Dumbass Awards

A Fort Mill, South Carolina, woman was arrested and charged with charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after police say she was observed giving her 4-year-old son shots of beer at a bar on Saturday night. According to the police report, a customer at McHale’s Irish Pub on Gold Hill Road told investigators that ... read more »

Her priorities firmly in place, 24-year-old mother Crystal Rusaw of New Port Richey, Florida, left her three children — ages 4, 3, and 10 months — home alone for hours so that she could have sex with a neighbor at his home. The three kids crossed Massachusetts Avenue — a busy four-lane highway with a ... read more »

One Pennsylvania mom hacked into the Northwestern Lehigh School District’s computer system in February 2012 to change her son’s nearly perfect grade of 98 to 99. Catherine Venusto, 45 of New Tripoli had worked for the school district from 2008 until 2011 when she resigned. There are at least two of Venusto’s children in the district. Venusto ... read more »

Jerry Garrison, a grandfather in Jacksonville, Florida, says it is a tradition in his family to get your initials tattooed on your body. So when his 10-year-old grandson asked for the same, Garrison agreed. The Florida Department of Children and Families went to the home to investigate a different complaint when they spotted the tattoo. ... read more »

A couple in Barcelona, Spain forgot something important when shoplifting from a local bookstore. Their baby. They were noticed by the store manager slipping items into their clothes and bags last Saturday. When they realized they had been seen, they ran, leaving their baby behind in its stroller. The manager called Mossos d’Esquadra (the local Civil ... read more »

The Colorado Department of Transportation posted a photo on its Facebook wall showing the backseat of a car where a mother had taken her child out of its car seat and instead strapped in a gas can. The woman was pulled over when she and her other child — a 14-year-old — were spotted by ... read more »

Police arrested a woman they found sleeping behind the wheel of her idling car on 5131 North Freeway in North Houston at about 2:40 a.m. According to the Houston Police Department, before falling asleep in her car, the woman had gone into a tattoo parlor in the north Houston. Kese Smith, a spokesperson for the ... read more »

Two Florida grandparents might not be having much alone time with their grandchild after landing themselves behind bars following a joyride they took their granddaughter on. Paul J. Berloni, 49, and Belinda Jean Berloni, 47, were babysitting their 7-year-old granddaughter when they decided to latch two dog leashes and tie one end onto the trailer hitch of the ... read more »

A Los Angeles woman and mother of six was pulled over and arrested after she was caught texting and driving on a California freeway, while her one-year-old baby in was in her lap. There were two other children in the car as well, a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old, neither was restrained. The incident was called ... read more »

While most of the United States celebrates the current Girl Scouts cookie season by munching on Thin Mints and Samoas, an Indiana lawmaker has decided to rail on the group instead. Indiana House Republicans put forth a resolution last week to honor the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, but Rep. Bob Morris (R-Fort Wayne) ... read more »

A woman grieving over the recent death of singer Whitney Houston had more to fret about after she accidentally started her house on fire. According to the Manchester Evening News, a woman and her son lit a tribute candle in their England home in honor of Houston, and left the candle burning when they went ... read more »

A Utah dad is feeling pretty “blue” and embarrassed after he thought that he had put in the new “Smurfs” movie for guests at his child’s birthday party, but instead of the child’s movie, pornographic images flashed across the screen. The man had rented the movie from a Redbox kiosk, and had placed the DVD ... read more »

The next time somebody irritates you in the school pickup lane, at least be grateful they aren’t drunk. Police arrested Heather Brodeur, 33, at the Suntree Elementary School in Melbourne, Florida, after they say she drove through a “bus-only” lane before hitting a gate with her car, jumped a curb, and went the wrong way ... read more »

PROTIP: If you don’t want to be busted for burglary, don’t post about it on Facebook. That’s a bit of advice Isaiah Cutler, 18, of Pittsburgh learned a bit too late after police arrested him for the burglary of a convenience store with three other teens after Cutler posted a photo on his Facebook wall ... read more »

An Irvine couple, who thought their teenage son might be smoking, gave a fellow church member permission to beat him, according to police. Paul Kim, 39 has been charged with a felony in relation to the incident. On Monday, the school reported that the teen had bruises on the back of his legs to Child Protective ... read more »