This Week In Stupid: We Need Your Help

By Matt Wood in Miscellaneous on Feb 23, 2007 3:45PM

This week, for the first time since we started this smarmy little feature, Chicagoist came up empty-handed looking for random acts of stupidity. Maybe you were well-behaved this week, Chicago, or maybe our stupid sensors have just been worn down by the relentless onslaught of Britney Spears "news," but Chicagoist wants to try a new approach. We want you, our readers, to help us spot stupid stories each week and submit them to us. We'll still scour the local rags for forehead-slapping acts of idiocy on our own, but we'd like to tap the hive mind for its ideas too.

The one ground rule is that news items have to be at least remotely related to Chicago. They don't have to come from local news sources, but they do need to involve people from Chicago, the suburbs, Da Region of NW Indiana, or neighboring parts of Wisconsin. If it's good enough, we might make an exception for something from the larger Midwest, but we prefer local stuff. Don't worry, until this week it's been easy.

Send your ideas to Matt at matt+twis at chicagoist dot com. Note the little "+twis" tag: that will help him sort it into a special mailbox so he doesn't respond with his usual, "Who the hell are you, go away, we didn't do anything wrong" repsonse. He also reserves the right to steal your ideas and take all the credit.