The incredibly dumb

AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying helacked intellectual leadership". He received a $26 million severancepackage. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.

Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue agunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing tentear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standingbeside them, shouting please to come out and give himself up.

An Illinois man pretending to have a gun kidnapped a motorist andforced him to drive to two different automated teller machines. Thekidnapper then proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.

A 9-year-old boy in Manassas, Virginia received a one-day suspensionunder his elementary school's drug policy last week - for Certs! JoeyHoeffer allegedly told a classmate that the mints would make him "jumphigher."

A student in Belle, West Virginia was suspended for three days forgiving a classmate a cough drop. School principal Forest Mannreiterated the school's "zero-tolerance" policy...not to be confusedwith the "zero-intelligence" policy.