Category Archives: that was dumb

This story of a very stripped down car leaves me with so many questions. Why, oh why would you buy a car with a cinder block as a driver’s seat and nothing else inside? How do you not notice that it has no brakes, or brake pedal for that matter? Hell, how do you drive …

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I’m no fan of the airline industry, but if the point of this tale of woe is that I’m supposed to feel sorry for this woman, well, all I can say is epic fale. That’s what happens when you don’t check your work before you hit the button. It’s not the company’s fault that you …

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In Canton, Ohio, if you don’t cut your grass, you’ll go to jail. This law was apparently created because the city was sick of having to cut private lawns. So…how does this law help with that? You go to jail for something that really doesn’t need jail time, and if you’re in jail, how can …

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If you’re this dumb, should you even be driving to begin with? Woman Calls Orem Police To Free Her From Her Locked Car A woman called Orem police Friday afternoon needing help because her battery died and she was locked inside her car. When police arrived, they found the woman sitting in the car, unable …

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Boy, the folks making decisions for the US military are sure a thoughtful, kindhearted lot. Not only have they been nice enough to call disabled soldiers back to active duty in war zones, but now they’ve come up with the splendid idea of putting a trauma recovery centre right down the road from a firing …

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This is so stupid, it’s beyond stupid. Anjali Datta is very smart. She’s so smart that she made it through high school in only 3 years. But she can’t be valedictorian, and therefore cannot have access to the college scholarship given to the valedictorian because policy strictly states that only students who have done high …

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Good lord. When summoned to a place where shots were fired, before calling in a swat team and evacuating the neighbourhood, maybe police should knock on the door. I guess the shooters went to sleep, police phoned them but they didn’t answer, so they set up outside, called in the big guns and moved all …

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