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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Few and far between are the dumbasses that just leave me floored.  This one is a real head-fake.
First, the background.  van Tassel, former US Army Iraq veteran, dons a ski mask, grabs a nearby American flag, and a handgun.  His plan?!  To protest something from a bridge in Santa Barbara, CA.  He obviously has his [...]

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This Naugatuck man is a dumbass of the day wannabe.  This Yahoo article tells us of a man who fired a shotgun at a gas pump while people were standing around.  Fortunately, it didn’t explode.  Frustrated as his dismal failure, he drove off and promptly struck two cars.  2 cars!
Too bad that Darwin didn’t prevail.  [...]

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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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