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It’s terrific to be creative, but not when it endangers your life. A wedding photographer thought  he came up with a great ida – have a bride and groom pose holding hunting rifles.  Bad idea: one of the rifles accidentally went off, and it killed the photographer.  This happened over the weekend in Sicily, where it is tradition for people to fire off guns at family events.  Since the photo session was happening before the wedding, the bride and groom called the wedding off after the photographer was killed. (Guess it wasn’t a good omen for the marriage.)

Another dumbass from the “nice try” department.  A self-proclaimed Austalian witch told a traffic cop that she is not subject to earthly laws and she was “a being from another world.” Then she tried to drive off while the officer’s arm was caught in her car door and dragged the officer alongside the car.  She continued her alien defense in court, but not surprisingly, the judge didn’t buy it and she was charged with a long list of crimes.

A female bank  robber picked a bad time to lock her keys in the car.  48-year-old Laura Murray went into a bank in Davis, California, and passed the teller a note demanding money.  After getting it, she ran to her getaway vehicle, but couldn’t get into it since she’d locked her keys inside.  She then tried to break her car window, and was still trying to get into her locked car when police pulled up to arrest her.

There’s a lot of dumb things people end up doing on a bet…for example: today’s dumbass. A 35-year-old Indian man swallowed a highly poisonous snake for a bet worth just a few dollars. He first killed the snake, then ate it raw for about $2.42. He soon fell violently ill and was rushed to the hospital and doctor’s managed to remove the contents of his stomach before the snake’s venom could enter his bloom stream, which would have killed him.

Today’s dumbass trio involves a dine-and-dash gone wrong.  Three women went to a Waffle House in Springfield to eat the other night.  They ran out on their $39 bill, but two of them left their purses in their booth.    Amazingly, one of  the women returned a short time later and demanded their purses back.  The manager told her she’d have to wait for police to arrive, but she left.  Of course the purses contained two of the women’s IDs, so they won’t be hard to track down.  The manager says the women seemed to be drunk or on drugs or both.

From the “you need to chill out” department, today’s dumbass award goes to the Rexburg, Idaho police department.  They heard about a planned water balloon fight with students from BYU, and prevented them from doing it.  The police were waiting at the park when the students showed up and they told them if they didn’t leave they’d be charged with a misdemeanor. The reason? The students had not obtained a public gathering permit from the city and could not have more than 25 people gathered at the park. Really? It’s hotter than a hooker in church outside and the priority is to stop a water balloon fight? Wow….

An Arizona woman, who damaged her boyfriend’s car with a dog leash, met the police at her door naked and holding a beer when they arrived to arrest her.  Chandra Reed of Mesa then became billigerent with the officers and refused to answer questions before calling them “pigs.” (Good move – that always gets you off the hook.)  She denied damaging the car, but her boyfriend had a photo on his phone of her doing it.  She eventually agreed to put on some clothes before they arrested her.

If you’re dumb enough to lead cops on a chase, you should at least make sure you have a form of transportation that might have a chance of outrunning them. A 17-year-old Amish kid is in big trouble after he led police on a chase through town on his horsedrawn buggy.  Police tried to stop him after he ran a red light, but he refused to stop for over a mile.  The chase ended when the teen crashed his horse and buggy and ran away on foot.  He was quickly found and arrested.

Sure, we all get cases of “Monday-itis”, where you don’t want to go back to work.  Today’s dumbass went to the extreme for some extra vaca.  A middle school teacher in Pennsylvania named Leslie lied about having an inoperable brain tumor for the last several years so she could take additional sick leave.  School officials got suspicious when Leslie never showed any symptoms from a tumor or treatment. Leslie has now admitted she lied, resigned from her job,  and is being charged with 12 counts of forgery.

Authorities in Washington state said a man facing theft and assault charges told deputies he did not need the tweezers he allegedly tried to steal. Sheriff’s deputies said Troy Montgomery walked into a pharmacy Friday and placed a pair of the store’s tweezers in his pocket. Montgomery threw the tweezers and tried to leave when a store employee confronted him and said she was calling police. Deputies said Montgomery shoved a pharmacist, who was blocking the door, causing the man to fall to the ground and incur a 3-inch cut to his arm. Deputies said the suspect was detained by customers until they arrived. Montgomery was asked whether he wanted to answer questions about the incident. “Not really,” Montgomery told deputies. “Besides being stupid, I don’t even need the thing, about the dumbest thing I ever did.” He was arrested and charged with third-degree theft and third-degree assault.