Really Stupid People
  - Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport
    hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.
  - A man in Johannesberg, 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.
  - 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.
  - The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons,
    setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.

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