An unnamed suspect in St. Petersburg, Fla., is in custody after allegedly hitting and killing a homeless man, and driving several miles with the man’s body impaled on his windshield.

The driver was stopped at the southbound Interstate 275 tollbooth of the Sunshine Skyway, police said.

The man had been hit more than three miles away at 46th Avenue South and 34th Street South, police said. He apparently was struck by the car while crossing 34th Street. The impact severed one leg and wedged him through the windshield.

Shortly before 8:30 p.m., [Wednesday] the car pulled into a middle tollbooth lane where motorists pay $1 to cross the bridge.

Police said the driver was detained and an a ambulance was called. The driver, identified only as an elderly man, was taken to a hospital. — Tampa Tribune

Today’s unnamed Stupid Person of the Day had not yet been charged with a crime at the time this article was published.

The Jawa Report let us know about an unnamed suspect who was caught in front of the police station in Omaha, Neb., with methamphetamine after parking in a handicapped space.

An Omaha police lieutenant and an officer said they were working at the front desk of police headquarters Monday night when they noticed people sitting a car parked in a handicap parking space.

When the pair walked up to the car, they smelled what they believed to be methamphetamine.

A search proved them right.

The suspect was taken to Creighton University Medical Center, where he agreed to have two small plastic bags of meth removed from his stomach, according to a police report. — KETV

Unfortunately, today’s Stupid Person of the Day was not named in the news report. No word, either, on the other “people” in the car.

A couple in Van Buren, Arkansas who were supposed to be watching a two-year-old child were arrested after the child was found wandering a busy street.

A resident called police Sunday morning after she found the boy, who was wearing a diaper and shirt, police said. The boy was unharmed.

Police said they knocked on 150 doors in the neighborhood while looking for his caregivers, but no one recognized the boy. They said they were about to hand him over to the state Department of Human Services when the sitters called.

“We got a phone call from the people watching the little boy, real nonchalantly said, ‘Did you find a child? We’re missing one,’” Van Buren police Cpl. Chris Hoffsommer said.

Jeremy Ruehle, 21, and his wife, Meghan Ruehle, 19, both of Van Buren, started to watch the boy on Friday. Police said the Ruehles were still asleep when he wandered off. Both face misdemeanor child endangerment charges.

The child’s mother, Ashley Ruehle, 37, of Alma, came to the station and told police it was her first night out in two years. But police said she was arrested when officers discovered outstanding arrest warrants on charges of writing bad checks and theft of a lease property.

Police did not say whether the baby sitters and mother were related. The boy was turned over to his grandparents. — Associated Press

Wow, we’ve got three Stupid People of the Day today.

Peggy Jo Conner, 38, of Ford City, Pa. has charged with attempted homicide and aggravated assult for kidnapping a pregnant woman and trying to cut her unborn child out of her.

District Attorney Scott Andreassi said the baby appears to be healthy, but the condition of the mother, Valerie Lynn Oskin, is unknown.

Oskin, 30, of Ford City, who was 8 months pregnant, is being treated at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Police said Conner hit Oskin in the head with a baseball bat on Wednesday, then drove her to a dirt road off Route 1037 in a wooded area of Wayne Township and cut Oskin’s abdomen with a razor.

Someone riding an all-terrain vehicle found Oskin and Conner on the dirt road at about 5 p.m. Wednesday and called for help, police said.

Conner was arrested and taken to the county jail. She is being held without bond.

Police say that a statement from Conner indicates that her goal was to get the victim’s unborn child and take it as her own.

In an interview with WTAE Channel 4’s Bob Mayo, Conner’s husband said that his wife is pregnant.

Andreassi said Conner claims to be pregnant but is not. — WTAE

[Editor's note: Peggy Jo Conner, you're today's Stupid Person of the Day. And if anybody knows what's up with the recent rash of women trying to steal others' unborn babies, please let me know.]

Police shot and wounded a man who jumped a train and tried to take it over using a bow and arrow.

Juventino Vallejo-Camerena boarded the Union Pacific train Sunday night as it was stopped for a signal and threatened the engineer and conductor, the only people on board, police Capt. Keith Jones said.

The crew members escaped and disabled the train by turning off fuel switches, then used a cell phone to call police, Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said.

“The employees did an outstanding job,” Davis said. “Their instincts took over and they did the proper thing by disabling the train.”

