Yes, the 707 that was parked outside. One of my friends had a row of seats from that plane installed as the back seat of his car.

I've watched a sergeant shoot himself in the foot while showing a group of privates how to clear a weapon (i.e., how to make sure there's no rounds left inside)...
I've seen an IED go off dead center on a Humvee- the glorious thing being that the moron who set it used an illumination artillery round instead of a high-explosive one, thus treating us all to a harmless, but pretty, fireworks show.
The best one, though, has to be the marine who accidentally discharged an anti-tank missile over/across an air field while giving a class on how to use it. (The thing has something like 6 safeties on it).

(By the way, the soldier/marine above are two of the very few exceptions, not the rule. Or we'd all be dead, of course.)

Has anyone ever seen the clip of a couple police officers who had apparently just arrested someone and brought him into the station, only to find that they didn't pat him down, the officer leaves the room and the man blows his head off?

That was posted in the video thread....or the links thread, but I think the former. :cool:

Oh! good to know Bruce, thank you.

We love that one at work. Very good lesson on making sure you search someone before you bring them in.

My old extension number at work was 1181 and all the Directory Enquiries numbers in the UK start with 118. So if people forgot to press 9 for an outside line and just started dialling, they'd come through to me. Somehow they'd miss the part where I answered with my name and "Medicines Management Team" and roll straight into asking me for telephone numbers.

I came back from annual leave once to find a message from a woman who was sectioned. She'd obviously managed to get access to the internal telephone system. She was marvellously lucid and explained that she'd called me to get the telephone number for the BBC, but as I was on the line she wanted to warn me of a few things, namely that the world was going to end in 48 hours.

She explained that as I was being so helpful, she could save me, and a couple of my friends if I wanted. She knew famous people - the Royal Family & Phil Collins were mentioned - and the Beastie Boys were on their way to pick her up in their private plane, and that's how we would be saved. She not only correctly named the 3 Beastie Boys but also used my name throughout the message (something that genuine callers never seem to get right, leaving messages for Kerry, Gerald, Carol etc).

This was mixed in with complaints about how she was being treated on the ward (they drugged her in order to steal from her apparently). The message cut out after a while, I think she would have been happy to continue for much longer.

There used to be a website of messages from a psych hospital inpatient left with one of the state-level libertarian party offices. I miss those.

Got the following e-mail this morning:

Gotta watch those spell checkers.

LOL....just incase his not showing up for work 'causes you to lose control of your bodily functions...

thanks for the laugh...i needed one...

A student was appealing her financial aid awards, for a legitimate reason, stating that she wouldn't have as much income this year as last due to the fact that her ex husband had to do a lot of catching up on his child support the previous year. According to her, her ex was "no longer in the rears."

I bet he wasn't, Bob!!

Don'tcha love it??? Our last phone system (a Merlin Legend from AT&T/Lucent/Avaya/whatever the hell their name is this week, for those keeping score at home) allowed you to put all your phone menus in spanish by dialing *792 . It just so happens that at our site 7929 is the internal extension for voice mail. Every once in a while somebody would brush the * on their way to the 7 with mildly amusing results.

Perhaps second only to the tough-guy gangsta narc who's lecturing to a bunch of Miami kids about how dangerous guns are and how he's "de only person in dis room po'fesssnul enough to handle this Glock" (with a dramatic thumbing of the slide release) who then *immediately* proceeds to negligent-discharge the thing into his own foot.

He tries to shine it on for a few minutes, but when he decides he's going to show them an AK and everybody yells "no!" and ducks, he realizes it's time to bring the presentation to a close.

After he was fired, he sued DEA in pro se for leaking the video and ruining his reputation...

Gosh...idiot...but, you can pretty much sue for anything these days huh? Er, well, that's the way it seems.