How do these people survive?

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A friend sent me some funny stories and I thought I'd share.

Taylor, your buddies at the precinct may want to try the last one. LOL

How Do These People Survive?

1. Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

2. I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider", looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.

3. A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."

4. I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me . As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk."

5. I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the "cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.

6. My neighbor works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"

7. A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be fine. The mother says, "I just gave him some ant killer....." Dispatcher: "Rush him in to emergency!"

8. Police in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by placing a large metal spaghetti strainer on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.
 
ITPjohn said:
A friend sent me some funny stories and I thought I'd share.

Taylor, your buddies at the precinct may want to try the last one. LOL


8. Police in Radnor, Pa., interrogated a suspect by placing a large metal spaghetti strainer on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

Yes....people are as stupid as those in an example and its sad to think that they could actually be true :)

In reference to #8, not sure if it is a true story....I've seen different variations and different departments, such as New York City Detectives...Two San Diego police officers and bunch more. The version I've heard is it was a salad bowl and a cop had taken a piece of writing "LIE" on a piece of paper. The suspect was brought in and the bowl placed on his head for the machine to read his thoughts.
"Okay, Joe, say your name is John"
"My name is John...."
A detective presses the COPY button and click: LIE comes out
"See? This machine never fails. Say your name is Jim.:
"My name is..."Click: LIE
"Okay. When I ask you your name, tell the truth..."
After the response, the detective at the copier simply didn't press the button. Joe saw the futility of fighting the system and confessed to the murder.

He had been convicted but appealed it....however a higher court overturned the conviction saying he had 'been taken advantage of'.

Who knows if its true...could be an urban legend....It is found on Snopes
 
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