Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 2

[KevanG]

Rand Paul Also Has an Idiot Opinion About Vaccines

F*** you Rand, you are a freaking moron who has no business spouting this nonsense and you are a disgrace to your father

So he got his kids vaccinated and still believes this? He's an idiot on every level then. "This'll kill my kids or turn them into vegetables... Sounds good."

 

[DeadPresident]

It's probably a ruse so people keep talking about him and he gets more money.

 

[ban768]

Lawsuit over surcharges at P.F. Chang's


SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California woman recently filed a lawsuit charging a restaurant chain with discrimination and violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Anna Marie Phillips sued P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Dec. 9 in Santa Clara County Superior Court. It asserts that the restaurant violates civil and disability rights by forcing gluten-free diners to pay higher prices.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/e...ty-law-class-action-says/article/feed/2175570

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Oh screw that lady, 99% of the people that claim they need gluten free crap are full of it.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Anti-Vaxxers: They're In Silicon Valley, Too

There's a big measles outbreak happening right now, thanks to anti-vaxxers like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey and the people who listen to them. But Hollywood isn't the only place where people fall for junk science. There are anti-vaxxers in Silicon Valley, too. One of them is NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, who in 2011 was supporting the doctor whose bogus research helped give rise to the anti-vaxxer movement.

The doctor is British surgeon Andrew Wakefield, who produced research that linked autism to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Wakefield's research was debunked, and he was stripped of his license to practice medicine in the U.K. Nevertheless, a lot of people still believed his theories.


Among them were Nelson and his wife, Elizabeth Horn, who stood by Wakefield, with Nelson telling the San Francisco Business Times:

My experience in Silicon Valley has been when this many establishment players line up against you, you are on to something big. I think you need pioneers like Andy to break glass, and unfortunately he's broken the glass and been cut by it. So pioneers are always filled with arrows in their back, and Andy's that guy. But he can obviously take it and so we're backing him.

Nelson also "compared Wakefield to Galileo and Copernicus," the SF Business Times reported.

Which is maybe true, except Galileo and Copernicus didn't propose ideas that caused lots of kids to get sick with an easily preventable disease — one that kills one or two out of every 1,000 people who get it.

It's worth noting that Nelson and Horn have a daughter who was diagnosed with autism. In 2008, Horn produced and directed a documentary film, "Finding the Words: Recovering from Autism." She also has written moving essays about the suffering of autistic children and their parents.

I don't mean to be an apologist for anti-vaxxers. But it is worth bearing in mind that these are parents who are watching their children suffer. Perhaps that makes them too willing to consider quack remedies. If I were in their shoes, I might be inclined to do the same.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2011/01/14/in-autisms-storm.html?page=all

Idiots all over the world sadly

 

[Anita18]

Anti-Vaxxers: They're In Silicon Valley, Too

Silicon Valley is a lot of where the damage is done, unfortunately. I've heard of vaccinating parents who've had to move up their own kids' vaccination schedules by half a year because the immunization rates in the Bay Area are appallingly low. This includes some of the richest cities in the country.

Remember, software engineers are not biologists. Hell, not even doctors have to be biologists. And even some biologists are f***king crazy.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Brian Williams Admits to Lying For Years About Being Under Fire in Iraq

Since visiting Iraq in 2003, NBC and its star news anchor, Brian Williams, have maintained that Williams was aboard a Chinook helicopter when it was hit and grounded by enemy fire over Baghdad. But after repeating the claim last week, Williams was forced by contrary reports from the helo's crew to completely recant his story today.

Stars & Stripes, the military-focused newspaper which first interviewed the CH-47 Chinook's crew members, got Williams to reverse himself, though he was unable to account for his divergence from the truth:

Williams himself repeated the claim Friday during NBC's coverage of a public tribute at a New York Rangers hockey game for a retired soldier that had provided ground security for the grounded helicopters. In an interview with Stars and Stripes, he said he had misremembered the events and was sorry.

The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said.

"I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams said. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."

Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Miller, a flight engineer on the helo that carried Williams in Iraq that day, says they never came under enemy fire. Nevertheless, Williams repeated the claim that he'd withstood the attack at last Friday's hockey game.

"The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG," Williams said on the broadcast. "Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry."

After Stripes induced Williams' sudden total recall of the events, he penned an apology to the crew of the aircraft that had gone down that day. Here it is in its entirety:

To Joseph, Lance, Jonathan, Pate, Michael and all those who have posted: You are absolutely right and I was wrong.

In fact, I spent much of the weekend thinking I'd gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake, especially since I found my OWN WRITING about the incident from back in '08, and I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp.

Because I have no desire to fictionalize my experience (we all saw it happened the first time) and no need to dramatize events as they actually happened, I think the constant viewing of the video showing us inspecting the impact area — and the fog of memory over 12 years — made me conflate the two, and I apologize.

I certainly remember the armored mech platoon, meeting Capt. Eric Nye and of course Tim Terpak. Shortly after they arrived, so did the Orange Crush sandstorm, making virtually all outdoor functions impossible. I honestly don't remember which of the three choppers Gen. Downing and I slept in, but we spent two nights on the stowable web bench seats in one of the three birds.

Later in the invasion when Gen. Downing and I reached Baghdad, I remember searching the parade grounds for Tim's Bradley to no avail. My attempt to pay tribute to CSM Terpak was to honor his 23+ years in service to our nation, and it had been 12 years since I saw him.

The ultimate irony is: In writing up the synopsis of the 2 nights and 3 days I spent with him in the desert, I managed to switch aircraft. Nobody's trying to steal anyone's valor. Quite the contrary: I was and remain a civilian journalist covering the stories of those who volunteered for duty. This was simply an attempt to thank Tim, our military and Veterans everywhere — those who have served while I did not.

Update: Serious questions have been raised about the account Williams tells in his apology—supposedly gleaned from his 2008 notes—as well. Above, he tells the soldiers of the 159th that "I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp." That actually accords with the abundance of vivid details he provided in this 2005 interview with Tim Russert, via Lexis-Nexis:

General Downing, who knows a thing or two about this, looked out that window and said, `This is hot,' meaning it was full of enemy. It was full of unpoliced Iraqis. He might have used one or two other choice words there but I'll leave it at hot, Tim. It was no more than 120 seconds later that the helicopter in front of us was hit. A pickup truck stopped on the road, pulled a tarp back; a guy got up, fired an RPG, rocket-propelled grenade. These were farmers or so they seemed. And it beautifully pierced the tail rotor of the Chinook in front of us.

This raises two serious questions:

First, at what point exactly did Williams begin to misremember being in the afflicted helicopter, since a decade ago he was telling the same story he is now, of actually being in a nearby aircraft?

Second, how reliable is the 2005/2008/2015 account, given that the soldiers present told Stripes that Williams was "nowhere near" the entire formation surrounding the struck aircraft, and that his unscathed helo followed the others an hour later?

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nbc-...ts-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792

Well that's crappy

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This Texas Open-Carry Activist Says He's Ready to Kill Legislators

The Texas Legislature just cleared residents to legally carry guns on school campuses, and it's readying legislation to legalize open carry everywhere in the state. But the pace of its reforms is tyrannically slow, according to longtime gun activist Kory Watkins, and in a new video, he says if lawmakers don't speed up, they may face death.

Watkins—who runs the controversial Open Carry Tarrant County group, labeled too extreme even by the NRA for its antics—already took the video down from his own Facebook page, according to the Houston Chronicle. But the vertically shot phone video of Watkins in an apparent stupor remains available on an activist's YouTube page.

In the four-minute clip, Watkins explains how he believes Texas' new expansions of gun rights to schools and open carry are, in fact, hallmarks of tyranny and treason, and it might be time to put those alleged traitors to death. It's worth quoting at length:

Last week we got to see the games of the legislators… they tested us last week, and they're already doing it again this week… Now it's "Oh, well, open carry with a license, we'll pass. But not so sure about constitutional carry." You see, they gave us the low hanging fruit and then they said, 'Well, maybe open carry. We'll give them a maybe on this one and see if they go away."

