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TODAY WE BESTOW FOUR BONEHEAD AWARDS
But She Said She Forgot All About Me

Bonehead award one, a “too dumb to be a criminal” bonehead award, goes to a San Francisco wannabe bank robber who ended up robbing a teller who was his former girlfriend, police said.

San Francisco Chronicle 3-Jan-03
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In Heaven There Ain't No TV, That's Why We Watch It Here
Bonehead award two goes to the German television licensing fee agency which has been sending angry letters to the Roman Catholic Church in Ramsdorf demanding that a woman named, “Frau Walburga St” pay the 16.15 euro television license or finally face a 1,000-euro fine. The woman they have been tenaciously demanding payment from was born in 710 and was made a saint in 880.

And what says and agency official after finally realizing whom they were billing a woman who's been dead for centuries?

"This was quite embarrassing."

Reuters via Yahoo News 6-Jan-03
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Not How To Get Clean Reception On The TV
Reader Mitch Friedman from Cheshire, Connecticut wants you to know that a bonehead award should go to all those people who made it necessary for the manufacturer of his grandparent’s TV’s remote control to place the following warning on the back of the remote control unit:

“Not dishwasher safe”


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Trying To Get 3 Cups Of Coffee In a 2 Cup Mug
And reader Scott in Highland Village, Texas wants you to know that a bonehead award should go to all those people who made it necessary for the manufacturer of a travel coffee mug to include the following warning along with the mug:

“Warning – Do not exceed the product capacity with liquids, hot drinks may scald the user.”


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WEIRD EXTRAS
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Hire ‘Em

The owner of a Buenos Aires gasoline station, after being robbed by a man more than 100 times, with no response ever from the police, has decided to hire the man as his head of security.

“If I had to give him some money every month under a gun menace, I prefer to have him working for me. ... after having robbed us so many times, he knows everything about the gas station,” says Andrés Pietro, the gas station owner.

Channel Oeste cable news (Argentina) via Ananova (UK) 6-Jan-03
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Never Piss Off The Romanians
A Romanian football club, fed up with “rowdy fans,” is planning to install a crocodile-filled moat around the playing field to keep fans out.

Club chairman Alexandra Cringus said: "This is not a joke. We can get crocodiles easy enough and feed them on meat from the local abattoir. The ditch is planned to be wide enough that no one could manage to jump over it. Anyone who attempted to do so would have to deal with the crocs.

Ananova (UK) 3-Jan-03
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