Doofus Of The Day #753 - a classic 'own goal'!

A specially meritorious Doofus award with gold star goes to a 'suicide bomb instructor' in Iraq.

A group of Sunni militants attending a suicide bombing training class at a camp north of Baghdad were killed on Monday when their commander unwittingly conducted a demonstration with a belt that was packed with explosives, army and police officials said.

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Twenty-two ISIS members were killed, and 15 were wounded, in the explosion at the camp, which is in a farming area in the northeastern province of Samara, according to the police and army officials. Stores of other explosive devices and heavy weapons were also kept there, the officials said.

There's more at the link.

The schadenfreude, it burns . . . with enemies like that, who needs friends?





Peter

Doofus Of The Day #750

Today's award goes to the imbeciles who dreamed up this stunt, fitting ultra-loud speakers to their vehicle then driving through what looks like an inner-city neighborhood playing the sound of gunfire at high volume.

Do that around me - or any one of dozens of people I know, particularly in areas like mine that contain large numbers of well-armed, self-sufficient people - and your car (and probably you and your passengers as well) will resemble a well-ventilated Swiss cheese before you can say "I was only joking!"  In the average inner-city neighborhood, I'd say the risk of encountering a similar response is not insignificant.  Just ask the residents of any US urban ghetto.





Peter

Best breakup letter ever?

Via Reddit and a post at Imgur:

Classic!





Peter

Doofus Of The Day #745

Today's award goes to a disbelieving driver in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

A pick-up was ... parked on the street near a construction site where the sidewalk was being increased.

Construction workers nearby asked the driver to move.

But he refused, and walked off - only to return to find the motor set into the pavement.

It is not know who wrote 'FACILITO' on the vehicle's windows - Portuguese for 'facilitating'.

There's more at the link, including more photographs.

That'll teach him . . .





Peter

Doofus #726 revisited

A few weeks ago I gave a Doofus Of The Day award to an Australian man who inserted a fork into his sexual organ in a (presumably futile) quest for stimulation.

Now an Australian newspaper has published a much longer and more detailed report on the incident, including a lot of medical information from the doctors who decided to "pull the fork free using forceps and 'copious lubrication' while the patient was under a general anaesthetic".  The article includes an X-ray image of the organ in question, complete with new internal accessory.

It still makes me shrink whenever I think about it . . .





Peter