People can be really stupid...
...and no Im not making fun of you for coming to this site. I mean people can do some really stupid things. On this page I will post a new stupid act of the human race daily or bie-dayly so come back often to get your daily chance to laugh at the fact that yes, there are people dumber than you out there. All of these stories are true and show great feats of stupidity
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TRUE FACT OF THE Month:
Anyone who has watched the movie Caddyshack will have a good idea of the resilience of gophers. In the spring of 1995, three employees of the Carroll Fowler Elementary School in Ceres received a gopher in good condition. Their subsequent actions show that they were unfamiliar with the movie, and the vengeful nature of gophers. One janitor and two maintenance men took the gopher into a small janitorial closet and apparently decided to kill it. No other reason for spraying cleaning solvent on the gopher seems plausible. The solvent was designed to remove gum from surfaces. It freezes the surface gum and makes it easier to scrape it up. Elementary schools have an unsurprising need for such solvents. But the gopher was stronger than the gum. Three cans later, it was still alive and kicking. They paused for thought, and the janitor, who was most badly injured, attempted to light a cigarette in the fume-filled room. The subsequent explosion injured the three men, and sixteen children were treated for scraped knees. In the aftermath of the explosion, the persecuted gopher was discovered unharmed and clinging to a wall. He was released back into the wild, where he is expected to enjoy years of free drinks in gopher pubs as he tells the story of his brush with death.
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OLD ONES:
-Missionaries in Nigeria in the late 1800s ran into a few problems translating Christian hymns into the languages of Nigeria, different tones or pitches give words completely different meanings. And so for many years the missionaries had the Igbo people of Nigeria singing favorite hymns like: "God's pig, which is never shared," and the not so stirring hymn that begins: "there is no egg on the bicycle."
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-how many famous Thai badminton players can you name? When you say "badminton" do you automaticly think of Thailand? Evidently, questions like this bothersed Thailand"s Minister of health back in 1979. He was quite worried about the low level of badminton playing in his country,. The pro, the minister finaly deduced, was due to the lack of shuttlecocks. In his words: "Time and time again, I have said that unless shuttlecocks are freely available to the people of Thailand, it will be almost impossible to inccrease the national badminton standard. At the present time, there are less than 5 hundred shuttlecocks in the country. This is the reason why the number of Thai badminton players has not matched our kingdom's population explosion." Readers will be glad to know that today Thailand has thousnds of shuttlecocks, no doubt due to the Minister of Health.
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-A janitor at the Marriott Hotel in Brisyol, England, was asked to clean an elevator. The job took him 4 full days. His confused supervisor asked him why it had taken so long. Replied the janitor, -Well, there are twelve of them, one on each floor, and sometimes some of them arent there.- Apparently, the man had thought that each floor had a different elevator---so he went to each floor and cleaned the same elevator 12 separate times.
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-A court in New York awarded 2 students from Pratt University $1,000. They had sued the university, clameing the math in their computer cource was too hard.
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-Passengers waiteing for the train at Hamble Station in England saw their tain pull in-but instead of letting them on, they heard an announcement. -You are not to board this train which has only stopped to let you know that it does not stop on Sundays- Unbelievably, the train then pulled out. Passengers walked to the next station, where they were let on.
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-There's a time to be specific and a time to keep your mouth shut. Barry Shoemaker of Harlingen Texas, learned the hard way. He wound up being arrested because he was painstakingly specific. To be more precise: Shoemaker was at a meeting of the Harlingen city commission, watching the proceedings and enjoying a smoke. The city manager noticed him in the audience and explained that no cigarette smoking was allowed. Would he please put it out? Shoemaker got technical and sayed, -it's not a ciarette-, he expained, -it's a joint-
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-A candidate in a local election in a small town in poland was a class act type of guy. To show his respect and his professional courtesy for the candidate running against him, hi cast his vote for his opponent. The problem was, his was the only vote cast out of 595 eligible voters
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-A twenty two year old Chinese man was convinced he had mastered the poweres of his mind. Through his superior control of his thoughts, he believed he could cause things to happen-or not happen. The key of course, was putting his theory to a test. So he stood on a railroad track near Shanghai and applied his thoughts to a speeding train coming right at him. If his theory was correct, he could force the train to stop...his theory was incorrect.
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-According to a 1978 announcement on Afghanistan's state radio, President Noor Mohammed Taraki due to ill health. They didnt elaborate on just what this ill health was-neglecting to say a word about the fact that the President just happened to have twelve bullet holes in his body.
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A man in Portland, Maine, was arrested for driving a Thunderbird with a TV set welded to the hood. Apparently, he watched the program on TV with one eye and the road with the other. Not to worry, the man said. He was a split-screen artist.
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On June 9, 1978,Mr. Bob Specas was ready to beat a domino record by knocking down 100,000 dominoes in a row. The media was there to broadcast the historic event. A TV camera recorded his progress as Specas set up the last dominoes for his performance. 97,497...97,498...97,499... Then a TV cameraman dropped his press badge...and the dominoes went off.
THIS IS TRUE
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