AY CARAMBA DEPT.
Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.

That's the truth. These are true stories that happen in real life to real people like us! I don't want to offend anybody, this is a look at many of the IDIOTA things we do sometimes. I'm all against idiocy. A stupid person is more dangerous than a armed bandit. Yet we see them in all areas of our lives. Some are pretty much  undetectable that they could pass for normal... until you give them something complicated to do.  Be, therefore, advised... they are closer than you think.

Some Of My Friends Are Idiots
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever." —Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss Universe contest

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. —Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. —Mariah Carey, singer

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." —Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

The police are not here to create disorder. They're here to preserve disorder." —Former Chicago mayor Daley during the infamous 1968 Democratic Party convention

China is a big country, inhabited by many CHINESE. —Former French President Charles de Gaulle

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. —David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.

The Internet is a great way to get on the Web. —Bob Dole

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. —Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas. —Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. —Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana... The researchers also discovred other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are. —Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22

They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off. —Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the Air Force $1,000 for an ordinary pair of pliers

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago. —Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. —Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. —Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. —Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. —Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign

That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it. —A congressional candidate in Texas in regards to his opponent.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. —General William Westmoreland, during the war in Viet Nam

The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. —Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on "Larry King Live
¡Ay Caramba

Why "Sports Scholarship" is an oxymoron.
"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle" - Bill Peterson, a Florida State footballl coach
"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes." - Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker
"You guys line up alphabetically by height" - Bill Peterson, a Florida State footballl coach
"I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school." -Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was iineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements
"I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class" - George Raveling, Washington State basketball coach
"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Prince-ton." -Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King
I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." -Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visiited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
"The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's why nobody goes to see the game anymore." -Yogi Berra
"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes." -Senior basketball player at the Universsity of Pittsburgh
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." -Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann

Pupils Removed from White House after praying for Bush
WASHINGTON DC - A group of schoolchildren have been kicked out of the White House for praying for the President. Eleven children, two parent escorts and a teacher were abruptly escorted out for holding hands and praying for George Bush. A secret service agent told them to 'Take it outside.' The party, from Merrimon Christian School, travelled 280 miles from Asheville, North Carolina for the tour. Their Congressmen are demanding explanations from White House security staff. Teacher Pat Aldrich says they decided to join hands in a circle to pray while on a tour of the 'People's House.' "Larry, the group leader, started with his prayer first and each person was going to say a brief prayer," Ms Aldrich said.

Parent Mrs Renee Gordy began the second prayer - but was halted by a secret service agent. "He was pounding on her shoulder while I was praying, yelling 'Ma'am, Maam, Maam'", she said. The official then began ordering the group to "take it outside" and that they couldn't stay in the room. "I make the rules here, and you obey them!" he is alleged to have told them. Senator John Edwards, of North Carolina said his office is "aggressively pursuing answers" as to what happened. A security spokesman said the agent was merely keeping the visitors moving on the tour. "We get over 1 million visitors annually," he said.

Man Blows Himself Up with Bomb Meant for His Wife
MOSCOW - A Russian man blew himself up with a home-made bomb Friday in a bungled attempt to kill his wife and her lover in the far eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk, Itar-Tass news agency reported.

Tass quoted a police spokesman in the city as saying the bomb exploded when the man was trying to attach it to the door of the apartment where he believed the lovers were staying. The man visited the apartment's owner Thursday, looking for his wife. He left with a threat that he would "deal" with his wife and her friend, Tass said. It was not reported whether or not the man survived the blast, or if the couple laughed all the way to the cemetery or hospital. But that goes to show you... "VENGEANCE is MINE, saith the Lord!

More True Stories
A medical student doing a rotation in was toxicology at the poison control center. A woman, Maria Montes, called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. The medical student quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down, and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. The student told the mother that she better bring her daughter in to the Emergency room right away.

Seems that a year ago, some Boeing employees on the field decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. When they took it for a float on the river, they were quite surprised by a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator that is automatically activated when the raft is inflated. They are no longer employed there.

A motorist, Daniel Torres, 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 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained another picture of handcuffs.

Carmen Ruiz was reporting her car as stolen, and mentioned that there was a car phone in it. The policeman taking the report called the phone and told the guy that answered that he had read the ad in the newspaper and wanted to buy the car. They arranged to meet, and the thief was arrested.

Drug possession defendant Cristóbal Paniagua, 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 Cristóbal's jacket could have been a gun. "Nonsense," said Cristóbal, 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.

Delfín Miraflores was on trial in Miami for the armed robbery of a convenience store in a district court when he fired his lawyer. Assistant District Attorney Larry Gómez said Miraflores, 47, was doing a fair job of defending himself until the store manager testified that Miraflores was the robber. Miraflores jumped up, accused the woman of lying and then said, "I should have blown your @#$%&* head off... ...er, (he paused) ...If I'd been the one that was there." The jury took 20 minutes to convict Delfín and recommended a 30 year sentence.

