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MOBLEYC57
08-19-2003, 05:25 AM
Here it is! The top 8 Dummies of 2002! These people deserve to wear a \"Stupid People\" sign!!!!!


Dummy # 1

I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset cause she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly told her ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.

She calmed down, and at the end of the conversation, she happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants.

I told her that she better bring her daughter into the Emergency room right away.

Here\'s your sign lady. Wear it with pride!

Dummy # 2

Seems that a year ago, some Boeing employees decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. When they took it for a float on the river, a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them, surprised them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. They are no longer employed at Boeing.

Here\'s your sign guys. Don\'t get it wet, the paint might run.

Dummy # 3

A true story out of San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote \"this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag.\" While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller\'s window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller, she read it, and surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn\'t the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America.

Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, \"OK\" and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.

Don\'t bother with this guy\'s sign. He probably couldn\'t read it anyway.

Dummy # 4

A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained another picture, this time of handcuffs. He immediately mailed in his $40.

Another sign! (Although this guy might be onto something worth thinking about)!

Dummy # 5

Guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, \"Because I don\'t believe you are over 21.\" The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn\'t believe him. At this point the robber took his driver\'s license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk.

The clerk looked it over, and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the, robber. He got arrested two hours later.

(Remind me to have more signs printed up. Give this guy his!)

Dummy # 6

A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, \"Nobody move!\" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.

(This guy doesn\'t need a sign, he probably figured it out himself.)

Dummy # 7

Arkansas: Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he\'d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape.

(Oh, that smarts. Give him his sign!)

Dummy # 8

Ann Arbor: The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 12:50 A.M.,flashed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn\'t open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren\'t available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY! Please note that all of these people are allowed to vote! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Holmes
08-19-2003, 09:06 AM
LOL.That\'s great. Were the Dummy Awards funded by a grant from the Redd Foxx Foundation?

Holmes

Sagacious1420
08-19-2003, 12:53 PM
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YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY! Please note that all of these people are allowed to vote! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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You think that\'s scary...have you considered the fact that they\'re likely to breed? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

MOBLEYC57
08-20-2003, 07:57 PM
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YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY! Please note that all of these people are allowed to vote! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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You think that\'s scary...have you considered the fact that they\'re likely to breed? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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You\'ve got to think positive Saga! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Look at it this way...one 1 watt lightbulb + one 1 watt lightbulb = 2 watts together, yes? That\'s a little better, eh? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Sagacious1420
08-21-2003, 02:07 AM
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YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY! Please note that all of these people are allowed to vote! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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You think that\'s scary...have you considered the fact that they\'re likely to breed? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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You\'ve got to think positive Saga! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Look at it this way...one 1 watt lightbulb + one 1 watt lightbulb = 2 watts together, yes? That\'s a little better, eh? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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Chuckle.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Pancho1188
01-06-2004, 10:41 AM
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YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY! Please note that all of these people are

allowed to vote! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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You think that\'s scary...have you considered the fact that they\'re likely to breed?

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Then you want

to read the Darwin Awards... Those are when the stupid people actually die because of their stupidity before they

can reproduce, thus removing them from the gene pool as in Darwin\'s theory of natural selection.

That being

said, you missed a good one:

A robber held up a convenience store one winter. The man takes the owner\'s money

and runs home. As police arrive on the scene, they noticed the man\'s footprints in the snow leaving the scene.

They then followed the footprints to the robber\'s house and promptly arrested him.

They can hang his sign in

his jail cell. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Kari
01-06-2004, 11:09 AM
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YOU CAN

LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY! Please note that all of these people are allowed to vote!

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You think

that\'s scary...have you considered the fact that they\'re likely to breed?

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Then you want

to read the Darwin Awards... Those are when the stupid people actually die because of their stupidity before they

can reproduce, thus removing them from the gene pool as in Darwin\'s theory of natural selection.

That being

said, you missed a good one:

A robber held up a convenience store one winter. The man takes the owner\'s money

and runs home. As police arrive on the scene, they noticed the man\'s footprints in the snow leaving the scene.

They then followed the footprints to the robber\'s house and promptly arrested him.

They can hang his sign in

his jail cell. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Here\'s an aborted crime, but not exactly based on stupidity. It happened in Bakersfield, CA

about 15 years ago.

Guy stuck a gun in a grocery checker\'s face. The lady, reacting, not thinking, per her

report, swung a #10 can of green beans up and hit him in the cojones. Guy went down, craking his jaw on the counter.

The manager called the cops and an ambulance. When the paramedics heard how the guy got hurt, they started laughing

and dropped the stretcher (no gurney), and broke the guy\'s leg. Meanwhile, the guy had parked his car, out front,

with the motor running-- to make a getaway-- and somebody stole it.

Pancho1188
01-06-2004, 11:25 AM
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YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM A DUMMY! Please note

that all of these people are allowed to vote! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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You think that\'s scary...have you considered the fact that they\'re

likely to breed? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

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Then you want to read the Darwin Awards... Those are when the stupid people actually die

because of their stupidity before they can reproduce, thus removing them from the gene pool as in Darwin\'s theory

of natural selection.

That being said, you missed a good one:

A robber held up a convenience store one winter.

The man takes the owner\'s money and runs home. As police arrive on the scene, they noticed the man\'s

footprints in the snow leaving the scene. They then followed the footprints to the robber\'s house and promptly

arrested him.

They can hang his sign in his jail cell. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Here\'s an aborted crime, but not exactly based on stupidity. It

happened in Bakersfield, CA about 15 years ago.

