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Stupid Things People Have Done
Have you ever done something stupid or known someone who has? Whatever reason we choose to excuse our silly slip ups, we will all make at least one blundering blooper in our lifetime. Unfortunately the people in the stories below put themselves in the predicament of either being or ending up in the public eye.
Have you ever done something stupid or known someone who has? My sister once brushed her teeth with Brylcreem and my dad….the Brylcreem owner once hair styling mousse for shaving cream. I sprayed pine scented air freshener under my arms thinking it was antiperspirant.
It wasn’t until my husband told me I smelled like the great outdoors that I realized what I had done. These are small examples of dumb things people have done and some might even say they happened for lack of a thought.
The dictionary’s description of “lack” is; something that is needed but is in short supply or missing or complete absence of a particular thing. The dictionary also says that “thought” is; the activity or process of thinking or the ability to think and reason so wouldn’t this mean lack of brains for the activity of thinking?
Whatever reason we choose to excuse our silly slip ups, we will all make at least one blundering blooper in our lifetime. I will prefer to make mine when no one else is around because I firmly believe what others don’t know won’t hurt me. Unfortunately the people in the stories below put themselves in the predicament of either being or ending up in the public eye.
- The lawyer of Henry Smith had to admit to the courts that his client was not a very smart person. Moments after Henry arrived home with a stolen stereo, the police were at his door to arrest him. He was easy to track… he had his name tattooed in large letters on his forehead.
- Marino Marerba was poaching when he saw a stag standing above him on a small cliff. It was a dead aim. Marino killed the buck and the buck killed Marino when it fell on top of him.
- A 9 year old boy in Manassas, Virginia found himself with a one day suspension from school when he told a friend that the Certs candy he was eating would make him jump higher. He was suspended under the school’s no drugs policy.
- A Santa Cruz county jail inmate set off the metal detector causing the deputies to search him. They couldn’t find a thing but the detector told them that a piece of metal was located in the man’s middle section. X-rays of his stomach showed an eleven and a half inch handcuff key which they assumed he swallowed to later use to escape. There were no flies on these deputies though. They settled in for a close and patient wait knowing the key would eventually show up.
- While reporting the theft of her car the women mentioned that her cell phone was still in the stolen vehicle. Police called the cell phone number telling the crook that they were answering an ad from the news paper to buy the car. Thinking it would be a good way to unload the stolen car and make a few dollars, the robber made arrangements for a meeting where he was arrested immediately.
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Two friends in Johannesburg, SA were practicing shooting beer cans when one friend was seriously wounded with a gun shot wound to the face. What did they expect when they were shooting the cans off one another’s heads!
- An Orange County man landed in court after being fined for driving in the carpool lane alone. He told the judge that he was not alone and should be able to count the four frozen bodies he was carrying in his mortuary van. The judge explained that frozen cadavers do not qualify as passengers.
- Poor John Bloor had hemorrhoids. Poor stupid John Bloor should learn to read labels. He thought he was using hemorrhoid cream when he glued his buttocks shut with a tube of glue.
- More than 600 people make the stupidity list in Italy and all for the same reason. After reading an advertisement touting vacationing on Mars for a mere $10,000 per person, more than 600 people booked their next get away on Mars. The ad offered Martian camel rides, beautiful oases’ and incredible Martian sunsets. Authorities believe the bogus travel agency running the ad got away with over $6,000,000.
To the best of my knowledge the above stories are true. If by chance someone finds one that is not, it will make this my first “blundering blooper” made in the public eye.
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I enjoy reading these stories. Some even make me laugh. Thank you.
POOR JOHN BLOOR!!!!!! That sounds like it would be a big pain in the butt. I have met people who do things like this. I can`t figure out if they are really that stupid or just figure that people need something to laugh at.
Hello we share a common surname and appear to like pumpkin carving! Ain’t th e web wonderful
The italian ad made me laugh and i thought all of them were a riot
Great article. Very funny.
