Here are some of the dumbest ideas with the worst results!
10 - Separate but Equal Though At the celebrity-friendly Little Red School
House in the West Village, New York, administrators do things just a little differently.
After all, when you pay an arm and a leg for a school, you’d expect some top notch education
right?
Wellll, let’s just say parents were a bit surprised to learn that the school had a little
segregation policy in place for their kids!
Parents at the almost 50 grand a year private school became aware that Director Philip Kassen
had plans to place all the minority middle-school students in the same homerooms in the fall
of 2018.
They also learned that the race-based placement policy had already been in effect for the
2017 to 2018 school year for 7th and 8th graders, and was likely be expanded to the 6th grade
until the backlash.
One mom interviewed said that for three years, all but one of the 10 non-white students in
her child’s grade were assigned to the same class.
Another father said classes had been segregated for as long as his daughter was enrolled there.
In June 2018, Kassen emailed parents explaining that the proposed class-placement policy would
be reviewed.
Eight days later, he emailed again, stating that he would abolish the policy, but would
continue to keep quote, “race as a critical, but not primary, determinant.”
He explained the policy was born from conversations with recent graduates who had said that the
school could quote “create greater opportunities for connection and support”.
He added that research points to the academic, social, and emotional benefits to being in
a classroom with others who share racial, ethnic, linguistic, and/or cultural backgrounds.
Welcome to New York City schooling everyone!
9 - Drop it like its hot When you think of a back to school celebration
for kindergartners, the first thought into your mind is Pole Dancing right?!
Wait...nooo..…...that’s a surprise to you?!
Well, you’d be just as surprised as parents from one school in Shenzhen China, where they
attended a pole dancing ceremony to mark the first day of school!
They were horrified to see a women take the stage and start pole dancing in front of all
their kids!
Obviously, the event was quickly condemned by the local education bureau, which later
on fired the kindergarten director.
In a social media post, the education bureau of Baoan district in Shenzhen warned other
kindergarten schools against inappropriate behavior.
Kinda telling that you’d need to send out a message of restraint when it comes to kindergartners
don’t you think?
The video footage of the pole dance, as well as one another ummmmm… “performance”
by a second dancer, was widely shared on Twitter and Chinese social media.
Amazingly, there were also advertisements for a pole dancing school around the school’s
courtyard!
Are we sure this wasn’t in San Francisco?!?!
The outrage at the unusual choice of amusement was followed by nationwide complaints from
parents who had to sit through 12 minutes of television ads with their children – a
mandatory TV blurb from the government.
Well, hopefully, no one got baked on that one!
8 - But First, Let Me Take a Selfie Do we really need to say here on Pablito’s
Way that no selfie is worth the risk of death?
But still, 259 people worldwide have died while taking selfies from 2011 to 2017, according
to a study published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
Well, guess there’s just going to be a portion of the population that miscalculates the risk
of a situation!
Although women generally take more selfies than men, researchers found that men were
more likely to take risks to capture a dramatic shot.
They found that the most selfie deaths occurred in India, followed by Russia, the US, and
Pakistan.
Most of the victims were men, roughly 72%, under the age of 30.
Drowning is the leading cause of selfie deaths, usually involving people being washed away
by waves or falling out of a boat.
The second-leading cause is listed as "transport".
For example, trying to snap a quick pic in front of a moving train.
Tied for third are selfies involving falls from high places and…...fires.
Yes.
Fires.
IF THE BUILDING IS ON FIRE STOP WITH THE SELFIES, COME ON!!!!
Unsurprisingly, the US led in the number of selfie deaths involving a firearm.
Yeah, if you have to take a pic like that, make sure it’s unloaded!
But really though, what’s the point of validation on social media?
7 - Oops My Bad Guys
IF you decide to take on a risky hobby involving fire, our recommendation is to just not do
it!
That or at least get educated in the safety of what you’re doing.
Several buildings in the town of Cohoes in New York went up in flames because of one
person who wanted to give it his best shot at sword-making.