A pair of New York City robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, it startled the first bandit and he shot his accomplice.

¡Ay Caramba!

Only In America
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

We yell for the Government to balance the budget, then take the last dime we have to make the down payment on a car that will take 5 years to pay off.

We demand speed laws that will stop fast driving, then won't buy a car if it can't go over 100 miles an hour.

We know the line-up of every baseball team in the American and National Leagues but mumble through half the words in the "Star Spangled Banner".

We'll spend half a day looking for vitamin pills to make us live longer, then drive 90 miles an hour on slick pavement to make up for lost time.

We tie up our dog while letting our children run wild.

We whip an enemy in battle, then give them the shirt off our backs.

We will work hard on a farm so we can move into town where we can make more money so we can move back to the farm.

We get upset we're spending over a billion dollars for education, but spend three billion dollars a year for cigarettes.

In the office we talk about baseball, shopping or fishing, but when we are out at the game, the mall or on the lake, we talk about business.

We're supposed to be the most civilized nation on earth, but we still can't deliver payrolls without an armored car.

We have more experts on marriage than any other country in the world and still have more divorces.

We're the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world and more diets to keep us from eating it.

Gravity Kills
A 22-year-old Reston man was found dead yesterday after he tried to use 'occy' straps (the stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end) to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle, police said. Fairfax County police said Eric A.Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped a bunch of these straps together, wrapped an end around one foot, anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped... and hit the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. "The length of the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between the trestle and the ground," Carmichael said. Police say the apparent cause of death was "major trauma." An autopsy is scheduled for later in the week.
¡Ay Caramba!

More Weirdness
GIMME A LIGHT
In a west Texas town, employees in a medium-sized warehouse noticed the smell of gas. Sensibly, management evacuated the building, extinguishing all potential sources of ignition-lights, power, etc. After the building had been evacuated, two technicians from the gas company were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they had difficulty navigating in the dark. To their frustration, none of the lights worked. Witnesses later described the vision of one of the technicians reaching into his pocket and retrieving an object that resembled a lighter. Upon operation of the lighter-like object, the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces of it up to three miles away. Nothing was found of the technicians, but the lighter was virtually untouched by the explosion. The technician who was suspected of causing the explosion had never been thought of as "bright" by his peers

CATCH
A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. Big deal you may say, but there's a twist here that makes him a candidate. It seems he and a friend were playing catch with a rattlesnake. You can guess what happened from here. The friend (a future Darwin Awards candidate) was hospitalized.

THEY SAY THOSE THINGS WILL KILL YOU
Not much was given to me on this unlucky fellow, but he qualifies nonetheless. You see, there was a gentleman from Korea who was killed by his cell phone...more or less. He was doing the usual "walking and talking" when he walked into a tree and managed to somehow break his neck. Keep that in mind the next time you decide to drive and dial at the same time.

Did you know that:
142857 is a cyclic number, the composite individual numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6?
Check it out:
142857 x 2= 285714
3= 428571
4= 571428
5= 714285
6= 857142

LAUNCHED ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Three young men in Oklahoma were looking forward to enjoying the upcoming Fourth of July holiday and apparently wanted to test fire some fireworks. The only problem was that their launch pad and seating arrangements were atop a several hundred thousand gallon fuel distillation storage tank. Some fumes were ignited, producing a fireball seen for miles. They were launched several hundred feet into the air and were found dead 250 yards from their respective seats.

DON'T ASK GOD TO PROVE HIMSELF, HE JUST MIGHT
A lawyer and two buddies were fishing on Caddo Lake in Texas when a lightning storm hit the lake. Most of the other boats immediately headed for the shore, but not our friend the lawyer. On the rear of his aluminum bass boat with his buddies, this individual stood up, spread his arms wide (crucifixion style) and shouted: "HERE I AM LORD, LET ME HAVE IT!" Needless to say, God delivered. The other two passengers on the boat survived the lightning strike with minor burns.

True Dumb Crooks
A couple of midnight bandits tried to steal money from what they thought was a local bank's night depository. They lit a stick of dynamite, dropped it into the deposit slot and stepped back a few feet. Unfortunately for them, they had confused the bank's night depository with the drop vault of a nearby car wash. The dynamite exploded, blowing the front off the vault. The paper money was blown to shreds and the coins were propelled out like shot out of a shotgun, severely wounding the would-be bank robbers.

A young man asked his mother to drive him to the bank without telling her he planned to rob it. He told her to wait while he went inside to conduct his business. A few minutes later junior came running out with the cash, only to find that mom had parked the car and gone inside a nearby grocery store to do some shopping.

