During my eighth grade in middle school, I was told I had to make a presentation on the topic of “human stupidity.”

Biologically speaking, humans have the potential to wield the greatest amount of complex information yet the following happenings suggest otherwise.

• A man in Johannesburg, South Africa shot his friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while those two practiced shooting beer cans off each other’s heads.
• Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message “He’s lying” was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn’t telling the truth. Believing the “liedetector” was working, the suspect confessed.
• When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.
• A Los Angeles man who later said he was “tired of walking,” stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.

The World is populated by idiots.

photocredit: A twisted family tradition– the lime jello brain