{"id":897,"date":"2007-05-14T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/surrounded-by-idiots\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T17:28:35","slug":"surrounded-by-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/surrounded-by-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrounded by Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cruise ship apparently driven by morons was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/05\/14\/alaska.ship.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">run aground today in Alaska<\/a>, resulting in 200 people being evacuated from the ship by local fishermen.  Nice job, boys.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we have a well duh moment by the people who run a nudist camp association.  Apparently they have just noticed that 90% of their members (pun incredibly, uncomfortably obvious) are 35 and older.  They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/05\/14\/nudist.recruits.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">trying to attract younger people to come and take it off<\/a> by offering discounts, but without much luck.<\/p>\n<p>And finally the utter moron of the day award goes to the group of teachers who thought it would be a good idea to stage a <strong>mock school shooting<\/strong> with their class of 6th graders.  Like, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/EDUCATION\/05\/13\/faked.attack.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">what the hell were they thinking<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on a locked door. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Predictably, the parents are freaking (as I would, and I&#8217;m sure as would most)&#8230;.  These idiots deserve to be fired.<\/p>\n<p>**Update from Boing Boing:\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently there&#8217;s some spin at work here, the school board released a <a href=\"http:\/\/tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070514\/NEWS04\/705140375\">press statement<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I still think that the &#8220;prank&#8221; is in very very poor taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cruise ship apparently driven by morons was run aground today in Alaska, resulting in 200 people being evacuated from the ship by local fishermen. Nice job, boys. Then, we have a well duh moment by the people who run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/14\/surrounded-by-idiots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}