Dumbass Of The Day

Hand-drawn vehicle inspection sticker doesn't fool police
By
Ben Hooper


Police in New York state pulled over a driver who was spotted using a hand-drawn vehicle inspection sticker made from construction paper. Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Sheriff's Office/Facebook
May 22 (UPI) -- Authorities in New York state said a driver was ticketed after a sharp-eyed deputy noticed the vehicle's inspection sticker was hand-drawn on construction paper.

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said a driver was pulled over Monday in Amsterdam when a deputy noticed the vehicle's inspection sticker did not appear to be official.
The deputy discovered the sticker was actually made of construction paper and was hand-drawn to resemble an official New York State Safety Emission Inspection Certificate for the year 2020.

The sticker even featured a hand-drawn bar code, police said.

The driver was issued a violation for having an unregistered motor vehicle.

 

WEIRD NEWS
05/21/2019 04:42 am ET Updated 2 days ago
College Graduate’s Backflip Attempt Goes Hilariously, Painfully, Awkwardly Wrong
That didn’t go as planned.

The move probably unfolded a whole lot better in his head.

Footage going viral on Twitter shows a college graduate attempting to do a backflip on stage during a commencement ceremony, but it didn’t quite work out:





It’s not clear if the grad was physically injured, but at the very least, the mishap hurt his pride.

 

There are so many better ways to forge it. Wow.

 

Pennsylvania has seen more tornadoes than usual in 2019, with the state already hitting the yearly average.

One Pennsylvania man thinks he may know the cause of the increase: traffic circles.

According to our news partners at the Trib, WNEP-TV in Scranton has a segment called "TalkBack," which allows viewers to call and leave their opinions, and then the station airs them.

“We didn’t have tornadoes here until we started putting in the traffic circles. Cause, on account of — you want to know why? When people go round and round in circles, it causes disturbance in the atmosphere, and causes tornadoes," one man said about the recent uptick in tornadoes.

Just recently, six tornado warnings were issued across the commonwealth in a span of just two hours.

Eric Horst, director of the Weather Information Center at Millersville University, said a Pacific El Nino is still enhancing the jet stream, so the atmosphere is highly dynamic with all of the fronts moving through, the York Daily Record reported.

"Some years are more active than others - it's a cycle we go through every few years," he wrote.

 

DotD belongs to be it's own section of L4S; prominent and readily available to everyone on L4S!

You Cleveland Browns fans are hiding it- or is it really stealing? - by forcing people to go to the Browns boards first to see what is truly first-rate entertainment. I, speaking just for myself, feel I am one lucky-ass Bills fan for having come upon it.

 

Thanks for the kind comment @KilkennyDan. Feel free to post whenever you want and let others know too. Only rules are to keep it civil and post whatever stands out as something akin to a Darwin Award winner. Religion, politics and sports teams/fans may be touchy subjects, so don't post just to piss somebody off. Post that stuff if it truly stands out as something purely and truly "Dumbass". Keep it friendly in here.

It's been my little side project keeping me busy the last few years. Since my team, the Browns have been truly awful and unwatchable at times over the last many years, this thread gave me something to do and kept myself and others entertained.

 

Fox Host Tucker Carlson Attacks 'Inelegant, Creepy' Metric System that the U.S. Alone Has Resisted

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-tucker-carlson-attacks-metric-system-1442485



Fox News host Tucker Carlson railed against the metric system of measurement in his show on Wednesday night, describing it as "inelegant" and "creepy." James Panero, a cultural critic and executive editor of The New Criterion, joined Carlson for the segment.

Panero recently wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal attacking the metric system with its meters and kilograms and urging America to stick to its customary system of measurement, which resembles the old British Imperial system.

"Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny—the metric system," Carlson said. "From Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Lusaka to London, the people of the world have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters and kilograms. "The United States is the only major country that has resisted, but we have no reason to be ashamed for using feet and pounds."

Panero called the metric system "the original system of global revolution and new world orders."

Carlson replied: "God bless you, and that's exactly what it is. Esperanto died, but the metric system continues, this weird, utopian, inelegant, creepy system that we alone have resisted."

His guest said America should stand strong against pressures to switch to the metric system, bringing it in line with much of the rest of the world, because customary measures such as feet, inches, miles, and pounds helped foster the Industrial Revolution and put men on the moon.

"The metric system, meanwhile, is the product of the French Revolution. It was imposed at the business end of the guillotine," Panero said. "It's assumed to be progressive. It's assumed that everyone has gotten to be behind it."

Carlson characterized the metric system is "completely made up out of nothing."

"It's totally made up," Panero said. "Even worse than overturning custom has been the meter's imposition of ten. It's a ten size fits all mentality. Now here's how it gets crazy. The French Revolution went all in for 10. They tried to impose a 10 day week, 100 hours, 100 minutes, 100 seconds—they had a whole revolutionary calendar."

The critic conceded that counting by 10 is useful for "abstract calculations," but said it is bad for "measuring things in the real world," and that customary measures could be traced back thousands of years.

"There's a reason why our measuring system is twelves, eights, and sixes. It comes from ancient knowledge, ancient wisdom," Panero said.

