Too Stupid for Words category archive

“Pedantic” has negative connotations for a reason.

Your security farces at work:

Guess what superhero-like weapons TSA agents confiscated from a passenger’s carry-on bag at Charlotte Douglas International Airport this week?

Three batarangs, those roughly bat-shaped throwing weapons used by Batman.

You’ve been served.

It’s not the beer; it’s the brotherhood.

In a terrible miscalculation, a Louisiana State University fraternity entrusted four underage members to transport its massive beer and booze cache from Baton Rouge to sunny Gulf Shores, Alabama, where the collegians this week are celebrating spring break.

They got pulled over for expired tags and their fortunes went downhill from there.

Follow the link for the inventory of their cargo. I’ve been to bars that keep less stock on hand.

(On second thought, it’s the beer.)

Shaun Mullen thinks he may have uncovered that rarest of the rare things, an actual case of voter fraud.

Afterthought:

This was likely nothing more than a mistake. Then, again, it could be part of a campaign to make his brother look like “the smart one.”

Someone once defined an “auto accident” as an event which causes passers-by to drive cautiously for the next 15 minutes.

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*Signal 30 was a similar strategy from an earlier time. I predict that this effort will be as successful as that one, that is, a complete and utter failure.

The lust of the media to make make up myths about kids’ getting high on weird stuff that no one is actually getting high on mystifies many.

Heh.

A Michigan man who thought he was having a stroke was hospitalized this week after eating several pot brownies that were baked by his teenage daughter, police report.

(snip)

The victim’s 17-year-old daughter told cops that she left the brownies out because she did not think anyone in her family would touch them (the girl was apparently unaware of the deep affinity middle-age men have to such unattended sweets).

Back in my younger days, I had one guiding principle: Don’t do something stupid and you won’t get caught.

Kids.

Headline of the day:

Jacksonville police officer who let woman drive patrol car to Hooters was suspended for 10 days

Evil is evil and stupid is stupid and ever the twain shall meet.

And then, for the cherry on top of the sundae, there’s tedcruz.com.

. . . because the next person ain’t.

Fraternal twits.

And some persons claim that there is no such thing as “rape culture.”

This man’s suit for damages didn’t have a prayer.

Anti-vax twits.

Via Kos.

New Age twit meets science. Science wins.

Once in a while, I toy with the notion of becoming a twit on Twitter, then Twitter convinces me to slowly back away.