How much stupider can people get....

A 16 year old girl was killed new year's eve in Philadelphia, apparently because some imbecile standing on a street corner 2 blocks away was firing "celabratory gunshots" to ring in the new year (around 7:30 pm at that). She was sitting on the couch in a friend's living room while her friend braided her hair when the stray bullet smashed through a nearby window and hit her in the head.

Someone I went to school with killed 3 generations (a young girl, her mother, and her grandmother) in one decisive blow not too long ago after becoming intoxicated at a bar and driving home. He tried to pass a car on a hill and corner and smashed the oncoming family head on. The only good news is that he's dead too, so at least he can't do it again. Drunk driving fatalities are actually very common in my area. There is minimal enforcement after the bars close, and I swear that the only industry this area contains is bars...

The day before Christmas eve, some idiot on a busy Interstate a few miles away caused a fatal crash by trying to outrun a car in the travel lane apparently because they didn't want to merge into traffic BEHIND said vehicle.

Back at the beginning of December, a hunter fired at a deer and missed.... funny thing is... they were less than 200 yards from a nearby home.. and ahh... they were pointing the gun in the direction of the home... and ahh... there was no way they couldn't have seen the home from the point where the bullet was fired. The bullet smashed through a bedroom window, came within 2 inches of an occupants head, and embedded itself into a nearby matress (presumably, the hunter was firing downhill - I'm not sure how else the angle could have put the bullet past her head and into a 1 level bed unless she was crouching). According to investigators, had her husband been at home in bed at the time, he would have been killed. When I was very little (too young to remember), the same thing apparently happened to us. A hunter fired a shot that hit one corner of the house while I was in a nearby room.

So, how much stupider are people going to get? Are we just going to keep losing brain cells until eventually we've completely regressed to single cell organisms? These sorts of stories absolutely infuriate me. It just goes to show how self-absorbed, arrogant, thoughtless, and outright brain dead a lot of people out there are.

Just had to get that off my chest....

The combined intelligence of the world's populace is constant ... the world's population is growing at an alarming rate.

Okay, so maybe not, but it sometimes seems like that. Never ever underestimate just how stupid people can be. The sad thing is that many people don't realize just how stupid that really is ...

I think that if they did a study then they would find out that stupid people are breeding faster than intelligent people. I remember seeing in Jay Leno the other night on his opening standup where he stated that a study was completed and they found out that working with stupid people will give you a hart-attack. (who'd guess ).

The other day I had two encounters with idiot drivers.
The first was while I was coming out of a parking lot where I had the right of way (straight shot with no stop sign) and a lady in a camaro pulled out of her space approaching my right and ran her stop sign to get out in front of me. I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting her. What was she doing? She had both hands off of her steering wheel attempting to light a cig.

The second one, and this is one that I have seen more times that I would like to recount, was a woman who turned right from the far left lane right in front of me. What are these people thinking!?!

You know, I saw a study awhile ago that said ~79% people rate themselves as above-average drivers.

Interesting thing to keep in mind: all these people get to vote (at least for those of us that live where voting is a right).

I had a woman- with three children, ages 2-4 in her backseat (NOT in child seats, to give you an idea of this woman's brain power) start a u-turn from the far right lane while I was in the center lane. Needless to say, she rammed her car into my front right bumper, breaking the lens on our directional.

I, however, totalled (I think it's totalled) her little sparked-out Civic. It was like a surgical strike- she hit me in the exact place that would do the least amount of damage to my car and the most to hers- her real axle was broken.

That made my heart glad. I wasn't glad about the accident, I was glad SHE got totalled for doing an idiotic move, and not me. We drove away, and our car is barely damaged.

And to make it sweeter, she was found at fault.

I HATE bad drivers- to some folks it's like a video game to them. . . Sometimes I wish I was a traffic cop just so I could pull people over.

Yes, people are dumb. And I think we should revoke licenses with prejudice for any idiot moves. Too many people die on the roads.

