Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 2

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What was not stated is she was burned for allegedly burning the Quaran but all the evidence points to she did not and she also apparently had some kind of mental illness regardless.

In other words, they murdered her for being mentally ill and merely believing she burned a religious book.
What motivated the mob, according to witnesses, was a belief that the targeted woman had burned the Quran. CNN hasn't seen any proof that she set a copy ablaze. Afghanistan's Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs has found no such evidence, either, according to Tolo.
 
Suspect killed, officer shot in Arizona Walmart parking lot, police say

There were a total of 19 people involved in this (18 outside, and the assaulted woman inside).

If ever such a bizarre story were to happen, it would of course happen outside a WalMart.

One of the nine suspects was killed. Another was shot in the stomach. All eight responding officers were injured, including one 10-year veteran who required surgery.

It's the aftermath of an all-out melee in a Walmart parking lot in Cottonwood, Arizona, a town of 11,000 people about an hour's drive south of Flagstaff.

But details are murky outside of the injury and arrest reports.

What's known, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety statement released by spokesman Raul Garcia, is that someone at the store called the Cottonwood Police Department a few minutes before midnight Saturday to report that a woman who worked at Walmart "had been assaulted in the store by multiple suspects."

The suspects were in the parking lot when police responded, and they immediately attacked the officers, the DPS statement said. Two suspects were shot, one in the abdomen and one fatally, while one of the suspects shot a Cottonwood officer in the leg, according to DPS.

"I heard about eight to 10 shots," Louie Solano, an eyewitness, told CNN affiliate KPHO. "It was a lot of noise. It looked like a riot in the middle of the parking lot. I mean it was unbelievable," he said.

Investigators believe the nine suspects were all from the same family. "We believe they are from Idaho because of the license plate on their vehicle," DPS spokesman Bart Graves told CNN.

The condition of the suspect who was shot in the stomach was not known.

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Seven other suspects were taken into custody, the statement said, and "a total of eight officers and another (Walmart) employee were assaulted in the parking lot during the fight. Seven of those officers sustained minor injuries to include lacerations and bruising."

The Walmart employee, who was a loss prevention officer, had a broken arm, Graves said.

The 31-year-old officer who suffered the gunshot wound was flown to Flagstaff Medical Center, where he underwent surgery. The veteran officer is expected to make a full recovery, according to the statement.

The Cottonwood Police Department and the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office directed media questions to DPS.

Asked for additional information, Arizona DPS spokesman Bart Graves said, "This is a very complex investigation, we are still sorting things out and there are a lot of witnesses to talk to, so we are in the early stages."

He added, "We were asked by Cottonwood police to conduct a criminal investigation."
CNN
 
Dad Shoots Teen Son in Butt Over Empty Orange Juice Carton

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A Louisiana family's argument about orange juice ended in bloodshed and an arrest for attempted manslaughter Sunday morning after a father allegedly shot his teenage son in the ass with a .357 revolver.

Sometime Sunday morning, Eldridge Dukes allegedly confronted his 18-year-old son about the lack of orange juice in their Baton Rouge home. The Advocate reports that the fight escalated—a vase was reportedly broken—and eventually spilled into the street, where Dukes allegedly chased after his son and shot at him three times. The son was struck once in the butt.

Dukes' wife called the police, who arrested her 58-year-old husband after he reportedly confessed. The son was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries.

http://theadvocate.com/news/11914132-123/baton-rouge-police-father-shoots

OJ is serious business
 
What was not stated is she was burned for allegedly burning the Quaran but all the evidence points to she did not and she also apparently had some kind of mental illness regardless.

In other words, they murdered her for being mentally ill and merely believing she burned a religious book.
word, but it is still disgusting.
 
Dallas Woman Found Dead After Receiving Black-Market Butt Injections

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A 34-year-old woman was found dead at a Dallas salon Feb. 19 after receiving what family members said was her fourth black-market butt injection, the Dallas News reported this week.

Wykesha Reid, a mother who worked at a nursing home, "got hooked on them booty shots," according to Patricia Kelley, the woman who raised her. Even though her butt was "getting too big," Kelley said, Reid went back for more at the Deep Ellum salon where her body was eventually found.

Kelley said the salon had been "cleaned out," and Reid's phone and wallet had been taken. Apparently, no one inside called 911.

