Bonehead award one goes to a 28-year-old UK man who has totaled more than 30 cars in 11 years in 94 car accidents and amazingly still has a driver’s license. Seems the UK government should get an award as well.
He once destroyed a car he bought after just 19 hours. Neither his friends nor his girlfriend will ride in a car he drives.
Says his girlfriend, “Craig is a terrible driver and we have had loads of rows about it. He’s always talking when he’s at the wheel or looking the wrong way — and that’s how the accidents happen. It’s got to the point where I won’t get in the car with him.”
Surprisingly he’s never been more than scratched in any accident nor has anyone else been hurt.
UK Sun 17-Oct-02
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Bonehead award two, a “government as good as it gets” bonehead award goes to the State of Massachusetts for wasting $300,000 of public money to come up with the dumb state slogan, “Massachusetts . . . Make It Yours,” which is not only not clever and not catchy but is meaningless.
The state rejected all entries submitted by residents in a much-hyped contest, apparently because the state has poor, but expensive, taste and so instead decided to pay an advertising agency.
Some of the submitted, but rejected slogans from the public, included “Massachusetts: Where Freedom Begins,” ”Massachusetts is Magic” and “Come Share the Common Wealth”
The tourism industry folks in Massachusetts are unanimously disappointed.
Boston Herald 17-Oct-02
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Think Before You Leap . . . Under a Train
Bonehead award three is from a story sent in by reader Christine and it goes to an 18-year-old Rutland, Vermont man who tragically lost both legs when he tried crawling underneath a moving freight train because he didn’t want to wait for it to pass by before he could get to the other side of the tracks.
Barre Times-Argus (Vermont) 14-Oct-02
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Bonehead award four goes to the Washington State University student newspaper for having to print the following correction about a previous story headlined, “Filipino-American history recognized:”
“The (Washington State University) Daily Evergreen would like to sincerely apologize for an injustice served to the Filipino-American, Spanish-speaking and Catholic communities on the front page of Thursday's Evergreen. The story 'Filipino-American history recognized' stated that the 'Nuestra Senora de Buena Esperanza,' the galleon on which the first Filipinos landed at Morro Bay, Calif., loosely translates to 'The Big *** Spanish Boat.' It actually translates to 'Our Lady of Good Hope.'"
The newspaper had gotten the translation off some web site somewhere.
Seattle Times (Seattle, Washington) 9-Oct-02
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Today We Bestow Four Bonehead Awards 
