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NEWS ABOUT: stupidity

stupidity stories: 5 news summaries

Men Try to Rob Bank With Fake Search Warrant

Manager outsmarts criminals armed only with handcuffs

Nov 17, 09 1:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Five Nevada men are set to appear in federal court today after allegedly attempting to rob a bank armed only with handcuffs and a fake search warrant. These criminal masterminds claimed that the search warrant entitled them to take all the money out of the bank’s vault, according to... More »

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crime • bank robbery • forgery • stupidity • search warrant

EXTREME MEASURES

Man Stabs Himself to Get Out of Blockbuster Shift

Winds up in jail after manhunt for imaginary assailant

Nov 4, 09 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Aaron Siebers was willing to go to some pretty radical lengths to avoid his shift at Blockbuster. On Monday the 29-year-old stabbed himself in the leg before going into work, claiming he’d been attacked by three men. He got out of work, but things swiftly got out of hand... More »

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work • police • Blockbuster • stupidity • manhunt

OPINION

 If You Don't Know 
 Who This Is, 
 Don't Vote 

Uninformed citizens should stay home, unpopular as the sentiment might be

Oct 31, 08 4:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Countless actors, musicians and other celebrities have volunteered their time encouraging young people to vote. But should they? ABC News anchor John Stossel quizzed voters on basic political knowledge at a registration-drive concert and in the nation’s capital. A shockingly high number of uninformed answers led Stossel to the... More »

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democracy • voting • candidate • electorate • Election 2008 • young voters • stupidity • new voters

 Hey Dummy, 
 Think Before 
 You Post 
 That Pic 

From work dodging firemen to jail happy juniors, some things should not be shared

Sep 18, 08 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A picture may have been worth a thousand words before Facebook and YouTube came along, but in the Internet age the price can be much steeper for going public with one’s—er—privates. PC World presents 12 online photos that cost their owners dearly:
  • “A defense attorney’
... More »

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Facebook • online privacy • personal privacy • stupidity • photo sharing

OPINION

It's Time to Bring Back Geography to Classrooms

Americans can't find their way around world maps

May 22, 08 9:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The impressive skills of 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal—the nation's new geography bee champ—are all too rare. In fact, lots of Americans are geographically illiterate to an appalling degree, writes Evan Sparks in the American. At some point, the nation decided to leave the subject out of school curricula. Geography,... More »

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Iraq • education • children • geography • No Child Left Behind • stupidity

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