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The dufus "Dufus of the Week" Award

You know it's a slow news day when these kinds of stories capture the headlines. Here's a guy that gives the rest of us dufuses a bad name. In Austin, Texas last week some guy tried to rob a gas station with a gun... a caulking gun!  He pointed the caulking gun at the attendant and demanded money.  I wonder if he had "beady" little eyes and moved quickly. This is just so stupid on so many levels. "Uh, is that thing caulked and loaded?" "Hands up.  Any sudden moves and I'll seal you." "No one will suspect me.  I'll have an air-tight alibi." The gas station attendant was some 68 year-old dude.  68?  Yeah, he'd probably just been let go as a WalMart greeter.  Anyway, he hit the 17 year-old robber over the head with a plastic trash can who ran away with his buddy...a transgender prostitute he'd picked up earlier in the evening. Doesn't this story just keep getting better and better? "Is that a caul...