Yes.
Sword making!
Several businesses over three blocks were destroyed and 18 families were left homeless
after a giant fire swept through downtown Cohoes.
It all started when John Gomes was inspired by Forged in Fire, a History Channel TV competition
in which contestants make knives and swords out of red hot metal.
Gomes built a fire in a barrel outside his apartment building to try and make a sword
of his own.
However, embers from the barrel blew onto a nearby building.
Within minutes, the whole building was fully engulfed.
But then, to make things worse, a strong wind blew embers down the street and all of the
sudden, the whole downtown erupted in flames.
A total of 28 buildings were either destroyed or damaged, including the town library and
a local church!
Needless to say, Gomes’s own place was burnt down along with all his belongings.
He was eventually sentenced to a year in jail…..all this just because he wanted to make his own
sword!
6 - Don’t Worry It’s Just Sharks
Even if someone has a PhD, it still doesn’t guarantee that they have common sense.
Dr. Erich Ritter is a Swiss shark expert with a doctorate and countless hours of experience
swimming with sharks.
However, he bit off more than he could chew while filming a Discovery Channel documentary
about bull sharks.
Ritter was in the water with British television personality Nigel Marven attempting to demonstrate
his belief that sharks’ aggressive nature had been misunderstood.
Dr Ritter believes that part of the reason behind many attacks is that the shark detects
the person's fear, which triggers the animal's attack response.
He practices yoga to reduce his own heartbeat when swimming with sharks to make them believe
he’s a fellow predator and not prey.
He claimed that because of his ability to stay calm, he had never been even nipped.
Wellll the problem for him is that it only takes one mistake in order for things to be
really bad!
While being filmed for Discovery Channel, Ritter waded into the ocean with only his
yoga techniques to protect him.
While he was in the water, his assistants proceeded to throw chunks of fish into the
water around him.
Unfortunately for Ritter, a remora fish darted between his legs.
One of the bull sharks going for the remora bit off a big chunk of Ritter’s calf.
He was immediately airlifted to a Florida medical center, where doctors managed to save
his leg.
Ritter recovered successfully, with only a disfiguring scar on his lower leg as a memento,
and blames poor visibility in the water for the accident.
Well…..if you really think about it, he WAS kinda right, but he forgot that sharks
can make mistakes too!
5 - Did The Water Change Color Though
In 2011, an unnamed 21-year-old man was caught peeing in Mt. Tabor Reservoir, a key water
supply for Portland, Oregon.
The guy said he thought that the reservoir was a sewage treatment plant, as it was an
uncovered pool of random water in the middle of nowhere.
Wellllll, him thinking of preserving the ground actually had a huge consequence.
The municipality quickly decided to dump all the water.
Yep – all 7.8 million gallons!
But really though.
If you think about it, it’s kinda ridiculously dumb to dump out all that water just because
one guy peed in it.
Especially if you keep in mind that the officials in charge of Portland's drinking water freely
admit that they have to keep fishing out rotting animals out of the open reservoirs.
They never empty out the reservoirs after THAT!
I mean, they’re just rotting animals.
I hope you can tell we’re joking here.
For some reason, a guy peeing in the reservoir caused officials to flip out.
Yes, the guy did make a bad decision and no one likes to drink pee…….well, almost
no one.
ANYWAYS, when confronted with questions about exactly what kind of biohazard the contents
of the average human bladder present to a 7.8-million-gallon reservoir already rife
with dead fauna, the head of the Water Bureau just repeated the question and stated that
it has nothing to do with science.
Well….here’s to drinking filtered water!
4 - Just Why
If you decide to play with fireworks, please guys, make sure you do it safely!
A 22-year-old celebrating the Fourth of July back in 2015 decided to launch fireworks from
the top of his head.
Yes.
Launch fireworks off his head.
Devon Staples was drinking with family and friends in Calais, Maine, a small town near
the Canadian border, when he put a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and threatened
to light it.
Mortar tubes are usually made from cardboard and used to hold prepackaged charges, although
authorities didn’t know what kind of fireworks were in the shell.
