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The World Is Populated By Idiots
The World Is Populated By Idiots
1. Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he
tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.
2. A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face,
seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each other's
head.
3. A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers
a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to
Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory industrial accidents was so
graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the
screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he
cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.
4. The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500
fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
5. A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police
arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to
complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.
6. Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish
economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it
reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with
the shredder.
7. A convict broke out of jail in Washington DC, then a few days later accompanied his
girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She needed to
see him, and thus had him paged. Police officers recognized his name and arrested him
as he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.
8. Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on
his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying"
was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought
the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the
suspect confessed.
9. When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the
cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused,
so the robber called the police and was arrested.
10. A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a steamroller and
led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to
a stop.
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