The World's
Dumbest
St. Clair
County, Illinois, spent $330 million dollars for a new airport that
no airline was interested in using. For one year, the airport
was kept in operation for 12 hours per day, staffed with 27
employees, and a full fire crew and maintenance staff. In that
entire year, neither a single passenger nor even one plane used the
airport. $2.5 million in upgrades were approved for the second
year, even though airlines continued to express no interest in the
airport.
Albany, New York - Scott Bernstein, who called the Colonie New York
Police Department 6 times hoping to find a prostitute, not
believing, apparently, the female dispatcher who kept telling him he
was reaching the police department and who kept hanging up on him.
On the sixth call the police had had enough and arranged to meet him
at a hotel. He then only had one more phone call he could
make, and it wasn't for a prostitute.
In Ohio, an unidentified man in his late twenties walked into a
police station with a 9-inch wire protruding from his forehead
and calmly asked officers to give him an X-ray to help him find
his brain, which he claimed had been stolen. Police were shocked
to learn that the man had drilled a 6-inch deep hole in his
skull with a Black & Decker power drill and had stuck the wire
in to try and find the missing brain.
Drug Possession Defendant Christopher Jansen, on trial in March in
Pontiac, Michigan, said he had been searched without a warrant. The
prosecutor said the officer didn't need a warrant because a "bulge"
in Christopher's jacket could have been a gun. "Nonsense,"
said Christopher, who happened to be wearing the same jacket that
day in court. He handed it over so the judge could see it. The judge
discovered a packet of cocaine in the pocket and laughed so hard he
required a five minute recess to compose himself.
From England: A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated
speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his
car. He later received in the mail a ticket for 40 Pounds and a
photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department
a photograph of 40 Pounds. Several days later, he received a letter
from the police that contained another picture ... of handcuffs. The
motorist promptly sent the money for the fine.
A 9-year-old boy in Manassas, Virginia received a one-day suspension
under his elementary school's drug policy last week - for Certs!
Joey Hoeffer allegedly told a classmate that the mints would make
him "jump higher." And a student in Belle, West Virginia was
suspended for three days for giving a classmate a cough drop. School
principal Forest Mann reiterated the school's "zero-tolerance"
policy...not to be confused with the "zero-intelligence" policy.
A Turkish truck driver, Nazim
Canturkas, lit a match underneath the fuel tank of his truck when
his fuel tank froze, according to fire fighters who were there to
put out his truck. One of the fire fighters said, with great
understatement, that he used a "very dangerous technique" to
overcome his problem.
