Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 2

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

It's just as true as all those haunting and possession movies that claim to be based on a true story

 

[Snow Queen]

I'd make a snarky remark about Heaven Is For Real but apparently it's a different kid who died and went to heaven. Well hopefully that kid isn't crazy like the one Heaven Is For Real is based on. Anyone seen his Twitter page?

 

[KevanG]

It's just as true as all those haunting and possession movies that claim to be based on a true story

But he said it wasn't and those movies say it was. I'm so confused.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

But he said it wasn't and those movies say it was. I'm so confused.

Ya Kev, that's the joke haha all those movies are BS

 

[KevanG]

But but... Those movies said it all did happen! Are you saying that movies might be lying?

 

[Hellion]

Man/boy plans on moving transcient space cadet into his parent's basement - http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=492397

...I miss everything...

 

[Anita18]

I'm a figure skating fan, and this is the stupidest thing that has come across my radar....in a few months at least.

Former Olympic figure skater (and former orthopedic surgeon) Debi Thomas is begging for money after willingly quitting her medical practice...to go film a reality TV series with her (apparently broke filmmaker) fiancé in Appalachian country.

http://www.gofundme.com/HelpOlympianDJ

She is a Stanford- and Northwestern-educated doctor, who quit her private practice because giving speaking engagements paid more than doing surgery. But oops, turns out you need to market yourself to give speaking engagements, and apparently she's crap at that. (No surprise, judging at how she tries to sell her story on the GoFundMe page..) So now they are broke (phone service getting cut off on the 28th) and for some reason she doesn't want to go back to medicine to care for those Appalachian folks or...something? But she'll be on Oprah to hawk a reality TV show about her "struggles."

Needless to say, the figure skating world is playing the tiniest violin for her plight. What a shame, she sounded like she really had everything together.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Mmmh there is no skateboard event at the Olympic Games ( yet, it's coming in 2016 ) or I misunderstood the sentence ?

 

[Anita18]

Mmmh there is no skateboard event at the Olympic Games ( yet, it's coming in 2016 ) or I misunderstood the sentence ?

My husband skateboards, so I make sure to specify what type of "skating" I'm talking about. I'm talking about figure skating, ie the costumed ice skating to music.

In France, the most prominent figure skater in recent memory is Brian Joubert, but unless you are a straight woman or gay man, you probably didn't care. (Brian did a couple of nude photoshoots and he has a GREAT body. )

Female figure skaters were America's sweethearts back in the day. Debi Thomas should not be hurting for money, especially when she went on to be a surgeon.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Ha yes right. I didn't associated Figure skating with Ice skating hence my confusion.

I know who Joubert is and I'm neither a woman nor gay

 

[Anita18]

Ha yes right. I didn't associated Figure skating with Ice skating hence my confusion.

I know who Joubert is and I'm neither a woman nor gay

Oh good! He was pretty big in France (dated Miss France once) but it's still figure skating so you never know. It isn't very big anymore, especially in the US. I think only Japan really cares now. Korea only cares (cared?) for Yu-Na Kim.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

The "biggest" ( or one of ) was Philippe Candeloro in France ( famous for his flowery commentaries ).

 

[Marvolo]

UPDATE: Government of Paris to Sue Fox News Over Muslim No-Go Zone Segments



http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/01/city-of-paris-to-sue-fox-news-201302.html

I would love to see A country put FAUX News in it's place regardless of what country they do it in.

Also I think it is fitting that my 10,000th post was made here in this thread! t:

The people that work for that joke of a "news" station either have no shame or are incredibly desperate.

I hope the whole EU sticks it to them.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

To be precise, it is Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris who will raising a complain against Fox News.
Is there no organization, association or whatever that uphold journalistic deontology ?

 

[KevanG]

Fox really needs to be taken down several pegs because they just keep pulling the same bull**** every year. They'll spout some utter garbage and people will get offended, then they'll just go 'lol free speech' and nothing happens.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Weather Hoaxer Threatens the NWS, Records Himself Yelling at FBI Agents

Kevin Martin, notorious purveyor of weather hoaxes and second prize in a Johnny Depp lookalike contest, is the subject of a federal investigation after issuing threats of violence last month against the National Weather Service in San Diego, CA. He recorded the FBI visiting his house, and surprise!, it didn't go well.

If you've followed weather news for any length of time, you're probably aware of Martin's reputation of threats, intimidation, and wildly inaccurate weather information he creates specifically for the purpose of going viral on social media. The thirty-something California resident, often unlovingly called "K-Mart," has been the source of many widespread weather hoaxes in the past year, including false prophecies of doom last winter and one steaming pile of Facebook virality in August that threatened the entire Gulf Coast with a non-existent major hurricane. The latter hoax spread so far and wide that even The Weather Channel had to call him out on it.

