stupid things people do

Tennessee Collierville High football coach Shawn Abel stepped down from his coaching position after his profanity-laden pregame locker room speech was leaked on YouTube.

A man called England’s 999 emergency service number to report an unidentified light floating in the sky. Then, two minutes later, he had the courtesy to call back and admit what he thought could’ve been space aliens was actually just the moon.

A woman from Kissimmee, FL is facing both theft and child neglect charges for allegedly leaving two children in a car in the parking lot of a store where she was shoplifting.

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Police in Berlin have finally arrested a man who was responsible for the burning of more than 100 cars in Germany over the last four months.

After betting his friends $100 that he could fit in a kiddie swing at a playground, a 21-year-old Vallejo, CA man lubed himself up with liquid laundry detergent and jammed through the swing’s two small leg holes.

This giant human slingshot doesn’t actually release its flesh-and-blood projectiles into the air (that would be really dangerous) but it still looks like a whole lot of fun. Watch it in action below.

Looks like we have a brand new candidate for dumbest criminal ever. Patrick Johnson robbed two banks in the Ocala, FL area in one day. The thief had the presence of mind to change his wardrobe  between his crimes, but his method of sticking up the banks — a note stating he had a gun — was the same both times.

A Swiss man returning home from the Dominican Republic was busted by custom officials at the Zurich airport with a whopping 261 endangered Mexican tarantulas, which he had packed into individual plastic bags and stuffed in his luggage.

This mother cheers really loudly at a school swim meet, perhaps in attempt to get her daughter to hear her words of encouragement from underwater.

A man wearing a pair of ear buds and a smile hung onto the exterior of a New York city subway car as it traveled between two stations.

In the days before the internet, people who were rude to waitstaff and/or didn’t tip properly could go about their shameful lives in relative obscurity. Welcome to 2011. The rules, they have changed.