Stupid People Doing Stupid Things Thread - Part 3

[Marvolo]

Should the last two be considered suicide?

No. Its only suicide if the intent and goal of one's actions is to kill oneself. Neither of these people were trying to kill themselves. They just did stuff that was incredibly dangerous. I doubt the drunk guy would have stuck that mortar to his head if he had been sober or knew what one of those could do to a human head. And the cocky moron who jumped in the swamp probably wouldn't have done so if he had known he would die. Young people feel invincible and when you mix that with stupidity you get these sort of outcomes.

 

[KevanG]

I was kidding as I figured they wouldn't be but still, you knowingly walk into a river full of alligators and you strap a firework to the top of your head. Out of context the first one looks a bit like suicide attempt.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man I can just imagine how gruesome it must have been for all his friends to see that. A fireball through the head is a horrible way to die

 

[Marvolo]

Man I can just imagine how gruesome it must have been for all his friends to see that. A fireball through the head is a horrible way to die

Gruesome indeed. When I was about 13 I strapped one of those mortars to a plastic WW2-era GI-Joe jeep (one of the ones that the 12" Joes fit into) and it obliterated it. I imagine it would do worse to skin, hair, and bone.

 

[Duke]

Man Dies Instantly After Setting Off A Firework From His Head




Dumbass. Too bad his friends were either too drunk or dumb or too worthless to stop him.

What a complete dunce!!

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

here's a top 10 reasons why people hate kanye west

 

[Teelie]

I've never heard of someone doing something this dumb. Blowing off fingers and hands yes but not instant death from setting one off on your head.

 

[Silvermoon]

Saw this pop up on my facebook feed this morning, remembered that there was this thread here on SHH and felt like it fit:

Broadway Theatergoer Attempted to Charge His Phone – Onstage

BY DREW MACKIE @drewgmackie 07/07/2015 AT 02:10 AM EDT
Even if you had never been to a live theater performance before, you might be able to guess the rules that audience members are expected to follow. Don't talk, for example. Show up on time.

Oh, and don't climb onto the stage and attempt to recharge your phone using one of the prop outlets built into the set.

That last rule was not obvious for one audience member at a July 2 performance of the Broadway play Hand to God. Theatergoer Chris York posted about the incident on Facebook, explaining that "the crew had to stop the pre-show music, remove the cellphone, and make an announcement as to why you can't do that."

Theater magazine Playbill confirmed that the incident happened, and also noted that the outlet onstage was just a prop – it wasn't hooked up to an electrical source.

Hand to God actors Sarah Stiles and Marc Kudisch posted to Twitter about their confusion over the incident.

Sarah Stiles ✔@Lulubellestiles
A guy jumped on the stage and plugged his phone into the fake outlet on our set just before we started. @HandtoGodBway #fullmoon or #idiot ?

Marc Kudisch @MarcKuds
Dear general audience, an electrical socket that's a part of the set of the play is NOT for you to charge your iPhone.....just an FYI.....

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Wow that is stupid

 

[Marvolo]

 

[Anita18]

A consultant we hired at our company to do one of my jobs better is really taking the cake for stupidity at the moment. (Note, she got the gig because she's friends with the CEO's son ....but he's really not happy with her at the moment either... )

3 weeks ago, she promised she'd deliver A,B,C,D,E,F, and G. In lots of detail. It all sounded awesome and that she'd show me up, but fine, whatever. She has a lot more relevant education than me, from a great school, I'd take the learning experience despite the nepotism.

What has she delivered? Bupkiss. Literally, nothing. None of the research she's claimed to do, no briefs, no pitch, nothing. She's even given us links to "collaboration folders" that remain empty until half an hour into a phone meeting, where she puts in 2 or 3 files that make no sense and have nothing to do with our project.

She blames her slow cloud service, but newsflash, if one doesn't work, there are like, three others you can use for free! And it still doesn't explain the random files in the folders we're supposed to be looking at.

