Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 1

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Baptist Church Leader Arrested for Soliciting Dog Sex on Craigslist

A Missouri Baptist conference center is seeking a new CEO after its current leader was arrested while allegedly trying to arrange sex with a dog and an unnamed other animal on Craigslist.

Police said Jerry Hill, of Boone County, Mo.'s Windermere Baptist Conference Center, was arrested Tuesday afternoon for attempted unlawful sex with an animal and attempted animal abuse.

The Columbia Tribune reports the investigation started with a Craigslist ad seeking two types of animals—one was a dog, police declined to comment on the other. Investigators responded to the ad, offering up a dog for sex, and Hill was arrested when he showed up to meet them.

"We are concerned for the well-being of Jerry...and we are also concerned with the well-being of Windermere," Windermere chairman of the board Arthur Mallory said, according to Baptist news site Word and Way. "Windermere will continue to function in a good way.... It is a significant piece of God's kingdom's work."

Windermere, a massive facility that includes a water park, spelunking caves, and a paintball course, bills itself as "a dedicated, Christ-like team" providing "a Christian setting in which life changing experiences may occur."

Hill is currently free after paying a $1,000 bond.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news...cle_34bee8c9-0ffa-59dc-861f-e49ac8b64cd0.html

When you think of a dog ****er that guy is the mental image I get. Why would you put an ad up for this anyway? What a weird dude

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

British Man Arrested for Pretending to Be a Ghost In a Cemetery

The Daily Mail reports that a British man was arrested for pretending to be a ghost in a cemetery by making "wooooooh" noises and flapping his arms at mourners. The offender, Anthony Stallard, 24, was fined about $125 for the stunt.

Prosecutor Tim Concannon said it was clear that Stallard was pretending to be a ghost—he "was throwing himself backwards, waving his arms about and going 'woooooooh.'" This was after he allegedly kicked a football at some gravestones. (That part of the case got thrown out.)

Stallard feels bad, according to his lawyer: "He has accepted that his behavior, if it had been outside of a cemetery, would not have been inappropriate. But inside a cemetery, while people are grieving for their loved ones, it might be."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-woooooooh-noises-waving-arms-cemetery.html

I know that it's in bad taste but this cracks me up

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The NRA thinks blind people should have guns

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=29495119&postcount=963

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Woman Keeps Getting Arrested For Trying to Sneak Onto Flights

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2014/08/07/homeless-woman-stowaway-los-angeles/13736983/

I can understand feeling safer in airports but whats the deal with sneaking onto planes? I can't imagine being homeless in one place is that much better than another

Food, it is an occupation/hobby, the feeling of not being alone ...?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

The NRA thinks blind people should have guns

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=29495119&postcount=963

The stupidity involved could propel a space ship to the other side of the galaxy.
Anyway, blind people should use full auto rifle or grenades to be sure to hit their target.

 

[Victarion]

British Man Arrested for Pretending to Be a Ghost In a Cemetery

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-woooooooh-noises-waving-arms-cemetery.html

I know that it's in bad taste but this cracks me up

10spooky20me

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Smiling Young White People Make App for Avoiding Black Neighborhoods

Is there any way to keep white people from using computers, before this whole planet is ruined? I ask because the two enterprising white entrepreneurs above just made yet another app for avoiding non-white areas of your town—and it's really taking off!

Crain's reports on SketchFactor, a racist app made for avoiding "sketchy" neighborhoods, which is the term young white people use to describe places where they don't feel safe because they watched all five seasons of The Wire:

SketchFactor, the brainchild of co-founders Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington, is a Manhattan-based navigation app that crowdsources user experiences along with publicly available data to rate the relative "sketchiness" of certain areas in major cities. The app will launch on the iTunes on Friday, capping off a big week for the startup, which was named as a finalist in the NYC BigApps competition.

According to Ms. McGuire, a Los Angeles native who lives in the West Village, the impetus behind SketchFactor was her experience as a young woman navigating the streets of Washington, D.C., where she worked at a nonprofit.

[...]

After meeting Mr. Herrington, an electrical engineer who was taken with the SketchFactor idea, the two quit their Washington D.C.-based jobs and decamped to New York City with funding from family and friends.

As one of the finalists in the BigApps competition, SketchFactor is poised to receive more attention when it launches.

With firsthand experience living in Washington, D.C., where white terror is as ubiquitous as tucked-in polo shirts, grinning caucasians Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington should be unstoppable in the field of smartphone race-baiting—they're already finalists in a $20,000 startup contest! But don't worry: they're not racist. It says so right on their blog, which asks people to share "sketchy" stories about strangers they spot:

Who we're not: racists, bigots, sexists. Any discriminatory posts will be deleted.