A Cleveland drug dealer decided to impress his friends by hiring a limousine for a big night on the town. His first stop was at a posh suburban residence to sell some cocaine to a rather influential individual. Hoping to earn a little extra profit by blackmailing his wealthy customer, the crook handed a camcorder to the limo driver and asked him to record the event for posterity. The driver, a moonlighting member of the Cleveland Police Department, was happy to comply.

A New York man robbed a bank and used two plastic garbage bags to haul the loot. The bags were so heavy he had to drag them. Before he got out of the bank, one of the bags started to rip, spilling money all over the floor. As he stopped to gather it up, the police arrived and offered their assistance.

A couple of California geniuses pulled into a bank's drive-up lane, put their stick-up note in the pneumatic tube, pressed the button to send it in, then patiently waited in their car for the loot to arrive. The police arrived a few minutes later and arrested the pair.

Last year a pair of crooks broke into our local lumber company. One of the crooks attempted to steal a table saw that was still packed in the shipping box and must have weighed over 60 pounds. He climbed up in the loft where it was stored, grabbed hold of it and then lifted it over a wooden rail and then down to his buddy. The problem? He forgot to let go of the box and it was rather heavy. He plunged over the rail, landing on his head and died shortly thereafter. His partner got sent up for burglary.

Shan Socha, man accused of a bank robbery in Marietta, Ohio, and other charges was arrested after he called 911 to see if there were any warrants out for his arrest. Mr Socha, 35, was arrested for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and being a fugitive from justice for the bank robbery. Socha's wife, Mona, 43, was also arrested when police showed up shortly after the phone call. Socha also faces warrants on 15 bad checks and a state charge of violating parole in Cabell County. The couple was being held in the Cabell County jail awaiting a federal court hearing set for Monday.

Charles Demery, 32, walked into the Hickory Smoke Bar-B-Que restaurant in Shreveport, Louisiana and ordered a rib plate to go. He paid for his meal and, seeing all the cash in the register, decided to rob the place. He held his folded sunglasses in his right hand and covered them with a bandana so the clerk would think he had a gun. It worked. The frightened clerk handed over the cash and Demery ran from the store. Unfortunately for him, he'd left his wallet on the counter. The wallet contained several pieces of identification, including a prison ID card. Officers found him hiding in the attic of a nearby residence. He refused to come down voluntarily. Gravity and a weak ceiling, however, resulted in a crash-landing on the kitchen floor. Demery was arrested for first-degree robbery.

A man walked into a local police station, dropped a bag of cocaine on the counter, informed the desk sergeant that it was substandard cut, and asked that the person who sold it to him be arrested immediately.

Amy Brasher was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, after a mechanic reported to police that 18 packages of marijuana were packed in the engine compartment of the car, which she had brought to the mechanic for an oil change. According to police, Brasher later said that she didn't realize that the mechanic would have to raise the hood to change the oil.

Drug-possession defendant Christopher Johns, 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 much he required a five-minute recess to compose himself.

The attorney for Howard "Wing Ding" Jones, accused of selling drugs, sought to lower his client's bail from $150,000, insisting in a Norristown, Pennsylvania, courtroom that Jones was not a risk to flee. At that very moment, Jones bolted from the courtroom and sprinted out the front door. Police captured him 50 minutes later and returned him to the courtroom, where his bail was raised to $500,000.

New Jersey Trooper Glenn Lubertazzi stopped a car for speeding and was asking the three occupants routine questions when one of them, Tina Stigger, 30, asked if she could have a cigarette from a pack in the car's glove compartment. While handing the pack to the woman, he noticed it contained a marijuana joint. Authorities reported that a search of the vehicle turned up $32,000 in suspected drug-buy money, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the bumper.

A man walked up to a cashier at a grocery store and demanded all the money in the register. When the cashier handed him the loot, he fled--leaving his wallet on the counter.

A man went into a drug store, pulled a gun, announced a robbery, and pulled a Hefty-bag facemask over his head -- and realized that he'd forgotten to cut eyeholes in the mask.

A man convicted of robbery worked out a deal to pay $9600 in damages rather than serve a prison sentence. For payment, he provided the court a check -- a *forged* check. He got 10 years.

A man successfully broke into a bank's basement through a street-level window, cutting himself up pretty badly in the process. He then realized that (1) he could not get to the money from where he was, (2) he could not climb back out the window through which he had entered, and (3) he was bleeding pretty badly. So he located a phone and dialed "911" for help...

Two men in a pickup truck went to a new home site to steal a refrigerator. Banging up walls, floors, etc., they snatched a refrigerator from one of the houses, and loaded it onto the pickup. The truck promptly got stuck in the mud, so these brain surgeons decided that the refrigerator was too heavy. Banging up *more* walls, floors, etc., they put the refrigerator BACK into the house and returned to the pickup truck only to realize that they locked the keys in the truck--so they abandoned it.

