
Have you noticed how bad some people are at their jobs? There are a lot of incompetent people about.
Most incompetence is infuriating but banal. It’s Postman Prat, who in spite of being told, persists in delivering your mail to No 10 XX Square when you live at No10 XX Road. It’s the pharmacy that repeatedly loses your prescription. It’s the Council pen-pusher who promises to ‘look into the matter and get back’, but never does. You’ll all have bumped your heads against this kind of twatitude at some point.
But once in a while you come across a piece of incompetence that is truly staggering, and which can have life-changing consequences for someone. Come with me across the pond to the good ol’ US of A and I’ll elaborate.
In 2022, police in Colorado pulled over a pickup at night on a back road. The truck driver was a young woman suspected by the rozzers of possible involvement in a ‘road rage’ incident. The police positioned a vehicle behind hers, and she was duly forced to exit at gunpoint, made to kneel, handcuffed, and locked in the cop car while the officers searched her car for possible evidence,
So far, so mundane, you’ll be thinking; just yet another such episode in Anywhere, USA. But… there’s a but. So intent were the cops on their search that none of them actually noticed that the locked police vehicle with the suspect inside was parked square on a rail track. Failed to notice, that is, until a desperate ‘whooo whooo’ from the train alerted them to the fact, seconds before it smashed headlong into the vehicle and sent it careering for several hundred yards.
Miraculously the young woman survived, but incurred head injuries and numerous broken bones. The cops involved have since been charged on several counts, and in true, time honoured American fashion, the young lady has ‘lawyered up’ and is looking to sue all and sundry for about half a billion dollars or so.
Okay, anybody can make a mistake. I know I’ve made my fair share. But Lord above, how can people who are so inept, so stupid, so lacking in everyday common sense, be put in positions over others which can have such drastic consequences?
I put it to you that this a case of world class incompetence brought to you by world class cunts. You couldn’t make it up. Sadly, you don’t have to.
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Nominated by Ron Knee.