Police are now searching for salon owners Denise Ross, 43, and Jimmy Clarke, 31, (a.k.a. Alicia)—not in connection with Reid's death, but on charges of practicing medicine without a license in a separate case that came to light later, in which, the Dallas News reports, "a woman who received butt injections suffered pain, soreness and psychological problems but survived."

According to the warrant, the woman "was told to be quiet after screaming in agony."

The alleged black-market butt-injectors could still be charged in Reid's death, authorities say, but that depends on toxicology results that are still weeks away.

The Dallas News spoke to former clients of the pair who said they ran a well-known, professional operation injecting hydrogel into the asses of local exotic dancers, then sealing their work with super glue. They said doses cost between $300 and $500, and the procedure lasted from 15 to 45 minutes.

Underground butt-enhancement operations are not uncommon, and neither are deaths—and other gruesome consequences—from botched procedures.

One of the 30(!) victims of an unlicensed Florida butt-doctor, who was disfigured but survived, explained that such operations tend to target trans people:

"It becomes so dire that you want to match your outside with your inside that you're willing to roll the dice and take your chances. As a transgender person, you're thinking, 'Oh, my God, I can start to look like I want to look like and I don't have to spend a lot of money,'" Rajee Narinesingh said in 2011.

Ross and Clarke's clients told the Dallas News that their procedures were popular with "dancers and trans women."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-hunt-continues-unlicenced-practitioners.html

Why would anyone do something so stupid?
 
I honestly do not see the appeal with this beach ball size butt fad thats all the rage. I think it looks ridiculous and unappealing.

Dont get me wrong if you are a woman with a wide or plump or large butt youre not ugly or repulsive. If thats your natural shape then there isnt a thing wrong with that, but these women who are injecting god knows what into their ass to try to one up each other until the mass of their combined butt cheeks achieve nuclear fusion just baffles me.
 
George Zimmerman Doesn't Feel Guilty, Does Feel Victimized

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Child-killer George Zimmerman has released a video—recorded, The Orlando Sentinel reports, by his divorce lawyer—in which he expresses the utmost lack of regret or remorse for the events that led to the death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin three years ago last month.

The interview was conducted by Howard Iken, of Ayo and Iken PLC. It can be seen on Ayo and Iken's website, www.18884mydivorce.com. It's bad.

Iken: Now that we are talking about this let me just ask you going back to the actual event that evening in Sanford. Did you do anything wrong?

Zimmerman: No, sir.

Iken: Do you have clean conscience at this point?

Zimmerman: Yes, sir.​

Zimmerman goes on to express that he feels victimized by President Barack Obama. "Instead of rushing to judgment, making racially charged comments and pitting American against American, I believe that he should have taken the higher road," Zimmerman says.

Last month, the Department of Justice decided not to prosecute Zimmerman for a hate crime.

"You cannot feel guilty for surviving," Zimmerman says. "In all fairness, you cannot as a human feel guilty for living, for surviving."

The Sentinel reports that, according to Iken, authorities have not given Zimmerman back his gun.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...orge-zimmerman-reacts-doj-20150323-story.html

I really hate that guy
 
Film Critic Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Sex From Teen Online

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Gabriel Toro, a 31-year-old film critic with bylines in IndieWire, CinemaBlend, and Den of Geek, pled guilty this month to charges including soliciting pornographic pictures from a 14-year-old girl and posting advertisements for sex with the girl on Craigslist. He faces a minimum of 10 years in prison.

The U.S. Department of Justice published a news release about the Bronx-based critic's guilty plea last week. It reads in part:

Gabriel Toro, 31, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William J. Martini in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count of online enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual conduct.

According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court:

Toro admitted that between December 2011 and August 2014, he used the internet to induce a 14-year-old girl to engage in criminal sexual conduct including taking pictures of her genitals for him. Toro also admitted to distributing images of the girl to another individual and posting advertisements on Craigslist for individuals to have sex with the minor in exchange for money.​

Toro apparently had a history with online film message boards such as Rotten Tomatoes and CHUD.com, where posters have traded rumors and about his alleged predatory behavior in the days since the guilty plea.

