Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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    Well, some days my life is exactly like this. I came home and my water is off. I thought maybe my son had done something to it. He cut grass today and was going to spray the yard for bugs, but he denied it. I checked my checkbook and couldn't fine the check I had written for the bill, but the bottom part of the bill had been torn off. I got online and discovered that I do not owe a payment, but I still have no water. My son said I could come over to his house to shower...then tomorrow I will call the office and see if they know what is going on.

    I am going to leave a great countdown for you. It is about being stupid. Just how I am feeling.
    BTW. Some of you wondered about the state testing....I am not a big fan of it, as are many of my friends. However, they do it. So we have to aim our curriculum toward teaching the information that will be tested. I still have some things to go over, but I guess I will be okay.


    Beaver

    Now this doesn't make me feel stupid. It makes me feel old.
    Eddie Haskell, The Bev, and Wally


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    >You can't fix Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    > EIGHTH PLACE:
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    > In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
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    > SEVENTH PLACE:
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    > A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran," accidentally jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.
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    > SIXTH PLACE:
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    > Buxton, NC : A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA , but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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    > FIFTH PLACE:
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    > Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc , as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
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    > FOURTH PLACE:
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    > Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Selbyville, Del , as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.
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    > As Ron White often says: " You can't fix stupid." These people prove it is a terminal condition. As always, competition this year has been keen.
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    > THIRD PLACE:
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    > The following mind-boggling attempt at a crime spree in Washington, DC appeared to be the robber's first (and last), due to his lack of a previous record of violence, and his terminally stupid choices:
    > 1. His target was H&J Leather & Firearms; A gun shop specializing in handguns.
    > 2. The shop was full of customers - firearms customers.
    > 3. To enter the shop, the robber had to step around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door.
    > 4. A uniformed officer was standing at the counter, having coffee before work. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol.
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    > The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, the police officer with a 9mm GLOCK 17, the clerk with a 50 DESERT EAGLE, assisted by several customers who also drew their guns, several of whom also drew and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt in the exchange of fire.
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    > HONORABLE MENTION:
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    > Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover township, NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently failed to notice the window was closed.
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    > RUNNER UP:
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    > TACOMA, WA . Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope.
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    > Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay near by. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy salt water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say" said Bingham, "is that God was watching out for me on that night. There's just no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.
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    > AND THE WINNER...
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    > Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged- up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. "The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves... "Shit happens."
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    > YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID...
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Comments (8)

  • Are these the Darwin Awards?Love'em.Clean out that gene pool. OMGosh, I KNEW those guys looked familiar!!! Hubs freaked, too!

    Off to dye my hair bright orange and where did I put that can of Aqua Net?
  • Thank goodness most of these folks are being kept out of the gene pool.
  • I am sorry, but I laughed and laughed at that last one. I needed that. Thank you!
  • Oh my gosh! That photo is scary!!! And here I thought men aged better than women. Yikes, Beav!

    Those are so funny! I like the "Honorable Mention"! Teehee!

  • I hope you water is back o and that today is a day filled with smiles ans warmth for you.
  • Seems like state testing is a nightmare where ever you teach. Ours comes in the form of ISTEP and ISTEP + which is given in September! Like you, none of us are a fan of it. Like you, we teach for the test. Istep tests determine funding, they determine a school's future, basically. I don't want to even get on the soapbox.
    I hpe your water is back on! That is horrible!
    I came home one night back in the winter to no heat. That wasw no fun. My pilot light had gone out.
    Well, enjoy the weekend and I hope you have good weather!
  • some years back I took the kids to Atlanta to see Santa and would you believe Eddie Haskell was playing Santa - Who would do that!  haha
  • Funny "stupid" people....the winner really did deserve to be the winner although each example got "stupider" than the one before it...

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