The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done
*Too lazy to drive to his girlfriend's house, a man ties  helium balloons to a lawn chair--and ends up at 15,000 feet, closing  the L. A. airport.*A Chinese contraception program causes the  birth rate to rise when men are discovered taking birth control pills  and unrolling condoms over their fingers--exactly as shown in the  training film.*A gang of Norwegian thieves carefully uses  explosives to open a safe--only to find the safe is filled with  dynamite. . .In the national bestsellerThe 776 Stupidest  Things Ever Said--over 200,000 copies in print--Ross and Kathryn  Petras immortalized idiotic utterances by public figures and average  citizens alike. But what about the doers out there, the people who  didn't stop at speaking, but went right out and did something stupid  instead?It's time to give credit where credit is due.The  176 Stupidest Things Ever Doneis a hilarious collection of inane  incidents, senseless stunts, farcical feats, and utterly asinine  activities from throughout history, and around the globe. From Sam  Goldwyn to Walter Mondale, Albert Einstein to Fabio, the board of  General Motors to British Parliament, this comic compendium chronicles  the stupidest acts, ideas, decisions, inventions, songs, and ad  campaigns that the mind of modern man has been able to devise.The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Doneis a non-stop barrage  of belly laughs, conclusive proof that actions speak louder--and  funnier--than words.