Search the archive:
YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
Bonehead Awards (Read 166 times)
Sep 16th, 2004 at 7:48pm

stargazer   Offline
Colonel
My destiny is to travel
to the stars

Gender: female
Posts: 64
*****
 
Good thing nobody ever slammed the door!

A couple in the UK unwittingly used a live bomb as a doorstop for 23 years. Until, that is, a local policeman recognized it as a World War II "ack-ack" shell and contacted the bomb squad.

The former owner said, "Children and grand-children have played with it. We're lucky it didn't go off."  Uh huh.

========================================

The first bonehead award goes to the skipper of an ocean freighter "the length of two football fields."

Because of him, the shipping company that owns the vessel has agreed to pay the natives of an isolated Pacific island (Satawal) about $2 million because of damage he caused to valuable coral reef life.

It seems that he tried maneuvering the massive vessel through an island channel so he could get a better look at the island's topless women.

========================================
And then we have a bonehead award for another robber in Amstel, MA who tried to carry away the cash register (this always leads to a bonehead award).

Now he's suing the store because he hurt his back trying to haul away the heavy machine. He says they should have had a sign warning people that the cash registers are very heavy.

Will wonders (and human stupidity) never cease...


 

... ... ...
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - Sep 16th, 2004 at 8:01pm
Flying Trucker   Ex Member

 
I guess it takes all kinds to make the world go around Smiley

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - Sep 17th, 2004 at 6:52am

Tequila Sunrise   Offline
Colonel
Nunquam non paratus
Glasgow Scotland

Gender: male
Posts: 4149
*****
 
  Roll Eyes
 

If someone with multiple personality disorder threatens suicide, is it a hostage situation?

Thou shalt maintain thine airspeed lest the ground shalt rise up and smite thee
IP Logged
 
Reply #3 - Sep 17th, 2004 at 10:19pm

Jared   Offline
Colonel
I'd rather be flying...
Uniontown, Ohio

Gender: male
Posts: 12621
*****
 
lol..Smiley
 
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print