Book One : Chapter Five
General
Stupidity
| Since 1991, the CIA has spent $100 million trying to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from office. |
Bonnie Booth, 38, used a .410-gauge shotgun in an attempt to remove a callus
from her foot.
Bonnie had tried to remove the callus earlier with a razor, but that didn't work. In fact it began to hurt, and she was worried that it might be getting infected. So, after a session of heavy drinking (apparently a gallon of vodka and two or three beers), she took to the problem with the smallest shotgun she could find. No charges were laid, and the extent of her injuries was not revealed. |
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Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie, age undisclosed, were bored one evening,
and so elected to take a drive. Still bored at around 2 a.m., they decided to
light a quarter-stick of dynamite and throw it out the window - just for laughs.
They failed to notice that the window was closed. Both were injured by the resultant blast inside their car, but at least the window was now open ... | |
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Golf is a serious game.
A Piper Aero plane with two people on board was forced to make an emergency landing on the first fairway of the Boca Raton Municipal Golf Course. There was plenty of room, and the plane should have landed succesfully, without injury or incident. However, four golfers on the fairway were so intent on their game that they didn't notice the plane approaching. To avoid the golfers, the pilot was forced to veer to one side, and the plane subsequently struck a palm tree, causing severe damage. | |
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It seems Christmas is a bad time of the year for the high-tech security industry.
A 14 million pound ($30mill) security system at Manchester Airport is designed to detect organic compounds in passenger's luggage - things like Semtex, a powerful explosive. However, security officers were forced to examine hundreds of departing passengers' bags when the high-tech system mistook Christmas puddings for explosive. | |
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