Category: Moronic

Another find from Fark, and another great quote. Click Here

That is the headline of this story (link from Fark). Didn’t you ever see A Christmas Story? You’re not supposed to do that!

People like this are Absolute Morons™. Why did I link to this story? It reminded me of a story of my high school days. Actually, it was the year after I graduated when this happened, but it affected my brother, so that’s why I remember. Click on “More” to read on.

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Oh no, they might lose about 0% of their business. Full Story. While PETA, generally, annoys the heck out of me, they have produced some pretty dang funny/odd/interesting commercials (most of which were banned from TV, though I’ve seen worse stuff on cable).

To continue the moronic submissions, this story out of Australia. I’ll just quote the article:

A family of three has been injured in a car crash after a five-year-old boy sitting on his mother’s lap allegedly steered the vehicle because she was too drunk to drive. The boy’s nine-year-old brother allegedly told staff at Nambour Hospital, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, that his mother had been drinking and wanted her youngest son to steer the car while she operated the pedals, police said.

I feel more sorry for the kids than I do the mom. She’s an idiot, and put the lives of her kids in danger because she had a few too many to drink. Too bad she didn’t die, then she’d be eligible for the Darwin Awards.

Man, what an idiot. He next plans to break 50 baseball bats with his knee. The 34-year-old fitness expert claimed to have entered the Guinness Book of Records after three concrete blocks were smashed on his groin, the Asian Age newspaper reported on Monday. The previous record was two. Full Story Here. Talk about a ball breaker.

This is something, in this day and age, you should never do. According to this Reuters Wire Story, An anti-terrorism squad raided the home of a Danish family after mistaking a light-hearted message on their answering machine for a hostage alert. Whoops….

Maybe you heard about the 5 Arab terrorists who supposedly entered the U.S. via Canada within the last couple weeks. It was the lead story on CNN on a couple occassions. Understand, however, that it was pure speculation and there wasn’t any proof that terrorists (Arab or otherwise) came in to the U.S., via Canada or anywhere. But all it took was a few media outlets, and a few politicians to say a few words about it, and everybody is in a frenzy. What a mess. Read the full article here.

…if they didn’t pay my paycheck. Driving to Sunriver this morning was as dangerous as it’s ever been. Just because you have a big ol’ expensive SUV doesn’t mean you can drive 80mph on a skating rink. If you didn’t know, Bend and Sunriver got a good chunk of snow and ice over night. Not only did I get passed on the parkway by some Californian going 60 (when everybody else was going about 30, because it was a sheet of ice out there), but I nearly plowed into one who didn’t bother to look both ways and just ran right through the stop sign. After I swerved to avoid him, he just kind of politely waved a finger at me as if to say “Thanks for letting me out, you nice young man!” Butthead. He had skis on his roof, so he was undoubtedly headed up to Mt. Bachelor to join the rest of his tourist cronies. That’s fine. Stay up there, just don’t bother me when I’m trying to drive, you idiots.

My thoughts to anybody wishing to visit Central Oregon: Come, spend your money, and go home.

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What a Jerk. College newspaper theft is already a big problem (just ask the Student Press Law Center). Folks feel that, since they’re generally distribute for free, they can take as many as they want and do whatever they want with them. But this applies to all freely-distributed newspapers: They are private property. There a big, stiff, nasty fines for newspaper theft, equivalent or greater than fines from any other theft. There are in-depth pages that show how bad of a problem this really is.

Anyhow, back to Berkeley. According to this New York Times article, Tom Bates, the newly-elected mayor of Berkeley, California, has admitted responsibility for throwing out about 1000 copies of the Daily Californian (more stories here and here). The newspapers up and vanished the day the Daily Californian ran its endorsements, and it had put its vote behind Bates’ opponent, the incumbent mayor, Shirley Dean, for a third four-year term. Bates had denied back then that he threw out the papers.

The mayor never said whether he or his supporters threw out the paper, but police reports say that students did see him throwing them out. The Daily Californian is calling for the mayor to step down. I agree with them. As was said on the College Media Advisors Mailing List by a newsroom advisor at a large school, this is the “the moral (and almost literal) equivalent of burning books.” Would you trust a guy who bold-faced lied to you when you confronted him about a problem before? It’s one thing to maneuver around the questions, but to deny involvement entirely is an out-right lie. Personally, I would never have trust in a public official that did this.