal cruelty and driving under the influence, and the dog was taken in by animal control.

http://www.wtoc.com/story/25935206/drunk-man-says-dog-drove-him-to-the-store

The animal cruelty charge will stick but if he has a good lawyer he won't get stuck with the DUI. Not because the dog drove is a great excuse but if they didn't physically see him behind the wheel it won't hold up

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Video of Tourist Blowing 24 Men for Free Drinks Triggers Investigation

A Spanish resort town's sex-for-drinks game, "mamading," is out in the open now after a video of a British girl performing oral sex on 24 men in a bar went viral. Allegedly, the girl was promised one drink for the stunt.

In the video (NSFW, obviously), you can see the girl rush from guy to guy to complete the task while the bar's DJ eggs her on. This happened in Magaluf, a resort town popular with British, Irish, and Scandinavian tourists. Mayor Manuel Onieva has said he "completely rejects" the activities shown in the video and warned bars that "mamading" is breaking the law. ("Mamada" means oral sex in Spanish.)

Onieva has promised a police investigation into the incident. According to comments posted on the original video, mamading is not uncommon in Magaluf bars. One user posted, 'The area continues to invent ways to attract more and more young and this year has introduced a new trend in the local bars."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gn=1490&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Obviously I can't link to the vid but this is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of. All for one free drink?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

She must have been really thirty.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

TWC During Arthur Was Great Until That Guy Chased a Woman in Labor

Have you ever been so desperate for ratings that you almost got swept away by a hurricane's storm surge, then a couple of hours later chased down a woman in labor and tried to climb into the National Guard truck in which she was giving birth? If not, then you're not a reporter for The Weather Channel.

The Weather Channel did a spectacular job covering Hurricane Arthur's landfall in North Carolina on Friday, with hurricane expert Bryan Norcross anchoring coverage at the channel's Atlanta headquarters while a team of meteorologists and correspondents filed reports from the ground in the Tar Heel State.

Mike Seidel covered the storm from Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, which experienced the northern half of the eyewall, and Jim Cantore encountered some of Arthur's worst storm surge in the appropriately-named Waves, North Carolina.

Both the coverage on the ground and in-house were phenomenal, which hearkened back to the days when The Weather Channel was truly The Weather Channel. The network managed to pull off wall-to-wall coverage focused on the hurricane's threats with no trace of hype. The broadcasts were a refreshing step back into the "good old days," except for one glaring blemish on their otherwise-stellar performance: the reports filed by correspondent Dave Malkoff.

Malkoff, also stationed in Kill Devil Hills, did everything you're not supposed to do when a hurricane makes landfall. He:

1) Waded into storm surge and nearly got swept into the ocean

2) Filed a report underneath live power lines that were falling down into the water he was standing in

3) Chased down a woman in labor and tried to climb into the National Guard vehicle in which she was giving birth

When the crew filmed Malkoff running around in the storm surge and chasing after a woman in labor, he looked like he was part of a team of amateur storm chasers trying to get footage for their YouTube account.

One of these days a stupid reporter is going to get killed being stupid.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Parade Float Features Outhouse as "Obama's Presidential Library"

One of the more popular floats at this year's Fourth of July parade in Norfolk, Neb. was of a ghoulish, skeletal figure propped up against an outhouse that had ""OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY" emblazoned on the side. According to the committee that approved the float for the parade, it was purely "political satire."

From the Lincoln Journal-Star:

Parade committee member Rick Konopasek said the float wasn't meant to be any more offensive than a political cartoon would be. The only restriction for entering a float is that it can't be considered morally objectionable. That basically translates to a ban on nudity to sexually explicit messages, Konopasek said.

"We don't feel its right to tell someone what they can and can't express," he said. "This was political satire. If we start saying no to certain floats, we might as well not have a parade at all."

"I'm angry and I'm scared," Glory Kathurima, who was at the parade, told the Lincoln Journal-Star. "The float was not just political; this was absolutely a racial statement." Further from the Omaha World-Herald:

The World-Herald also received several emails from people expressing concern. One email, from a person who said she had grown up in northeast Nebraska, called it disrespectful that such a display would be allowed in a parade that celebrates America's history. The Nebraska Democratic Party also issued a statement, calling it one of the "worst shows of racism and disrespect for the office of the presidency that Nebraska has ever seen."

Norfolk City Councilman Dick Pfeil also voiced his displeasure with the float.

"The City of Norfolk doesn't condone that," Pfeil said.

The councilman noted, however, that it was up to the Odd Fellows to approve the floats. A representative of the Odd Fellows did not return a phone message from a World-Herald reporter Saturday evening.

