Good Examples of Idiots in Action - Page 2 - Part 1

Idiot Number 1 - I'm a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at a poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly assured her that ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conservation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison in order to kill the ants. I told her that she had better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away.

Idiots Number 2 - 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 out of the plane and home. Shortly after they took it out for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them. It turned out that the copter was homing in on the emergency locator beacon activated when the raft was inflated. Needless to day, they are no longer employed at Boeing.

Idiot Number 3 - A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into a branch and wrote, "This is a stikup. Put all yur muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give the note to a 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 a Wells Fargo Bank. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed the note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor, told him she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on Bank of America deposit slip and that we would have to rewrite in on a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to the Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in a line back at the Bank of America.