I soooo wish I had popcorn for today's conference call. My boss chewed her out and she kept on insisting she had work to show, it was still uploading, but GIRL, that excuse only works the first time, not after 3 weeks and as many missed deadlines! Then she blamed not having the info required to do a good job. Hey, if you feel like you're missing info, that's something you bring up the first week, not the third and AFTER you promised us 7 deliverables in great detail!

My boss is willing to pay her for meeting with us in person (and nothing else) and cut her loose, but she insists she wants to keep going, and claims that she's spent "numerous hours" on research and other work, all of which apparently reside only in her head. I have no idea why. I don't think it's FUN to get chewed out for half an hour every week like this. I highly doubt she has anything, otherwise she'd take a friggin' iPhone photo and post it up as proof. (It would be lame, but it would be proof that she's actually DOING something.) We're all super pissed at her, there's no way she's going to get the fees she's asking for doing the whole thing. It would just be in everyone's best interest for her to just go away, including her own. It's all so

But bonus is that instead of showing me up, she's making me look EFFIN' AWESOME despite my lack of relevant education and work experience.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

She sounds like a moron but glad it made you look so damn good in comparison Anita!

 

[KevanG]

New Alabama bill would let children have handguns

The Alabama House and Senate are both moving forward with bills that would circumvent federal law prohibiting the sale of firearms to minors by allowing parents or guardians to “transfer” the weapons to children under 18.

House bill 328 and Senate bill 262 would also eliminate record-keeping requirements from the Code of Alabama, removing language that mandates firearm dealers “keep a permanent record of the sale of every pistol, revolver, or maxim silencer, showing the date of sale, serial number, or other identification marks, manufacturer’s name, caliber and type, and also the name and address of the purchaser.

Congratulations, Alabama, not only will you be able to use a gun in a crime without it being traced back to you, you’ll also be able to get a volume discount on caskets as children will now have legal access to handguns.

What could possibly go wrong?

The good news is children will only be allowed to use those handguns under proper supervision. Unless they’re using it for hunting, trapping, target shooting or training. So basically the only time a child needs to be supervised with their pistol is if they’re robbing a bank. Thank goodness for that.

State Senator Arthur Orr said the bill wouldn’t permit the sale of firearms to people under 18 as mandated by federal law, it would simply allow kids to hunt, trap and target shoot. Orr said he started hunting with his parents when he was 12.

Even though children will be allowed to use handguns without supervision, Orr said the bill is meant to bring reason and common sense to Alabama’s gun laws.

Everyone knows children are the epitome of responsibility. By allowing them not only access to but free rein to carry handguns, Alabama has shown the level of intelligence present in its lawmakers.

How anyone could think this will end well is a mystery.

There's going to be a lot less kids in Alabama over the next decade if this goes through.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

That's probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Hopefully big government comes in and shuts these idiots down

 

[KevanG]

It's already going against Federal law.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Well hopefully no children die before saner heads prevail

 

[KevanG]

It is Alabama.

 

[Marvolo]

This isn't really anything new. Kids can already legally own rifles and shotguns as long as the parent or guardian purchases it. My cousin got his first .410 shotgun for squirrel hunting before he was 10. Some of my other cousins had hunting rifles at an even younger age. This isn't uncommon in families with a long history of hunting. And kids already shoot their parents handguns. All this does is allow the handgun to be listed as the kid's.

 

[KevanG]

Road rage incident in Canada caught on tape

A CBC News crew was interviewing an Ontario police officer as a road-rage incident was happening right behind them.

CBC's Neil Herland was speaking with OPP Const. Graham Williamson about a fatal collision on Black Creek Drive in Toronto on a nearby overpass, but shouting interrupted the interview, which was quickly captured by CBC camerawoman Tyna Poulin.

"There's a road-rage incident, just right there," Herland told the officer, who quickly began yelling to intervene.

"Hey! Get back in the car," Williamson yelled.

"Both of you, grow up!"

The incident didn't come to blows, and eventually the two men involved got back in their cars and kept moving.

