Tag: STUPID

Erik Estavillo has made a name for himself by suing just about every computer and video game company he can get his lawsuit-issuing hands on. First was Sony, over being banned from the PlayStation Network. Then, the professional plaintiff filed suit against Microsoft, seeking $75,000 in restitution for his red-ring-of-death suffering Xbox 360. Later, Estavillo asked Nintendo for $5,000 in damages ...

The Brits are great, some of our favorite people. Well-dressed, polite, fabulous musicians, but perhaps a bit too hard on the average individual. In a recent investigation on the nature of humanity, CNET.co.uk decided to see what popular searches Google offered when prompted by simple questions, and the findings were bleak. Using 'Google Suggest,' the auto-fill feature that predicts text as it's ...

Drunk driving is one of those rare, universally inexcusable offenses. Getting blasted and getting behind the wheel endangers not only the driver, but innocent bystanders. Now, apparently, getting soused and lounging in La-Z-Boy can be just as dangerous. At least that's the case for 62 year old Dennis LeRoy from Minnesota, who recently pleaded guilty to driving drunk while cruising in his homemade ...

By now, we're all aware of how dangerous it is to text while driving. But, like children who just can't resist touching a hot stove, people continue to do it. While a car accident is never good, some are worse than others. For example, crashing into a parked cop car because you were texting is about as bad as it gets. That's just what happened late Wednesday night to one unfortunate, or just ...

In what could only be described as a dumb (if not callous) move, the design-oriented, U.K.-based furniture seller Habitat decided to come to the Iran/Twitter party with hopes of peddling its wares. With hash-tags (also known as #tags) featuring 'iran' and 'mousavi' (increasingly popular as the world tries to stay abreast of the situation in Iran), Habitat did not protest brutality or ...

Apparently, Boston drivers just don't get it. Last week, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trolley driver was fired for texting his way into an accident with another trolley, injuring 50 people. Now, the Boston Herald is reporting on another similar firing -- this time, a suburban Boston school bus driver was caught texting (with both hands off the wheel) by a camera-phone wielding ...

We are officially horrified. According to a new survey from British insurance company Esure, one in 10 drivers admit to sending updates to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking services while driving. That's just as bad as driving while texting, which is both illegal and stupid. What is really terrifying, though, is the number of reports in which the involved driver was performing some ...

Most of us have embarrassingly pocket-dialed someone before, and some have even accidentally hit the emergency call button on our cell phones, but a Peoria, Arizona teenager allegedly took dialing mishaps, and stupidity, to a whole new level last week. The 16-year-old delinquent apparently broke into a car, boosted its stereo and a Cricket cell phone, and then met up with fellow rapscallions to ...

You know you have acted like an idiot when your own attorney mocks you in open court. Ricky Hodgkinson, a 26-year-old man from Perton, England was compared by his own legal representative to Homer Simpson after he shot himself with a million-volt taser. Hodgkinson had purchased the illegal taser from a friend and wanted to see if it worked. The only logical thing to do at that point ...

Alright people. Look, we're big fans of all things digital and techy... but some things are just better left alone. We were a bit peeved when Monopoly replaced its multi-colored bills with a debit card, but taking Jenga digital is not only a travesty, but it doesn't even make any sense. First off, who wants to stare at a tiny LED screen (think those old-school Game & Watch handhelds from ...

What kind of criminal gets his name and birth-date tattooed on his neck? The simple answer -- not a very bright one. Aaron Evans, a 21-year-old repeat offender with an extremely troubled background, was caught on film breaking into a vehicle setup by U.K. police in a parking lot to catch opportunistic thieves. Evans smashed open the driver's side window of the car and stole a planted GPS ...

Despite the best efforts of tech savvy friends and Web sites (like this one), you, the Web-using public, simply continue your bad browsing habits. A new study shows, and we mean this in the nicest way possible, that you're just not listening. Faculty from the psychology department at North Carolina State University conducted a study in which students were presented with a series of fake Windows ...

Say it ain't so! America's most loyal advocate for Microsoft's Zune is apparently throwing in the towel. Of course, we should warn you that this could very well be a simple ploy for attention, but if the man keeps his word, he will soon be covering his Zune tattoos with... something else. Curiously, he didn't say whether or not he would be playing the traitor card and picking up some sort of ...

It's time to take a long, hard look at where we're headed as a society. No, really -- we've got office chairs coming to kill comradeship, specially designed lapboards made to keep you sedentary for as long as humanly possible, and now we're looking at the perfect device for keeping Earthlings in bed for days on end. The EasyChair WorkStation line of products essentially puts your laptop on ...