Amateur Scientist scares Real Scientists

A Swedish amateur scientist wanted to split atoms in his apartment so he obtained radioactive material and set out on his personal voyage of discovery.
His experiments included a "meltdown" in his kitchen (not a nuclear meltdown).
Only after contacting the real scientists with questions were his actions noticed by authorities.
Police confiscated his materials and determined that there were no radiation hazards left in his abode.

Yep, they are really that dumb

Cattle in Texas are dying because of the drought.
Not because they can't get enough water.
When they are moved to pasture where water is plentiful they drink too much, too fast, and keel over.
Next to relieving themselves in the same water they drink, this is the clearest evidence that domestication makes you dumb.

I am trying really hard not to compare certain humans with these animals.

"Pants on the ground", 38 found

Two men were sitting in a car at a White Castle burger joint when a third man slipped into the back seat.
None of them had any fast food, so two police officers decided to take a closer look.
When they saw a suspicious baggie and the man in the backseat admitted it was pot, the cops ordered them out of the car.
When one of the men had his already precipitously low pants fall to his ankles, one of the officers pulled them up and found a pistol in his pocket.
One more in a line of (too few) examples of idiots suffering for a fashion statement that only seems to say "I'm really stupid!".

Teach them a lesson in terror

In the US we won't even allow kids to draw guns on paper when they are in school.
Mascots representing any sort of violence (Roman soldiers, Minutemen, etc.) cannot hold weapons.
The slightest threat can get you booted from school.
Having a gun in your vehicle, even off campus can get you expelled.

All of this is ridiculous, but in Australia, a teacher has gone all the way in the other direction by assigning a project to his/her students (no name or sex was mentioned in the article).
The project?
Plan a terrorist attack designed to cause the maximum number of casualties.
It comes as no surprise that people freaked when they found out about it and the project was immediately cancelled (Ya think?).

Cop injured in faked fight staged to cause "Teachable Moment"

A white Indianapolis, Indiana police officer was lured to a church under false pretenses in order to see how he would respond to a staged fight between two black men.
The officer was injured during the scuffle and now the tension between the police and the community has ramped up.
Police were already on edge after multiple incidents involving people taking pot shots at the police and have responded by warning all officers that further attempts to bait them will likely occur.
Police are asking prosecutors if they can charge any of the conspirators with a crime.

Why you drive the old car to court

The courthouse is where you find a large concentration of criminals and lawyers.
Two reasons to lock your car and not leave valuables in it.
So, it is no surprise that a criminal on a break during his trial decided to break into cars in the parking lot.
That is when he was reminded of the third group found an many court buildings; cops.
The cops caught him when he tried to sell a GPS unit to its owner!
He was arrested (for the 40th time) and held on $25K bond.

At least he wasn't texting

Teens in New York try to hold their breath while driving through a small town (does it smell that bad?) and the driver faints.
No one was seriously injured although the driver was already a paraplegic due to "falling" out a window while in college.
At least he wasn't holding a cell phone at the time.

Stupidity leads to more stupidity in Long Beach

Stupid:
A man who doesn't know how to swim still enters the water far enough to be swept out farther by a large wave.
More stupid:
The Beach patrol rushes to the scene and runs over a sun bather, breaking his ribs and spine.
Minor stupid:
His sister claims it was a "tidal wave" that swept him out.
Epilogue stupid:
One of the commentors claims the police raced across the beach to the second injury scene at a dangerous pace, fishtailing on the way.

Pilot's poor choice of words

OK, you are a Jet Blue pilot and your girlfriend is a flight attendant.
You have a fight and you are desperate to make up, so you send an e-mail stating that you will kill yourself if she won't get back together with you.
DON'T THREATEN TO KILL YOURSELF BY CRASHING THE PLANE!
Unless you want to be pulled off the plane and held by police.

Huge art heist in Paris

$600 million (estimated) in paintings were stolen from a Paris museum while the security system was down.
Seriously! You let the security system stay down for days and don't increase human security?
They don't deserve the insurance money for this stupidity.
I wonder if the thieves did the old cut-and-steal?
If someone cuts the canvas out each time a painting is stolen, how small can it get before it is worthless?

Take this one to the Supreme Court

I think it is time for the Supreme Court to pass judgement on stupidity.
We need a major court to say it is our fault when we hurt ourselves like this and we just need to accept blame and move along.
Another (alleged) dufus is suing because the water was too hot.
Zeynep Inanli claims that Starbucks sold tea that was hot enough to cause "great physical pain and mental anguish" because the beverage was served "unreasonably hot, in containers which were not safe".
Anyone who makes tea the right way understands that the water should be between 180 to 210 degrees (unless you are making a delicate green tea).
If that is too hot for you and you are too lame to handle an environmentally friendly container, it's your fault you got burned.
And anguish; really?
When I spill something hot on myself, my 'anguish' is actually guilt felt for being clumsy.