- People Are Idiots
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Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-oldman at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two
counterfeit $16 bills.
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A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his49-year-old friend in the face, seriously wounding
him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off
each other's head.
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A Australian company trying to continue itsfive-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.
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The Chico, California, City Council enacted a banon nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone
detonating one within city limits.
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A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car inSydney, 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.
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A convict broke out of jail in Washington DC, thena 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.
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Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspectby 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.
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When a service station attendant in Bankstown, Sydneyrefused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the
man threatened to call the police. The attendant still
refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.
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A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking,"stole a steamroller and lead police on a 5 mph chase until an
officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.