Top 10 Real Dumbies!

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TOP 10 REAL DUMBIES!

1. Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport

hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.

2. A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in

the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting

beer cans off each other's head.

3. A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record

showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety

goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's

depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five

workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening

room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches

after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.

4. The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear

weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city

limits.

5. A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but

by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had

boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and

back pain.

6. Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a

book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript

to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in

seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

7. A convict broke out of jail in Washington DC, then a few days later

accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went

out for a sandwich. She needed to see him, and thus had him paged.

Police officers recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to

the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.

8. Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a

metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy

machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police

pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't

telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the

suspect confessed.

9. When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to

hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to

call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police

and was arrested.

10. A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole

a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped

aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.