Oh, well in that case. The app launches tomorrow, so it's probably safest to just stay indoors until then.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/articl...new-app-will-keep-you-away-from-sketchy-areas

Gee, I wonder what areas this will advise people from going into. I'd call it racist but SCOTUS rules racism is dead

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

^^
That makes me thought about the "ghetto tour" bus trip story ....

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Idiot Tourist Crashes Drone Into Yellowstone Park's Famous Hot Spring

Yellowstone National Park's largest natural hot spring—the third-biggest in the world—may be all kinds of screwed-up thanks to the crappy stick-and-rudder skills of a tourist who crashed a photo-taking drone into the "geothermal feature," the park said Wednesday.

Via Reuters:

It was not clear if the drone that crashed Grand Prismatic Spring on Saturday and sank into its depths would damage the geothermal feature, park spokesman Al Nash said, and officials were still trying to decide whether to remove it.

"What we have to determine is whether the presence of this radio-controlled recreational aircraft poses a threat to that unique resource," Nash said of the Grand Prismatic, the third-largest hot spring in the world and a top attraction for the roughly 3 million visitors who flock to Yellowstone each year.

The park is puzzling over how to find the drone and extract it without damaging the hot spring, which is 370 feet in diameter, more than 121 feet deep and known for its brilliant colors caused by bacteria and minerals in the water.

Apparently it just be rainin' drones all up in America. Despite the National Park Service's ban of unmanned aerial vehicles in June, one has been crashed into a Yellowstone marina this summer and "national parks in the U.S. West are reporting a sharp rise in the number of drones buzzing bison and boaters," Reuters writes.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the Grand Prismatic Spring-crasher had gotten any photos, or whether the Navy had been in touch to offer the hapless UAV pilot a job yet.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-usa-drones-yellowstone-idUSKBN0G62I620140806

Well hopefully they make an example out of him to try and deter these idiots from flying drones all over these places in the future

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Oklahoma Teacher Shows Up Drunk and Pantsless to Her First Day of Work

There are innumerable ways to screw up your first day of work, but some of them have a little more panache than others. A new teacher in Wagoner, Okla. was arrested on her first day after showing up at the school both drunk and without pants.

School officials called Wagoner police around 9 a.m. on Monday morning to report that Lorie Ann Hill, 49, seemed out of sorts and also was missing the lower half of her clothing. Police arrived to find her in an empty classroom, and determined, presumably without too much trouble, that she was under the influence of alcohol.

"She was found in a room kind of disoriented," Police Chief Bob Haley told the Tulsa World. "By the time we got there she was in a room and wearing shorts."

Hill admitted to police she'd been drinking, and a search of her car turned up an empty cup that reportedly smelled of vodka. Haley said, though, that there wasn't enough evidence to prove she drove to the school drunk, and no "credible witnesses" at her home, whatever that might mean. She was spared a DUI charge, and booked into Wagoner City Jail only on suspicion of public intoxication.

Classes don't start until Thursday. Neither Hill nor her pants are likely to attend.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crim...cle_367c1279-802d-5747-ad4b-9eb7af8b9bea.html

Way to make that first impression!

 

[DarkSentinel]

I'd call this a stupid thing by stupid people

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/state-...her-curbs-on-e-cigarettes-1407514160?mobile=y

 

[Teelie]

I'd call it a smart move because outside the propagnanda by those who support e-cigs, there is no proof they are harmless.

 

[Duran Man]

British Man Arrested for Pretending to Be a Ghost In a Cemetery

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-woooooooh-noises-waving-arms-cemetery.html

I know that it's in bad taste but this cracks me up

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Montana Man Killed in Liquor-Fueled Army vs. Marines Spat

The American West has a long and colorful history of men killing each other over the some of the stupidest reasons imaginable.

For instance, one of my own ancestors–a cold-blooded gunfighter and alcoholic psychopath named John Wesley Hardin, a confirmed killer of 27 men but who claimed to have killed 42 men in total—gained immortality (thanks to Time-Life Books) as "a man so mean he once shot a man for snoring too loud."*

I suspect then that Great-Great-Great-Uncle John would have found a kindred spirit in 63-year-old William Earl Cunningham of Laurel, Montana, who is facing deliberate homicide charges after allegedly slashing the throat of another man in a booze-tinged argument over which branch of the U.S. military was better—the Army or the Marines.

