Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:35:45 +0200 - Message No. 5192
From: Panos Mallios

Subject: Something to get you through the day


More Evidence That This World Is Full Of Complete Idiots
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1.  Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old at an airport
 hotel after he tried to pass two  (counterfeit) $16 bills.

 2.  A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in

 the face, seriously wounding him,  while the two practiced shooting
 beer cans off each other's  heads.

 3.  A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record
 showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety
 goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's
depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five
 workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening
 room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches
after
 he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.

 4.  The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear
 weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating  one within city
limits.

 5.  A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but
 by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had
 boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries
 and back pain.

 6.  Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a
 book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript
 to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in
seconds
 when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

7.  A convict broke out of jail in Washington DC, then a few days later
 accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went
 out for a sandwich. She needed to see him, and thus had him paged.
 Police offcers recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to
the
 courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.

 8.  Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a

 metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy
 machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police
 pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't
 telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the
suspect
 confessed.

 9.  When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to
 hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call

 the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was

 arrested.

 10. A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a

 steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped
 aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.





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