humans!
do we have a stupidity threshold?
slaps (un-tatooed) forehead.
Spare a thought if you will today for David Jonathan Winkelman, a 48-year-old Iowa man whose arrest last week for failing to appear in court to answer a minor misdemeanor charge prompted his rapid elevation to net celebrity. Police mugshot of David Winkelman The reason for Winkelman's fifteen minutes of fame is pretty clear, …
I beg to differ. I've met a skinhead recovering heroin addict about 10 years ago with the word "c**t" tattooed in block capitals on the back of his head. He was quite an intimidating person, and I'm not sure he didn't know it was there - if it were done under the influence, how often do you see the back of your head, and who's really going to point it out to him?..
OK, so I can kind of see getting your head tattooed if you have no income and 100k is more than you are likely to make any other way. But suing the radio station and then dropping the case or not turning up just seems plain daft. They would have surely had a bit of a chance of getting something out of it?
Yeah this is funny. But then you think about it and the whole story is just a depressing landscape of stupidity without end. It makes me sad to think there's people out there that dim, you have to pity him
But who did he get to do the tattoo? Most tattoo artists would have refused to do that,. Not just because of what it is, but where it is.
.. in many countries the offer would have constituted a verbal contract and the radio station would have committed themselves to it.
The DJs who thought this was funny probably guessed that there are dumb people out there who would do this so they should at least get a good kickin from this numpty.
There are dumb DJs everywhere, and dumber listeners. Several years ago, a radio station in Sacramento, CA, offered a free Nintendo Wii to the person who could,"hold their wee for a Wii".. The winner didn't get a chance to enjoy her prize... she died of water intoxication several hours later... She drank so much, more than three gallons in a couple of hours, that her electolytes were thrown out of whack and she died before doctors could treat her. Her family sued the radio station... A jury awarded the family $16.5 million.
More here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/
and here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/18/national/main2369761.shtml
Within 24 hours after the contest, all ten of the radio station employees involved in the contest, including the three DJs, were fired.
Fail because the DJs were joking about the possibility that someone could die from water intoxication even after they were warned on the air by a nurse.
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Noted the article identified two, not just Mr Winkelman, but also his step-son, a Mr Goddard, who bear the mark of KORB. I consider it a failing on the Reg's part to have not followed up with a photo of the other person. How hard can it be to find him, he's got a radio station ad tattooed on his forehead?