According to the Billings Gazette, Cunningham was at a picnic at a friend's house last Saturday night when he started arguing the relative merits of the U.S. Army over the U.S. Marine Corps with 40-year-old Nathan Horn.

Cunningham claims that as the service branch argument became more heated, Horn took a swing at him. Yellowstone County prosecutors say that Cunningham—whose blood-alcohol level was over measured at 0.217 percent, or well over twice the legal limit to drive in Montana—then decided it was a good time to become Army Strong and pushed Horn back before slashing the man's throat with a 3 1/2-inch folding knife.

"I did what the Army taught me to do," said Cunningham, according to court documents.

Authorities say that Horn suffered a deep cut to the left side of his neck and another deep wound to the cheek, and died about an hour later.

On Tuesday, a Montana judge set Cunningham's bond at $500,000. He has not yet entered a plea in the case.

Authorities say that they can't confirm if either man had actually served in the military, but say that both Cunningham and Horn did have prior criminal records for "unspecified violent crimes."

*After a 17-year stretch in prison, Hardin (who, incidentally, was not highly-regarded in our family) did the most natural thing imaginable—he passed the Texas bar exam and briefly became a lawyer before being shot in the head while playing dice in an El Paso saloon in 1896. Seventy-two years later, Bob Dylan curiously decided to title his first Biblically-themed album after him–albeit misspelling his name as John Wesley Harding.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/loc...cle_03fb181e-7d71-5a5f-879a-0bc17ec89658.html

Things weren't that serious when I was in the military, maybe a drunken fist fight here our there. Those old school guys were in a different military than the stuff nowadays

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Noncommittal Robber Earns $2 From 4 Knifepoint Holdups, Gets Arrested

After a string of four alleged knifepoint robberies in Woodbridge, New Jersey, Joshua James Pawlak was arrested and brought to Middlesex County Jail yesterday. His bounty: two dollars snatched from a bakery's countertop tip jar.

Pawlak's saga begins at Woodbridge's Forge Inn, the afternoon of July 27. After inquiring about a room and leaving, the 27-year-old returned with his weapon and attempted to rob the front desk, cops say. He fled the scene without taking anything.

At 6:39 p.m. the same day, he arrived at La Bonbonniere bakery. This would be his big moment. After several unsuccessful attempts, leaving the store empty-handed and entering again, NJ.com reports, he snatched enough money for like two sodas or a really big candy bar from the tip jar and escaped.

At 4:20 the next morning (nice), Pawlak allegedly attempted a robbery at a Hess gas station. He fled the scene without taking anything.

And at 10:06 a.m., police say, he wielded his knife in a robbery attempt at a 7-Eleven. He fled the scene without taking anything.

Pawlwak was arrested shortly after the final robbery and is currently being held on $50,000 bail.

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.s...-wielding_robbery_attempts_in_woodbridge.html

Doesn't seem like he was cut out for a life of crime

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Easily Shocked One Million Moms Upset Over Adult Swim's Black Jesus

Homophobic, censorious advocacy group and righteous bunch of trolls One Million Moms is back with another important cause. The group, which is run by the anti-gay American Family Association, concerns itself primarily with waging "media campaigns" against evils like the Geico pig, whose commercials they claimed promoted bestiality, and protesting virtually every show on TV for being somehow blasphemous, lustful or something else fun. This week they're feeling salty about Black Jesus, Adult Swim's new show from the Boondocks creator about, you guessed it, a black Jesus who lives in Compton and doesn't mind a little weed now and again.

One rather suspects it's the "black" part that One Million Moms really objects to, but they insist it's the foul language and the show's "making a mockery of our Lord." (They also seem upset that Black Jesus lives in Compton Gardens, a subdivision in Compton, and which is depicted as chock-full of, in their words, "violence, gunfire and other inappropriate gestures which completely misrepresent Jesus.")

One Million Moms wants the show, which is set to premiere tomorrow, to never see the light of day. Failing that, which they will, they're vowing to urge advertisers to boycott the show. Adult Swim has already issued a statement saying the show is not intended "to offend any race or people of faith."

http://onemillionmoms.com/issues/adult-swim/

These ladies get bent out of shape over anything

 

[Teelie]

"One Million Moms" is an ambitious and misleading name for their little group. I think an optimistic estimation is under 100,000 and probably not even in the 50,000+ range (they have a listed 180,000 subscribed members in the larger AFA umbrella and the majority appear to be men). They are naturally unwilling to actually give even an estimate of their membership numbers so going on other metrics is all we can use.

