You cannot fix stupid!

[David Larsen]

First off, it is woodworking related because it involves wood.

I was at a BORG late this afternoon. It was just getting dark enough that I thought it was appropriate to turn on my headlights as I was pulling out of the parking lot. As I was leaving the lot, I saw a mid 50's male getting ready to leave on his Goldwing motorcycle. Horizontally across the back of the motorcycle was an 8 foot 1 x 6 attached with a bungie cord. Apparently this person needed a board! I should have taken a picture!

Imagine the motorcycle with this 1 x 6 attached horizontally. That would put about 3 feet sticking out on each side.

I guess you cannot fix stupid!

[Phil Thien]

Sounds like he was applying for a Darwin Award. Darwin Awards fix stupid, permanently.

[Rick Fisher]

I say we take the safety labels off everything .. For the sake of the future..

[Jim O'Dell]

Maybe it was really a wing and he was planning to fly above the crowds!! Most of the 1X material I've seen, no matter who sells it, is cupped enough to add a little lift. Jim.

[Carl Beckett]

I lived in puerto rico a couple years, where I saw everything, including a guy on a motorcycle carrying a ladder going down the highway

[ray hampton]

I lived in puerto rico a couple years, where I saw everything, including a guy on a motorcycle carrying a ladder going down the highway

I only see this stuff on the TV where someone are riding a bike
what about two teens stealing a street post and sticking it thru. a open window into the car , then hitting the post end so that the post will smack the driver head

[Mike Cruz]

Yes, you can fix stupid... When a car comes by and clips the board, he'll be in the running for the Darwin award. That'll fix 'em...

Phil, sorry, I hadn't seen your post. Somehow missed it. Apparently, we're on the same page...

[scott vroom]

A couple of my favorites...

[jeff . whitaker]

Heres one for you..
Had a customer who bought a used RC plane ( already assembled)
He put it inthe back of his pickup and drove home down I-10 .... not surprising at 40 mph.. it took off out the back and crashed on the pavement...he then called me and DEMANDED we replace it with a new plane... we had not warned him it would fly out the truck....
*SIGH*






what bothers me the most.... they let him have a drivers license....

[ray hampton]

Heres one for you..
Had a customer who bought a used RC plane ( already the back of his pickup and drove home down I-10 .... not surprising at 40 mph.. it took off out the back and crashed on the pavement...he then called me and DEMANDED we replace it with a new plane... we had not warned him it would fly out the truck....
*SIGH*


what bothers me the most.... they let him have a drivers license....

you should replace the plane, after all it did not fly

[Aleks Hunter]

That was my first thought too , WINGS!

[Mike Cruz]

Scott, that should be a Mercedes commercial!

[Dave Aronson]

jousting practice?

[George Gyulatyan]

Well, at least it WAS a Goldwing. Those things are like cars on two wheels!

[Tony Perrone]

My favorite was many years ago I worked at the Borg and a guy asked me to put 100 bags of concrete in the back of his truck, I looked at the truck and said volume wise it would fit but weight wise it will crush it you are looking at around 8000 pounds and it is cheaper to order a concrete truck. He looked at me and said "are you sure" I couldn't belive someone could be that stupid I told him 80lb bags you want 100 add the zeros he still didn't believe me and insisted we put it in the back of his truck (a 1500 chevy) I called the boss who made him sign a waiver, I still didn't want to do it so the boss loaded it about 1/2 hour later two guys pulled up and said you should see this idiot unloading his truck down the street the rear folded under his truck and the tow truck driver told him he couldn't lift the truck loaded. I have tons of stories of stuff I saw working their as they say when you are the smartest man in the room its time to leave.