Idiots of the year awards, nominations!!

Patrickt said:

It's rather like all those folks who drive better after a few drinks. A few more and they race car drivers. At one point we had a list of questions we were required to read to drunken drivers and record their answers. One question was, "What city are you in?"
"Cheyenne?"
"Nope."
"Denver?"
"Nope."
"Boulder?"
"Nope, and it's not a multiple choice question."

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Better to ask them what state they're in. The obvious answer, "the state of inebriation."

New nominees for idiotic people of the year awards, Belgian edition.

- a representative of Thomas Cook in Belgium shared this complaint of people who's vacation brought them to the Caribbean islands. The Belgian family loved their vacation but had this complaint, it had taken them 9 hours to fly down to their destination, but the American family they met in the Caribbean only had to fly for 4 hours. The Belgians did not think that was fair that they had to fly 5 hours more than the Americans :shock:

- Another Belgian family complained about the information they placed in one of their vacation brochures. When the children of that family went snorkeling in the waters of the coast/in the ocean they were scared to death when they found fishes swimming there, why did the travel organization not warn them that while snorkeling they might encounter fish?

- An elderly Belgian couple went on their dream vacation, a trip to India. They loved the country, they just had one complaint about the food. They complained that almost everywhere they sold those horrible curry dishes. In their Indian Hotel, in the Indian restaurants, everywhere, it was almost like it was their national dish (complained the elderly couple). And they did not enjoy spicy food, luckily there was a lot of fruit to eat.

- A Belgian family who went to the Southern region of Spain complained to the travel agency that they were shocked to find so many Spaniards at their vacation destination. "Spaniards everywhere. And they meant every nook and cranny had Spanish people. The taxi drivers, Spanish. The hotel staff, Spanish. The shops in the village, full of Spaniards. And they could not speak Spanish and the Spaniards did not understand their Flemish/Dutch. Why had the travel company not mentioned in their travel guide/brochure that the people there spoke Spanish and could not understand their Dutch language.

- Belgians who booked a vacation in a village next to a volcano complained when they returned that they could not find lava flowing anywhere. We said that was a good thing. But they felt the travel agency had cheated them by claiming that there was a volcano there, all they could find was some mountain next to the village, but no volcano in sight.

- A Belgian couple stated that when they arrived in their hotel they did not venture out of their hotel room once for the first few days. They did that because on the inside of their door, on the handle, there was a "do not disturb" sign hanging there. They thought that this meant that they were not allowed to leave the hotel room. They could not understand why, because when they looked out their window they could see people enjoying the pool and the gardens. When my husband violated the do not disturb sign and ventured out all the way to the lobby, the people at the hotel desk acted like they did not know what we were talking about (about not being allowed to go out of the room). The next few days we decided to ignore the fact that they banned us from leaving our room and we went out anyway.

When they returned they asked their travel agent what the hotel was doing banning them from leaving their room by hanging that sign on the door.

- A family (Belgians) who had gone on holiday to a village in Spain (South of Spain) complained to the travel agency about those lazy ass Spanish shopkeepers. Every single time the Belgian family wanted to go shopping in the afternoon the shops were closed due to "siesta". The Belgian loudly complained that those shopkeepers took that Fiesta time way to seriously by closing down their shops. Whether or not the travel agents could stop them taking a siesta because they wanted to go and shop.

Another nominee for idiot of the year award.

A burglar in Boskoop was startled by the lady of the house and as almost always the burglar flees upon being found (remember, this is a Dutch story and virtually no burglar is armed or has any desire to be bumped up to armed robbery). The police was notified and they looked in the area but the burglar was too fast for them and he was nowhere to be found.

Now where usually it is a lot of working finding a burglar, especially if he wore gloves, but this one was dead easy to find. The buffoon out of Rotterdam had left his mobile phone at the burgled house and they had no problem sussing out who it belonged to and the next morning the man was arrested on charges of burglary. So for any wood be burglars, don't bring your phone to a job, it could land you in jail.:lamo

And, a teenager on the Texas most wanted list gets arrested after posting his location on instagram

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-most-wanted-apos-fugitive-155117559.html

Darwin Award of 2017:

(21 March 2017, Germany) Blasting apart a ticketing machine at the train station was supposed to buy him a ticket to the good life, but instead the 31-year-old purchased passage in the opposite direction, losing his life in an explosion that ripped the metal front panel off the machine.The details are: he stiffened his resolve with a few drinks at a bar, he

was spotted spraying cans of aerosol gas into a ticket vending machine, he placed the empties in a jute bag, and then he ignited the gas (by means undisclosed) causing an explosion that rocked the Dortmund neighborhood.
A bar acquaintance recognized him and called for emergency help. But, sprinkled with shrapnel wounds and suffering a substantial head injury, the man rapidly succumbed to death despite resuscitation efforts.
Safety measures as simple as wearing a leather jacket and motorcycle helmet would have changed the outcome for Mr. One Way Ticket Out.

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Not quite a Darwin award, but close!