Darlene
Thank you for a good laugh and the truth about your own stupidity…occassionaly. Yes we all have those skeletons in our closet and that makes us human I suspect.
Thanks again
Regards
Shaun
Good list. I suppose we all do stupid things, I got lost on the way to a job interview and had to get the interviewer to drive 10 minutes to pick me up and lead me there.
That is silly!
I loved your article.
I want to know if no. 7, Anne got the job. Sometimes we feel totally disadvantaged by starting out on the wrong foot, but it comes out well.
Funny stories…I could not stop giggling as I read this article. Your right we have all made stupid mistakes and I once shot a deer across a creek, but I was fined after I learned that the deer that I had shot was killed in a different state. What? I asked. A different state, I thought. Yes, the creek that I was hunting near flowed along a state’s line and I only owned a hunting license in one of the states and not the other. Something similar happened during a fishing trip a few years ago, because the lake was so large that it actually was in both Tennessee and Mississippi, but the game warrant did not fine us as much as he could have – this time.
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That’s some SERIOUSLY funny stuff. What idiot would shoot cans off a guy’s head?! Where did you find these out??
#10. Nelson Doyle, you have had a little unusual excitement yourself. Great stories and thank you for sharing them with us.
These stories were really funny. I really enjoyed reading them.
Great reading! It just shows how we’re not so different after all. I think we live our lives within a hair’s breadth of doing something idotic every day. As long as Darlene is not there to catch us, hopefullywe won’t end up on the web, our story there for world to see, with egg on our faces…
In my work I often find myself standing for an hour with a stranger and not much to talk about. I have found that asking ‘what is the stupidest thing you have ever done’ is a great ice breaker. I’ve heard a few dandies.
I think most of us have done many more stupid blunders than we will ever admit.I know I have.
Loved it. My own blunders would fill a book.
Loved it, Darlene! As to my own blunders…I’ll plead the 5th.lol.
I loved this article! It was hilarious. You did a great job on the facts you placed in it and kept to the subject all the way. If you write another on this subject, I would love to read it too. You just can’t find enough things to laugh about in this old world. Great job!
Those are pretty funny. There are so many criminal stories out there that I’ve heard that would also qualify in here.
Great article. Human Nature is definately one of the funniest and most interesting subjects on earth. Well written.
Very funny. Yes, we all do stupid things from time to time. I am guilty!
Best Wishes,
Josey
Hysterical and kinda sad. I suddenly feel much better about myself. Very well written hon. Enjoyed it tremendously.
Thank you everyone for your comments. Patricia, I never thought of it much but, you are right..humans can be very funny. They even have TV shows to share the laughs.
Josey, I am afraid I am also guilty of doing some pretty silly things.
TP Sage, thanks for stopping by. Yep! I found myself feeling a tad better about myself too while researching this one. Maybe that’s why it seems so funny when we hear about other people’s blunders…
Fun article.
I make blunders all the time, it’s been learning to forgive myself that’s sometimes the most difficult. My father once brushed his teeth with his hair product it may have been brylcream! He had bad eyesight and grabbed the wrong tube!
Thanks for the article, makes one feel better.
Excellent article! Really enjoyed it! I’ve done my fair share of stupid things like freezing the remote and a few others I doubt I’ll ever admit to. Thanks!
These are great…Swallowed a key>??? Thats pretty funny.
Thanks for sharing these
Kathy
Darlene,
Loved this article! In case you want to know, I’m the King of blunders! and for that reason my wife no longer likes to go out with me. Great article, Darlene.
Randy
I enjoyed reading the stupid things people have done. I believe there must be thousands of them happening all over the world. That’s what I call looking at the funny side of things! Thank you, Darlene.
It’s nice to know that there are people even more stupider than me makes me feel much better about that blunders I managed to pull off.
It’s nice to know that there are people even more stupider than me makes me feel much better about that blunders I managed to pull off.