smooth move, dumbass

A rolling thread for news stories about people getting caught doing very stupid things; there is no story too big or too small, so post/comment away.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/facebook.racial.threat/index.html

WAY TO GO, DUDE

not a "news story" as such, but facebook-related:

http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/09/note-friend-boss-fb-bitch-job/

That is the Best Thing

Ha ha ha!

too late for "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems"

donna rouge, that is fantastic

Note to self: Don’t ‘friend’ your boss on FB and then bitch about your job.

Nice one, Exlax!

These people. They think they're hot snot on a silver platter but they're really just cold boogers on a paper plate.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/16/dispatcher-ohio-pic/

oh bravo North Canton

back in my day they said "smooth move, ex lax"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXwlvfEyNph97sajR3bmVzrbGBEgD9A45IA80

Milwaukee mayor wounded after being hit with pipe

By DINESH RAMDE (AP) – 23 hours ago

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was hospitalized with head and hand injuries on Sunday after he tried to assist a woman crying for help and was attacked by a man with a metal pipe near the Wisconsin State Fair, police said.

hahaha that's kind of unfair

http://www.startribune.com/local/53366617.html

Reprieve for janitor in deep doo-doo

An arbitrator reinstated a custodian fired after leaving dog feces on a teacher's desk.

By SARAH LEMAGIE, Star Tribune

Trouble brewed quickly for New Prague school district custodian Jarrod Novotny on the spring morning when he phoned one of his bosses at 7:15 a.m. to warn that a teacher might be calling from Eagle View Elementary.

Novotny explained that he had picked up feces that he said a teacher's dog had left on the school lawn the day before, according to a recent ruling issued by a state arbitrator.

He put the dog feces in a vinyl glove and left it on her desk. Then, the ruling said, he quickly "realized there would likely be repercussions."

There were.

Nananananananananananananananana

Bat-Mayor!

(xp)

According to the arbitrator's ruling, past reports of Novotny's actions included giving an eighth-grade girl a flower

I sort of want to meet this guy so I can stop being confused

you know, on the one hand I don't really want 40-year-old janitors hitting on my hypothetical daughter, but on the other hand I don't think being nice to a student should be help up as a reason to fire someone

We shouldn't let this thread overshadow

gff's rolling thread for nutty mn headlines

This did not make the Houston Chronicle but it sure did make the Sunny River Daily... So this young girl (19 to be exact) applied for an apartment. She was a cute little pregnant girl so my heart went out to her... I process her app and she has really bad credit (I can work with that) and an eviction totaling $4,000.00. So I call her previous landlord and get the scoop supposedly she couldn't afford the apartment and the landlord evicted her after non payment of rent. So I call the girl and tell her no mam sorry can't lease to you... She calls back tells me that the reason she couldn't pay her rent was because she had to get the a/c fixed with her own money and the apartment complex told her that she could take it off the rent. So I call the apartment complex they said no way we don't work like that. I call the applicant back and say do you have a receipt (totally going out of my way for this girl). She says yes I do I'll bring it there. So she brings it the next day and I check it out after she leaves. I think to myself I could have totally made this up so I get the a/c people on the phone I apologize before I even ask BUT I ask them if I could fax over the receipt and if they could tell me if it was valid. They giggled and said yes sure. 3 minutes later my phone rings and it is the boss of the company wanting to know the applicants phone number and other information. YEP IT WAS FAKE!!!!!!!!! FREAKIN JERK I WASTED DAYS ON HER STUPID APPLICATION.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60Sxop5I38

as someone who recently did the same thing to a glass door I didn't realize was closed, I cannot judge

I mean, he got out

you did that?

no one does that

well I didn't stare at the door and then decide to give it a running shot, no. I guess that's a big difference. I just walked purposefully into a closed glass door and broke it.

oh you broke it! okay yeah I mostly meant you didn't take a run at it and lean into it as if you knew you were about to ram it w/ the top of your head I assumed

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was hospitalized with head and hand injuries on Sunday after he tried to assist a woman crying for help and was attacked by a man with a metal pipe near the Wisconsin State Fair, police said.

What? Mayor was at the fair w/o his security detail, saw a guy screaming at a grandma and a 1-year-old, grandma was screaming for help, mayor tries to calm guy down, takes out his phone to call 911 and for his trouble gets clubbed with a pipe and goes to the hospital with a broken hand. Basically mayor was much more awesome than I or probably you would be in this situation. NOT A DUMBASS.

I think the idea was more "smooth move, criminal, the guy you just clubbed on the head was THE MAYOR"

or anyway that was my assumption. not that the guy knew he was clubbing the mayor, but still, he probably felt a little dumb when he figured it out

was this mentioned http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25940523-401,00.html

MAN vying for the title of New Zealand's most incompetent criminal left his name and contact details with a shop before robbing it and fleeing.
The man - a regular customer of the music shop in the southern city of Christchurch - grabbed handfuls of banknotes from the till with four surveillance cameras trained on him, the shop's manager told The Press newspaper.

