Idiots of the Year

[Grant]

Subject: Idiots of the year!
Or Loser of the Day!
Number One Idiot of 2006 I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the 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 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.
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Here's your sign, lady. Wear it with pride.
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> >>>Number Two Idiot of 2006
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Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards 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.
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> >>>Number Three Idiot of 2006

A man, wanting to rob a downtow n 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 the Wells Fargo Bank. 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 i t 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Number Four Idiot of 2006 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.

Smartass... but you still get a sign
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Number Five Idiot of 2006

A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of 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 she lf. 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 she 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 she 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 that she got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.
This guy definitely needs a sign.
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Idiot Number Six of 2006



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 even deserve a sign
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Idiot Number Seven of 2006
Arkansas : Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store windo w, 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 knocking him unconscious.It seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape. Yep, here's your sign.
Please note that all of the above people are allowed to vote...

[Demure]

What a bunch of idiots.

[Niya]

Lol@@ only in America huh!

[biko]

number 3 and 5

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Actually, we just write about this stuff. Happens everywhere. When I was in Somalia, a guy manning a pedal operated ZU-23 mounted on a large vehicle fell asleep and stepped on the pedal. The idea of engaging a safety, of course, never occured to him. He fired a blast of 23mm rounds into a crowd, killing several people.

Another guy jumped up on a compound wall waving a pistol. He pointed it in the direction of some people and was promptly riddled with machine gun bullets.

Another guy was trying to make a bomb at home, but didn't know what he was doing, and blew up himself and several family members.

[Lil_Cutie..]

[Galol]

MM

What amazes me is how often they get away with unbelievable idiocy. Peter Biles, a typically middle class English BBC East Africa correspondent, reminisced on the `Our Correspondent' programme few days ago " Astonishingly I saw Aideed's men(Aideed Snr) welding an aircraft missile pod with grenades and explosives..they test- fired a couple who wizzed overhead and ended in the sea"

I laughed and I must admit felt a tinge of pride too. Somalis being Somalis: So idiotic they will do truly idiotic things and sometimes, make it all work.