This doesn’t quite fit the bill, as it’s almost certainly mental illness rather than stupidity, but worth sharing just for the quoted excerpt.
“Court records do not detail whether the genitals were located..”
Why not both? Add a side-helping of hubris while you’re at it.
According to the police report, officers told a physician at the hospital, Dr Aryan Toosi, that they had seen signs of life. The doctor responded, “please do your thing and let me do my thing”, the report says.
“I went to medical school for a reason,” Toosi said, according to the report.
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The doctor’s attorney, Scott Holden, told the BBC in an emailed statement: “Out of courtesy to the family and patient confidentiality, we respectfully decline to make a statement at this time.”
Just keep tap-dancing away, counselor.
Great balls of fire?
When the fruit’s hanging low like that, you have to pick it, eh?
That can happen, especially with cold water. Rescue workers say “you’re not dead until you’re warm and dead”.
Sources say the diver’s reflex is triggered by water at 21-c or colder. A swimming pool in Gilbert will be far warmer than that, even if unheated in February.
Something else made this miracle happen.
Another article mentioned that the kid suffered brain damage and will need lifetime care. I wonder if the child had received proper treatment at the first hospital, could the brain damage be reduced?
I’m currently reading the book Stiff by Mary Roach.
It talks about how morgues at one time had two sections. “Dead” and “We’re not sure yet”
Last year an officer was charged with using Flock cameras to spy on someone.
Link (just a PDF of the complaint)
On December 15, 2025, City of Milwaukee Police Detectives Matthew Bongel and Tehrangi Chapman were assigned to investigate a misconduct complaint involving City of Milwaukee Police Officer Josue Ayala. Detectives Bongel and Chapman met with VICTIM ONE, who provided the following information to police…
Today another officer was charged with using Flock cameras to spy on someone.
Link
Milwaukee Police Detective Tehranghi Chapman faces two criminal counts after prosecutors say he used the city’s Flock camera system to track two people’s movements around the city. Chapman also faces a misdemeanor charge for allegedly placing a GPS tracker on one victim’s car.
The stupid part…Look at the names. The cop in the second story was the internal affairs detective that charged the cop in the first story.
There’s the story from ninety years ago, of a jockey at a California horse racing track who was thrown from a horse and pronounced dead. A shot of adrenaline was administered at the track infirmary and he was transferred to a local hospital. He eloped from there, hailed a cab, went back to the track and demanded to be able to run the remaining races.
My, he certainly had a busy day. Died, revived, got married, rode horses.
A man of many talents. Many lives too. 
In case anyone is not aware, one meaning of elope is “to leave a health care or educational facility without permission or authorization.” (That’s from Merriam-Webster.)
Who watches the watchmen of the watchmen?
I did not know that. Ignorance fought.
Me either, but it’s in the dictionary.
to leave a health care or educational facility without permission or authorization
Right, although the linked Wiki article didn’t say that Neves left the hospital without permission, just that
Neves made it back to the racetrack and demanded to be allowed to ride the rest of his mounts that day (he was not permitted to do so until the next day).
Well, they say that sometimes you just got to get back on that horse, but I don’t know how literal that has to be,
Am I hearing an echo?