Here is a story about a good friend of mine that did something so stupid I wonder how he has llived as long as he has. It is so unreal that I just can not believe it. Someone please tell me my friends are pulling my chain and that is an urban legend.

Anyway, this is what happened(or what I was told)...

My friend Gary was mowing his lawn and his best friend, Shawn, was helping him. Well, after the mowing was done Gary decided to use a weed eater to finish the trim. Well, this is where shit gets stupid. His weedeater uses a plastic blade, but it was broken. Gary had gone out and bought a new one...a metal one.

He puts the new blade on and when he tightens the screw, it only tightens 1/2 revolution. Shawn does not like this and thinks they should get the appropriate blade. Gary declines and says everything will be alright. Shawn decides to leave becasue he does not want to be around when the thing is turned on...so Shawn goes out to buy fast food and come back.

When Shawn gets back, there is no Gary. Gary is no where to be found. However, Gary's bloody shoe is on the porch. About this time the next door neighbor comes over to tell Shawn that Gary had been rushed to the hospital and that he needed to go to the ER.

When Shawn gets to the hospital he finds Gary with a severe wound on his foot and leg. When he asked what happened, Gary told him that the new blade flew off while he was trimming the yard. The blade had flew off and became embedded in a nearby tree. Gary cut off the weed eater and dug the blade out of the tree. He proceded to attach the blade again and start back to work. Well, it flew off again, but this time hitting his leg and foot.


Well, that is the story. Please tell me I don't know people this stupid.

Anyone else know of people this common sense challenged?

My dad once weedwacked a hornet's nest.

I guess they wacked him back.

My mother ran over an underround hornet's nest with a lawnmower.

I just have this visual of one of those ninja stars flying and sticking into the tree.

*shurikens

*oh

I can't read hieroglyphics

This is no where NEAR the stupidest thing that humans are capable of.

Street Figher II, Guile?

I heard a guy in the bar today claiming he'd read about research claiming there's specific DNA that makes people commit suicide. I nearly spit out my beer.

Maybe he meant that certain people are predisposed to depression

That I wouldn't argue, but I don't think this guy could even pronounce "predisposed". He was talking out of his ass. If you had heard him speak, you'd quickly agree he was a moron. He truly believed suicide itself was genetic.

He also spent some time arguing about why a player from the Bucs would want to down a punt by Tampa Bay instead of letting it go into the endzone and giving the Bills the ball at the 20 instead of the 5.

i feel his pain..i got whipped with a plastic weed whacker string and it hurt like hell..i still have a scar on my leg..i can only imagine what a metal one owuld feel like

Are people really THAT stupid?

Have a read at the DARWIN AWARDS, and ask yourself that question again...

....yeah, I see your point.

And to thoroughly transfix that point onto your cranium, I present you with these: