A News of the Stupid story that's too good to pass up. I mean, how can you not click on a headline like "Men Accused of Wrestling Python Outside McDonald's":
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Two men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a 5-foot (1.5 meter) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police said Thursday. Victoria state police said the men stole the 8-year-old black-headed python and a lizard from a pet shop on Wednesday. They then brought the snake to the McDonald's parking lot, where they began wrestling with it in front of puzzled customers, police said.
The men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested and charged with burglary and theft. Police didn't release their names.
''In all honesty, it's just a case of dumb and dumber,'' Detective Sgt. Andrew Beams told Australian Broadcasting Corp. ''Anyone who gets out there with a one-and-a-half meter python in a McDonald's car park -- they're pretty dumb.''
Yeah, it's a frivolous blog post. But then, if conversation on the Internet is going to be dominated by idiotic people doing idiotic things, as it has been, we might as well talk about amusing idiocy. I just hope these are really Australian idiots, and not Americans who stuck around after Worldcon...
Burglary and theft? No animal cruelty charges?
I would pay money to see Kim Stanley Robinson wrestle a python....
Oh I can well believe they're home grown idiots .......
Unfortunately.
There are a lot of idiots in the United States because there are a lot of people in the United States, and Sturgeon's Revelation applies. Australia has fewer people, and hence fewer morons.