Questing for Atlantis

DMV Workers Furloughed, Then Given Overtime Pay to Make up Difference was the winner of last week‘s poll.

This week the following stories are lined up for you:

Police Reject Candidate for Being Too Smart
Robert Jordan, like all individuals applying to be a policeman in New London, CT took a test. He scored 33 points, the equivalent of a 125 IQ. Unfortunately for him the New London Police Department exclusively considers candidates with scores between 20 and 27.

New York MTA Assert Copyright Over Schedule
Claiming they are the exclusive rightholders of the schedule the New York MTA is seeking to block an iPhone app showing the schedules and is attacking a blogger for writing about the schedules without paying them licensing fees.

Police Officer Believes Mints are Crack, Throws Man in Jail
After being pulled over for expired tags Donald May fund the officer pulling the mints out of his mouth and bagging them as evidence then arresting him for cocaine possession and tampering with evidence. While in prison he was denied bail for 3 months until tests proved the mints were in fact, mints. The police also towed and auctioned his car and since he was in prison for three months he got evicted and lost his job.

Government Medical Researchers Model Zombie Attack
Researchers at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University have released the results of a study (paid for by taxpayer dollars) on the odds for human survival in the face of a zombie infection.

Social Security Numbers Duplicated
The U.S. government gives out grants and loans to people in Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands. As one man happened to find out, those loans get reported to credit agencies here using the Social Security numbers of the recipients – numbers which can and do overlap with those of U.S. citizens. And of course, the U.S. Agriculture Department has known this for years and still hasn’t fixed the problem.

Vote on which one you think is the biggest case of government fail.