Wrote a Rotten Tomatoes forum member named "d b":

I dated Gabe last summer up until his arrest. Due to the lack of information and communication concerning his disappearance, I did some digging online and found out about his history on RT and CHUD, including the abusive relationship he had with one of the site users a few years ago.

When I found out he got arrested, I had a feeling that he was involved in something like this. I was 19 when we were dating, and we explored some f***ed up, taboo things together. But foolishly I thought it was just fantasy for him as it was for me... clearly that isn't the case.​

A poster on CHUD called the charges against Toro, who posted under the name "FabFunk," "the least surprising thing ever." Another wrote:

Wow. I somehow feel CHUD helped bring him to justice...I mean the prosecutor had to have scanned his posts here right? They pretty much condemn him by themselves.​

A third recalled a time Toro allegedly posted to the forum about how a "15-year-old broke his heart."

Toro will be required to register as a sex offender, according to the DOJ's release. He will be sentenced on June 25.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/Toro, Gabriel Plea News Release.html

Good thing he is off the street
 
RadioShack Selling Customer Data In Bankruptcy Auction

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RadioShack's recent bankruptcy filing means that it has to close nearly 2,000 stores and sell off many of its assets. Some of those assets are to be expected, like trademarks and store leases. But other assets might come as a shock to consumers — assets like personal customer information and email addresses.

As Bloomberg reports, RadioShack is offering up more than 13 million email addresses and 65 million physical addresses to the highest bidder. And that's not sitting too well with the Attorneys General in some states, where they contend that the sale is a violation of consumer rights.

Both Texas and Tennessee have joined a lawsuit to stop the sale of the customer information. They apparently took literally the signs in RadioShack that read: "We pride ourselves on not selling our private mailing list." How quaint.

To make things even more complicated, AT&T is objecting to the sale of the consumer data. Their motives, however, are less altruistic. As a former partner of RadioShack, AT&T wants the records destroyed so that their former customer info doesn't fall into the hands of any competitors in the mobile phone market.
On a personal note, I walked into a RadioShack that was closing a couple weeks ago with a pang of nostalgia. Everything was for sale, right down to the point of sale (POS) computers. Of course, the signs on the counter that offered the computers for sale noted that they'd be "wiped" first. But something tells me that maintaining customer privacy isn't the highest priority for RadioShack right now.

http://consumerist.com/2015/03/24/y...be-for-sale-in-radioshack-bankruptcy-auction/

You didn't think they were going to waste all those phone numbers they got every time you bought batteries did you?
 
Well that's nice. Great to see how companies can be considered trustworthy. :whatever:
 
The Fukushima Cleanup Wasted Half a Billion Dollars on Bad Technology

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The cleanup of Fukushima's leaking nuclear plant has been long, expensive, and plagued with problems. Now, the AP reports a government audit has found that more than a third of the budget for cleanup was wasted—totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

The previous allegations of incompetence and straight-up lies that surround Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, the company responsible for the cleanup, might make you wonder if any of those millions were lost to corruption. But the Associated Press says that most of it was wasted because no one really knew how to clean up the site. The company spent millions on systems and machines that theoretically might have worked. But didn't.

The Ice Wall That Wouldn't Freeze

Let's start with what AP calls "the unfrozen trench," contaminated water leaks into these trenches—tunnels, really—that run alongside the plant, creating a major hazard. Tepco started injecting the water with coolants in an attempt to freeze it, creating an ice wall of sorts as Gizmodo reported. It didn't work.

Tepco says "it has proved exceptionally difficult" to freeze the trenches completely, according to World Nuclear News. "Tepco subsidiary Tokyo Power Technology even threw in chunks of ice, but eventually had to pour in cement to seal the trench," says the AP. The project cost $840,000, which is chump change compared to other items on the list.

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Controversial Machinery

Then there's Areva SA, a French company that promised its system would aid in Fukushima's cleanup. Problem is, its process has been sharply criticized back at home by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, doctors, and environmental watchdogs.

In 2011, Forbes reported that higher levels of Leukemia have resulted near the plant, and the contaminated water has even reached the Arctic. Forbes explained that Areva adds metals and chemicals to the radioactive waste water used to cool reactors—these "bind" to the isotopes and pull them down. This sludge is removed and buried like traditional nuclear waste, while the water is recirculated—in the case of Areva's European plant, it's released right back into the English Channel.

