Candidate for Stoopidist Man Of The Year Contest

CHARLIE · July 09, 2003, 07:28:44 PM

The following was in the July 9, 2003 Rochester Post Bulletin. Yep, this happened right here in Rochester, Minnesota and it's hard to believe someone is that dumb. :

Drill accident leaves gouge in man's chest

A 27 year old man was in fair condition at St. Marys Hospital this morning after a drill he was operating slipped and plunged the bit attached to it into his chest.

The Rochester Deputy Fire Chief said the man was working at the Olmsted County Work Release Center in Rochester around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon when the accident occurred. The man was holding a piece of metal up to his chest and drilling toward his body when the bit slipped and sunk about 1 to 2 inches into his chest.

The man was conscious and alert when authorities arrived but was in a lot of pain and bleeding quite badly. :

whitepe · July 09, 2003, 07:33:50 PM

Sounds like he could have been a candidate for
the Darwin Awards. :D

Tom · July 09, 2003, 07:54:56 PM

That's worse than sitting on the limb you're cutting off of the tree.

biziedizie · July 09, 2003, 07:58:07 PM

I'm not even going to tell you the story about my dad and his finger and the drill........

I shake my head every time I think about that little scene....

Steve

Tom · July 09, 2003, 08:02:18 PM

AWWWWW c'mon. You can't say that and not tell us. :-/

inspectorwoody · July 09, 2003, 09:02:42 PM

County work release center.....Jail bird ??? Did he happen to find the evidence room where the drug stash was :

Well this isn't nearly as bad as that but yet quite dumb...

My dad is a criminal investigator for our police department and in his 20+ years he has run into some pretty stupid people..Here is the most recent.

Guy goes over to a near by town and writes a 14,000 check for a pickup. Check is no good and he is already on probation for a smilar incident. The recover the truck and him and than they release him on his own word. First mistake. So than a few days later he comes back to Independence and ask to take a jeep for a test drive.....doesn't come back. He booked state but the county mounties caught him tonight on his way back home :

No wonder they say criminals are the dumbest people :D

biziedizie · July 09, 2003, 09:23:04 PM

Tom.......I'm not ready to tell the story just yet :D

He came to the door with a bloody finger with a hole in it and to this day when I think about it it just pi#@^% ME OFF!

I love my dad and all but that day I coulda made him drive to the hospital himself.

  It was as bad as the day the tree was dropped on my roof. :'(

   Steve

EZ · July 10, 2003, 03:15:47 AM

Some people are about as dumb as a submarine with a screen door. ;D
EZ

Sawyerfortyish · July 10, 2003, 04:18:23 AM

Sounds about as dumb as the guy that was using a crane to take down a tree it started to tip over so he jumped on the stabalizer leg for counter balance on a 20 ton truck it didn't work and he didn't make it.

Haytrader · July 10, 2003, 04:39:23 AM

O K, I have a dumb story too, and it's on me.

When in high school, we had a large rope connected to the top of the gym. You know, one of those big uns to climb. It had a knot tied on bottom. We are talkin about 35 to 40 ft. I was messing around with some other guys and since the trampoline was close by, I thought I would play Zoro, and swing from the bleachers onto the trampoline. I climbed on top of the bleachers, jumped out onto the rope, standing on the knot, and began my swing. Next thing I know, WHAM........the knot was about a foot below the edge of the trampoline. My ankles still hurt when I think about it. :'( Man did I feel dumb.

Kevin · July 10, 2003, 05:34:25 AM

Zoro?
That sounds more like Wile E coyote and his ACME rope kit. :D

breederman · July 10, 2003, 12:40:14 PM

I laughed so loud the dog got to barking! That had to hurt.

Texas Ranger · July 10, 2003, 12:51:13 PM

Ya know, this chain of thought leads to a number of real problems for me, I would hate to name ANYONE on this board to this category.

But go back and read some posts, I am still in the dog house and cannot comment.

The dumbest thing I have done was cutting a pole, and decided to jumb butt it, naturally, it started falling back on me, so I one handed the chain saw, it did an arc, and peeled half the thickness of leather off my boot top

Jeff · July 10, 2003, 12:54:17 PM

Why are you in the dog house?

