Outage! Oh, and the Idiot of the Week Award!

Best to announce these before they happen, I suppose. Oh well – most everyone who reads this already knows what I’ve been up to. To those who don’t: I’ve been moving for the last two weeks and have had zero time to update. But now that hassle is done, and we’re coming back hard and fast.

Anyway, onto this week’s shining examples of human compitence:

Joker Busted!

JULY 28–Meet Spencer Taylor. The Michigan man, 20, was arrested early yesterday morning for allegedly trying to steal Batman posters and other collectibles from a theater showing “The Dark Knight.” As can be seen in the below mug shot, Taylor went to the Three Rivers Cinema multiplex in costume as the Joker. According to cops, he was charged with larceny and malicious destruction of property, and had to pose for booking photos in and out of character.

Not a whole lot to be said here. Mr. Taylor, your life’s ambition seems to be wanting to be a 2-bit thug following in the footsteps of a crazed psychopath. Enjoy your time in lockup – it’ll take more than a phone call to get out of there if they do it right.

Idiot of the Week

For a more humorous story:

CNN: Inmate Tries to Escape, Falls into Police Chief’s Office

So, apparently, these two glue-sniffers decided to try and escape through a tiny air vent. One got stuck, the other falls through into the chief’s office on his attempted escape. Knowing what these facilities are like, the duct was likely made of nothing more than sheet metal.

For their humorous escapades, we honor these two jailbirds with the first Torches & Pitchforks Idiot of the Week award. Enjoy guys! And next time, try digging a tunnel with a spoon.

–J.L.