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Dumb People
Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an
airport hotel
after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.
A man in Johannesberg, 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.
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.
The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear
weapons, setting
a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
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.
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 a matter of
seconds when
a worker confused the copier with the shredder.
A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., 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
over the
courthouse intercom. Police officers recognized his name and
arrested him as
he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the
lunch hour.
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.
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.
A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of
walking", stole a
steamroller and led the police on a 5 mph chase until an officer
stepped
aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.
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