Manager Garry Knight said although the shop assistant was distracted with helping another customer, two other people in the store witnessed the theft on Friday.

"It's comical.''

Just minutes before the robbery, the man had approached the assistant, saying he wanted a copy of Pink Floyd's album The Wall held for him.

He wrote his name and contact details down for the assistant.

He also had other long-standing requests for albums at the shop, also accompanied by his name and contact details.

"It's comical.''

Ha wtf.

A friend of mine who used to run a club night at a venue in Collingwood - so he was completely well known to the staff! - one day apparently walked behind the bar, emptied the till, and headed for the front door.

He was probably pissed off at them and trying to make some crappy point about not being paid properly but wtf dude? He didnt get far, the owner stopped him, and then banned him from the premises.

Weird now I think about it cos he's been back since, but eh *shrug*.

not really "caught" but what an opening line:

http://news.aol.com/article/teenage-lottery-winner-callie-rogers/648281?icid=main|aim|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fteenage-lottery-winner-callie-rogers%2F648281

A young woman who won over $3 million in the lottery when she was just 16 says she blew it all on wild shopping sprees, breast implants and cocaine.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jgCsLxkgarvYwd9vVRErUPeMjLwAD9AEO4E80

Md. police say man tried to pay for gas with pot

(AP) – 23 hours ago

NEW MARKET, Md. — Frederick County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man after he allegedly offered store clerks in New Market marijuana to pay for gasoline. It happened Monday about 3 p.m. at the Classic Fuels Store on Old National Pike. Deputies said a 52-year-old man offered marijuana to pay for gasoline, and a clerk in the store called authorities.

The man and his motorcycle were searched, and deputies said they found suspected cocaine, Oxycodone pills and suspected marijuana.

The man was charged with possession of cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6155017/Trapped-girls-updated-Facebook-instead-of-calling-police.html

I think I'm more inclined to blame their parents there.

I don't think their parents taught them to turn to Facebook in dangerous times.

That's hilarious. Can't wait for the killer in the house movie where instead of calling the police the victim tweets.

I don't think their parents taught them to turn to Facebook in dangerous times.

If, when their parents got them their cell phones, they didn't tell them which number to call in case of emergency, then frankly...

haha Alex, plz let that happen in "Sorority Row"

If, when their parents got them their cell phones, they didn't tell them which number to call in case of emergency, then frankly...

I guess that's possible but it really doesn't seem very likely.

"If, when their parents got them their cell phones, they didn't tell them which number to call in case of emergency, then frankly..."

How do you not know this?

ok wait a minute, "trapped in a drainage well system"? probably not very good reception there

"If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000 [the Australian equivalent of 999], so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway."

this doesn't strike me as true at all. they probably weren't able to "access Facebook" but they could update via sms, which doesn't take as much of a signal vs voice or data. i wouldn't know how to txt to 911 (999, 000) either! wtf these girls saved their own lives via friends on the web and its oh no panic panic the stupid kids and their facial bookings mercy save us

(am i even right about fb status updates via sms? omg lol)

How do you not know this?

All of a sudden I feel like Bertrand Russell.

Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communications at the Queensland University of Technology, said Facebook and sites like it had become the first port of call for young people who wanted to get their message – no matter how serious – out into the public realm.

"For these kids, by the sounds of it, being on Facebook is just such a pervasive part of their lives that it seems the first line of response if they need to communicate a message to others.

"I guess for these people the natural way to send a message out to their friends and others is via Facebook, unfortunately in this case the message was that they were stuck in a stormwater drain."

nice guesswork there asshole, "by the sounds of it" feh

why did they not talk to the two girls instead of some media studies busybody

update via sms, which doesn't take as much of a signal vs voice or data

I know of at least one ILXor who got rescued from a stuck elevator b/c he could text even though there wasn't enough signal for him to phone. Don't think he updated FB until after he was out though.

haha Alex, plz let that happen in "Sorority Row"

oh sht i am being stabed now. help me!!!!
about 3 seconds ago from Tweet Deck

@kristyswanson omg their is a killa in the house. . . send help plz
about 1 minute ago from TweetDeck

what was that sound? @drewbarrymore was that you?
about 2 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Facebook is so boring (I mean that in a nice way). I mean, people's grandmothers and your high school teachers use it. Why jerks feel attracted to it and not Myspace is beyond me. Maybe all of the colors and sounds and flashing ads on Myspace are too confusing for some troublemakers.

goole that's a very good point!

guys they probably werent supposed to be down there and put that shit on facebook so their friends would get them without their parents knowing.

Bloody Cave Clanners.