Complete agreement. I'm always amazed to hear reports of people who have stacked up 3, 4, 5, sometimes more DUI and other very serious charges and STILL HAVE LICENSES. Why? One time - revoke it for a good, long time and hand out a serious fine. Twice, they lose it for good. Period. I'm even teetering on whether or not I think DUI drivers should be allowed to drive at all after one conviction.

And it's always heart-warming to see some idiot completely obliterate a really pretty vehicle of theirs when they do something stupid and no one is hurt... unfortunately, these idiots almost always hurt someone, so it's usually sad instead.



I was driving up Route 15 near Mechanicsburg, PA one later afternoon when I saw a guy in a little car step on the gas and cut from the left lane into the right lane right in front of a Caprice. I guess he didn't think the guy in the left lane was passing other cars fast enough and he was going to cut through the tiny openings so he could go ripping up the road. Unfortunately, what he didn't consider was that Caprice Classics are common cop cars... and this one was unmarked. Next thing you know a light on the dashboard is flashing and this guy is busted! Nice...

Speaking of traffic cops, don't they just seem to appear outta the middle of nowhere? Also, after I tell this story, please don't think that I am idiotic driver (normally I am a safe driver). The other day, I was in a hurry to get to work. While approaching a major intersection, I couldn't see where I was going, so I missed the stop sign. I managed to stop just in time to avoid hitting a blue Saturn that was turning. [I have a silver Pontiac.] A little ways down the road I was pulled over by a local cop. This guy was a real jerk! I think that he just wanted to give me heck since I am young. Luckily, though, all he gave was a warning. If the other party would've returned, however, I would have gotten a citation. Oh yeah, on the warning card the cop wrote "Duties of STOP signs" for "Nature of Offence"! Also, that darn cop made me 15 mins late for work!!!

It's not really to the subject. And not to sound smart ***, i just read this article.

A guy who's been catching snakes his whole life. One day he
didn't have his tools or was just too lazy to take them out. He tried to hold the snake down with the wide end (that you put to shoulder) of his rifle. So he has the snake by its neck, goes down to grab it. the snake gets its tail up the rifle, around the trigger, and pulls the trigger, the guy got shot right in the head.


Sorry about the rifle terminology, I never really had the need to learn those words.

I still don't unserstand why Darwin Award is not the most popular award in the world ....

Because the recipients can't make the talk show circuit after the ceremony.

Sure they can. Maybe that's John Edwards next show.

BTW, I saw this show where this guy told everyone in the audience he was a psychic and did Edwards-style readings. After the show, he explained to the audience all the techniques he used to do the readings, using no "psychic ability" at all- just being general and discarding all his incorrect guesses immediately.

After the show, they interviewed the participants. Most of them still believed the guy was psychic and in denial, even though he explained to them everything about how he did the reading. Pathetic.

Don't get me wrong, I personally think complete sceptics are as pathetic as true believers, in the spirit Charles Hoy Fort.

Joe -

Yea but.... maybe you shouldn't have run the stop sign?

We all have moments of utter stupidity.. some people just never leave them. I was in Shippensburg one day driving around for the first time with my gf. She's going to school there in a year, so we wanted to get a quick tour in. I got into a little one way alley and took it back to the main road. I kept creeping and creeping farther out toward the road because I couldn't see on either side because of parked cars. Finally, I just kind of took a deep breath and made a left turn. My girlfriend, in utter amazement, pointed out to me that I had just made a left turn, at a red light, with a "no turn on red" sign. I never even saw it....

However, let's also remember that at time's our freindly officers of the law can be a little dazed and confused as well. Again, this occurs on Rt. 15, but going in the opposite direction at night. I was in the left lane because some ways back I had passed a slow moving vehicle. I could see about 300 feet in front of me and about 700 feet or so in back of me. I couldn't see a single vehicle, so, I pulled into the other lane but didn't use a signal. YOW! All of a sudden there's headlights behind me. Turns out to be a cop who pulls me over about a 1/4 mile later for not using my turn signal. Thing is... this guy pulled into the road with no lights... that means flashing lights, headlight, parking lights, dome lights, and glove box lights. He pulled onto the road, in the dark, with NO LIGHTS AT ALL. Needless to say... I only got a warning for not using my turn signal.