A bonehead award goes to someone, not yet determined, who is responsible for printing an Ottawa woman's pelvic examination results, complete with her name, on the flipside of a real estate brochure distributed in Ottawa.
Canadian News 21-Feb-03
Another bonehead award goes to a Kent, North Carolina man who phoned police to complain that he was offended at seeing a snow woman. That's about all there is to it. He was offended because the snow woman had a bust.
But it gets worse.
Crystal Lynn, the snow woman creator, claims that a police officer threatened to charge her with disorderly conduct if she didn't remove or cover up the snow bust. She covered the bust with a cloth. "It's just snow," said the confused and frustrated Lynn.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina) 18-Feb-03
A Kansas man who was killed by a train after his car broke down on a motorway is among the contenders for the latest Darwin Awards. The train's driver spotted him standing on the tracks, holding a mobile phone to one ear and cupping his hand to the other ear to block the noise of the train. The awards are awarded, posthumously, to people who have "improved our gene pool by removing themselves from it in really stupid ways."
The nominees also included...
~ A Ukraine man was killed when his dog retrieved a hand grenade which he'd just thrown at a police cadet. The police cadet had just pointed out to the man that his dog should have been muzzled and on a leash.
~ Another contender died in Arizona's Mohave County Jail when he defecated on his cell floor, slipped in his own feces, struck his head on the ground, and died.
~ And in Holland, a retired engineer booby-trapped his home with 20 deadly devices, with the intention of killing his estranged family. However, he inadvertently triggered one of his own and got killed.
Crazy Dumb Lawsuits From Behind Bars:
~ A Utah prisoner filed a $1 million lawsuit against the state for suspending a program which provided hair transplants for prisoners. He claimed "emotional suffering."
~ A New York City inmate sued for $8.5 million in damages because he smuggled a gun into the prison and accidentally shot himself.
~ Richard Loritz filed a $2000 lawsuit against the South Bay Detention Center in San Diego, California, for refusing to allow him to use dental floss.
~ Roy Clendimen, a prisoner at the Mohawk Correctional Facility near Syracuse, New York, sued for $1 million because a guard wouldn't put his ice cream in the freezer and it melted.
A "government as good as it gets" bonehead award goes to New York State for teaching a Bronx convict to cut hair while he was in jail, expressly for the purpose of allowing him to make an honest living as a barber when released, and then denying him a barber's license because he's an ex-convict!
"If the state offers this vocational-training program to persons who are incarcerated, it must offer them a reasonable opportunity to use the skills learned thereby after they are released from prison," said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Herbert Cahn in response to a lawsuit filed by the former convict against the state.
NY Post 21-Feb-03
A bonehead award goes to a Cypress, California man who was arrested for setting off his aerial fireworks in his condominium bedroom, causing a fire that resulted in $135,000 in damages. Nobody knows why he did it.
Los Angeles Times 24-Feb-03
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