Texans, are you gonna go away? Are you gonnna settle for the low hanging fruit that your masters are putting on the tree for you? Or are you gonna to the top of the tree and grab that fruit at the top? Constitutional carry? That fruit's looking pretty sweet. They don't wanna give it to us. But it's up to us how bad we want it, to go get it…

Texans, I'm tired of jackin' around. I'm tired of playing politically correct games. I'm tired of saying "Well, this is chess, and we gotta take this slowly." No no no no. This isn't a game. This is reality. And these are our rights that they're playing with. Okay? And I don't know if they forgot what their duty is but it's to protect the Constitution. And lemme remind you. Going against the Constitution is treason. And my friend, that is punishable by death. That's how serious this is…

I don't think they wanna mess with us too much longer. They better start giving us our rights, or this peaceful non-cooperation stuff is gonna be, uh, gamed up. We're gonna step it up a notch. I think here in Texas we're tired of jackin' around with people in suits who think that they can take away freedoms in the name of safety…

You don't have a right to bear arms in Texas. Nope. You gotta ask your master and you gotta pay a tax. Yeah. That's your free country for ya, keep singing the Star-Spangled banner and the national anthem, hope that makes everybody feel real good. Go watch Honey Boo Boo…

I wanna put my foot— I wanna put more than my foot in that door. We should be doing way more than that. We should be demanding these people give us our rights back, or it's punishable by death. Treason. You understand how serious this is, Texas? We need to start sticking more than foots [sic] in doors. Okay? This is treason against the American people. You don't sell my rights back to me, you're gonna find trouble.

Watkins, who made an abortive congressional run as a "Liberty Republican" last year, has been a controversial figure for his publicly confrontational behavior in the ongoing open carry saga in Texas, criticized even by others in the gun-rights community. He made headlines during the legislative debate on campus carry last week, when he told Rep. Pancho Nevarez in his office that "you won't be here very long, bro." Nevarez told the Chronicle that he now travels with a security detail.

Though it's not stated in his video, part of Watkins' anger over Texas' proposed open carry law is that it would bar him from obtaining a carry license, because he's been arrested for interfering with a police officer—a disqualifying factor.

He's been called "most effective campaigner for gun control in Texas" and "a cop-hating anarchist" by Bob Owens, editor of the popular gun site Bearing Arms.com. In a recent post titled "Stop 'Helping' Us, Kory Watkins," Owens ridiculed the activist's tactics:

Watkins is one of the knuckleheads that thinks slinging an AK across your back and walking into a store filled with families doing their grocery shopping is going to somehow to normalize or acclimate people to firearms, instead of generating the much more likely response of, "who is this idiot, and what are his intentions? Is he a threat to my family?"

It's to their credit that many gun-rights activists have drawn a line in the sand and set themselves apart from increasingly erratic fringe activists like Watkins. Unfortunately, their efforts don't extend to guaranteeing that he isn't armed and dangerous in the future.

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/...video-seen-as-threat-to-lawmakers-6061969.php

What a nut job

 

[DarkSentinel]

Brian Williams Admits to Lying For Years About Being Under Fire in Iraq

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nbc-...ts-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792

Well that's crappy

So, there was another Chinook nearby, and that one got hit with the RPG, but the helicopter Williams was in was forced to land because of it?

If that's what I'm understanding, then I can forgive Bryan Williams for something like that.

Still, he missed out on a great action sequence for his biopic (because we all know that prime Oscar bait is coming)...or not, depending on the director.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Conrad Hilton Faces 20 Years in Prison for 11-Hour Flight Meltdown

According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Washington Post, Conrad Hilton is facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly threatening flight attendants and passengers during a flight from London to L.A. last July. The complaint includes a detailed timeline of Hilton's alleged misbehavior during the flight, which quickly devolved into a hellish 11-hour nightmare.

From the Post:

It all started about 30 minutes into the flight when flight attendants were about to start drink service on the upper deck, but they couldn't because Hilton was standing in the aisle blocking their path.

