Top 8 morons of 2006?!

Top 8 morons of 2006?

These are true - they all actually happened!
1. AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who is lacking intelligence.
2. Police in Oakland, CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing 10 tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line shouting "Please come out and give yourself up!"
3. An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.
4. A man walked into a Topeka, KS Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.
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3 weeks ago
5. Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the man shouted "That's not what I said!"
6. A man spoke frantically to 911 on the phone: "My wife is pregnant, And her contractions are only two minutes apart". "Is this her first child?" 911 asked. "No!" the man shouted. "This is her husband!"
7. In Modesto, CA, Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used his thumb and a finger to simulate a gun. Unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket.

3 weeks ago
8. Last summer down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert an Hour east of Bakersfield, CA, some folks new to boating were having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22 foot boat going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power they applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they pulled into a nearby marina, thinking someone there may be able to tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine, the out-drive went up and down, and the propeller was not bent or damaged. So one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard. (NOW REMEMBER...THIS IS TRUE.) Under the boat, still strapped securely in place...was the trailer!

OMG- people can be clueless huh? I'll give the guy w/wife in labor a pass though :)!