Simply Dumb

A woman in Iowa has already decided what her dying wish is going to be- leave me alone.
She got a tattoo on her chest a few months ago that reads “DO NOT RESUSCITATE”. She’s dead serious, too (pun intended).
According to doctors and legal experts, though, this alone wouldn’t be enough to keep someone from giving her medical help, and that she’d need more than a tattoo to really do anything.

“People might think I’m crazy, but that’s OK,” she said. “Sometimes the nuttiest ideas are the most advanced.”
But Wohlford’s decision to have her final wishes imprinted on her chest have raised …read more

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A story at stuff.co.nz talks about “rest home residents shown being toileted and showered in photographs published in a nursing journal [who] may not have understood what they were agreeing to”.
A man named Alan Knowles made a photo essay with a series of photos of elderly people being taken care of. From the man’s poing of view he is making a deeply powerful and touching piece of work that could influence many and gain sympathy for the elderly and those who are taking care of them.
From the other side, people had naked pictures taken and publicized.
Yeah, I think I know …read more

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A story on sfgate.com reports about a genius idiot who was so proud of his bumper crop of marijuana that he snapped some photos of it and took them to the local drug store to get developed.
Mistake number 1 was growing the plants. Mistake number two was getting a picture of them, leaving permanent evidence. Mistake number three was going to the drug store. Yeah, definitely one of nature’s better products.
The guys at the store immediately recognized the plants and called the police who got a search warrant before going out and finding over 40 plants.
No word yet on whether …read more

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Alright, I will admit to using a fork to get stuff out of my teeth a few times, but that’s honestly pretty rare, and I only do it if I have to, as toothpicks are much nicer to use (that is what they’re made for, after all).
This story on Reuters I think falls into the weird filter. According to a survey, about 60 percent of people in Britain admit that they use makeshift items like screwdrivers, needles, and keys to get stuff out of their teeth.

The National Dental Survey found that, when it came to oral hygiene, people used whatever …read more

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A 17 year old future Darwin Award winner in Indiana decided a fun afternoon activity would be to have his friend run him over in a car.
His friend took the car up to 25 miles an hour in the parking lot before hitting him, smashing the windshield and the genius’s leg.

His friend, Stephen D. Domonkos, 18, told police that Morris on Saturday night asked him to hit him with his car, something they had done before. He told police that Morris was “an adrenaline junkie.”
Domonkos was driving about 25 mph when the car hit Morris, shattering the windshield, in the …read more

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A story on the Sun Times web site talks about some teenagers in New York City who decided it would be a good idea to drop some pain cans off a roof. One cop was injured, and several squad cars were damaged. Brilliant.

The officer, who had been standing in front of his precinct in Midtown, was treated for an eye injury early Sunday, police said.
Tyler Moore and Sean McGhee, both 18, and Brittany Goldberg, 17, were arrested on charges of reckless endangerment, assault, criminal mischief and criminal trespass, police said.
Five police vehicles parked in front of the precinct were damaged.
About …read more

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A story on Yahoo! news reports on a couple that decided to climb up on a suspension bridge to watch the sunrise, and got mistaken by passing drivers as people in the midst of a suicide attempt.
The police were called, and a rescue squad was sent to the scene, only to be told that they were, in fact, just taking a look at the sky.

A driver called police after seeing a man sitting on top of the road bridge on the Main river near Frankfurt, and thought the 25-year-old planned to kill himself.
Squad cars, fire engines and a police speedboat …read more

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According to an article on Times Online, a health official in Britain is hoping to get ice cream vans outlawed due to how unhealthy ice cream is for children.
Yeah, that’s going to go over well.

FOR 60 years the tinny jingle of Greensleeves that announced the arrival of the ice-cream van has been an indelible memory of childhood, but that sound may soon be removed from suburban streets. Health lobbyists have decided that ice-creams are too much of a danger to children’s health.
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Local authorities have in recent weeks banned ice-cream vans from using pay-and-display parking spaces and set up “ice-cream-free”exclusion zones …read more

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A story on UPI reports about a man in New York City who was charged with licking and kissing the feet of women on the subway.

A New York City man has been charged with assaulting women in the subway system by kneeling before them and kissing and licking their feet.
Police say eight of nine women picked Joseph Weir out of lineups, the Daily News reported.
Weir was arrested Thursday night after he allegedly struck again in lower Manhattan, attacking a woman on a Queens-bound train. Investigators say they have had 14 previous complaints.
Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Rachana Pathak said Weir would …read more

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A story on Yahoo news reports about a case of an American family getting kicked out of a Chinese buffet after the staff got disgusted about how much food they were wasting.

Wendy Dershem may think twice before leaving that egg roll on her plate at her next Chinese buffet. The Des Moines woman, her boyfriend and her two children were kicked out of a restaurant last week after management accused her of leaving too much food on her plate.

“They told us we are not welcome there anymore,” said Dershem, a repeat customer at the Dragon House buffet. “We waste too …read more

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