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Idiotic Behavior

When Personal Decisions Become Public Embarasments

By Buck Wolf, About.com

Why do so many people stash firearms and fireworks in their oven? Let's celebrate idiotic behavior, if only because it keeps the rest of us entertained.

Banks Demands Prints From Man With No Arms

Bank of America is apologizing after telling a Tampa man with no arms who tried to cash a check that he would need to provide a thumbprint.

Gas + Flame = ?

Yeah, some people still can’t quite figure that one out. Police say a 27-year-old woman in Joliet, Illinois, was filling a gas can on the passenger seat of her car when she wanted to see how much gas was inside. So she got out her lighter and… you can guess the rest, right?

Shoplifter Fills Out Job Application

Stanley Wright Police PhotoMontgomery County (Ohio) Jail
Stanley Wright of Ohio allegedly stuffed several hundred dollars worth of clothing under his shirt and down his pants. Then, strangely, filled out a job application, using his correct address before leaving.

'I'm Not Drunk, I'm High'

Jonathan James Sweat 2009 Mug Shot PhotoAlachua County (Fla.) Jail
When Jonathan James Sweat crashed his SUV into the Florida State Attorney's headquarters, he failed three sobriety tests and offered a novel explanation.

Boy Hospitalized After Tring to Light His Farts on Fire

Gas is expensive these days, but that's no reason to turn what your body produces into combustible fuel.

26 Texas Cheerleaders Trap Themselves in an Elevator

Apparently, someone at Texas Cheer Camp had to say, "Let's see how many girls we can fit in an elevator," and for some reason, nobody told her that that's a stupid idea. Crammed tight for more than a half hour, one of girls fainted, others were treated on the scene by medical workers.

Teenage Mom Throws Baby at Social Worker

An 18-year-old mother, known only as "G," did something that makes us all ask, "Why?"

Train Hits Man Peeing on Track

As they say, when you've got to go, you've got to go.

April Fools' Day Death Notice

A photo of Edward M. Gabriel -- a former (and still living) U.S. ambassador to Morocco -- was placed in an "in memoriam" ad in the Washington Post's April 1. A day later, J. Peter Segall, paid for the retraction, telling the paper, "I engaged in a very stupid and ultimately cruel April Fools' joke against a man that has been my best friend for 30 years."

Two Boys Hurt From Gun in the Oven

Is there a worse place to hide a gun than your oven?

Waterboarding Fails as Company Team-Building Exercise

A salesman from Provo, Utah says that his supervisor used waterboarding as a team-building exercise. In a lawsuit, the man also claims his managers allowed the supervisor to draw mustaches on employees' faces, take away their chairs, and beat on their desks with a wooden paddle.

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