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Today's bonehead award goes to a Ford dealership in Tonawanda New York for giving away a customer's car to a thief. This story was reported in the Buffalo News.
Stephen Gandel left his red Mercury Sable at the dealership for service. During the afternoon, a repair technician entered the waiting room and saw a man who looked like he was waiting for something. So the technician asks him if he's waiting for the red Sable. When the man said he was the technician handed him the keys. The car, later found, had some two-thousand dollars damage done to it which the dealer says they'll repair for free.
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From the Chicago Sun-Times: Burlington Homes in Bakersfield, California has announced that it will no longer sell homes to lawyers. They say their "experience is that home buyers who are also lawyers threaten litigation (requiring significantly greater management time as well as legal fees and resolution costs) at a dramatically higher rate than home buyers who are not lawyers." A lawyer is suing.
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Today's bonehead award goes to the State of Minnesota bomb squad. A few days after Jesse Ventura was elected governor somebody called in a bomb threat declaring they left a bomb at the state capital. The ever impressive bomb squad arrived and took all necessary precautions. Everyone knew their life and limb were safe in their hands. Until .... a gust of wind blew the package out of the back of the bomb squad truck onto the road where a car then ran over it. So much with instilling the public with awe! and thank you to the "lucky" motorist for helping to prove there really was no bomb.
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Today's bonehead award goes to Virginia Chadwick for coming up with one of the stupidest ideas ever to get revenge on her husband. If there ever was a demonstration of cutting off one's nose to spite their face, then this is it. The story was reported by the UK Mirror.
Virginia Chadwick wanted revenge on her estranged husband. So she hired a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy for 2 pounds each (about $3 ?) to beat someone up so she could blame it on her husband. So who was to be beaten up?. Nope, not her husband. Nope not someone else. Her! to beat her up. And beat up she was. This plot almost worked too. Her husband Paul, 31, was convicted of assault and fined 450 pounds and faced losing his job as a prison manager. But the kids admitted the whole story about how she paid them to hit her in the face (of all places) with a beans can. She's being charged with perjury. |
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