Guy stuck a gun in a grocery checker\'s face. The lady,

reacting, not thinking, per her report, swung a #10 can of green beans up and hit him in the cojones. Guy went down,

craking his jaw on the counter. The manager called the cops and an ambulance. When the paramedics heard how the guy

got hurt, they started laughing and dropped the stretcher (no gurney), and broke the guy\'s leg. Meanwhile, the

guy had parked his car, out front, with the motor running-- to make a getaway-- and somebody stole it.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Wow, that was better than mine!!!

Whitehall
01-07-2004, 12:46 AM
I admit, I

love it when bad things happen to bad people.

Kari
01-07-2004, 07:20 AM
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I admit, I love it when bad things happen to bad

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Well, here\'s another one. True story-- happened at a

bank on Wilshire, in L.A. Robber left his gun behind. He called the next day, to ask if he could come in and pick it

up.

Kari
01-07-2004, 07:22 AM
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I admit, I love it when bad things happen to bad

people.

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And, one other:

Haircut Lands Drunk Thief in Hot Water


Tue Jan 6,11:11 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!



BERLIN (Reuters) - An attempt by a

German thief to change his appearance after a robbery backfired Monday when a hairdresser tipped off the police.





German police said in a statement Tuesday they had detained a man and his 23-year-old female accomplice

on suspicion of robbing a store in the Berlin suburb of Spandau and attacking the 59-year-old shop assistant.




\"Afterwards they both fled with their loot to a nearby hairdressers. The extremely drunk 24-year-old man cut

his own hair there, boasted about his crime and then left the hairdressers together with his accomplice,\" the

statement said.


An employee at the hairdressers called the police who detained the couple nearby. During a

search of the pair, who police said were drug addicts, officers found on the woman a bank card that was stolen

during an earlier break-in.

belgareth
01-07-2004, 07:29 AM
Concord,

CA.

A man walks into a convienance store, pulls out a gun and robs the guy. Runs out to his car he left idling to

discover he had locked the door when he got out. When the police arrived he was tryig to break the window.

belgareth
01-07-2004, 07:52 AM
My all time

favorite is the guy who cuts a hole in the roof a a liquer store and climbs down to rob the place. He empties the

till and stuffs a bottle in his back pocket before attempting to leave. That\'s when he discovers he didn\'t

drop a rope and can\'t reach the ceiling to climb back out. So he climbs up on the counter and jumps, missing his

catch and landing on his butt where he has the bottle stored. The bottle breaks and cuts him up pretty good so he

calls 9-11.

Kari
01-07-2004, 08:09 AM
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Concord, CA.

A man walks into a convienance

store, pulls out a gun and robs the guy. Runs out to his car he left idling to discover he had locked the door when

he got out. When the police arrived he was tryig to break the window.

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Circuit City security guard (in uniform) decides to rob the place after closing. He put a bag

over his head, as a mask. But, he forgot to cut holes, for the eyes. Ran into a pole, and knocked himself cold. The

employees staying behind to close called 911. Guy wsa still out when the cops came. All this caught on surveillance

cameras.

belgareth
01-07-2004, 08:19 AM
I think this

was LA but I\'m not sure:

Three people go to rob a bank, one waits in the car while the other two go in. Once

they get the money, they run back out to the car and take off, getting about 1/4 mile before running out of gas.

Guess they needed to rob the bank to buy gas.

belgareth
01-07-2004, 08:32 AM
About 6

months ago some guy saw an opportunity and snatched to money bags out of an armored car. Unfortunately, they were

filled with pennies and weighed 60 pounds each. His get away sprint was a little encumbered and he was caught within

a block.

Kari
01-07-2004, 08:54 AM
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About 6 months ago some guy saw an opportunity and

snatched to money bags out of an armored car. Unfortunately, they were filled with pennies and weighed 60 pounds

each. His get away sprint was a little encumbered and he was caught within a block.

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There was a guy, out here, who siphoned gas from an auto. He put it into a styrofoam beverage

cooler-- not realizing gas dissolves the foam. He only got a few feet.

Pancho1188
01-07-2004, 09:35 AM
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I admit, I love it when bad things happen to bad

people.

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There is actually a German word that describes the

emotion of laughing at/enjoying other people\'s misfortunes... Anyone know what it is?

Kari
01-07-2004, 09:46 AM
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I admit, I love it when bad things happen to bad people.

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There is actually a German word that describes the emotion of laughing

at/enjoying other people\'s misfortunes... Anyone know what it is?

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Schadenfreude-- I THINK that\'s spelled right.

Whitehall
01-07-2004, 07:31 PM
I\'m a

little more selective than that - I only take pleasure at the due comupence of bad people. Taking pleasure at the

travails of decent folk is a more refined sport.

DrSmellThis
01-09-2004, 05:33 PM
The only

reason others sometimes care about one\'s miseries.

belgareth
01-30-2004, 06:48 AM
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Concord, CA.

A man walks into a convienance store, pulls out a gun and

robs the guy. Runs out to his car he left idling to discover he had locked the door when he got out. When the police

arrived he was tryig to break the window.

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Circuit City security

guard (in uniform) decides to rob the place after closing. He put a bag over his head, as a mask. But, he forgot to

cut holes, for the eyes. Ran into a pole, and knocked himself cold. The employees staying behind to close called

911. Guy wsa still out when the cops came. All this caught on surveillance cameras.

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Saw this one just today:

\'Clown Bandit\' Bungles Liquor Shop Heist


CLAYTON,

Mo. - Police in the St. Louis area are calling it the case of the \"Clown Bandit.\" A man created a comedy of

errors as he broke into a liquor store earlier this week.

The crook was seen on surveillance video stealing

booze. But just off camera, he slammed face first into a door. Then he lost his balance, slipped and fell.

He

also grabbed some cigarettes and a magazine, police said, and bagged his own goods. But he couldn\'t get out the

window where he came in so he threw all of the stolen items out the window. The liquor bottles then broke.

The

man went away empty-handed, police say. The stolen goods were valued at $30.