A policeman picks up a man running down the street with a woman's purse (since he fits the description of a purse snatcher reported just seconds earlier). The policeman tells the criminal he will take him to the lady for a positive identification, meaning he wants the lady to positively ID the criminal. When the purse snatcher steps out of the squad car, he says, "Yes, Sir, that's the woman I robbed alright!"

The Belgium news agency Belga reported in November that a man suspected of robbing a jewelry store in Liege said he couldn't have done it because he was busy breaking into a school at the same time. Police then arrested him for breaking into the school.

R.C. Gaitlin, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car computer equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officers asked him for a piece of identification. Gaitlin gave them his driver's license, they entered it into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlin because information on the screen showed that Gaitlin was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.

A bicyclist who confronted three well-dressed men walking to their hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, pointed what looked like a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun at them and demanded money. The three men turned out to be off-duty federal agents, who drew their own weapons and fired more than 20 shots, hitting the would-be robber, as well as three cars, a truck, two homes and an office building. The injured suspect's weapon turned out to be a pellet gun.

Things You Have to Believe to Be a Idiot (No Political Potential)
1. Drug addiction is a disease that should be treated with compassion and understanding...unless the addict is a Conservative talk show host.

2. The United States should be subservient to the United Nations. Our highest authority is not God and the U.S. Constitution, but a collective of tinpot dictators (and their appeasers) and the U.N. charter.

3. Government should relax drug laws regardless of the potential for abuse, but should pass new and unConstitutional anti-gun laws because of the potential for abuse.

4. Calls for increased security after a terrorist attack are "political opportunism," but calls for more gun control after a criminal's spree killing is "a logical solution."

5. "It Takes a Village" means everything you want it to mean...except creeping socialist government involvement in the nuclear family.

6. Disarming innocent, law-abiding citizens helps protect them from evil, lawless terrorists and other thugs.

7. Slowly killing an unborn innocent by tearing it apart limb from limb is good. Slowly killing an innocent disabled woman by starving her to death is good. Quickly killing terrorists, convicted murderers and rapists is BAD.

8. Every religion should be respected and promoted in public schools the name of diversity, so long as that religion isn't Christianity.

9. The best way to support our troops is to criticize their every move. This will let them know they're thought of often.

10. Sexual harassment, groping and drug use are degenerate if you're the governor of California, but it's okay if you're the President of the United States.

11. Sex education should be required so that teens can make informed choices about sex, but gun education should be banned because it will turn those same teens into maniacal mass-murderers.

12. Minorities are blameless for the hatred of the racist; women are blameless for the hatred of the rapist; but America is entirely at fault for the hatred of Islamofascists.

13. Poverty is the cause of all terrorism...which is why the leaders of al Qaeda are typically U.S.-educated and were raised in wealth and luxury.

14. The Patriot Act is a horrific compromise of Constitutional rights, but anti-Second Amendment laws and Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Order 9066 must be regarded "reasonable precautions."

15. We should unquestioningly honor the wishes of our age-old allies, even when said allies no longer act like our allies and have vested economic interests in propping up our enemies.

16. Socialized medicine is the ideal. Nevermind all those people who spend every dime they have to get to the United States so they can get quality medical care...that their nation's socialized medical community can't provide.

17. Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Natalie Maines are perfectly qualified to criticize our leadership, but Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, and Dennis Miller are just ignorant political hacks.

18. John Lott's research on how gun ownership reduces crime is junk science, but Michael Bellesiles is still an authority on why gun control is good (even though he was forced to resign from Emory due to research misconduct over his book "Arming America").

19. Bush's toppling the Saddam regime was a "diversion," but Clinton's lobbing a couple of cruise missiles at Iraq in the thick of the Lewinsky sex scandal was "sending a message."

20. A president who lies under oath is okay, but a president who references sixteen words from an allies' intelligence report should be dragged through the streets naked.

21. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning Second Amendment rights and shopping the courts for judges sympathetic to causes that wouldn't pass in any legislature.

22. "The People" in the First Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Fourth Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Ninth Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Tenth Amendment means The People; but "the People" in the Second Amendment (ratified in 1791) means the National Guard (created by an Act of Congress in 1903).

23. You support a woman's "right to choose" to kill her unborn child, but don't believe that same woman is competent enough to homeschool the children she bears.

24. Proven draft-dodging is irrelevant, but baseless claims of AWOL status is crucial to national security.

25. Threatening to boycott Dr. Laura's and Rush Limbaugh's advertisers is exercising Freedom of Speech, but threatening to boycott CBS's "The Reagans" and Liberal actors over their asinine anti-American remarks is censorship and McCarthyist blacklisting.

 

 

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