Texas Ranger · July 10, 2003, 12:57:26 PM

STAPLES

Bro. Noble · July 10, 2003, 01:00:35 PM

Well I'm not quite ready to confess to being stupid but I will admit I made a big mistake recently. I bought some cows from a friend. He was telling me that I might not want this one cow because although she milked extremely well she was too smart. I ask whdda ya mean. He explained that he has overhead feeders and that each time he pulls the rope for a given cows feeder, it dumps out a measured amount of feed to her. This cow learned that when she ate her alloted amount of feed, she only needed to reach her head over the rail and pull the rope with her mouth. I told him that that wouldn't be a problem to me because I have electric feed meters. :

This morning (for about the tenth time) I was in a hurry and shorthanded. I let the DanG cow run out of feed. Once again she reached over and pulled the cord to the feeder. Had to shut off the breaker and rewire it once more. >:(

I sometime think that anyone that milks is an automatic candidate for the stoopidest man of the year. :D

Jeff · July 10, 2003, 01:12:04 PM

I am not going to accept stupid on this one, but ignorance. And it has to do with cows also.

A few years ago I went to visit one of the dairy farmers that gets sawdust at the mill. We have been friends for years and I hunt on his property. Well, Albert was in the milk barn and I went into talk to him. While talking across a cow, I noticed this serrated strip of metal hanging from stout wire above the cows back. I presumed it was a back scratcher. I said whats this. a back sc... as I reached up and touched it. Albert tried to stop me but I was to quick for him.

Turns out, for those of you that don't know what it was either, Cows hump up just before they go to the bathroom. This device causes them to step back and go in the barn cleaner. Its electrified big time. Needless to say, I think, I too, went in the barn cleaner.

Haytrader · July 10, 2003, 02:46:18 PM

Jeff,

One story leads to another. As I young whipper snapper, I had just finished helping my dad and grand dad put up some electric fence. I felt the urge to get rid of the pepsi we had earlier. Grandpa noticed and said "Bet ya can't pee over that fence" and before I thought, well, you know what happened. I really strained to show him I could whiz over that fence. It got me going over..............and got me again coming back.
:-/

And please, don't anyone remind me of other stupid things I have done.

;D

Ron Wenrich · July 10, 2003, 03:57:43 PM

Stupid people think on grander scales.

When I was doing some work for the electric company, they told the story of one guy who was out painting some of the high tension towers. It was a 125 KVA line.

He was new on the job, and kind of a show off. To impress his buddies, he figured he would take a leak off of the tower. His last words were "Watch this".

Fla._Deadheader · July 11, 2003, 05:31:27 PM

We just had an idiot try to rob a bank in town, last Tuesday. He went to the drive-up window. :

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Sawyerfortyish · July 12, 2003, 06:03:16 AM

WELL did he get away with the lollypops? :

:D :D :D

Fla._Deadheader · July 12, 2003, 06:39:37 AM

The law cuffed him and stuffed him at the local watering hole, about 1/2 mile away ??? :D :D :D

burlman · July 13, 2003, 08:51:21 AM

here's one I heard this winter. A mechanic was changeing tires on a plow truck, the garage had a few guys hustling about, our man was picking the wheel nuts up off the floor to install the tire buy putting his index finger in the nuts threads , then shoving the nut into the impact gun and speeding them onto the studs. well after the 3rd one as he had his figer in the nut and the impact socket all at the same time, some one bumped into his elbow causing him to pull the trigger, and he threaded the nut all the way down his finger, much like cutting a die on a pipe. Every time i touch anything threaded I think about that guy. think safe...burlman... P.S. yes they had to reverse the impact to remove the nut, skin does not seem to like being wrapped up one way, then reversed

Tom · July 13, 2003, 08:54:51 AM

I-e-e-e-e-e-e ow-w-w-w- ouch!

I knew you were going to say that as soon as I read that he stuck his finger in the nut. ow-w-w

Is he ok?

DanG ! That hurts all the way down here. :-/

Jeff · July 13, 2003, 04:29:39 PM

Man, I knew what was going to happen before I read it but it hurt worse reading it. Yeosa!

Our Mechanic used to have hair down past his shoulder blades. (Ya Dont dare call him a sissy he's 6ft 6) One day while under the semi, he rolled out on the creeper and wrapped the whole 9 yards up in the creeper wheels. Here big Jerry is lying on his back have way out from under the trailer with the creeper stuck to the back of his head. Man he had a mess. That was probably 6 years ago. He has had very short hair ever since,