It's unclear what sparked the confrontation, though the two cars appear dangerously close together.

That's right. We don't smack them down and toss them in the back of the car, we tell them to knock it off and grow up.

Watch the video in the link, it's pretty funny.

 

[KevanG]

KKK isn't racist or a hate organization "We’re a Christian organization"

The leader of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is tired of “a few rogue Klansmen” ruining the group’s reputation, and argues that the group is a non-violent Christian organization.

“We don’t hate people because of their race, I mean, we’re a Christian organization,” Frank Ancona, the group's Imperial Wizard, told Virginia's NBC 12 on Thursday. "Because of the acts of a few rogue Klansmen, all Klansmen are supposed to be murderers, and wanting to lynch black people, and we're supposed to be terrorists. That's a complete falsehood.”

Ancona’s group has come under fire from residents of Chesterfield County, Va., about 20 miles south of Richmond, for distributing KKK recruitment fliers in people's yards since January.

"We picked ours up out of our driveway and threw it in the trash," Sarah Peachee told NBC 12. "We weren't interested in even reading about it."

Ancona defended the strategy, however, citing a boom in KKK membership across the country since 2008.

"In the last six years that I've been president of this organization I've seen the numbers probably triple," Ancona told NBC 12. "The funny thing is the same neighborhoods where you're saying there are people who don't want the flier are neighborhoods where our members live, and neighborhoods where people are sympathetic to our cause and are glad to hear from us.”

Although Ancona insisted that the KKK is not a hate group, he added that “We just want to keep our race the white race."

"We want to stay white,” Ancona said. “It's not a hateful thing to want to maintain white supremacy."

Similar activity by the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was reported in Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago, in December, after promotional fliers were found in several driveways throughout the town.

“You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake!” the fliers said, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Rrrright. In other news, water isn't wet. I'm sure most christians will have issues regarding them identifying themselves with them.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

A German gaming addict has been fined after admitting to a court that he drugged his girlfriend so he could keep playing video games with his buddy.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...es-with-his-mate/story-fnq2oad4-1227434978460

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Road rage incident in Canada caught on tape



That's right. We don't smack them down and toss them in the back of the car, we tell them to knock it off and grow up.

Watch the video in the link, it's pretty funny.

You silly Canucks! Road rage ends in one of two ways: fisticuffs or gunshots Kev. Tell your people to step it up Kev!

 

[KevanG]

We just tell them to knock it off. It works just as well. Less paperwork too.

 

[KevanG]

Texas 'watchdogs' make sure the US Government won't take over Texas

The demented paranoia of extreme right-wing Texans has soared to new heights this year, and they haven’t let up yet. Headlines were made around the country when Texans began worrying about upcoming military exercise in the Southwest United States, dubbed “Jade Helm 15″, and conspiracy theorists began asserting that it was really a ruse for President Obama to “impose martial law” and “take over Texas”. Despite multiple assurances from the armed forces, the fear that the military is up to “something funny,” possibly involving the confiscation of their guns or aerial chem-trails that will “turn people gay”.

As usual, the people of Texas cannot rely on their elected legislators to contribute anything productive to the absurd debate. Governor Greg Abbot has called up a state militia, of which Texas apparently has several, to monitor the US army as they undergo their training, which is set to open next week. Joining them, reports the Houston Chronicle, will be hundreds of civilians from both Arizona and Texas who have nothing better to do than to wander around the desert “supervising” one of the best militarizes in the world. “Obviously on a military base they can do whatever they want. But if they’re going to train on public land we have a right as American citizens to watch what they’re doing”

Chem-trails turning people gay? I think they need to look at the water supply first since that's the easier thing to do. Maybe they should check it anyway.

 

[Marvolo]

Texas 'watchdogs' make sure the US Government won't take over Texas



Chem-trails turning people gay? I think they need to look at the water supply first since that's the easier thing to do. Maybe they should check it anyway.

I would love for the military to mind**** these tinfoil hat dumbasses. Make them think some **** was really going down.