Some real geniuses manned America’s polling stations this week.
A woman in Boca Raton, Fla., was temporarily barred from voting because officials thought she was illegally campaigning at her polling station.
In fact, she was wearing a T-shirt with the letters MIT, for Massachusetts Institute of Technology — not for Mitt Romney.
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Someone needs to put this guy out to pasture.
Lonnie Wilkerson, 64, was drunk on vodka and riding his horse in Levy County, Fla., when the animal bucked, throwing him to the ground.
Wilkerson allegedly drew his 40-caliber pistol and fired five shots at the horse — thankfully missing.
He’s charged with using a firearm under the influence.
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A pack of drunken pachyderms tore through an Indian village after they got into 500 gallons of moonshine.
The elephants destroyed 12 homes in Dumurkota, where police and villagers eventually herded the elephants back over a river and onto their migration route.
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The lunch special came with fried rice — not cash.
Three masked gunmen burst into the New China restaurant in Orlando, Fla., and demanded money.
But the Chinese employees couldn’t understand the robbers, who then banged on the cash register, to indicate what they wanted.
Still, nothing.
The frustrated crooks gave up and took off.
Cops with a police dog eventually nabbed three suspects.
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A 70-year-old Madison, Wis., man was ordered to his knees and handcuffed for brandishing a gun — a radar gun.
He was upset about speeding motorists in his neighborhood, so he whipped out his radar gun in hopes of getting them to slow down.
Police got reports of “a man pointing a gun at passing traffic,” and quickly responded.,