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Areva doesn't seem like the likeliest company you'd want to partner with—and indeed, the $270 million machine that was bought to treat Fukushima's water was abandoned after just a few months.

Yet more money was wasted on the machines Tepco bought to remove salt water from the contaminated water—the salt had been added when ocean water was used to cool the reactors just after the accident. None of the machines lasted longer than a few weeks, according to the AP.

Too Fast, Too Flimsy

Two of the other big wastes on the list give us the best glimpse into the operation, since they show how the rapid pace and hurried process contributed to the budget overruns. The AP cites storage tanks for the water that cost $134 million that were "assembled by unskilled workers" and "began leaking and some water seeped into the ground and then into the ocean." Likewise, a series of underground pools for water storage "leaked within weeks."

The audit paints a picture of a cleanup mired in problems that stemmed from untested cleanup technology—a situation made worse stemming as leaks continued to be discovered and remain unreported by Tepco, as we wrote last month. But beyond the company's involvement, it's an awful story—for Japan, for the people working on repairing the plant, and for the environment.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/75dd...dit-millions-dollars-wasted-fukushima-cleanup

Well I guess their heart was in the right place
 
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/03/...officer-arrested-on-child-pornography-charge/

Ex-Calais police officer arrested on child pornography charge

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Roy Wise



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CALAIS, Maine — A former Calais police officer currently working as a federal officer assigned to the Cutler Naval Facility was arrested Thursday on a child pornography charge, according to the Maine State Police.
Roy Wise, 49, was arrested by the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit at his Spring Street home, Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said.
The computer crimes unit was asked to investigate Wise by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service after they suspected him of viewing child pornography on his work computer, according to McCausland.
Wise also allegedly was viewing child porn on his personal computer, McCausland said. He was charged with possession of sexually explicit material of someone under age 12.
McCausland said that there is no indication any of the images depicted children from Maine.
Wise was taken to the Washington County Jail after his arrest.
Look at that face...and know that thats the look he gets when hes playing with himself while looking at kiddie porn.
 
Philadelphia Uber Driver Accused Of Raping Female Passenger

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In a disturbing story published today by Philadelphia magazine, a woman alleges that the Uber driver that picked her up in Philadelphia's Old City last month "held her arms down, ripped her pants, and raped her."

The woman, 33, also claims that the driver held her in his car and continued to drive her around for more than two hours.

And even though a police report was filed more than a month ago (on the same day she was allegedly assaulted), a spokesperson for Uber claims the company only learned of the incident after Philly mag called for comment on the story today.

It would appear, at least according to a rough translation of this Le Parisien story, that this isn't the first time Uber claimed to have learned about an alleged sexual assault perpetrated by a driver long after it had been reported to police. (H/T @chi1cabby)

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim," an Uber spokesperson said in an emailed statement. "The driver in question has been deactivated from the Uber platform, and we will assist the authorities in any way we can."

The company's comment goes on:

Here is what we know at this time:

The trip in question occurred on February 6th and concluded with the driver dropping off the rider at the address where the Philadelphia Police Department 5th District station is located.
The driver has been interviewed by the PPD and was not arrested and continues to cooperate in their investigation.
The driver was affiliated with Uber Philadelphia as an uberX partner.
Upon learning of the incident, we immediately contacted PPD to assist in their investigation and support their efforts in any way we can.
As the investigation continues, the driver's access to the Uber platform has been suspended.
While we do not know the identity of the victim due the PPD's privacy policy, our thoughts and prayers are with her.​

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/03/24/woman-raped-uberx-philadelphia/

Uber is really going to have to start checking these people before they let them drive customers around. This seems to be happening way too often
 
Why Anti-Vaxxers Just 'Know' They're Right

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Anti-vaccination beliefs can cause real, substantive harm, as shown by the recent outbreak of measles in the US. These developments are as shocking and distressing as their consequences are predictable. But if the consequences are so predictable, why do the beliefs persist?

It is not simply that anti-vaxxers don’t understand how vaccines work (some of them may not, but not all of them). Neither are anti-vaxxers simply resistant to all of modern medicine (I’m sure that many of them still take pain killers when they need to). So the matter is not as simple as plain stupidity. Some anti-vaxxers are not that stupid, and some stupid people are not anti-vaxxers. There is something more subtle going on.