"It's obvious the majority of the community liked it," Konopasek told the Lincoln Journal-Star. "So should we deny the 95 percent of those that liked it their rights, just for the 5 percent of people who are upset?"

The Associated Press reports that parade organizers plan to meet this week to discuss the float and "whether any policy changes should be made for the future."

http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/...cle_22f03464-04ab-11e4-bf54-0017a43b2370.html

I don't think they could have a made a float that screams this town is full of dumb rednecks better than that.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Crazy Near-Miss Caught On Video In Barcelona

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Yesterday, July 5th, a potentially catastrophic near-miss between two airliners was captured on video in Barcelona, Spain. We see an Aerolineas Argentineas Airbus A340-300 crossing a runway on which an Utair Boeing 767-300 was on final approach.

In the video shot by Miguel Angel, The Utair pilots immediately pulled up and aborted the landing, performing a go-around to land on runway 02. Telephoto lenses have the tendency to compress a scene and sometimes make things closer together than they really are, but in this video it appears that these two planes were headed for disaster.

Somebody in the control tower screwed up pretty bad. Luckily the Captain had the wherewithal to avoid a certain catastrophe

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Swedish Police in Rowboat Chase After Naked Man in Handcuffs

Swedish police were forced to take to a rowboat recently in a low-speed chase to catch a naked man in handcuffs who had fled arrest for suspicion of sexual assault.

The Local reports that the 26-year-old man arrived at the beach at around 6 p.m. and was accused of making unsolicited sexual advances towards a woman. After taking some punches and kicks from the woman's boyfriend (eek!) (nude the whole time!), the naked man was held down until police arrived.

Police handcuffed him, but the man managed to break free and ran towards the water, swimming away while still in handcuffs. Janne Karlsson of the Södermanland police told the Local that at that point "a police officer jumped in the water with a buoy, and another unit jumped into a row boat."

The man was apprehended after a short low-speed chase.

http://www.thelocal.se/20140706/cops-chase-handcuffed-naked-man-in-row-boat

If you are naked and handcuffed you may as well give up. Your options are pretty much non-existent at that point

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Death metal band will play in this sealed metal box until they pass out

British death metal band Unfathomable Ruination has scheduled a series of shows in central London next week wherein spectators won't be able to hear them play: They will play inside this perfectly sealed metal box until they pass out because of the lack of oxygen. That's so freaking metal.

As part of the new Sculpture in the City exhibit, the five-man band plans to repeatedly perform within a specially designed, sound- and air-proof box located outside the Gherkin. Portuguese artist João Onofre designed the box and has dubbed it the "Box Sized DIE", which is rather fitting. And according to the Independent, "The box is soundproofed, determining and restricting the performance's duration to the length of time in which the oxygen is expended," a blurb on the installation reads. "Outside the cube, viewers observe its strange vibrations, only viewing the band's entrance and exit to the performance space."

How long they'll be able to play without oxygen remains to be seen, as does how the band will signal that they're done—maybe you just wait for the vibrations to stop?

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/thin...-the-city/Pages/descriptions-of-artworks.aspx

This is so stupid it almost comes back around to being genius. Almost. Hope they don't accidentally kill themselves

 

[charl_huntress]

Video of Tourist Blowing 24 Men for Free Drinks Triggers Investigation



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gn=1490&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Obviously I can't link to the vid but this is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of. All for one free drink?

Death metal band will play in this sealed metal box until they pass out

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/thin...-the-city/Pages/descriptions-of-artworks.aspx

This is so stupid it almost comes back around to being genius. Almost. Hope they don't accidentally kill themselves

WTF is up with the British?!

 

[KevanG]

Not a news item but a personal story about my father and grandfather doing something incredibly stupid. My grandfather was a demolition expert back in WWII and he took home some 'extras' from the war. Back in the 60's or so there was a very large beaver dam in a nearby lake near where they lived at the time and it was causing all sorts of problems with flooding out the area. The city they lived in refused to do anything about it because it would be too much work and not a lot of people lived there anyway. So my grandfather took what little remained of his extra supplies from the war and took my father to help him 'fix' that.

He used the last of his plastique explosives and put them all along the dam and then hid in the nearby woods to set it off. He misjudged how deep the dam went and nearly got both him and my father killed. There were logs and small boulders flying everywhere and took down trees near where they were hiding and the water almost flooded them out of cover. As soon as it stopped they booked it home and didn't mention it to my grandmother for years after despite coming home covered in mud and bruises and laughing to kill themselves.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

That's pretty hardcore Kev

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Infant Abandoned on Columbus Circle Subway Platform

A seven-month-old girl was apparently abandoned Monday on a subway platform at Columbus Circle. Witnesses claim seeing a woman walk the child in its stroller off a northbound 1 train, leave the stroller and the child on the platform, and then turn around and get back on the train.

