http://www.makestupidityhistory.org Dedicated to the eradication of stupidity worldwide. Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:14:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In case you all haven't noticed, I haven't really had sufficient time to keep up with maintaining this site. Believe it or not, it's actually hard to find stupid people in the news! I haven't yet decided what to do with the site, but the archives will remain up and accessible ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/11/25/make-stupidity-history-suspended/ Margaret Riley, 80, of Burlington, N.C., got in her car last Tuesday to drive to a doctor's appointment. Then, more than 70 people called 911 to report Riley's car driving on the wrong side of Interstates 85 and 40. She made it 14 miles before police finally managed to get ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/02/28/theyre-trying-to-take-our-licenses-away/ We're back. Grace Sium, 20, a student at North Dakota State University, called a West Fargo, N.D., police station, asking the police dispatcher where she could buy some drugs. The dispatcher told her that not only was it illegal, the police weren't going to sell her any drugs. After she persisted, ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/02/15/woman-tries-to-buy-dope-from-police/ David Jordan and James Cole, undergraduates at Cambridge University in the U.K., have been fined for posting a live hamster. The pair put the hamster in a standard A5 envelope and posted it in Market Street, Cambridge, on 22 June. Michael Taylor, prosecuting for the RSPCA, said: "The hamster had been posted ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/24/drunken-yobs-post-hamster/ David Moore, 47, of Belmont, N.H., committed suicide sometime after Thanksgiving using a homemade guillotine. But his plans for his death went far beyond that. He had placed homemade Molotov cocktails in the walls of his home, and wired them up to electric power on a timer, set to go ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/13/man-kills-self-fails-to-burn-down-house-after-death/ The Waterloo-Cedar Falls (Iowa) Courier ran an obituary last week for Daniel "D.J." Reddout, 17, saying that he had died from complications from surgery Dec. 24, after receiving the information from a man who said he was the teenager's father. The only problem is, D.J. was quite alive and well. His ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/12/reports-of-death-greatly-exaggerated/ Wendy and Byron Ruff, of Warner, N.H., were convicted Monday of 10 counts of child endangerment, for keeping their five children in a home filled with animal feces, rotting garbage, loose insulation, and pornography on the walls. "It is not a difficult matter to keep a home free of non-domesticated and ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/11/couple-raised-kids-in-garbage-animal-feces-pornography/ Andre Baril, 62, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, liked playing the lottery. He was a big fan of Loto-Quebec's Banco game, from which he won $25,000 a few years ago. But since then he spent his entire life savings, over $50,000, trying to hit the jackpot again. Last summer, Baril fatally shot ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/10/coroner-rules-death-caused-by-gambling-addiction/ Sharife Doorah, 23, of Indianapolis, Ind., allegedly robbed a bar late Friday night, and put the money in a bag. He ran off, and police took off after him. So far, about normal. But Doorah couldn't possibly have gotten away that night. "Upon arrival, they were told the suspect just went ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/09/robber-caught-by-hole-in-bag/ Satish B. Mohan has hardly been on the job as an Amherst, N.Y., town supervisor for a week, and already he's made hundreds of enemies. One of Mohan's campaign promises was that he would personally review and sign all checks pertaining to town business, and that included payroll checks. So, when ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/08/town-supervisor-signs-hundreds-of-payroll-checks/ It turns out you can't always flush the evidence down the toilet. Selina Jean Valdez, 28, and Daniel Marquez, 41, of Pueblo, Colo., are suspected of being responsible for almost all of the city's counterfeit money cases. Police started looking for them on December 26, and that's when they think the ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/07/counterfeiters-try-to-flush-the-evidence/ Trevor Corneliusien, 26, an artist, went camping in an abandoned mineshaft about five miles north of Baker, Calif., on Tuesday, wrapped a chain around his bare ankles and locked it, and proceeded to draw it. Then he realized he didn't have the key. So he hopped across the desert for 12 ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/06/artist-chains-self-loses-key/ Jacob Calero and Michelle De La Vega, of San Ramon, Calif., on Friday left Calero's two children, Joshua, 9, and Jason, 5, alone at home unsupervised so they could take a New Year's Eve trip to Las Vegas. San Ramon Police Sgt. Brian Kalinowski said that the parents could be facing ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/05/134/ A burglar in Overtornea, Sweden, broke into a home and stole a mobile phone and other items, and then called a taxi to take him to Kalix, 37 miles (60km) away. While he was waiting for the taxi, the phone rang. It was the police. The thief apparently thought it was ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/04/never-answer-a-stolen-mobile-phone/ A man on a Monarch Airlines flight from Manchester, England, to Tenerife, Canary Islands, became drunk and began abusing the flight crew, and the captain diverted and threw him off the plane on Porto Santo, a tiny desert island. The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a ... http://www.makestupidityhistory.org/2006/01/02/drunk-dropped-on-desert-island/