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I have seen, at a railway station, gentlemen with first-class tickets walking up and down the platform unable to find a first-class carriage; and if the train was going on they have jumped in the third class so as to get to their journey’s end. If there is any man who does not think that he ought to…

I have heard of a certain king who had a jester or “fool” to make fun for him, as kings used to have. But this “fool” was no fool; he had much sense, and he had thought wisely about eternal matters. One day, when he had greatly pleased the king, his majesty gave him a stick, and said to him, “Tom, there…

I have heard of a naturalist who thought himself exceedingly wise with regard to the natural history of birds. Yet he had learned all he knew in his study, and had never so much as seen a bird either flying through the air or sitting upon its perch. He was a fool, although he thought himself exceedingly…

FOOLISHNESS 25-year-old Param Sharma was arrested for “reckless driving” because he was in the back seat of his Tesla, without another person in the driver’s seat, as his Tesla was in either “Autopilot,” or “Full Self-Driving” mode. Apparently, the arrest has not changed Sharma’s resolve to be a backseat…

Animal rescuers rushed to a Singapore home after a woman called them because she thought she heard a cobra hissing in her bathroom. When the woman called the emergency number, she sent the team a recording of the noise she heard, which they believed could be the sound of a deadly black spitting cobra,…

Laura Linham’s driver’s license has a typo—it says she is from the “Unityed Kingdom” instead of United Kingdom. Commenting on the error, Linham said, "It also makes me wish the photo on the card was better, so I could be less embarrassed when I whip it out and show everyone the typo."—Jim L. Wilson http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/motorist-given-driving-licence-embarrassing-9115252…

Nassau County, New York District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a 25-year-old man from the area is facing jail time because he tried to forge his death certificate to avoid serving another jail sentence. The prosecutor said he might have been successful if not for the typos in the document.…

A Toronto man said he was surprised and confused when a package arrived at his home containing something that he had ordered eight years earlier. When the package was dropped off on his doorstep Elliot Berinstein said he was confused because he had not ordered anything from the company in a long time.…

One of the adaptations taken as a result of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic is the wearing of facemasks. According to some, wearing the facemask prevents droplets containing the virus from escaping through the mouth and nose to infect others. How then do you explain the Kentucky woman who approached a…

Residents of the Welsh town of Llandudno reported a herd of 122 Kashmiri goats overran the town during the lockdown, overrunning neighborhoods and eating plants. Locals said the goats wandered away from their home in a nearby country park and found a new habitant in city streets due to a reduction of…

During the coronavirus lockdown in England, British police received an emergency call informing them that the caller could hear someone snoring loudly and wanted police assistance to silence the noise. Rather than sending a unit, the emergency operator informed that caller that was not an appropriate…

Officials in Brussels, Belgium said there has been a delay in starting repairs to the streets of the city. They said underground tunnels beneath the city are crumbling, and the roadways are in poor shape, and rather than blame bureaucracy, the officials told parliament that problem is mice. During a…

The growth of social media has created an increase of self-portraits or “selfies.” Google estimates that millions of selfies are taken every day, and the majority of them are taken by women. A Mashable report said that there were more selfie related deaths than shark-related deaths in 2015. Samuel Jay,…

A Detroit man with a fear of spiders caused a fire when he tried to kill a spider with a lighter. The man says he thought he saw a spider near the fuel door of his car while getting gas and tried to remove it. The lighter actually ignited gasoline on the side of the car, the pump, and the pavement. On…

Millions of new Australian $50 bills contain an embarrassing typographical error that was overlooked before the bills were printed and circulated. The bills are most widely circulated in Australia and makes up about half of the total value of banknotes in use. The new note was introduced in October 2018…

A mistake by security at a local airport helped a Utah principal land an appearance by an NFL star. Ilene Strong and Kyle Van Noy, and former BYU football player and now Detroit Lions linebacker, accidentally picked up the other’s laptops from security bin while going through airport security. Van Noy…

It took a couple of months for someone to discover the typo, but was quickly corrected when it was discovered. The $500.00 rug outside the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office in Florida was supposed to say, ‘in God we trust,’ but the rug manufacturer mistyped the word God, rearranging the letters so that…

Ken Slusher says he received such a large bill that it would be funny, if it wasn’t creating problems for them to finance a new home. Their cell phone provider sent them a bill for $2 million for one month of service. He says the problems began when they switched carriers, and the first bill was six…

A painting worth more than a million dollars is now back on display in Taiwan after a 12-year-old-boy tripped and punched a hole in the canvass as he fell. The painting entitled “Flowers” by Paolo Propora is part of an exhibit of artwork that painted by or influenced by Leonardo da Vinci. Organizer David…

Not all mistakes are created equal. Take Carmen Chamblees’ mistake for instance. She was angry with her ex-boyfriend and decided to set his car on fire. I think we would all agree that was a mistake. She didn’t just think about it, or threaten to do it, she carried out her plan. Again, I think we would…

Carnegie Mellon University accidentally told 800 applicants that they had won a place in one of the school’s computer science programs and then had to retract those letters. The letters were sent by email and retracted hours later, but not before many of the people had already told their family and friends…

Arkansas police said an 18-year-old man tried to steal a commercial jet so he could fly to a concert in another state. Authorities responded to reports of a man jumping an airport fence and found Zemarcuis Scott in an Envoy Air jet. They said Scott told them he wanted to go to the concert and thought…

Police in Virginia said a man totaled an expensive sports car, the day after he bought it. They did not identify the driver, but posted t a picture and caption on their social media page. They said, “Purchased Friday. Totaled Saturday. This McLaren 720S, costing around $300,000, was destroyed today in…

An electronics recycling center in California is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be a collector’s item. Workers found the Apple I computer inside a box of electronics that a woman had collected from her garage after her husband died. She did not ask for a…

Twenty-two year old Niels Jenson encountered a 15’ crocodile in a wildlife park in Northern Australia, but didn’t run away. Instead, he waited for the reptile to finish eating and straddled the animal so he could get a photo riding the crocodile. —Jim L. Wilson https://news.sky.com/story/reckless-tourist-filmed-sitting-on-5m-long-crocodile-in-australia-11508454…