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October 22, 2008

Comedy of Errors

Posted: 12:14 PM ET

Senior Writer Jeff

We do our best to tell you the news you need each morning.

But let’s be honest: part of what makes “Morning Express” so much fun ... is that we find stories about some of the strangest people you'd ever hope to meet.

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This cop tasered a teen for fun. Yes, looks like lots of fun.

My personal favorite is still the guy who tried to rob a store using a palm frond as his weapon.
But this morning, we have 3 fine candidates. Let’s examine their actions and (lack of) judgment.

1) Mac the Knife
Police say he stabbed himself to impress a woman! During my years of dating, that one never occurred to me. Maybe my wife would like it. Honey?

2) Tase me, Bro!
An off-duty rookie policeman was having fun at a party where there was underage drinking … when a 15-year-old boy had a great idea: tase me, bro! The cop obliged. The crowd cheered as the kid went down. The officer has been fired.

3) Queen Mary Jane
A teen beauty queen and her friends decided to dine and ditch. It was funny until she remembered she'd left her purse at the restaurant. By the time she had gone back, the cops were there waiting for her. This train wreck gets even better: the cops found marijuana in her purse!

So, who should be kicked out of the gene pool first? Now, I’d say we can’t kick out the beauty queen. But, ignore her obvious gifts for a moment, and focus on sheer stupidity. To whom would you give the boot?

Write your comments below, tell us why, and feel free to offer up some other nominations!

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Jane B   October 22nd, 2008 3:04 pm ET

Personally, after I removed all three, I'd check out their parents to make sure they were all too old to reproduce any more idiots.

Stephen Coney   October 22nd, 2008 4:12 pm ET

Okay, you can't kick Mac the Knife. Here's why-while you and I may think Mac is a complete chowderhead perhaps he is a tortured genius of the Van Gogh ilk who could express his love no other way....hehehehehe I don't think so. However,I do know some pretty hot goth babes who go for guys into self injury.
As for DoDoCop and The BubbleHeadPotHead they should be handcuffed together and locked into an airtight room where clouds of what makes our teen beauty so darn smart can be pumped in. After ten minutes we open the door. Then tase them in the bums. THAT would be HUGE on Youtube

Seth   October 22nd, 2008 7:06 pm ET

Robin KNEW today was going to stink!

Everything is OFF, and the craziness only got crazier.

The air is cooler, we are all inside now and the beatings of the season are starting to knock us all out.

Thats whats happening my friend!!
p.s. the politics are adding up the nasty chaos.

Sorry!!

charlene   October 23rd, 2008 7:14 am ET

all are candidates for the Darwin awards!!!

Dan Hurt   October 23rd, 2008 7:29 am ET

Interesting possibilities...the offspring from Beauty Queen and Taser Cop, nah! probably never would make it through teenage years. Underage partying and famous last words "hey guys watch this!" would be included in the obituary. Come to think of it any match up combination would end the same.

Gregg in Tahoe City CA   October 23rd, 2008 9:26 am ET

Morning Jeff...I got another for you...went to the "Foam Fest" last weekend, which is a local breweries tasting party. Being a smoker, me and 30 others were out on the deck across the street from the Crystal Bay casino when one poor soul with a bike mounted on top of his SUV pulled into the underground parking at said casino. Well you guessed it...poor dude ripped off both bike and rack from top of his car which brought geers and cheers from the drunk crowd I was in...I felt sorry for dude, now with roof damage and a busted bike, but he received NO sympathy from the majority of on-lookers...but quite frankly it was just too funny to refrain from busting out laughing....

Tara Thompson   October 23rd, 2008 9:54 am ET

I love your morning show, watch it everyday. But what is up with Bob VanDillen? Is every day casual Friday? I would love to see him in a tie once in a while, maybe I will send him one of my husbands old ones.
Seriously though, you guys all rock!

Steve G   October 23rd, 2008 4:43 pm ET

While these folks really need a scratch-n-sniff sticker on the bottom of their swimming pools, my favorite is the guy that got arrested for breaking into vending machines and his girlfriend came to post his bail... WITH QUARTERS!

c cat   October 25th, 2008 6:48 am ET

well i guess theres not much to say about some of these idiots bu theres always more out there..

Kathleen Eller   October 29th, 2008 9:14 am ET

My favorite dumb crook story is about the guy in Virginia Beach who robbed a bank, had the teller put the money in a plastic grocery bag, and then stuffed the bag down the front of his pants. When filling the bag with money, the teller also added a dye pack, which when activated, burns at about 400 degrees. As the man was running away from the scene, witnesses said they saw "an explosion taking place inside his pants" and the robber was seen jumping and hopping around. Police confiscated his pants, but I never heard if they caught the robber.

The other police dee-dee-dee story I love (since I now live in North Carolina) is the one about the two guys who went out gigging frogs
(I have no idea what kind of outdoor sport frog gigging is. I think the attraction has something to do with drinking multiple cans or cases of beer). The natives here ride around in these powder blue pickups, to show their loyalty to UNC Chapel Hill. The two froggers finish their dastardly deed, throw the frogs in the back of the pickup and hop in the truck's cab. But, alas, the truck won't start. One of them figures out a fuse is dead and, since they haven't got an ACTUAL fuse, replaces the dead one with a bullet (which are always handy hereabouts). The pair starts back from their little outing, the bullet heats up, goes off and shoots the driver in the crotch. The truck then veers into a tree, totaling the truck. The best part is...when the police called the driver's wife to let her know her husband had been in an accident, the wife wanted to know what happened to the frogs.

(As Dave Barry says,"I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP". See the Darwin Awards web site for other stories about those who killed or sterilized themselves, thus eliminating them from the gene pool, by doing something stupid. Hence the name, Darwin Award.)

rip13mo   October 29th, 2008 9:21 am ET

we called it hash and dash when i was younger

katcha   October 29th, 2008 11:00 am ET

As loudly as this has made me laugh they all should go and quickly but clearly the man who stabbed himself for love is a Van Gohg of the field and may not learn any other technique.

chuck   November 4th, 2008 8:25 am ET

trying to see this from another point of view ..... is obama really good for the usa? does he have a good reason for not releasing his birth certificate? college transcripts? sitting in rev. wrights church 500 times and not hearing the messages of hate? was the reference to 57 states due to his lack of intelligence or a slip of the tongue (there are 57 muslim/islamic states in the middle east.) is michelle just misunderstood? why cant we read her college thesis? why cant we see the l.a. times tape of the jew bashing party? are there good reasons for these things? am i missing something and being paranoid? i dont think so. i fear that after today, for the first time in my adult life i will be ashamed of my country.

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