# No one could really be this stupid. Could they?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 4, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927 "2006-02-04T00:28:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927/21 "2006-02-05T22:13:47Z")
> [@Eleusis](#):
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> Wow, [this guy](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEPUTY_SOLICITED?SITE=NYROR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) is _even dumber_.
I actually know a guy like that; he sold cocaine to a uniformed policeman, and he’s serving 40 years in a state prison. He was not originally a dimwad. The coke did that to him.
That’s when I decided never again to touch cocaine.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927/22 "2006-02-06T00:04:36Z")
I look at it this way: would we rather have _smart_ criminals? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927/23 "2006-02-06T03:33:11Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> I look at it this way: would we rather have _smart_ criminals? 🙂
We do; being smart they don’t get caught.
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### Author:  [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927/24 "2006-02-06T15:30:26Z")
I was once in court as a character reference.
(Yeah, the defendant was truly desperate )
While I was waiting to testify, I watched the following:
Judge: So how did the state trooper find your marijuana?
Dimwitted Defendant: Well, he stopped to help me change my tire and he was so nice, when he asked me if I had any pot, I got my stash out.
Judge: So you just handed him your marijuana? He didn’t see it in your van?
DD: Yeah, I had it hidden but I thought he just wanted to smoke a joint with me.
Courtroom erupts in laughter.
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### Author:  [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927/25 "2006-02-07T01:48:46Z")
Here’s another one but at least in this case she may not have known her visitor’s were police officers - they were in plain clothes.
[Woman’s invitation ends in arrest](http://muskogeephoenix.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060204/NEWS01/60203056/1002)
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-could-really-be-this-stupid-could-they/342927/26 "2006-02-07T09:24:25Z")
Too many people must have listened to the young George Carlin’s Sixties monologue “Shoot,” which was all about the word _shit_, “It’s a nice word. A friendly word.” He imagined a clueless plainclothes cop who never learned the street slang for pot. Some guy rolls up, “Hey man, wanna buy some shit?” “Where did you get this… shit?” “Well, we brought it back from Cambodia in a guitar, we baked some into brownies, and we’re sellin’ the rest.”“You want some papers with that?” “Yes, better give me a roll or two.”
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