Naïve theories

We all have what psychologists call “folk” theories, or “naïve” theories, of how the world works. You do not need to learn Newton’s laws to believe that an object will fall to the floor if there is nothing to support it. This is just something you “know” by virtue of being human. It is part of our naïve physics, and it gives us good predictions of what will happen to medium-sized objects on planet earth.

Naïve physics is not such a good guide outside of this environment. Academic physics, which deals with very large and very small objects, and with the universe beyond our own planet, often produces findings that are an affront to common sense.

As well as physics, we also have naïve theories about the natural world (naïve biology) and the social world (naïve psychology). An example of naïve biology is “vitalistic causality” – the intuitive belief that a vital power or life force, acquired from food and water, is what makes humans active, prevents them from being taken ill, and enables them to grow. Children have this belief from a very young age.

Naïve theories of all kinds tend to persist even in the face of contradictory arguments and evidence. Interestingly, they persist even in the minds of those who, at a more reflexive level of understanding, know them to be false.

In one study, adults were asked to determine, as quickly as possible, whether a statement was scientifically true or false. These statements were either scientifically true and naïvely true (“A moving bullet loses speed”), scientifically true but naïvely false (“A moving bullet loses height”), scientifically false but naïvely true (“A moving bullet loses force”), or scientifically false and naïvely false (“A moving bullet loses weight”).

Adults with a high degree of science education got the questions right, but were significantly slower to answer when the naïve theory contradicted their scientific understanding. Scientific understanding does not replace naïve theories, it just suppresses them.

Sticky ideas

As ideas spread through a population, some stick and become common, while others do not. The science of how and why ideas spread through populations is called cultural epidemiology. More and more results in this area are showing how naïve theories play a major role in making some ideas stickier than others. Just as we have a natural biological vulnerability to some bacteria and not others, we have a natural psychological vulnerability to some ideas and not others. Some beliefs, good and bad, are just plain infectious.

Here is an example. Bloodletting persisted in the West for centuries, even though it was more often than not harmful to the patient. A recent survey of the ethnographic data showed that bloodletting has been practiced in one form or another in many unrelated cultures, across the whole world.

A follow-up experiment showed how stories that do not originally have any mention of bloodletting (for instance, about an accidental cut) can, when repeated over and over again, become stories about bloodletting, even among individuals with no cultural experience of bloodletting.

These results cannot be explained by bloodletting’s medical efficiency (since it is harmful), or by the perceived prestige of western physicians (since many of the populations surveyed had no exposure to them). Instead, the cultural success of bloodletting is due to the fact that it chimes with our naïve biology, and in particular with our intuitive ideas of vitalistic causality.

Bloodletting is a natural response to a naïve belief that the individual’s life force has been polluted in some way, and that this pollution must be removed. Anti-vaccination beliefs are a natural complement to this: vaccinations are a potential poison that must be kept from the body at all costs.

At an intuitive, naïve level we can all identify with these beliefs. That is why they can satirised in mainstream entertainment.

In Stanley Kubrick’s great comedy Dr. Strangelove, the American general Jack D. Ripper explains to Lionel Mandrake, a group captain in the Royal Air Force, that he only drinks “distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol”, because, he believes, tap water is being deliberately infected by Communists to “sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids”. The joke works because Ripper’s paranoia is directed at something we all recognise: the need to keep our bodies free from harmful, alien substances. Anti-vaxxers think they are doing the same.

http://theconversation.com/infections-of-the-mind-why-anti-vaxxers-just-know-theyre-right-38926

I still think anyone who doesn't vaccinate should be prosecuted and have it done for them
 
If the parents wont do it then the children should be made to do so. I bet almost all the parents are vaccinated and don't remember it then whine about how they never got the shots and never got sick.
 
I wrote a short story inspired by the antivaxx thing. I'm almost as bad as Senty at hawking my hash
 
Did everyone die because everyone was an idiot? :o
 
Did everyone die because everyone was an idiot? :o

The antivaxxer got violated by a mutagenic virus that turned him into a journal-burning ifrit with the ability to control hybrid t-rex/xenomorphs that started vivisecting people and presenting them to dragonic lymph nodes.:o

@Teelie: Its more the idea of injecting yourself with something that doesn't come from a legitimate source that baffles me.
 
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