A couple kissing through surgical masks…

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This story has two attractions for me.  The headline was enough for me to get my dumb-ass pen going, but the real question for me was simply this:  What is a “hooning offence”?

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Can you give me and my gun a ride to Washington, DC?
A brilliant taxi driver knew the answer, which WTF? No! So the taxi driver drops him off at the train station and calls police instead.
I can just hear the 911 call now:
911: “What is the nature of your emergency?”
Taxi driver: “Some dude with a [...]

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[Updated 11/13/2008 from another news article]
Sometimes the pictures make the news by themselves.  Alcohol-related just jumps to mind before we even know any other details.
There is not much to do in Idaho sometimes.  Brutsche-Ely (the name speaks volumes too) evidently had about a dozen too many drinks.  She tried to hit a security guard.  Finding [...]

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The Dallas News tells us that police had to free 26 cheer leaders from an elevator at the University of Texas Jester Hall. Wow.
I have to assume that this was a cheer leader camp or such, and that the girls (where were the guys?) must have been really bored. Still, 26 is a [...]

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In today’s DOTD report, I have two separate cases of police officers totally lacking in brains. In the first case, I believe it was caused by a lack of blood flow to the brain, and in the second case, it was caused by too much blood flow.
Case 1: A drunk girl comes into the [...]

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There are two levels of Darwin Awards in my mind–those who win them because they did/caused the action resulting in the subject’s removal from the gene pool, and those who were accomplices or victims of the Darwin-inducing incident. In this case we have both. Filed under Dumbass of the Day.

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Today’s Dumbass of the Day award goes to an unnamed man in Durban, South Africa. Jeff Wicks reports that the would-be thief attempted to climb over a wall protected by sharp spikes. During the attempt, both feet became impaled. When police found him in the morning, he was hanging upside down, still [...]

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While listening to NPR today, I heard a report about a protest at Virginia Tech. about the role of gun laws in Virginia. Evidentially Abigail Spangler was upset about the recent Virginia legislative decision to not do anything about gun shows. Gun control activists like to complain about the “loophole” relating to gun [...]

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I haven’t done a Dumbass of the Day in a long while, so I guess it is not really “of the Day”.  Regardless, this story about Jesse Jackson made me think of the word “Dumbass”.  Then there is the category for “Stupid things people do”.  I guess I’ll have to put this down under both, [...]

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