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A 55-year-old man in Montana named John Hughes decided to cross something off his bucket list recently.  He followed a patrol car, then deliberately bated the officer to pull him over by speeding.  Then he led the officer on a high speed chase on the interstate at 100 miles per hour. Authorities finally laid out spikes to flatten John’s tires and get him to stop. Why did he do this?  He said he always wanted “to see what it would be like to be in a police chase.”  I wonder if he “always wondered what it would be like” to be a prison bitch too.

Sometimes inmates forget that they are in prison.  A female prisoner in Sweden, who is serving a life sentence for murder, is demanding vacation time away from the job she has inside the prison. She believes she’s owed compensation for paid vacation time required by Swedish labor laws. She was told the prison does not grant any vacation time. Riiiight lady…cause (and I know this will shock you), prisoners are not protected by the same laws as other law-abiding workers. News Flash!!!

A woman in Seattle held a ceremony to marry a 107-year-old building. She married the building as a protest against the gentrification in the neighborhood, and since she considers the building a female, she’s referring to the marriage as a “gay marriage.”  I hate to break it to ya lady, but no one is going to change the neighborhood over your so-called marriage ….they’re just going to think you are bat crap crazy.

A major “whoops” from Vassar College in New York.  They accidentally sent acceptance letters to 76 applicants who were NOT granted admission into the college.  The school’s director of media relations explained “It was a human error working with technology that caused this; we take full responsibility.” Within hours, Vassar sent an apology and denial letter to the 76 students…..wonder if they wrote “PSYCH!” at the bottom of the letter.

Police in Atlanta arrested two teenagers who broke into CNN’s newsroom and then used the computers to check their Facebook pages.  The 19 and 17 year olds climbed over a ledge to get into the newsroom, and it set off an alarm.  They were both still looking at Facebook when police arrived to arrest them.

If you’re a criminal, here’s another reminder to be careful in picking your next victim.  A teenager in Florida broke into a home, and quickly found himself being detained by the homeowner, who also happened to be a police officer.  The homeowner said he and his wife woke up around 3AM from loud noises when the teenager forced his way through their front door.  He had a brief struggle with the teen before restraining him and calling 911.

Yet ANOTHER case of abusing the 911 system.  A man in Willowbrook, Illinois, called 911 to request that an officer come to his house so he could fight him.  John Pacella called the emergency number around 4 in the morning and when police arrived, he literally tried to fight them. He was taken to jail and booked instead.

Today’s dumbass could also get the “Worst Driver of the Year” Award too.  47-year-old Curtis Gunter of Polk County, Florida, was arrested after he crashed his car 5 separate times in one day.  Luckily those crashes happened when Curtis hit parked cars, so no one else was injured.  The last car he smashed into?  A parked patrol car.  Here’s the kicker: he wasn’t even drunk – just that bad of a driver! He was charged with reckless driving, property damage and leaving the scene of a crash.

Today’s dumbass award goes to the cruise line that owns the doomed Costa Concordia…the ship that wrecked off the coast of Italy and has resulted in at least 15 deaths.  To compensate the victims, the company is giving them a refund, and are offering them 30% off their future cruises.  Oh yeah, I’m sure they are lining up to take another cruise about now.  One passenger says “It’s a ridiculous and insulting offer.”  Um, I’d agree.

From the “Nice Try” Department: A Wisconsin man was arrested on domestic abuse charges, and he claims it wasn’t him – it was a ghost that punched his wife.  When police were called to the scene, the man’s wife told police that her husband tried to strangle her and hit her in the face when she tried to call 911. Her husband’s claim that it was actually a ghost didn’t fly, and he went to jail.