“Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” This, along with several other questions relating to cotton-picking and even beatings, appeared on a math worksheet at a Georgia elementary school. Parents were none too happy about having to explain these references to their pre-teen children.

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Southern school under fire for placing slave questions in math homework

If you use your truck as a battering ram to break into a store make sure you're able to drive away that truck after you get inside.  These two geniuses successfully knocked down the wall of a pawn shop they were trying to rob but after robbing the place they realized their truck was stuck.  They were tracked down pretty easily after that.  Check it out in this clip from truTV Presents: World's Dumbest .

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Battering ram robbery

It's hard to know the greater loss from this video: the photographer's wallet or his dignity. You can put a price on camera equipment but it's hard to put a price on a person's diginity (unless you're a porn star or a politician). Of course, we're not doubting his prowess as a skilled photographer.

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Photographer learns the hard way that his $2,400 camera isn’t waterproof

In preparation for gift exchange, one must be ready to feign pleasure and delight upon opening a Shake Weight. But how

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Hypnosis can help you ‘appreciate’ cruddy gifts

AOL Weird News reports that a woman simply known as “SM” has been diagnosed with a rare disorder called Urbach-Wiethe disease which renders her brain incapable of experiencing fear. The woman shows no signs of fear when exposed to stimuli that would send the rest of us into a diaper-soiling panic. While this sounds like the making of a new superhero in a series of comic books, there is definitely a downside to having no instinct for your own safety.

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Rare disease or are you just an idiot?

  We've all been on the receiving end of a crappy gift and have to muster that weird “thank youuuuuuu” with faux enthusiasm. It's a strange sensation to have to force a smile while you simultaneously try to unfurrow your brow.

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Prank gift boxes: Perfect for watching someone’s face fall

Yesterday I was wrangled into the caffeine herd at Starbucks staring at the barista thinking, “Why is this nut job wearing a Santa hat?” Then I realized that the merriest time of year draws nigh. You can try to run and hide but it's officially the holiday season! To kick it off, South Korea's famous amusement park, Everland, had their traditional “dress penguins up like Santa and his reindeer and make them march” parade.

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‘Jackass’ penguins dress up like Santa for Christmas parade in South Korea

In 1979, comedian Steve Martin published a book of short works called Cruel Shoes , which included an essay by the same name.

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Offbeat bras poke fun at society’s dumb standards of beauty

AOL Weird News has the summer scoop with an original video about an entire town that is overrun with jackasses, and no- I'm not talking about not this kind of jackass, or even this kind . We're talking ACTUAL jackasses, as in, donkeys, who have become the main tourist attraction of Oatman, Arizona, a former mining town originally named for a woman named Olive Oatman , who became famous in the 1850's for the facial tattoos she received after being kidnapped by a Native American tribe.  Read the accompanying story here

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Arizona town pleased to be overrun by jackasses

As we roll into August, summer news stories seems to be in full swing. The Red Sox are playing the Yankees this weekend, somebody's upset with the  First Lady's vacation in Spain , and seven-year-old Oregon resident Julie Murphy was working her homemade lemonade stand at a local arts fair until it was shut down by the FDA. Wait, WHAT?

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When life gives you lemonade, the government shuts it down