"From the Romans, 12. From the Babylonians, 60. Why? Because those numbers divide up evenly into thirds, fourths, halves, and enables common people to make calculations and to measure their lives without complex arithmetic. What's a third of a foot? It's 4 inches. What's a third of a meter? It's 33.3 something centimeters. It doesn't even add up. You see the problem right there."
He called the customary measurement system quaint "but it's ours."

"It connects us to our ancestors through cups, through teaspoons and tablespoons, I can still cook the recipes of my grandparents. And it's that connection to the past that the French Revolution and the revolutionaries have always tried to destroy," Panero said.

Carlson concluded: "I'll accept the kilometer when we accept the euro—never."

The graphic below, provided by Statista, illustrates which countries are sticking with the Imperial measurement system.

 

I just don't know where to begin with any of that..........geez.

 

Deputies: Florida man calls 911 to brag after fleeing traffic stop
Caller: 'Like, what do we pay you guys for? Like, I've driven past four cops'



ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - A St. Augustine man likely would have gotten away with ducking a traffic stop if he had not called 911 to boast about it, authorities said.

Nicholas Carlmann Jones, 19, was behind the wheel of a white Hyundai Elantra that was stopped May 4 on West King Street for a tail light infraction, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

But as a deputy approached the Hyundai, the vehicle did a burnout and sped away out of sight.

And that’s where this story might have ended had the driver not dialed 911 an hour later to deliver what was as much a confession as it was a humble brag.

"Like, what do we pay you guys for?" wondered the caller, who identified himself as the driver who ran from a deputy. "Like, I’ve driven past four cops."

After some spirited back and forth, the conversation ended. But not before investigators zeroed in on the caller’s phone number and traced it to Jones, according to his arrest report.

It turns out that Jones’ owns a white Hyundai whose tag number was one digit off the vehicle seen fleeing the traffic stop earlier that day. He also had a warrant out for his arrest.

Deputies tracked down the vehicle the next day, where they took Jones into custody and questioned him about the 911 call. A deputy noted that Jones was still amused.

"That cop had no right to stop me,” he told deputies. "I saw him turn his lights and sirens on and was going to stop, but I didn’t want to."

But the joke might have been on Jones. As a deputy explained to him, investigators didn’t have his correct tag – they only figured it out once he placed the 911 call.

"That's funny. So I told on myself?" he replied, later adding: "No cop can catch me in my Hyundai Elantra -- that thing is fast."

Jones was booked into the St. Johns County jail on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude police, misuse of 911 system and violating probation. Jail logs show he remains in custody without bond.

 

Thank you Florida for all that you give.

 

It's so funny because everything he calls the metric system is the imperial system. Inelegant is the one right up there. Divisions? Ya there is a minor point there but outside minor measurements it's the bigger numbers that matter and metric is easier on calculations. The industries that need to convert between the two especially hate it. The ones that started with Imperial obviously prefer it (outside certain US trades that always use Metric regardless as the base) but when people know how to use both and need to use important numbers for anything besides length (sometimes) they much prefer the metric.

 

But....but....aren't you Canadian and part of this "libruhl" conspiracy?

 

King of the Hill's Canada parody episode is on right now (it's really bad) but Bobby is talking metric(like using the units) and says how it's so much better and Hank had the last straw and that this is America and we speak English. lol.

 

(Meredith) - A man caught with cocaine in his nostrils tried to convince deputies that the drugs weren't his during a traffic stop in Florida, according to authorities.

Two deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office pulled over a vehicle and immediately noticed the passenger had a white powdery substance on his nose.

The passenger, identified as 20-year-old Fabricio Tueros Jimenez, told deputies the cocaine didn't belong to him, the sheriff's office wrote on Facebook Monday.


A deputy swabbed his nose, and the powder reportedly tested positive for cocaine content.

After inspecting the vehicle, the deputies said they found 250 grams of marijuana and 13 Xanaz pills inside a backpack.

Jimenez was also carrying a small baggy of cocaine, the sheriff's office said.


The 20-year-old was arrested on drug charges. Deputies did not identify the driver.

 

South Carolina woman pulled over on toy truck while driving drunk, police say

WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina woman who police say was driving drunk will not be cited with a DUI because her vehicle of choice was a toy truck.

News outlets quote police as saying that instead they charged 25-year-old Megan Holman with public intoxication.

They say they spotted her cruising down the road in a Power Wheels electric toy truck after a caller reported a suspicious person on the street.

Officers say she was driving about a mile from her home in Walhalla when they stopped her.

 

This one's just plain weird........

The President And The Mole People

No doubt U.S. presidents use their position of power to do some strange things, but John Quincy Adams just may win the award for the weirdest appropriation of tax dollars. Believe it or not, John Quincy Adams, our sixth president, authorized an expedition to the center of the earth to search for the mole people who he believed inhabited the bowels of the planet.

The rest of the article: https://historydaily.org/the-president-and-the-mole-people

 

He should have searched Baltimore for some baltimorons.

 

10 Philly police recruits resign after trying to cheat on open-book exam, officials say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/10-philly-police-recruits-resign-after-trying-cheat-open-book-n1021181