> Number One Idiot of 2008
> I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the
> poison control center & nbsp.
>
> Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little
> daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not
harmful and
> there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.
> She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention
that
> she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants.
> I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room
right
> away.
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> Number Two Idiot of
2008
> Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a
> life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of
the plane
> and home.
> Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast
Guard
> helicopter coming toward them. It turned out that the chopper was homing
in
> on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated.
> They are no longer employed at Boeing.
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> Number Three Idiot of 2008
> A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the Branch
> and wrote this, 'Put all your muny in this bag.'
> While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began
> to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the
> police before he reached the teller's window.
> So he left the
Bank of America and crossed the street to the Wells Fargo
> Bank.
>
> After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells
> Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he
wasn't the
> brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his
> stickup note because it was written on a Bank of Americadeposit slip and
> that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go
back
> to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, 'OK'
and
> left.
> He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at
Bank
> of America .
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> Number Four Idiot of 2008
> A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap
> that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car.
> He later received in the mail a
ticket for $40 and a photo of his car.
> Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40.
> Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained
> another picture, this time of handcuffs.
> He immediately mailed in his $40.
> Wise guy........
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> Number Five Idiot of 2008
> A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of
> the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag,
> the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the
> shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier
> refused and said, 'Because I don't believe you are over 21.'
> The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him
> because she didn't believe him. At this point, the robber took his
> driver's
license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk
> looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the
> Scotch in the bag.
> The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly
> called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got
> off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.
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> Idiot Number Six of 2008
> A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving
> revolvers. The first one shouted, 'Nobody move!'
> When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.
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> Idiot Number Seven of 2008
> Arkansas : Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
> he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab
some
> booze, and run.
> He lifted
the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The
> cinder block bounced back knocking him unconscious. It seems the liquor
> store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on
> videotape.
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> Idiot Number Eight of 2008
> I live in a semi-rural area (Weyauwega, Wisconsin)
>
> We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative
> office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road.
>
> The reason: 'Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't
think
> this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore."
>
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> STAY ALERT!
>
> They walk among us...they REPRODUCE...and they VOTE!!!
