Sometimes People Amaze Me...

...with how incredibly stupid they can be.

I was joking with a friend that I was going to have a label/category called "stupidness", because I find myself starting stories with the phrase "D'you know what's really stupid?" Well, what do you know...I've only been a blogger a couple of days and I already have a blog with the label/category of stupidness. Stupidness follows below:

Today a friend of mine told me of a front page news article he saw on Yahoo! news. At first I thought he was joking, but he wasn't. If you doubt the existence of the story after you read it, you can find the original article here. And now, for your reading enjoyment, here is the article in its entirety.

MILLBURY, Ohio - Parents have complained to a northwest Ohio school board that a chaperone sealed students in their hotel rooms with duct tape during a high school choir field trip.

At a heated meeting Monday, Michelle Mata told the Lake Local school board in Millbury that the tactic panicked her son during a recent weekend trip to Chicago.

Sylvia Keeler said she may file charges. Her son, Mark Hummel, said he worried he could be trapped during a fire.

School board president Timothy Krugh (kroo) told parents the tape was meant to keep students safe.

Schools Superintendent Jim Witt said the tape would show if students violated curfew but wouldn't have kept them from escaping in an emergency.

What?!??!

Are you kidding me? Maybe they should be required to put a sign on the inside of the hotel room door that says "In case of fire, open door and leave."

This must be some kinda duct tape. We should be building buildings out of this duct tape. Apparently McGiver has nothing on this chaperone. Apparently he can permanently seal a door with duct tape.

Seriously.