Stupidity Reigns

There is a news item that has been doing the rounds lately and I cannot imagine what was going through this guys head to bring him to this point in his life. Would you deliberately glue your ass to a toilet seat in a department store and then claim it was the fault of the store for ignoring him for hours. The legal system in the US has a lot to be blamed for in this case and it is this compensation mentality that is making stupid people do stupid things and gluing your ass to a toilet seat is a pretty stupid thing to do. I couldn’t bring myself to humiliate myself to the point of having firemen unbolt the toilet seat and lift me off like some shop dummy, which I think this guy is basically, and then try and turn it into a legal claim. The most stupid part of it was that he has tried it before, twice even and now everyone knows he is an ass, literally. Even more bizarre was the woman who claimed to have found a finger in her Wendy’s chilli, now that is a strange thing. Admittedly finding a foreign object in your food is bad but trying to make people believe that you found a finger is just trying it on too much, it is stretching the imagination pretty far to think that a factory worker would get home and find his finger missing and then not tell his company, or get a lawyer to claim compensation, and let his finger find his way all the way into the food chain in Wendy’s is just completely and utterly insane, this was a news item that I followed with great interest as it was a subject very close to my heart as I love Wendy’s chilly to the point of dreaming about flying into the USA and going straight to the airport Wendy’s restaurant. So I was desperate to follow the story and find out many months later that the woman and her husband had hatched this plot, a very good description making them sound like a couple of stupid chickens. The husband had a friend who had had a finger accidentally cut off at work and the husband had actually paid the guy for the finger with the intent of using it in the extortion claim against Wendy’s. It was blatantly obvious it wouldn’t work, it was too damned high profile and they could DNA test the finger and perhaps someone would connect a missing finger on someone they know to a finger turning up in a Chilli pot in a restaurant. The husband got 12 years and the wife got 9 I believe. So compensation culture has got people doing the most stupid things and perhaps it is just stupid people doing stupid things. The ultimate I ever read was a guy who was trying to make a claim on his insurance policy and he needed to help of his friend and local asylum cell mate probably as they must have been insane to consider this, the guy wanted his friend to cut off his leg with a chainsaw so he could claim disability. Yes yes I know it is so crazily unbelievable that I still have trouble actually believing that someone would even consider this and the friend actually considering doing it for him. But they went ahead and the “friend” did cut off his leg with a chainsaw and the guy blead to death very quickly as you can imagine and the friend was then eventually charged with murder. So stupidity rules but it gives all us normal people a good laugh at the same time.