# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 71
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1401 "2024-06-02T00:04:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So apparently he set it up on a per-encounter basis. I originally read that as “pee-encounter basis”. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1402 "2024-06-02T03:59:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > They’re like that partly thanks to “social promotion”. Even if a student fails every subject, they’re still advanced to the next grade. Although I’m not sure how that impacts their level of “common sense”, which is notoriously not the same thing as academic achievement. A “socially promoted” academically backward nine-year-old (or high schooler, for that matter) is not necessarily going to have less ordinary common sense than an academically high-achieving classmate. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1403 "2024-06-02T14:19:45Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Honestly, I can’t at all understand wanting to look at _anyone_ use a toile There’s an entire fetish devoted to watching people pee. Or shit. Or do gross things with their pee and shit. It’s all over (adult, legal, where the performers consent) p()rn sites. And of course, you’re aware that there are people who are into sexualizing children. Venn Diagram, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1404 "2024-06-04T01:09:16Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > [Calling Into Court For Your Suspended License Charge While Driving Is Next Level Dumb](https://jalopnik.com/calling-into-court-for-your-suspended-license-charge-wh-1851506441) > > > Earlier this month a Washtenaw County, Michigan man was ordered to appear before the court on a video conference for driving on a suspended license. Corey Harris called in to his court date from the driver’s seat of his car, while driving. With a suspended license. > **[The Viral Story About a Defendant Driving With a Suspended License Was Fake News](https://www.yahoo.com/news/viral-story-defendant-driving-suspended-202015577.html)** > > Corey Harris' case should never have been a national news story to begin with. > Harris’ license had been [reinstated years prior](https://www.wxyz.com/news/why-was-the-driver-in-a-viral-videos-license-still-suspended-2-years-after-a-judge-ordered-it-lifted) and was only registering as suspended due to a clerical error. As of this writing, there has been no spate of additional articles, corrections, or a reinvigorated news cycle based around this information, because the truth here doesn’t lend itself to virality and engagement. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1405 "2024-06-04T02:03:25Z")
> **[Why was the driver in a viral video's license still suspended 2 years after a...](https://www.wxyz.com/news/why-was-the-driver-in-a-viral-videos-license-still-suspended-2-years-after-a-judge-ordered-it-lifted)** > > The video of Corey Harris that went viral has garnered a lot of laughs but it is no joke for Harris who is trying to understand how he even ended up being charged with driving while license suspended. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1406 "2024-06-04T02:37:09Z")
That explains why the guy was so nonchalant about driving to the doctor and stunned speechless when told he had no license; it was false. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1407 "2024-06-04T02:40:25Z")
But he must have known that he was calling in for a Zoom court session? Calling in before parking the car is wrong. (I’ve called into meetings from my car, but I do so when parked.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1408 "2024-06-04T02:48:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > But he must have known that he was calling in for a Zoom court session? Calling in before parking the car is wrong. Agreed, participating in a court case while driving isn’t okay under **any** circumstances. That part was dumb, if mildly so. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1409 "2024-06-04T08:27:01Z")
I don’t consider driving while on a phone to be _mildly_ stupid. It’s distracted driving and can potentially kill people. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1410 "2024-06-05T14:32:59Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > That explains why the guy was so nonchalant about driving to the doctor and stunned speechless when told he had no license; it was false. It’s not false. His license was still suspended. Steve Lehto, a lawyer doing YouTube, did several videos on the case, including [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PBy9P5CuBs) about an article which claimed it was “fake news.” He explained that getting a license reinstated is not easy. The courts clear people to allow them to get their license reinstated, but then the people need to go to the Secretary of State department, pay a $125 fee to actually get it done. So, although he had been cleared in 2022 to get his license to be reinstated, it hadn’t. Steve suspects that the person mistakenly thought that after the judge cleared him in 2022, he thought he was all good to go, but then he didn’t take the necessary steps. However, the important thing is that he would have been given notice to appear in court on such and such a date and time, the notice would have said this charges, which was driving on a suspended license. He would not have first heard the charges on the zoom call. There were things he could have done differently, including talking to his public defender, but nevertheless he would have known before the call what the charges were. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1411 "2024-06-05T15:52:43Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And I don’t have a “tactical pen”, but I do have a “utility pen” that’s part of my daily carry. You can unscrew it to get small screwdrivers, Xacto-like knives, etc I was packing up on the final leg of a cross-European trip and realized that my Field Notes bag that carried a pocket sketchbook, [a tiny pencil](https://www.jetpens.com/Zebra-Techo-TS-3-Mini-Mechanical-Pencil-0.5-mm/pd/576) and skinny 003 markers _also had three X-Acto blades in it._ And I’d been blithly carrying them around since I’d walked through US security on the first leg of my journey weeks before. I ditched them in Redacteditzenburg, a small mountain village that I’m sure the TSA will never find. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1412 "2024-06-05T21:22:50Z")
Jackass father rushes the stage at high school graduation to remove African-American school official from the receiving line just before his daughter will shake hands with the officials > **[Father of Baraboo High School graduate blocks superintendent from shaking...](https://wiscnews.com/news/local/education/baraboo-wi-graduation-father-pushes-superintendent-rainey-briggs/article_b33200cc-21bd-11ef-be03-0fe0b2b7a52c.html)** > > The man ran onto the stage just after his daughter had been handed her diploma and began working her way down a line of school officials shaking hands. (go to about 1:09:20 to see the incident in the video - the kid with the beard receives his diploma just before the daughter) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1413 "2024-06-05T21:28:53Z")
Here’s a version that you can watch with an ad blocker enabled: > **[Parent pushes Baraboo Superintendent at graduation](https://www.channel3000.com/news/local-news/parent-pushes-baraboo-superintendent-at-graduation/article_a34787ec-2283-11ef-8b5d-a7b61f771588.html)** > > MADISON, Wis. — The Baraboo School District acknowledged a parent disrupted graduation by pushing someone on stage out of way May 31. A video of the incident shows the man Law enforcement is involved in the investigation, presumably this would be assault. > **[School District of Baraboo launches investigation after parent charges...](https://www.wkow.com/news/top-stories/school-district-of-baraboo-launches-investigation-after-parent-charges-graduation-stage/article_31f22a66-21e8-11ef-b6e5-efd2cf6bd311.html)** > > School District of Baraboo officials launched an investigation after a parent reportedly "interrupted \[the high school's\] graduation by charging the stage." ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1414 "2024-06-05T21:39:42Z")
The graduating daughter looks less than thrilled to have her dad pull this stunt. Baraboo, you might remember, was the place where about 50 seniors posed for a group Nazi salute back in 2018. [Baraboo High School: Wisconsin high schoolers make apparent Nazi salutes, sparking police investigation | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/us/baraboo-high-school-nazi-salute-trnd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1415 "2024-06-05T21:52:08Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Baraboo, you might remember, was the place where about 50 seniors posed for a group Nazi salute back in 2018. Oh yes I remember that, I didn’t realize it was the same place. Clearly they have a problem there. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1416 "2024-06-05T21:59:59Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Clearly they have a problem there. Right. And it starts with the letter “R” and ends with “acism.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1417 "2024-06-05T22:05:29Z")
[“Pantless Florida Man Crashes Into Jail Spews Anti-Trump Hate, Throws Snakes”](http://newsweek.com/florida-man-joseph-leedy-car-crash-martin-county-jail-1908484) kind of epitomizes the Florida Man ethos. Sadly, his attorney will find it difficult to mount an insanity defense due to his client’s reported anti-Trump remarks, as they tend to establish a sound state of mind. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1418 "2024-06-05T22:19:48Z")
So my first, and only really, question is, “Why no pants? Did he have underwear on?” Everything else seems perfectly normal for florida. And I say that having lived in the Tampa area for 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1419 "2024-06-05T22:22:05Z")
Really? That’s the odd part? Because if I lived in that hot, humid hellhole, I’d wear as little as I could. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1420 "2024-06-05T22:36:35Z")
I always thought the people in Carl hiaasen’s book were too insane to be true. Then y’all link to real lives that would be considered too insane for a hiaasen book. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=70) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=72)