A dead man wins an election and another one takes the blame for numerous speeding tickets. (Thanks Marie)

Belgian tourist slaps a stick on the water to try and get a better picture of a crocodile… bitten, survives, described as stupid by authorities. Obviously hadn’t learnt his lesson, either, having been previously bitten by a monkey.

Tributes for resigned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, including this page with some of the stupid things he’s said over the years.

Man who is trying to find out if a cheque he’s been given is counterfeit ends up arrested himself.

Stupid criminal of the week: woman using amphetamines in a car illegally parked in a police vehicles-only space outside the mounted branch headquarters.

Borat’s in Australia, and “I would very much like to find Australian wife … ladies, please send me photograph, preferably erotic.”