Stupid Criminals

Joseph F. Kopronica, a Lorain police officer pulled over a driver early Wednesday because the van she was driving appeared to be out of control. According to his police report, Nancy M. Lang, the 42-year-old driver not only seemed to be intoxicated, but said: “Please give me a break. I’m drunk.” The woman failed sobriety tests. She could not stand on one leg or walk heel-to-toe. The officer told her that she was under arrest, but she replied: “Wait, I can do this.” She then did five jumping jacks, one push-up and started to do a cartwheel, the officer’s report said.

Stupid Students

While working at the university computer lab one evening, a student came over to ask me why her computer was running so slowly. She said that she was just surfing the Internet. I went over and examined her screen and noticed that she had approximately 230 separate browser windows open in Internet Explorer.

She thought that she could only use each one once.

Stupid Criminals

When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find an ill man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his hose into the motor home’s sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he’d ever had.

Stupid CoWorkers

I used to work at the IT Support Desk for a university. A librarian at one of our libraries was surfing the web one day and came across a site that said it was best viewed using the Internet Explorer browser. So she called me and said she needed a “browser” to view this site, and could we install a browser onto her system?

I told her that if she was viewing the site already, she was already using a browser, but, unsatisfied with that answer, she went over my head to the Directory of Libraries and said that we were being uncooperative about providing her with a browser.