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Top Morons Of 2006

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TOP 8 MORONS OF 2006

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP? AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.

2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, "Please come out and give yourself up."

3. WHAT WAS PLAN B??? An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun,kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

4. THE GETAWAY! A man walked into a Topeka, Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small,so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.

5. DID I SAY THAT??? Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the man shouted, "that's not what I said!" .

6. ARE WE COMMUNICATING??? A man spoke frantically into the phone:"My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart". "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked "No!" the man shouted, "This is herhusband!"

7. NOT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED! In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun.
Unfortunately,he failed to keep his hand in his pocket. (hellooooooo)!

8. THE GRAND FINALE!!! Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks, new to boating,were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22 foot boat, going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath.
He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard.

NOW REMEMBER...THIS IS TRUE.
Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer! [/QUOTE]

I've heard this too, but....

there was a Blonde involved. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
JamesWilson said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer!

I've heard this too, but....

there was a Blonde involved. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif [/QUOTE]

Don't know where this incident was supposed to have happened but a similar incident actually did happen at a lake about 20 miles from my place.
 
I saw an episode of Mythbusters where they proved this could have happened. What a bunch of goobers!!!
 
It sure sounds like an urban legend, but sometimes urban legends turn out to be true. Truth really can be stranger than fiction.

I saw something on the TV news in Germany a couple years ago that fits this description. A woman was getting her picture taken in an automated photo booth in the Bonn train station. She had her purse on a shoulder strap. A bagsnatcher saw it, thought that, since the woman was distracted, it was an easy mark. He tried to grab it; the woman held on, however, and in the struggle, the guy either went or was pulled into the photo booth. (I know, you could see this coming.) At that instant, the camera went off. The guy realized what had happened and took off running without the purse. A few minutes later, the police had arrived, and the woman presented them with a perfect profile photo of the thief!

The thief was caught a few hours later.
 
Not from 2006, but both our cars were broken into several years ago - my briefcase with digital camera (among other things) was taken. Three months later a gentleman knocked on our door and returned the briefcase with camera inside. After checking the camera we found a picture of a man with time/date stamp the night of the robbery. We emailed the picture to the state trooper who investigated the case and he called a hour later saying our thief had been arrested 2 months earlier.

A true moron.
 
Man,I don't believe it - I didn't make the list.
Maybe next year.

- Doug
 
A local doofus (we'll call him "Luke" because that's his name) was proudly showing off his new 22' open-fisherman by conspicuously parking it at the local downtown Shell station and slowly tanking her up before his maiden launch. Luke proudly waved at everyone that passed, knowing they were ogling his brand-new, expensive boat. Finally one of the locals approached Luke to check out the boat more closely and informed him that he had more money than brains. After 30 minutes of non-stop fueling, Luke had the gas nozzle stuck in the rod holder and not the fuel tank. How the automatic bilge never clicked on is anybodies' guess. G_d must look out for the Lukes in this world. What do you do with 113 gallons of gasoline in the bottom of an open-fisherman?
 
Hook a hose to the bilge pump and get some free gas!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
I guess he jumped on the gas a bit too much. More horsepower than sense as my Dad used to say.
 
AngliaGT said:
Man,I don't believe it - I didn't make the list.
Maybe next year.

- Doug

Yeah, my names not on it either, but will hope to get there
next year...

SteveL
 
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