Bonehead award one goes to a Prince Albert, Canadian, businessman who was sentenced to 12 months in prison for paying someone to satisfy his sexual fantasy by coming into his store armed with a pellet gun and ordering him and an unsuspecting female acquaintance to strip nude and assume a sexual position that they were then tied up into. The compensation was the money taken from the register.
The woman was able to free herself and call the police.
"To say that this is bizarre and unique is an understatement," said the judge at the sentencing.
The Canadian Press via The Arizona Republic 31-Oct-02
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Bonehead award two goes to a Sullivan, Maine firefighter who set the firehouse on fire after dumping a smoldering cigarette into the kitchen garbage can and then leaving the building. It took sixty firefighters and 15 trucks, from seven towns, to put out the blaze.
Smoking was never allowed in the building.
Thank you reader, Janice Cross, for this story.
Bangor Daily News 30-Sep-02
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Reader, and friend, John Hart, wants you to know that a bonehead award should go to all those people who made it necessary for the Epson company to add the following warning to their ink cartridges: “Carefully remove yellow tape from the cartridge; do not drink the ink.”
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Bonehead award four, a “too dumb to be a criminal” bonehead award goes to a Charlotte, North Carolina bank robber who robbed the BB&T bank and then stopped off at a restaurant a short distance away where bank employees go to eat.
WSOC-TV Eyewitness News (Charlotte, North Carolina) 30-Oct-02
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Bonehead award five goes to the company that sends out the “Spy on Anyone” spam Email which proclaims in a note at the bottom of the Email, “Your privacy is important to us...”
New Scientist
Today We Bestow Five Bonehead Awards 