A hoax about the weather is markedly different from a hoax about a celebrity death or one of those awful ripoffs of The Onion that uses deceitful headlines to trick you into thinking something horrible happened. False weather forecasts do real harm to the public as they degrade trust in trained meteorologists who produce valid, accurate forecasts. When the public sees a hoax about a major hurricane or catastrophic blizzard that doesn't exist, the vast majority of readers don't think to corroborate it with other sources and check the validity of the article in question. They take the hoax for face value, blame real meteorologists when it doesn't pan out, and their trust in scientific forecasts drops. Kevin Martin is at the forefront of the hoaxer movement, and his actions are single-handedly responsible for hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people receiving false weather information on numerous occasions.

Over the years, Martin has created a slew of websites on which he issues dubious forecasts that he claims are better than those produced by the National Weather Service. Martin uses his self-taught knowledge of meteorology (such as it is) to arrive at the grandiose proclamations of doom and destruction that so often spread like wildfire. He also claims to fall somewhere along the autism spectrum, which he uses to explain his superior knowledge of meteorology (cough) and defend his terrible behavior, the latter of which has been derided as complete bull by anyone with autism or even a passing knowledge of the developmental disorder.

In addition to the websites that are often taken offline—including such classics as The Weather Space, Weather Alert Central, Southern California Weather Authority, Northeast U.S. Weather, Triforce Weather, and his most recent creation, National Weather Force—he runs a series of websites that claim to keep track of the "chemtrails" (which don't exist) and "HAARP waves" (which don't exist in that capacity) that conspiracy theorists swear are used by the government to control the weather. There's the source of that superior scientific forecasting for you.

Martin is also infamous for spoofing official products issued by the National Weather Service, going so far as to copy their exact product formatting in order to trick people into thinking his forecasts and severe weather warnings are valid and produced by the government agency. The agency's headquarters in Washington had to issue a statement back in 2011 specifically calling Martin out for this tactic while distancing themselves from his faulty prognostications.

Kevin and his twin brother Brian are perhaps most notorious for the unbelievable lengths to which they'll threaten and harass anyone whom they perceive as slighting their name or their work. The threats and intimidation are so bad that there was a point in the not-too-distant past when even wildly popular meteorologists were afraid to call him and his products out for what they are.

Martin's biggest target over the years has been the National Weather Service, and it looks like his violent rhetoric is finally coming home to roost. It should come as no surprise that Kevin Martin is now under local and federal investigation for using social media to threaten the National Weather Service's office in San Diego. As recently as last month, Martin used a variety of dummy accounts on Facebook to threaten the building and its employees, going so far as to draw crosshairs on satellite snapshots of the office, accompanied by the ominous message "endanger the public and I endanger you."

During the height of the situation in December, employees at NWS San Diego were informed that management had increased security at the building, and that local and federal authorities were actively investigating his threats against the agency.

A few weeks ago, Martin used a dummy YouTube account to post a video of his interaction with two agents from the FBI after they showed up at his home to interview him. Martin subsequently posted the YouTube video and his account of the interaction to an "alternative" news website called Before It's News.

Martin has since deleted both the video and the post from their original sources, but nothing ever goes away on the internet.

Regarding the video, Martin said in his post:

The National Weather Service sent FBI agents to a weather forecaster of NationalWeatherForce.com and SouthernCaliforniaWeatherForce.com, attempting to scare him into not talking smack on the National Weather Service on their Facebook Pages when they deserve it.

[...]

This has been a long ongoing battle and this shows you how to assert yourself, video the situation, and send the FBI back with their tails between their legs in less than two minutes. Heck no one had to answer questions but to show you how to handle the feds in two minutes this is how you do it and send them packing.

[...]

No Feds will tell us how to forecast weather and silence us against the inaccurate forecasts at NOAA.

Threats against the National Weather Service aside, the list of people the Martin twins have threatened grows longer by the week. One of the worst instances occurred back in January 2014, when Kevin wrote a thoroughly libelous article on his website falsely accusing an Oklahoma City meteorologist of being a child molester after he took to his Facebook page to call Martin a "nut job."

Last September, I wrote an article about Martin's one-man protest against Facebook after the social media behemoth banned him for abuses of the website's terms of service. After catching wind of the article, Martin copied my post and republished it word-for-word (links back to The Vane and all) to his website. Then, in some cartoonish attempt to get me fired for criticizing him, he contacted Gawker Media's legal department and claimed that I plagiarized my critical article of him from him.

After legal told Martin to cut it out, he lost it and left the following voicemail on the phone of the company's lawyers:

You're such a f***ing b****, uh, f***ing c***. I don't even know, I could call you every f***ing name in the book. Yeah, this is Kevin again. Uh, I did hide the material just so that I could see it and I am going to be using that, um, so it is behind a wall where only the admin can see it. Of course, that's me, nothing you can f***ing do about it you little ****ing ****.

Um, but I'm gonna let you know that what you sent, that says you're not in any way, any way, in any facts, no, you guys will f***ing remove "scam," you'll f***ing remove "fraud," and you'll f***ing remove the "hoax" bull****. You will f***ing remove that s*** or you're gonna have me on your f***ing ass, you got me?

All of the site's articles about Martin remain online, unchanged.