Staples’ friends thought they had talked him out of the stunt and went back to the
fire pit.
Then they realized he had put the mortar tube on his head and was already lighting it.
Of course, the firework exploded, causing a fatal head injury.
Staples’s brother, 25-year-old Cody Staples, called it an accident, adding that Devon wasn’t
the kind of person who would do something stupid.
Well...…...Cody obviously doesn’t recognize stupidity when he sees it, and hopefully he
won’t have the same unfortunate consequence as his brother one day!
3 - Kiss Kiss
Welllllllll now we’ve gotten to the snake charming section of the video.
Is it just us or is anything involving snakes just gonna be a BIG no?
21-year-old snake catcher Somnath Mhatre from India spent his life as a snake charmer.
For a hobby.
There are plenty of other hobbies out there that don’t involve charming anything that
has highly potent venom, but whatever, yolo right?
You’d think someone picking kissing snakes would realize that one day things would end
badly, the same way a person who picks crossing the street blindfolded as a hobby would.
Unfortunately for Somnath in 2017, he met his demise trying to kiss a cobra that wasn’t
feeling it that day.
He was admitted to hospital with a bite on his chest, but he succumbed three days later.
He reportedly rescued the trapped snake from underneath a car.
As we hinted at earlier, this wasn’t his first close-up with snakes.
Mhatre's Facebook profile was filled with photos of him playing and cuddling with venomous
snakes.
His demise made the authorities sound the alarm, though, if there were any good to come
of it.
The Resqink Association of Wildlife Welfare in India began urging a ban for any close
snake encounters.
Snake charming seems to be a problem for the area, as two other snake catchers had the
same thing happen in the same area within a year.
2 - How about Nah
In November of 2018, members of an isolated Sentinelese tribe armed with bows and arrows
decided that they didn’t like John Allen Chau, and you know, decided to end things
quickly for him.
Chau was an American who wanted to to preach Christianity to the tribe members.
Now, how can this be dumb you might be thinking?
Well.
It’s just that it’s the same reaction the Sentinelese tribe has had with anyone
that’s tried to make contact.
The reaction of trying to put arrows through anyone alive that is.
Chau paid local fishermen to ferry him to North Sentinel Island, home to the tribes,
even though the local fisherman knew of the dangers.
Chau actually was able to make contact with members of the tribe several times when he
was still with the fisherman.
He sang worship songs and tried to communicate in English to the tribe members, but he retreated
to his canoe where the fisherman were waiting each time tribe members would get close.
However, on his last day, he completed the rest of the journey alone in a kayak and instructed
the fisherman to leave without him.
Once Chau approached the shore, the fishermen leaving saw an arrow hit him, ending Chau’s
hopes for anything right on the spot.
C’mon….what was he hoping to accomplish, considering that he couldn’t speak their
language?
The Sentinelese are thought to have had no contact with surrounding communities ever
since 1991.
Starting in the 1960s, anthropologists succeeded in conducting field visits with the tribe,
but abandoned their efforts later on because of increasing hostility.
Now, the Indian government has what it calls a “hands off, eyes on” policy to the tribe,
meaning officials moor boats near the island every few months to check on the inhabitants’
welfare, but don’t try to establish any contact.
Yeah, I think it’s well established these guys just want to be left alone.
1 - The Bird Box challenge is not watching Bird Box
How many of you guys have watched Birdbox?!
If you haven’t, the basic Bird Box challenge is just wearing a blindfold while wandering
around outside.
Nah, we won’t reveal any spoilers.
Some people, such as some YouTubers, have tried to go about their daily lives for
24 hours while blindfolded.
Netflix’s social media team actually had to warn fans against participating in a potentially
dangerous online challenge that’s inspired by its hit film.
Do we really need to say don’t walk around outside blindfolded?
We know you guys are smarter than that!
If you do see anyone doing the Bird Box challenge, do us a favor and put a banana peel in front
of them.
Here’s what’s next!