stories of human stupidity

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COVINGTON, Georgia (AP) -- A Georgia woman who tried to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart was arrested, and police later found two more of the bills in her purse.

The U.S. Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but similar-looking currency is sold in some souvenir shops. The fake bill featured a picture of the Statue of Liberty, police said.

"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," said Stacey Cotton, police chief in Covington, about 30 miles southeast of Atlanta. "People do crazy things all the time."

A store clerk immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.

Pike then tried to use two gift cards worth only $2.32 to buy the merchandise, but when that did not work she again asked to cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.

Pike was jailed on forgery charges. A woman who answered the phone at the jail said she did not know if Pike has a lawyer.

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Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
COVINGTON, Georgia (AP) -- A Georgia woman who tried to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart was arrested, and police later found two more of the bills in her purse.

The U.S. Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but similar-looking currency is sold in some souvenir shops. The fake bill featured a picture of the Statue of Liberty, police said.

"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," said Stacey Cotton, police chief in Covington, about 30 miles southeast of Atlanta. "People do crazy things all the time."

A store clerk immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.

Pike then tried to use two gift cards worth only $2.32 to buy the merchandise, but when that did not work she again asked to cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.

Pike was jailed on forgery charges. A woman who answered the phone at the jail said she did not know if Pike has a lawyer.

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Originally posted by skylineGTR_guy
That would be 1,325,100.00 canadian ;)
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That it would be.............but if I happen to make the bills in Canadian Currency then it would be exactly.....1,000,000
 
Originally posted by hanker
That it would be.............but if I happen to make the bills in Canadian Currency then it would be exactly.....1,000,000
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more importantly who is going to have 999,000 dollars in change sitting around?
 
it says she used the million dollar bill to buy 16xx dollars worth of stuff. does that mean someone even dumber took million dollar bill and gave her her stuff??
 
I love criminals. They make for good intertainment. Here is a true story that happened to your's truly.

I once owned an indoor shooting range with some friends of mine. We sold, as well as rented out, guns to anybody who was just starting out. When we would lock up for the night, all the guns went into a huge, wieghted, gun safe for safe keeping.

One night, a man tried to enter our range via the roof inorder to rob us. He brought a chainsaw, sledgehammer, etc... to tear a huge hole in our roof, not realizing we had motion detectors activated. When a huge piece of our roof fell through, it set off the alarm. He made for a hasty escape, and forgot two critical items. The chainsaw, and his wallet which had his CA drivers license in it.

So, the police go to his house, and sure enough, he's there. The police said they found his chainsaw. He said, "Oh good. I forgot it..." then said nothing. Then he quickly said his brother-in-law borrowed it. The police continue to ask him where is wallet was. He said, "In my truck," where the police found a ladder and a few other tools that were used in the crime.

Just to be thorough, the police went to his brother-in-law's house to ask him some questions and found a meth lab the both of them were working on.
 
Here's another stupid person ... I can't seem to figure out what was more retarded.

Trying to rob a store with an unloaded gun, or trying to rob a store while trying to load the gun with the wrong bullets.

http://www.local6.com/news/2784602/detail.html

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- A teen trying to rob a convenience store was thwarted when he tried to load a rifle with the wrong-sized bullets.

The 16-year-old stormed into a 7-Eleven and pointed his long rifle at the store clerk, Broward County sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal said.

But a customer tackled the teen after seeing him trying to jam .40 caliber bullets into the .22 caliber rifle.

"It's like twice as big as the gun will fit," Leljedal said Wednesday. "It won't go."

Arrested on armed robbery charges, the state attorney's office will decide whether to charge him as an adult.
 
Ahhh... Fine upstanding people that wouldn't have passed the plastic bag test.

The Test consists of a very large, stern looking man and a plastic bag. At a certain age, all children are brought one by one into a room with this man. He hands them the plastic bag and says "Stick this on your head and tie it shut."

Most smart people would say "No, I'll suffocate." These people mentioned above would have happily tied it on and asked what next. There by saving many of us the trouble.

AO
 
this one:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-03.html

(29 January 2003, Brazil) At work, Manoel Messias Batista Coelho was responsible for cleaning out the storage tanks of gasoline tanker trucks. He had been employed in that capacity for two months when he ran afoul of fuel.
The 35-year-old began to fill a tanker with water, a standard safety procedure that forces flammable vapor out of the container. He returned an hour later to check whether the water level was high enough to proceed. But he had trouble deciding, because it was so DARK inside the tanker.

A resourceful employee, Manoel forgot the very reason why he was filling the tank with water when he lit a cigarette lighter to shed some light on the situation. His little test successfully determined that the water level was NOT yet high enough for safety. The vapor explosion launched him through the air, and he landed in the company parking lot 100 meters away.

Manoel suffered severe burns, blunt force trauma, and an injury to the head that exposed his brain. Our witless car washer had learned his terminal lesson in safety by the time the firemen arrived.
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Originally posted by NISMOskyline
We really need to set up capital punishment for idiots.
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No, we just need to let natural selection take its course and stop trying to save these dumbarses when they go to the hospital for screwing themselves up. . .
 
Doctor help me! I was trying to fix my wood chipper and it chipped my arm clean off!

Sorry bub. Serves you right. Natural selection. You understand. It is my moral obligation to the great forces of natural justice to let you die. That'll be $5000.00.
 
Originally posted by milefile
Doctor help me! I was trying to fix my wood chipper and it chipped my arm clean off!

Sorry bub. Serves you right. Natural selection. You understand. It is my moral obligation to the great forces of natural justice to let you die. That'll be $5000.00.
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That is why normally there are safety instructions printed on the Chipper/Shredder included not only on the machine but also in the package as well. . .
 
HERE's a good one.

ODESSA, Texas (AP) -- A student who drank a chemical from his high school lab on a dare was recovering in a hospital, but not before a scare.

The student drank the unidentified chemical on a bet at the school, said Nancy Smith, a UMC supervisor.

"We need to find out what it was from the toxicologist," Assistant Principal Ray Lascano said. "All of those materials belonged to one of the chemistry labs."

The student was found last Wednesday in a school hallway, bleeding from the nose and mouth.

The unidentified student, a junior at Odessa High School, was upgraded Monday from critical to satisfactory condition at University Medical Center in Lubbock.

Lascano, who talked with the youth's mother Monday afternoon, said swelling in his throat had receded enough for him to talk. The student was moved from the Lubbock hospital's intensive-care unit to the pediatric unit, he said.

Lascano said Ector County Independent School District officials were still investigating.
 

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