This Week in Stupid

By Matt Wood in News on Feb 6, 2006 4:20PM

This week, a really gross Peeping Tom, a cross-dressing robber, the jail gun mystery solved, and a bunch of teenagers who still don't understand that the internet = entire world watching:

• How many of these cases have we seen lately? On Tuesday, a suburban school janitor was charged with hiding a video camera in the school staff's bathroom. We could at least understand the motive for hiding a camera somewhere like a dressing room, but a bathroom? That's just gross.


• On Thursday evening, two men held a Racine, WI couple hostage and forced the husband to withdraw cash from the bank. Standard stuff, except that one of the robbers was dressed like a woman.


• Remember how all those inmates at the Cook County Jail ended up shooting each other in a fight? Turns out one of their girlfriends smuggled in the gun, as part of a ploy to file a lawsuit against the county.


• And from the "Oh you mean the internet is public?" desk, a St. Charles teen is being questioned for threatening to shoot up a school dance "Scarface-style" on a website. And a number of Tinley Park student athletes have been suspended for posting pictures of themselves drinking online.