According to the New York Times, a woman discovered the child and stayed with her for 20 minutes before alerting authorities and that the child was taken to Mount Sinai Roosevelt by police as a "precautionary measure." From CBS New York:

Police said there were no apparent signs of trauma. The baby had a bandage on her hand and a slight rash, but was otherwise unhurt, sources said.

The child will be placed in custody of the city's Administration for Children's Services until her identity is established. There was no identification with her, sources said.

Authorities said it's unclear whether the woman intentionally pushed the stroller from the subway car. Police are looking for the woman, who they described as black and in her 20s or 30s.

NBC New York reports that the child was left on the platform around 12:30 p.m. today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/n...-on-columbus-circle-subway-platform.html?_r=0

Is it really that hard to put a child up for adoption? How could any parent just leave them in a crowded place?

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

Just leave them at a fire station for God's sake.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man Arrested for Trying to Hire Future Porn Stars at County Fair

A 34-year-old California man has been arrested for dressing up as a county fair employee and trying to recruit teenage girls for his porn business, "Big Pimpin' Inc."

A 16-year-old girl named Justice told reporters that the would-be porn producer, Aaron Gimbert, handed her a card at the Alameda County (Calif.) Fair and told her she'd make a great porn star.

"He like asked if I was 18 and I was like no I'm 16, and he kind of thought about it, and he was like call me when you turn 18," Justice told KTVU.

The business card advertised a bonus for girls who sign on their 18th birthday.

Gimbert was allegedly wearing a fair employee shirt while conducting his big pimpin' business. The fair denies that he's an employee, and claims it runs background checks on full-time staff.

Management didn't specify whether Gimbert was a part-time worker or just some guy with an Alameda County Fair shirt and a very strong interest in the future of the porn business.

http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/07/a-guy-got-busted-trying-to-recruit-porn-stars-at-a-county-fair/

Nothing says classy like a business card and propositioning underage girls

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

2014's Fireworks Claim Meteorologist's Left Eye, Dozens of Digits

The chief meteorologist for WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan lost his left eye in a serious fireworks accident this past weekend while he and his family were on vacation in Iowa. Dave Rexroth will undergo surgery this week and "begin the process of receiving a prosthetic eye," according to his employer.

The accident is just one of the dozens of reports filed across the country documenting the annual tradition of Americans losing body parts in celebration of our country's birth.

-A Detroit man died when a firework exploded and shrapnel caused a fatal wound to his chest.

-A fireworks display in Comanche, Texas exploded last Thursday, killing one person and injuring four others.

-A collection of fireworks exploded inside a Florida home, killing a woman and seriously injuring her son.

-Four people were seriously injured in San Francisco after fireworks exploded on or near them. One man sustained serious eye injuries, while three others saw lost digits or, in one man's case, lost both of his hands.

-A firework accident in Ohio resulted in a man losing his foot at the ankle.

-A Maryland boy sustained "critical burns" after a sparkler ignited his shirt.

-An unidentified New Hampshire man received "severe hand injuries" as a result of a firework.

The news reports fail to mention the countless number of fresh fruits destroyed in the fruitless effort that safety officials put forth every year to warn Americans of the dangers that fireworks pose.

http://www.wxyz.com/news/dave-rexroth-wxyz-fireworks-accident-iowa-detroit-chief-meteorologist

Another 4th of July and lots of people come out with less body parts. Happens every year

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

DC won't allow the Superman logo to be used for murdered 5-year old's memorial.

http://time.com/2963473/memorial-to-murdered-boy-denied-request-to-use-superman-logo/

C'mon DC. The little boy was murdered and you can't let him have a Superman logo on his tombstone? I guess on Superman's planet the S stands for greed.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

DC won't allow the Superman logo to be used for murdered 5-year old's memorial.

http://time.com/2963473/memorial-to-murdered-boy-denied-request-to-use-superman-logo/

C'mon DC. The little boy was murdered and you can't let him have a Superman logo on his tombstone? I guess on Superman's planet the S stands for greed.

WOW. Screw you DC. That is beyond heartless. Superman would be very disappointed in you DC comics.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

DC won't allow the Superman logo to be used for murdered 5-year old's memorial.

http://time.com/2963473/memorial-to-murdered-boy-denied-request-to-use-superman-logo/

C'mon DC. The little boy was murdered and you can't let him have a Superman logo on his tombstone? I guess on Superman's planet the S stands for greed.

Seriously WTF? I doubt they will be making any money from this