It's A Mad Mad World

 A climate of stupidity made this collection possible.

It chronicles the most outrageous occurrences of shortsightedness, incompetence, and poor judgment.

Not all characters in these dispatches are stupid.  Some are merely ridiculous or momentarily inept.

Others are very bright people who become innocently entangled in improbable situations that turned out to sound stupid.

The papers that reported these occurrences are all reputable mainstream bastions of journalism.

Thanks to them, for without their efforts we will never see any strange news from this strange planet.

Although a lot of us are worried about the threat of crimes in our neighborhood.  The good news is, that there are plenty of crooks who don't realize that they are their worst enemy.

Are you ready? Here we go!

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STUCK ON GLUE:

A thief was found stuck on the floor of the factory after trying to steal glue in Belo Horizonte 280 miles north of Rio in Brazil.

Edilber Guimaeares, 19, stopped to sniff some of the glue he was stealing when two large cans fell on the floor, spilling over.

When police were called, Guimaeares was glued to the floor, asleep.

Source: San Francisco Examiner.