Vallejo-Camerena was aboard the train in western San Bernardino County when officers arrived. The man cocked the bow and pointed the arrow at officers, who opened fire, Jones said.

Vallejo-Camerena suffered gunshot wounds to the left wrist and forearm that were not life-threatening, Jones said.

He was treated at a hospital, then booked into jail for investigation of train robbery, assault and resisting arrest. It wasn’t known when he would make his first court appearance.

The locomotive, en route to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City, was hauling 71 cars with ocean-bound containers. No hazardous materials were on board, Davis said. — Associated Press

Juventino Vallejo-Camerena, it’s not 1855, it’s 2005, and you’re today’s Stupid Person of the Day.

A candidate for public office in upstate New York was arrested twice in three hours for driving while intoxicated, authorities said Monday.

Brian E. Karst, 34, who is running for Oneida Common Council as an independent candidate was arrested Friday night by Oneida County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Chrysler and ticketed for numerous traffic violations. Sobriety tests revealed his blood alcohol content was 0.14 percent, nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08, deputies said.

After his arrest, Karst was released to a third party.

Less than three hours later, Chrysler pulled Karst over again — driving the same car as before. This time, Karst’s blood alcohol content was 0.11, deputies said.

Deputies said Karst also was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Sept. 9. — Associated Press

You’re supposed to drink after you’re elected to office, not before. Brian Karst, you qualify as today’s Stupid Person of the Day.

At about 10 a.m. last Sunday, Leon Hollimon stole an ambulance and led police on a three-county chase around central North Carolina.

When police finally got the ambulance stopped, they discovered a deer which had been dead for a week, attached to an IV.

When they caught him, he was wearing a stethoscope, pager and had two latex gloves in his back pocket. . . .

Investigators say they’re not sure where Hollimon is from, but he has a large number of arrests in the Jacksonville, Florida area and may be from there.

They say they don’t yet know how he ended up in Lexington.

He’s currently having a mental evaluation at a state hospital in Butner. — WFMY

The day before, Hollimon had been arrested for public intoxication — in a wheelchair.

Police think the man’s odd behavior began the day before on Anna Lewis drive in Lexington.

Lieutenant Scott Nanney says officers saw the man with a wheelchair near the hospital.

“Actually he was in the wheelchair riding it in the middle of the road and intoxicated. So, that’s when officers decided to take him into jail for four hours.”

Police say the man wasn’t charged with anything in the wheelchair incident.

He was only taken to jail for his safety, until he was sober enough to leave. — WFMY

Congratulations, you’re today’s Stupid Person of the Day.

A Long Island, N.Y. woman has entered a guilty plea to second degree rape for arranging for her 13-year-old daughter and her 14-year-old friend to have sex with two men aged 18 and 19 that they had just met.

The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect her daughter’s identity, allegedly told investigators it was time for her daughter to “have sex and get it over with.”

The mother, who lives in Sayville, took the girls to White Plains for an overnight shopping trip in April. The girls ran into the men — Gilberto Gonzalez, 19, of Pleasantville, and Michael Berger, 18, of White Plains — at a mall, and the men came to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where the mother and girls had taken a room.

The mother bought beer and hard lemonade for the teenagers and admitted Wednesday in Westchester County Court that she was with them in the hotel room when the sex occurred.

Judge Rory Bellantoni said he would sentence the woman to six months in jail and 10 years’ probation if she convinces him on Oct. 26, the sentencing date, that she understands the seriousness of the crime.

Rape charges against the men are pending. — 1010 WINS

Regrettably, the name of today’s Stupid Person of the Day has not been released.

Emma Hill, 31, of Memphis, Tenn., was arrested Saturday on charges of forgery and attempted theft after pretending to be a victim of Hurricane Katrina.

[Hill] told a worker at an American Red Cross hurricane relief center in Memphis Friday that she lived in Gulfport, Miss., and had lost everything in the hurricane, according to the charges.

However, when she returned Saturday to pick up a $1,565 check, Hill gave an address in Mississippi that was different from the first one she gave workers. Suspicious workers then called over a Memphis police officer stationed at the center.

Police say they discovered Hill had an outstanding warrant on charges of passing bad checks. And they found she had a Tennessee driver’s license with a Memphis address and that she paid the utility bills at that address. — Associated Press

Today’s Stupid Person of the Day probably would have gotten away with it, too, if she’d been able to keep her story straight.

