What's the dumbest thing you've ever seen someone do?

[JuniperLea]

I just posted this in another thread, and I thought, gee... yoos guys have prolly seen it all!

This was the talk of the office for months! After a postage rate increase, an administrative assistant at our company taped pennies to envelopes to make up for the increase. I kid you not!

:rofl:

Ok, what dumbass thing have you seen someone do?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

1. I saw a man

drive his car into a raging flooded road. We, the crowd who stood staring at the raging flood, told him; "Hey...don't do that..You'll drown."

We were right.

It was awful.

But the thing that stands out about this was how obviously stupid it was. The water was at least 7 or 8 feet deep... Did he think the thing he was drivin' had magical powers? It was tragic but it was the dumbest thing I've ever seen...

[Drunken Irishman]

26. So no one tried to save him?

Or did he drown?

[Indi Guy]

27. Would you have tried to save him if you knew where in the current to find his car?

[Deep13]

42. Nope. No reason to add to the body count.

Sometimes one has to let Darwinism takes its natural course.

[Drunken Irishman]

45. If I had scuba gear.

[Richard Steele]

2. ...

[Throd]

3. I watched my neighbor throw a claw hammer.

He was hammering some wood together and hit his thumb. He then got all mad and hurled the hammer at his project whilst screaming obsceneties. The hammer richoceted off the wood a hit him directly in the mouth, knocking out quite a few teeth.

Don't do this.

[Highway61]

40. whoa...

What an idiot....guy needs some classes in anger management

[JeffR]

4. post an unpopular opinion in GD n/t

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. And that would be almost

any opinion? That's my experience.

[JeffR]

11. Pretty much, I guess

:(

[KitchenWitch]

7. Can I nominate this for a DUzy?

:D

[JeffR]

10. If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.

But thanks!

[KitchenWitch]

12. Had to try!

:D

[JeffR]

14. Love ya for it

:pals:

[KitchenWitch]

6. Pour gasoline on a campfire

[NanceGreggs]

8. The DUMBEST thing I've ever seen ...

... was done en masse, and I only saw it on the news.

During the whole Freedom Fries we-hate-the-French thing, there were people who were opening bottles of French wine and dumping it down the street sewers.

Yuppers, AFTER you've already paid for the wine, you're REALLY hurting the country that you bought it from by throwing it away!!!

That'll learn those French vintners, good and proper!

[jeff30997]

13. I always wondered...

If those idiots knew that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France and therefore they should have sent it back where it came from.

[NanceGreggs]

16. There were actually people who suggested just that ...

... at the time.

I gave those people a little credit - not for the idea, but for the fact that they actually KNEW the origins of the statue. That was a lot more book learnin' than I would have expected from that crowd.

(BIG Statue of Liberty fan here - Bartholdi was a genius. Did you know that Eiffel (of Eiffel Tower fame) designed her infra-structure? Ironically, NYC didn't want to pay for the 'idiocy' of rebuilding the statue in the harbour after she was shipped in pieces - just as Parisians wanted the Eiffel Tower torn down after it's debut, because they thought it was an eyesore in the midst of their beautiful city. Both structures went on to be symbols of their respective cities. The word 'gadget' originated with metal key-ring charms of the Statue of Liberty, stamped with the name of the company that supplied materials for the making of the Statue, Gadget Brothers, mispronounced by New Yorkers as gad-jet.)

Uh, oh! Don't get me started ...

[ceile]

58. That happened here, too.

At a Rudy's BBQ. I still refuse to eat there. morans.

[Ewellian]

9. While remodeling a bathroom

my 'ex' cut a copper water line without first turning off the main water valve. (not the cause of the divorce)

[Arugula Latte]

15. Vote Republican.

I remember when I lived in San Francisco at my precinct they had a Dem. line and a Repuke line. The Dem. line stretched out the door. There were two people in the R line, and, boy howdy, they were getting glares. :D

[jeff30997]

18. If Diebold made the voting machine...

I bet that the Repuke candidate won anyway.:)

[Arugula Latte]

19. Well, this was in the very early 90s, so I don't think so.

Today, on the other hand, it could be a different story.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. The dumbest thing I've seen is sadly commonplace...

What kind of dumbfuck chucks their cigarette butts out their car window when the area has had virtually NO rain for 3 months?

[jeff30997]

20. Your post raises a serious question:

How much wood could a dumbfuck chuck if a dumbfuck would chuck wood ?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Depends on whether it's burning or not.

:D

[Deep13]

43. Hey, the world is their ashtray.

Even apart from the fire hazard and the stupidity of smoking, how is that not litter?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

46. Yesterday I saw a guy flick his butt out of his car with a police car right next to him...

The cop either didn't see or didn't care. Our county cops are a disgrace...I once saw one of them dump her McDonalds trash in the middle of the parking lot. :grr:

[judaspriestess]

22. well I watched my fiancee take a left turn while looking to the right

and driving right into a metal utility pole on a center median. Knocked the pole right out of the ground. I was following him home. It was sooooo stupid of him. I was so pissed but I also couldn't stop laughing. He is a bad driver..... and he totaled his truck.