Whatever their true number is, they are listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and should be viewed in a similar manner as other hate groups.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Yup, bunch of idiots

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I'd call this a stupid thing by stupid people

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/state-...her-curbs-on-e-cigarettes-1407514160?mobile=y

I'm going to agree with DS, while its not proven they aren't harmful, I'd wager they're still much healthier than regular cigarettes. I'd say big tobacco is making some pushes in Washington again.

 

[BestGirl]

I'm going to agree with DS, while its not proven they aren't harmful, I'd wager they're still much healthier than regular cigarettes. I'd say big tobacco is making some pushes in Washington again.

I don't understand why Big Tobacco doesn't go into the e-cig producing business. They ought to have enough capital built up that they could easily muscle their way into the market.

Then again, I've heard BT is opposed to marijuana legalization even though you'd think that would be the perfect extension for their own business, as well. Maybe working for tobacco companies means you have to surrender your common sense.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man Crushes Police-Sponsored Doughnut-Eating Contest, Gets Arrested

A man who participated in an anti-crime, police-sponsored doughnut-eating contest in North Carolina on Wednesday was arrested only a day later, officers say, when they realized he had been wanted in two suspected break-ins.

Police officials in Elizabeth City, N.C. arrested 24-year-old Bradley Hardison immediately following his sweet success in the anti-crime doughnut eating contest. Hardison put back eight doughnuts in two minutes, beating out police officers and firemen alike, but the win couldn't stop officers from recognizing his face. The police department had reportedly been looking for Hardison for months in connection to two break-in cases.

The suspect remains in jail, where his victory may now seem bittersweet.

https://www.dailyadvance.com/ap/staten/police-arrest-man-who-wins-doughnut-eating-contest-2619303

I love it when a criminal gets caught because of their own stupidity instead of good police work

 

[Teelie]

I'm going to agree with DS, while its not proven they aren't harmful, I'd wager they're still much healthier than regular cigarettes. I'd say big tobacco is making some pushes in Washington again.

Less harmful does not equate to harmless. It's like saying getting stabbed is less dangerous than getting shot. While technically true you're still getting hurt.

 

[Godzilla2000]

British Man Arrested for Pretending to Be a Ghost In a Cemetery

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ng-woooooooh-noises-waving-arms-cemetery.html

I know that it's in bad taste but this cracks me up

Was he busted by some meddling teenage kids and their dog?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Insurance Company Pays Man's Settlement With $21,000 in Coins

Andres Carrasco reached a settlement with Adriana's Insurance Service, Inc. this past June following a lawsuit he filed in 2012 in which he alleged an employee of the company physically assaulted him. The company paid his settlement with a check but also, his attorney claims, in buckets of change that amount to more than $21,000.

Carrasco's attorney told NBC Los Angeles that eight Adriana's Insurance employees pulled up in a van to his office and unloaded multiple five-gallon buckets full of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. Carrasco, 73, had just undergone surgery for a hernia, and was still too weak to lift any of the buckets of change.

"Adriana's Insurance, is this the way you treat everyone?" Carrasco said in a statement. "Why don't you like your clients?"

As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution points out, Adriana's Insurance's Yelp page has been attacked with negative reviews. From one review:

I wish I could've given them NO stars from the way they treated my uncle Andres C. How dare you call yourself a place of business. These people are nothing but money hungry idiots. They care only for money and not any of their customers. My advice, go with someone else. These crooks will get their karma in due time.

"I am disappointed by the way Adriana's treats their customers and the elderly," Carrasco said in his statement. "We might be poor, but we are people too."

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...ent-in-Buckets-of-Loose-Change-269896301.html

It was funny when Samsung did this to Apple but for an insurance company to do this to an old man that is one of their customers is a really dick move

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Suspected Juggalos Try to Cut Off Man's Tattoo, Then Set Him on Fire

Two men were arrested by police early Monday in Hebron, Md. for allegedly attacking their roommate during a heated argument. Paul Martin Hurst, 33, and Cary Lee Edwards, 35, apparently attempted to cut their roommate's tattoo off his arm—when they failed, they set him on fire. The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office believes there to be a "strong possibility" that the three are Juggalos.

According to police, Zachary Swanson, 31, was taken to the hospital with severe burns. The Baltimore Sun reports that police found Swanson's tattoo to be "consistent" with the iconography associated with Insane Clown Posse fans, "which the FBI has classified as a gang."

Per WBOC, Hurst and Edwards have been charged by police with attempted first and second degree murder, first and second degree assault, reckless endangerment, and assault with a deadly weapon.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-tattoo-beating-20140805,0,5506278.story

I still find it hilarious that just because you listen to a certain style of music you are automatically in a gang just because a few idiots call themselves that same name