No. 2 idiot of 2006
Early this year, some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home.
Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming toward them. It turned out that chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. They are no longer employed at Boeing.
No. 3 idiot of 2006
A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote this. “Put all your muny in this bag.”
While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller’s window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo Bank.
After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn’t the brightest light in the harbor, told him she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, “OK” and left. He was arrested minutes later as he was waiting in line at Bank of America.
No. 4 idiot of 2006
A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40.
Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained another picture, this time of handcuffs. He mailed in his $40.
No. 5 idiot of 2006
A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all of the cash from the drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, “Because I don’t believe you are over 21.”
The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because she didn’t believe him. At this point, the robber took his driver’s license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and she put the Scotch in the bag.
The robber then ran away with his loot. The cashier called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that she got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.