He's wrecked a couple of times since then. And no he was not driving drunk.

[pokerfan]

23. Toss a box of .22 cartridges into a campfire

Alcohol may have been involved.

[Richard Steele]

30. Oh, that reminds me of a good one:

Lighting an M-80, dropping it into an empty Coke bottle....
and then holding the bottle up to watch the fuse burn.

[Broken_Hero]

24. hmmmm

I heard...uh, from a buddy of mine(this wasn't me)...uh, he was sitting in a car, and there was this fly see....and he was bugging me...I mean, my friend....and I, I mean...my bud tried swatting the fly but kept missing...the fly, then landed on my...I mean, my buds groin area...and my bud took his time, and concentrated hard, and slapped at the fly with break neck speed....and hit himself square...

but, I did...I mean, my bud did kill the fly....thank heavens for ice packs....

:hide:

[Indi Guy]

25. The first thing that comes to mind is a dumb thing I did myself...

I went to a bait shop to by lures (I love to fish, I don't use live bait, I don't use barbed hooks and I catch & release).

I asked the bait guy what the tides were doing. He said, "Well the tide's going out right now."

I actually asked him, "And after that it will come in?" You should have seen the blank yet unbelieving look on his face.

[LeftCoast]

31. Wow. Kudos for admitting that one!

:rofl:

[Kutjara]

32. Hey, that's not so dumb.

Their is the possibility (however slim) that the Moon may jump out of its orbit and hurtle off into space. If that had happened soon after you'd had the conversation, the shopkeeper would have been the one with egg on his face.

Sadly for you, it didn't.

[Lasher]

28. A buddy of mine was shadow boxing and lost.

A bunch of us guys were drinking beer at a camp. We were kidding Don about how this guy was going to beat him up. Don was saying, "No way, just look at these moves." While he was amazing us with his lightning speed he hit his head on a lantern we had hanging from the ceiling of our cabin. He knocked himself cold. KOed by the shadow.

I remember laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. Don woke up after a few minutes and was just fine.

This really happened.

[krispos42]

29. My former brother-in-law shot the pickup truck we were in

We were out deer hunting in his uncle's old F-150. It was getting dark, and we were crusing slowly down a farm road when I noticed a doe off to the left, about 40 yards away. I pulled over and told him to get out quietly and shoot the deer.

Well, he got out, but he didn't see the deer. He was looking way downrange, and didn't see the doe standing motionless only a few dozen yards away. He came back and said he couldn't see it. I quietly but emphatically told him where it was, and to shoot it quick because it was minutes away from darkness.

He got out again, but still couldn't see the deer. So after another emphatic conversation, I tried to get out of the truck to point it out to him while he made ready with his rifle.

The deer saw me getting out, and bolted. My ex-BIL (age 15) finally sees the deer, sights through the scope, and take a shot. And misses.

He misses because he just shot the pickup truck's bed.

You see, he was on the right side of the truck. The rifle was resting on the right side of the pickup's bed, pointing left. He was sighting through the scope, which is a couple of inches above the barrel of the rifle. Looking through the scope, the deer wsa just above the left edge of pickup bed. However, looking through the barrel, the deer was just below the left edge of the pickup bed.

He blew a neat .277" hole about three-quarters of an inch below the inside edge of the pickup bed. The bullet penetrated three layers of sheet steel, ripping a sizable hole on the far side of the bed.

I was laughing my ass off. Couldn't help it! "You just shot you uncle's truck! Oh my God you're dead!" He looked less than amused. Can't imagine why...




Some time with a hammer, some Bondo, some sanding, some paint, and it was patched up. The truck was beat-up anyway, and I don't think anybody was too mad at him.

:-)

[DrDan]

33. while in the Air Force, I saw a guy playing with a stapler

put it on a window sill and then lean on it . . . with a finger in the stapling area . . .

Sent that staple right in to the finger . . .

I felt bad for him . . . but could not help but laugh

[Kutjara]

34. A friend of mine, who's an honors graduate from a very prestigious college...

...once asked me, in all seriousness, "is the Moon the Sun at night?" Unfortunately, I was taking a drink of beer at the moment the question was asked, and so immediately sprayed the entire area from my nose.

Feckin' liberal arts majors.

[MrScorpio]

35. Some drunken marine dry surf on top of a Filipino Jeepney

Here's a jeepney, if you've never seen one



I might have a picture of the deed someplace

[crim son]

36. Dear STBE went to ignite the gas pilot on our stove downstairs.

He turned on the gas, waited for, like, a minute, and then struck up a match. There was a small explosion and gone were his eyebrows and most of the hair on his right arm. Jeebus.