Just one month earlier, again reacting to criticism against his tactics, the prolific threatmonger took to his site's Twitter account to issue a death threat against the hosts of a popular weekly web show called WeatherBrains, including legendary Alabama meteorologist James Spann.

Early in 2014, Kevin's twin brother Brian sent me a more subtle death threat on Facebook after I wrote a pointed article about the former after his "enormous blizzard threatens hundreds of millions" fiasco. Regular readers may remember this exchange as containing the amazing "clock sucker" insult.

I mention the Martins' threats and harassment against me and Gawker because they are typical examples of the lengths to which they'll go to stifle any criticism of Kevin or his practices. There are countless more examples out there ranging from television meteorologists to run-of-the-mill social media users who ran afoul of the Wrath of K-Mart. Just the simple mention of his name will result in a threatening message in many cases, and actively attempting to correct the harm done by his inaccurate posts will result in much worse, as seen by the threats leveled at the National Weather Service and others.

Charges have yet to be filed against Martin on the local or the federal level, but given the ugliness of the threats and relentless manner in which he pursues the targets of his aggression, it's only a matter of time before he's forced to take responsibility for his actions. The Vane will have more coverage of the situation if investigators decide there's enough evidence to ask for an indictment.

http://thevane.gawker.com/weather-hoaxer-threatens-the-nws-records-himself-yelli-1680725935/+maxread

Video at the link. What a huge a**hole. People like that deserve prison time

 

[KevanG]

What a pompous ****bag. Him and his brother need to have the FBI kick the **** out of them for a while.

 

[Teelie]

If it wasn't as serious as it was I'd say it was funny and some kind of off-kilter Onion style satire.

 

[Victarion]

At first I had a hard time figuring out just who is stupider, K-Mart or the people that believed him. I decided its gotta be K-Mart for getting the feds on his tail.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Sex Ed Teacher Cops to Banging Student in Teachers' Lounge

An Oklahoma woman who taught a high school sex ed class has been accused of having sex with a teen student, including multiple times in the school's teachers' lounge, the Enid News & Eagle reports. According to her handwritten, mistake-filled confession, the suspended teacher deeply regrets "the deasion."

Police say 32-year-old Daresa Poe maintained a sexual relationship with the unnamed 18-year-old up until she was questioned on Tuesday, having had sex with student in his truck just hours earlier. Under current Oklahoma law, sexual contact with any student under 21 years old is illegal.

A probable cause affidavit filed against Poe this week contains the Waynoka Public Schools teacher's confession in full:

I am Daresa Poe a wife, mother and teacher. I have made a horrible mistake. I have let my judgement [sic] faulter [sic] and I am embarrassed and mortified for the deasions [sic] I have made in the last two weeks. I have had sexual intercourse with a student. I am so very sorry for the decision I have made.

Poe now faces charges of sexual battery and second degree rape.

"I was just, kind of creeped out," said one student upon hearing the news. "Because she was my teacher."

http://www.enidnews.com/news/waynok...al&utm_source=***********&utm_campaign=buffer

I guess she took sex ed really seriously. Seems like I've been reporting on tons of teachers banging their students as of late

 

[KevanG]

Can people just not keep it in their pants anymore?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man Suggests Teens Could Have Been More Subtle About Banging a Teacher

A California high school was forced to suspend a third teacher this week when he publicly defended two female teachers who allegedly had sex with several male students during an overnight beach party.

Sean Kane, an art teacher at South Hills High School, reportedly posted the rant on Facebook, saying the students should have kept their "stupid mouths shut" about boning a teacher. Via the NYDN:

I just got one thing to say. As many of you know especially those of you whom were once former students and now adults and are my friends on facebook and posting about it two female teachers (colleagues of mine) got arrested for going on summer vacations with and sleeping with some of the male students... Hey... all I gotta say is EVERYONE KNEW MISS [redacted] who was the high school algebra teacher (who also flunked me twice for not "showing my work") w/as ****ing the popular senior boys at my highschool when I was there. So what?!.. All I want to know is what the **** is in the heads of the dudes who banged these ladies and then squealed? ... **** man! You should have just kept your stupid mouths shut and enjoyed it. I have no idea what the **** is going on anymore.

Everyone has lost their ****ing minds.

Kane now joins the two female teachers on a paid administrative leave. Also recently removed from the classroom was the school's wrestling coach, who was arrested in January on charges that he slept with a 17-year-old student.

Everyone has lost their ****ing minds.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...nding-co-workers-sex-arrest-article-1.2089014

And people think FL is crazy

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Wow, teachers really take sex ed seriously these days.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I wonder if teachers banging their students really has been a common thing that was just swept under the rug until the last 20 or so years or did all the teachers just lose their minds?

 

[KevanG]

I think it isn't as common as people think but with social media these days it gets out a heck of a lot more than it ever did before. Especially since we can find out these things and list them all in a row in minutes, where before (pre-internet) it probably wouldn't have left the town.

But that male teacher is a ****head.