Sharen and Mike Gravelle are adoptive or foster parents for 11 children with disabilities, such as autism and fetal alcohol syndrome. For at least three years, they have been locking the children in cages at night.

The children were found in nine cages built into the walls of the house near this small city in northern Ohio, according to the Huron County Sheriff’s Office. They had no blankets or pillows, and the cages were rigged with alarms that sounded if opened, Lt. Randy Sommers said.

The children told authorities they slept in the cages — 40 inches high and 40 inches deep — at night. Doors to some of the cages were blocked with heavy furniture.

Investigators believe nine of the children slept in the cages that were stacked two-high on the house’s second story. Two mattresses on a bedroom floor also showed signs of recent use, Sommers said.

One of the boys said he’d slept in the cage for three years, Sommers said. — Associated Press

What the hell? Anyway, we’re back, and the Gravelles are the Stupid People of the Day.

A Colombian soldier went absent without leave, got drunk, and threw a grenade into a street party, killing five people, including a seven year old boy, according to military and civilian authorities.

The soldier went absent without leave from his base in the southwestern province of Huila and got drunk in the town of El Jardin before detonating the grenade, said an official at the nearby municipality of San Jose de Isnos.

Five people were killed and eight injured in the incident, the official said.

The army arrested the soldier and began a criminal investigation under military law, an army spokesman said. — The Australian

Everyone knows that alcohol makes you stupid. Mix in some grenades, and you have a recipe for disaster.

On the first day of classes at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, Sharronda Barkley, 18, beat her roommate, Heather Haase, 18, over the head with a hot clothes iron, breaking the iron into pieces and causing a skull fracture.

The 18-year-old victim told authorities her roommate attacked her following their first day of classes after accusing her of putting a hidden camera in their room.

Heather Haase suffered a skull fracture, bruises, cuts and a burn on her arm in the early morning attack on Tuesday, university police said.

Her roommate, Sharronda Barkley, also 18, told officers Haase injured herself when she fell out of bed and hit the iron, according to a police report. Barkley was being held on $25,000 bond Thursday. A judge ordered her not to return to Bowling Green State University or have contact with Haase. — Associated Press

If there was a hidden camera, try finding it before accusing your roommate of something. Sharronda Barkley, you are today’s Stupid Person of the Day.

Michael Adams was sentenced today with a 12 month community order after being caught on eight CCTV cameras stealing a laptop from CCTV Surveillance Solutions in Dale Street, Manchester, on 13 August.

Adams, of Marcer Road, Miles Platting, and known to his friends as Mr Stupid, admitted stealing a laptop worth £650 before Manchester magistrates. . . .

He was also given a six-month drug rehabilitation order and was ordered to pay compensation of £650 to the shop owner and £70 towards court costs. — BBC News

The owner of the CCTV store said the theft last week had been good for business, giving the store the kind of publicity that he could have never dreamed of.

[Editor's Note: Mr Stupid is indeed today's Stupid Person of the Day. Steal from a CCTV shop and not expect to have your face on camera?]

There has been talk in recent years of the UK implementing a satellite tracking system for road users to catch speeding criminals. As a precursor to this a hapless pair of criminals have shown how effective satellite tracking systems can be.

The pair of would-be master criminals drove round in a SatNav equipped car robbing houses only to be snitched on by the SatNav system. It had recorded the locations they had visited and provided ample evidence to place them at the scene of crime!

Ian Bansie, 33, used his work’s motor to ferry 31-year-old accomplice Steve Warrington to ten homes in Reigate, Surrey, completely unaware that the satellite navigation system was dutifully keeping a record of their crime spree. –The Register

[Editor's note: These two definitely qualify as Stupid People of the Day.]

Donald Thomas Sloan, 49, was removed from an Amtrak train and arrested Friday in Elyria, Ohio, after being caught looking through other passengers’ luggage and exposing himself.

Now this sort of thing happens all the time, but the interesting part is what Sloan had on him at the time. He was carrying several identification cards, passports and social security cards from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, along with several thousand dollars in U.S. and Canadian cash and a five ounce gold bar.

That’s right, this apparent identity thief got caught by being stupid. Here’s a hint to all you criminals out there. Take a lesson from today’s Stupid Person of the Day and behave yourself!

Sloan will be arraigned Monday.

More information may be available from the Associated Press.