[SPKrazy]

37. Awww

poor STBE

I had a friend who did that with a gas oven.

That didn't kill him, but he did later die after falling off a cliff.

:hi:

[crim son]

39. Not really.

He fell off a cliff?

Hi, pawpicker! :hi:

[SPKrazy]

56. Yes

he fell off a cliff

or he was pushed

at any rate he died

:hi: crimmie!

[zabet]

38. Years ago....

I lived in Connecticut. I was visiting my sister and
her husband, who is from Trinidad. Snow an ice on the
ground and approximately 19 degrees outside, BIL decides
he wants to grill steaks on the patio (it's the American
way ya know :eyes:), well with the wind and the continued
snowfall, he could not get the charcoal to light. BIL takes
not 1 but 2!!! full cans of charcoal lighter fluid and soaks
the charcoal, attempts several 'light the match and toss it
at the grill' moves - the wind defeated this every time.
BIL then leans over the grill, cups his hands around the
matchbox and.........

hooo boy what a fireball!!!!
BIL lost eyebrows, mustache, eye lashes, nosehair, etc. He looked
like he was sun burned!

He was fine after a trip to the ER.

[Highway61]

41. Go on any major highway in New Jersey

and the "idiot of the week award" could go to just about 90% of any of the drivers. I read this in the local paper however, and did not see it, but this guy who obviously was all liquored up at 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning....stopped his car right smack into the middle of a very busy intersection(yes, even at 3 a.m.) on a major highway in Jersey. He opened the car door and put the keys on the ground and then TOOK A NAP!!!....(wanted to "sleep it off") I kid you not...what a moreon. Yes, he was arrested.

[MrCoffee]

44. we had a GIANT (8' diameter) inflatable ball as kids that rolled around the backyard

and we used to have great fun jumping on it and climbing while someone else rolled the ball. if you timed it right, you'd end up balanced on top of it. so one day, i was up on the ball, and i convinced my two buddies to run into it from opposite directions, thinking that i would bounce around. well, they got to running and hit the ball dead on. i shot about 15 feet straight up, and remember thinking as i watched the ball roll away, "this is gonna hurt"...and it did.

[triguy46]

47. I had finished nailing up some new siding on my house.

As I was cleaning up I found one nail in the grass, picked it up and thought, "one more will do the trick." Drove it directly through a water supply line to a toilet. After the first hammer strike water was everywhere, I knew exactly what i had done. Shit. I still kick myself for that. Vanity, thy name is DIY.

[cuke]

48. Heroin

[eppur_se_muova]

49. When I lived in Maine, someone in the area stole a snowmobile. Cop caught him by...

are you ready for this ...

following the snowmobile tracks. Went directly from the scene of the crime to the guy's garage.

[mainegreen]

50. Neighbor on one side of our house stole a canoe of the neighbor on the other side.

They stored the stolen canoe in the back yard behind their fence. This was also here in Maine.
Those neighbors were not too bright.

[ironflange]

51. I was sitting in my car outside a shop waiting for it to open.

The place next door was also closed. A man strolled up and pulled on the door of this place, sorry, wouldn't budge. He peered inside, into the darkness, then grabbed the handle and pulled again. Harder this time. Nope, still won't open. He finally gave up and left. All this was in spite of the operating hours sign saying they opened at 10:00 (it was 9:30), except for being closed Mondays (it was a Monday), and especially the big one that said, "CLOSED."

Brought in from another thread.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

52. Watched a Boy Scout fishing

and when he puled his line back to re-cast it came too far back and hooked him in the ear. It was, I hate to say, pretty funny stuff as he tried to get it out and not panic......... :)

[JuniperLea]

55. My daughter caught her own nose just like that

I could see the hook was barely holding on by the slightest little bit... so I grabbed my camera. That was about 15 years ago, and I still haven't lived that down...

YOU GRABBED YOUR CAMERA INSTEAD OF HELPING ME!!!!

[mikeytherat]

53. Driver's Ed - Driver lost control in a corner and simply covered her eyes.

I was in the back seat freaking out. We ended up in a ditch after removing a big chunk of chainlink fencing.

mikey_the_rat

[Xithras]

54. Watched my neighbor almost shoot his wife.

I actually discussed this her on DU when it happened.

Back when everyone was panicking over Avian Flu, my neighbor penned all of his chickens in an enclosed cage and started shooting at all the wild birds that tried to help themselves to his chicken feed. One bird tried to fly around him, and he tracked it in a circle, firing with no thought as to what was behind the bird. The bullet missed the flighty fowl, punched in through his kitchen window, missed his wifes head by inches, and exited the house through the opposite wall.

Nope, he wasn't using a shotgun. Dumbass was shooting pigeons with a .30-06.

[TrogL]

57. People driving on snow and ice

Especially first cold precip day of winter. Interia rocks!!