Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playmate who's now doubling as the Goodyear Blimp (ooo -- that was tacky!) appeared recently on the Howard Stern show.
Stern engaged her in world politics and tensions in the Mideast.
Smith obviously didn't know anything about it. Stern told her a few things about the region and then told her about the suicide bombers.
Smith incredulously replied, "Doesn't that hurt?"
A "too dumb to be a criminal" bonehead award goes to a San Antonio, Texas, man who was arrested for insurance fraud when he called into a radio show entitled, "What is Your Biggest Lie" and proceeded to explain, on the air, how he had a friend steal his truck so he could file an insurance claim, complete with the time and place of the incident.
Police matched it to his stolen vehicle report and he now faces 5 years in prison if convicted.
Australian Broadcasting Corp 16-Aug-02
Another "too dumb to be a criminal" bonehead award goes to a New Jersey thief who got his baggy pants caught on the roll-up door of a concession stand on a pier, remaining suspended until police arrived.
KSL TV Channel 5 (Salt Lake City, Utah) 15-Aug-02
A "dumb lawsuit" bonehead award goes to a West Virginia woman whose son got stone drunk, crawled underneath an idling truck making a delivery to a pizza restaurant, and was killed when the truck pulled forward. She is now suing anyone she can for $350,000, including the pizza restaurant, the truck driver, the truck owner and the bar owner, because the truck driver didn't crawl onto his hands and knees and look underneath his truck to make sure a drunkard wasn't under there before he drove off.
It's all their fault, or maybe even your fault, but it certainly isn't her son's fault.
Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia) 10-Aug-02 via
Another bonehead award goes to all those people who made it necessary for the manufacturer of an inflatable kiddie swimming pool to put a warning on the pool that says "No Diving."
A Hollywood, California, carjacker was unlucky enough to choose a minivan filled with judo wresters from Florida International University in Miami, according to police.
WPVI, Channel 6, Philadelphia 19-Aug-02
Smokey The Bear will no longer utter his famous line, "Only you can prevent forest fires," because studies have found that adults don't think they would ever start a wildfire. The new message is: Only you can prevent WILDfires.
Another bonehead award, a "You! Out of the gene pool" bonehead award goes to a Kameoka, Kyoto, Japanese, teenager who was riding a motorcycle and being chased by police for ignoring too many red lights. When police gave up the chase because they could not manipulate the narrow roads as well as he could, he turned around to give them the finger, causing him to unwittingly go through just one final red light. He died instantly when he hit a taxi.
Mainichi Shimbun (Japan) 14-Aug-02
A bonehead award goes to some Belgium Soldiers who, it has been found, to save the time required to clean their weapons, have for years been carrying TOY weapons while on duty. The Belgium Secretary of Defense promises that there will be disciplinary action ... for real.
MSN (Germany) 14-Aug-02
Kenneth So, a Foster City, California man, burgled a home, leaving behind a note for the victims saying that he'd return their dog's cremation remains if $1,500 was left at a certain local business, according to police who say they arrested Kenneth So while he was standing around a certain local business.
Ananova 16-Aug-02
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