Stupid People Award 2007

1 st Place:
Police in Male', spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them, shouting please to come out and give himself up.

2 nd Place
A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No, you idiot!" the man shouted. "This is her husband!"

3 rd Place
In Maroshi, an unidentified man in his late twenties walked into the health Post with a 9-inch wire protruding from his forehead and calmly asked doctors to give him an X-ray to help him find his brain, which he claimed had been stolen. Doctors were shocked to learn that the man had drilled a 6-inch deep hole in his skull with a Black & Decker power drill and had stuck the wire in to try and find the missing brain.