Bad Behavior or Human Nature?

A church close to Penn Station in NY City traditionally left candles out for visitors to light. The practice was stopped since the number of people who actually left a donation for the candles dropped from 92% in 1998 to 28% in 2003. Pray for those people…

Be careful visiting the bakery department in your local grocery store. Over 60% of the shoppers handle the baked goods with their hands rather than using the tongs. It's bad enough donuts are fattening, now they may be dirty too?

A sleepy suburban community had been enduring a 3 year crime spree in their neighborhood. If anything was left outside, chances are it would be stolen. The list of items (junk) that turned up missing appeared to be endless. Garden hoses, for sale signs, lawn decorations, garden gnomes ( that may be considered a community service) garbage cans, recycling boxes and various crap. Who in their right mind would steal this stuff for 3 years? Even the local pawn shops and flea markets were checked to see if the missing junk showed up. Finally a break in the case. A 64 year old man and his 32 year old son were the criminals. 3 years of stolen junk was stored in their garage. No one could figure out the motive, since the man was worth $14 million dollars. To quote Yogi Berra, “Who'd a thunk it”?

A group of British researchers have predicted that by the year 3000, the human race will have split into 2 distinct different species. The superior group of attractive, intelligent ruling class and the sub-species of the “less than smart”, ugly people. Those researchers must have just returned from Hollywood. Hey, Guys, it won't take until the year 3000!

Do we really hold our elected officials to a higher standard? Should our children aspire to hold public office? Let's take a look at their role models:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse.

7 has been arrested for fraud.

19 have been accused of writing bad checks.

117 directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two businesses.

3 have done time for assault.

71 cannot get credit card due to bad credit.

14 have been arrested on drug related charges.

8 have been arrested for shop lifting.

21 are currently defendants in lawsuits.

84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last few years.

Now this is a congress you can be proud of!!

In an average year, the Goodyear Blimp is shot at approximately 80 times.

A police officer in Ohio apparently very hungry, was waiting for the meal he ordered in a local Denny's. Tired of waiting, he ran into the kitchen, put a gun to the cook's head and told her that he would kill her if she didn't hurry up with his food. I personally can't imagine any Denny's meal that good.

The bible is the most shoplifted book in the USA.

If you ever consider insurance fraud, stop and consider this. A clothing store owner asked his friend to shoot him in the arm, as a part of the phony robbery in the store. He should have had a friend with better aim. He was shot in the chest. He survived, only to have his girlfriend give him up to police.

Police in Wisconsin arrived at the house of a mother for dunking her 11 year olds head in the toilet. Upon questioning, the mother told the police to go ahead and take the kids, she hadn't had a vacation in 13 years! Did she think that she would serve her time at Six Flags??

A man charged with murder escaped from police custody. The Chief issued the following statement. “He is no more dangerous than any other murderer”.

Think of all possibilities before stealing something. A man stole a car from a repair shop. It was getting a new paint job and the employee had left the keys in it. Unfortunate the thief didn't know that the car was also suppose to get new brakes. He flew down the street, through 2 stop lights and crashed into another car. No brakes. Oh well…

As is surviving in the after math of Katrina was not bad enough, a man who used an abandoned boat to rescue 200 stranded people is being sued. Yes, sued. The owner of the boat says that his insurance will only cover about ½ the cost of the boat and that the Good Samaritan should step up to the plate and pay the rest. Did I mention something about humanity declining?

Stupid perverts. A woman discovered that her husband was drugging her and then defiling her when she found the pictures and files on their home computer. Yikes!

A insurance company employee was sitting in his cubicle, playing with the gun he brought to work and accidentally shot himself in both legs. I doubt if his insurance policy would cover that…

As for the male principal of a catholic high school that was caught on the stroll late one night in his fish net stockings, wig and otherwise streetwalker clothes, a fellow priest said “After all, it is the Halloween season”.