Tag: STUPID

A guy in Idaho has been arrested for pretending to be a police officer -- with his smartphone. On Saturday night, Alexander A. Welch allegedly used an app that flashes blue and red lights to trick another driver into thinking he was a police officer. It worked. The motorist pulled over, and Welch sped away. Understandably annoyed, the driver followed Welch's car, and called the real police. ...

Most video game addicts would do just about anything to get their hands on a free copy of their favorite game. But few would go as far as to pull off a bank robbery-style heist of their local retailer. Why? Because it's illegal, it's stupid, and, in the age of rampant online piracy, it's not even slightly necessary. Steven Archer, however, apparently thought it was worth a shot. The 33-year-old ...

The idyllic burg of Blogtown would get mighty lonely and boring without the asinine behavior of oblivious social networkers. Snarky nerds now depend on those daily stories of arrests, divorces, firings and expulsions, so -- thankfully -- a kind Michigan resident has stepped up to the plate of social networking stupidity. Hadley Jons, an enthusiastic juror serving in a resisting arrest trial, ...

Rod Blagojevich is a national treasure. The former Illinois governor has amazed us with his headline grabbing corruptibility and shameless ploys for attention. But while we can kiss his priceless appearances on reality TV shows goodbye and as there will be no Tweeting from the courtroom, at least we can still revel in some of his more "colorful" golden quotes. The folks at the State ...

Road SMS' is an Android app from the Samsung App Store, and we hate hate HATE it. It ingeniously encourages the silly, rude and sometimes lethal practice of texting-while-walking. 'Road SMS' purports to be some kind of safe alternative because it uses your phone's camera as a video background while you're tapping away at that text that is so damn important that you can't stop walking. Oh, ...

'On the Waterfront' spawned 'The Godfather,' which spawned 'Goodfellas,' which spawned... 'Mafia Wars'? Somewhere, Joe Pesci is choking himself with a telephone cord right now. Yep, a movie based on the absurdly popular Zynga-produced Facebook game is definitely in the works, effectively driving a stake through the heart of American cinema. The "film," which describes itself as a "crime ...

Share You knows that it's not a good idea to publicly display your Social Security number. Believe it or not, LifeLock CEO Todd Davis had to learn this seemingly obvious lesson the hard way. According to Wired, Davis' identity, plastered across the company's advertisements, has been stolen 13 times since June 2007, despite his claim that paying LifeLock $10-a-month makes identity theft ...

After a virus left his computer in disrepair, 46-year-old Daniel Wagner of Sheboygan, Wisconsin did what most people would do; he took it to a store to get it fixed. Unlike most people, however, Daniel Wagner keeps a lot of child pornography on his PC. You can probably guess where this is headed. Apparently completely oblivious to the fact that underage porn is, um, illegal, Wagner waltzed into ...

At this point, we find it hard to have sympathy for people who get fired because of something they posted on Facebook. It's like touching a hot stove -- you know not to do it and it will hurt if you do. But for some reason, people just haven't learned. According to the Charlotte Observer, a UNC-Charlotte student was fired from her waitress job for complaining about restaurant customers on her ...

What's the number one problem plaguing today's youth? Drugs? Please. Sexting? Psh. Justin Bieber? Close, but no. It's paper, you guys. In today's e-mail and SMS-dominated age, kids have simply lost touch with the core American values of good penmanship and environmental recklessness. And that's why the altruists at the Domtar paper company have taken it upon themselves to launch a new awareness ...

Remember when, not too long ago, "guru" was one of those corporate words du jour? We had "Web gurus" and "customer service gurus" and inspiration-gurus-at-large. These self-styled titles were hot like UGGs, and fell out of vogue almost as quickly. [Ed. Note: Yes. Out of vogue. Dead. Kaput.] Well, now people have taken to "ninja" as the cool new nom de whatever, and it's a broad enough trend that ...

Share We gather that street-level drug dealers are not, on average, your typical Mensa candidates; however constantly navigating a criminal underworld with intent to distribute must require some level of savvy. So we suggest that, when the three New York residents who were busted after sending an errant text message to a drug task force officer get out of prison, they log on to Monster.com and ...

What's more embarrassing than a burglar accidentally dialing 9-1-1 on herself? Accidentally calling the police while she's in the middle of giving a lecture on how to escape the police. As 19-year-old Stefanie Vargas and her 13-year-old male accomplice were in the middle of robbing cars in Daytona Beach, Fla., the cell phone in Vargas' pocket "accidentally" called 9-1-1, allowing dispatchers ...

Are you too cool for gloves? Even those fingerless ones that only hipsters (and the homeless) wear? If you answered yes, then surely you also own an iPhone -- the ultimate barometer of anybody's coolness these days. So just how does one remain both hip and warm this winter? With a new application called Pocketheat, of course. According to Gizmodo, the app uses 100-percent of the device's ...

Ah, the American legal system, affording every red-blooded citizen the right to sue every other red-blooded citizen for the most inane reasons. According to the Miami New Times, Florida woman Elizabeth Espinal filed a lawsuit in April against Burger King, alleging the fast-food giant flooded her inbox with spam text messages. She claims the texts, which were first received in April 2008, caused ...