Stupid People Tricks

A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.

Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

A man in Orange County, CA was ticketed for driving alone in the car pool lane. He claimed that the four frozen cadavers in his mortuary van should be counted. The judge ruled that passengers must be alive to qualify.

Guns For Hire, an Arizona company specializing in staged gunfights for Western movies, got a call from a woman who wanted to have her husband shot. She was arrested, convicted and sentenced to four years.