One flight attendant described Hilton as flying from "one tirade after another," throughout the flight.

He complained that the flight attendants were ignoring him or "taking the peasants' side." He whined about being upset because he broke up with his girlfriend, one flight attendant said.

Hilton's bizarre tantrums allegedly held up drink service in the flight for more than 40 minutes as the 20-year-old paced up and down the aisles, threatening male members of the flight crew. At one point, he allegedly attempted to punch a male flight attendant but missed by "about ten centimeters." Hilton also threatened the flight's co-pilot.

"If you wanna square up to me bro, then bring it on and I will f***ing fight you," he told the co-pilot, according to the complaint.

Later in the flight, Hilton reportedly accused a male passenger of giving him the "stink eye," which Hilton said was an indication that the passenger wanted to "fight or f***k him."

At one point, the flight's co-pilot gave him a "final written warning," which witnesses report Hilton tore up. "My father will pay this out, he has done it before. Dad paid $300,000 last time," he allegedly said, adding that he's been banned from other airlines.

During his court appearance Tuesday, Hilton reportedly admitted to intimidating some of the crew. Again, from the Post:

In his interview with the FBI, the agent read Hilton the part of that law that would apply to this particular case.

"An individual on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States who by assaulting or intimidating a flight crew member or" the agent read.

Hilton interrupted him. "I did intimidate. But, through defense. He came up to me with his nose."

Hilton was released on $100,000 bond and ordered back to court in March.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-told-by-the-fbi-and-conrad-hilton/?tid=sm_tw

What a spoiled little a**hole. I'm sure his daddy will buy his way out of it just like he claimed

 

[KevanG]

Brian Williams Admits to Lying For Years About Being Under Fire in Iraq

Well that's crappy

*Sigh* Gotta love those fake fame seekers. Especially the ones who repeat the old stories for years.

Reminds me of this.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/...t-by-actual-soldier-may-face-federal-charges/

Guy dressed up for years as a soldier, said he was part of an elite group and showed up on Remembrance Day with all the other Veterans. He got interviewed on the news, actual people from that group saw him on tv and called him out on that. He refused to admit it for a while then finally did after being confronted, in person, by people from that group and other veterans.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Cheaters' Late Night Office Bone Entertains Pub Across the Street

Two employees of Christchurch, New Zealand insurance company Marsh, Ltd., engaged in an affair and in the throes of passion, started having sex in their office last Friday night. They apparently thought the building's tinted windows prevented others from seeing inside their well-lit sexscape. They were wrong.

In fact, the couple was in full view of the packed pub across the street, Carlton Bar and Eatery.

"Everyone knew about it," Alex Wilton, who was at the bar and uploaded photos and videos of the tryst to Facebook, told 3news. "The band that was playing at the time stopped because everyone else was more interested in watching them, and they finished up and had some wine. We all had a good laugh. It was the highlight of the night."

According to the New Zealand Herald, the man is married with children and the woman is recently engaged. The man's wife apparently found out about the affair after photos from the late night office rendezvous started spreading online.

Marsh confirmed the affair, with chief executive Grant Milne saying in a statement, "Marsh is very disappointed by the conduct of two colleagues at our Christchurch premises." Neither were seen at work Tuesday.

It was apparently quite the display for pub patrons, who claim the show across the street went on for about an hour. The band playing the bar reportedly honored them afterward with a rendition of Kings of Leon's "Sex On Fire."

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/bar...ate-night-romp-in-christchurch-office-6227248

Cheaters never win haha

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So, there was another Chinook nearby, and that one got hit with the RPG, but the helicopter Williams was in was forced to land because of it?

If that's what I'm understanding, then I can forgive Bryan Williams for something like that.

Still, he missed out on a great action sequence for his biopic (because we all know that prime Oscar bait is coming)...or not, depending on the director.

No he claims to be in the one behind it but the pilot said he was nowhere around until hours after it all went down. His is still lying in his apology

 

[KevanG]

Sex in front of lit windows when it's dark out is never a good idea. Especially if you are cheating on your spouse in full view in front of a pub.

From the name of the city I thought they were working in a church just for the added irony.

 

[Anubis]

Well, at least they were fairly good looking. Would've been horrible if they were ugly.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Well, at least they were fairly good looking. Would've been horrible if they were ugly.

Because clearly their looks are what was important here.

 

[Asgard]

Because clearly their looks are what was important here.

Well, it sure as heck was important to the barflies. Who wants to see ugly people having sex? Lol.

 

[Anita18]

Cheaters' Late Night Office Bone Entertains Pub Across the Street

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/bar...ate-night-romp-in-christchurch-office-6227248

Cheaters never win haha

That's especially hilarious because a friend of mine works at a US insurance company, and there's so much cheating going on there too! I think there was an 8-way affair that she had to explain to us....

 

[KevanG]

"And he was sleeping with her, she was sleeping with that other guy, he was sleeping with him, he was sleeping with that guys pet goat Jake and then someone sent out the wrong email to the entire company and now we're all being deported to Mexico."

 

[HaplessHenchman]

Conrad Hilton Faces 20 Years in Prison for 11-Hour Flight Meltdown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-told-by-the-fbi-and-conrad-hilton/?tid=sm_tw

What a spoiled little a**hole. I'm sure his daddy will buy his way out of it just like he claimed

Man, what an a$$hole...

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Nativist Idiots Mistake Latin for Spanish, Totally Lose Their Minds

Last month, a Vermont lawmaker introduced a bill to give his state a Latin motto ("Stella quarta decima fulgeat") in addition to its official one, the suggestion of a middle school student studying the ancient language. Pretty cute, right?

It was, at least, until a local news station asked its viewers what they thought about the proposal, asking on Facebook, "Should Vermont have an official Latin motto?" You can probably guess what happened next:

The bill's sponsor, Republican State Senator Joe Benning, admitted he was surprised by the impressively dumb and loud reaction.

"I anticipated suffering the backroom internal joking from my colleagues in the legislature," Benning told the Vermont Political Observer. "What I did not anticipate was the vitriolic verbal assault from those who don't know the difference between the Classics and illegal immigrants from South America."

Later commenters, it should be noted, entered the thread to parody the responses, but all of these messages appeared to be sincere. That includes this masterpiece of unintentional irony:

https://www.facebook.com/WCAXTV/posts/10155080752705442

So much facepalm, God people are stupid

 

[Duran Man]

Unspeakably stupid.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Congressman Demands Number Change For Bill Labeled "666"

It is the year 2015, and there are still people, including elected officials, who can't hang with the number 666. Because of Satan.

The Hill reports:

Rep. Joe Barton (Texas) isn't about to have his prized legislation get tagged with a 666 — the number of the beast.

Barton on Wednesday successfully changed the bill number for his legislation repealing a decades-old ban on crude oil exports from 666, a figure frequently tied to the antichrist and Satanism, to the more anodyne 702.

"It quickly became clear that the original bill number carried many different negative connotations," Barton spokesman Sean Brown said in an email. "We decided it was best to change it so people will focus on the content of the legislation, not the bill number."

The number 666 has been assigned to Congressional bills in the past, with no apparent demonic fallout:

H. Res. 666 in the 112th Congress expressed the House's sense that Medicare should not be changed for any citizens over the age of 55. In the 113th Congress, H.R. 666 reaffirmed the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes.

But this isn't the first time 666 has made headlines by forcing itself on some innocent believer in superstition. Avid watchers of Satanic headlines will recall the high school cross-country runner who refused to participate in a 2013 race because she was assigned guess which number.

http://www.newsweek.com/republican-congressman-demands-number-change-bill-666-because-satan-304638

Le sigh, it's freaking 2015 and we still have people worried about evil numbers?

 

[KevanG]

It's going to be okay mr politician with too much power and too little common sense. The bad evil number can't hurt you.

Despite 666 being questioned as the actual number as opposed to the number 616, among others. But with religious people in Texas it's all that they care about that matters with everything else falling by the wayside.

 

[Duran Man]

He shall not impede the Dark Lord's plans.