By Thomas Winterhoff
First published on August 21, 2002.
Copyright © Thomas Winterhoff
If ever there were a season where people are inclined to leave their brain at the door, summer is the one. It’s usually during these long, sunny days that normally intelligent people will do the darnedest things – activities and stunts and they wouldn’t even think of attempting in any other season – that often result in one form of embarrassing injury or another.
July and August are prime temporal destinations on the space-time continuum to Stupidville. Witnessing all the self-induced, real-life summer bloopers that come along every year at this time is kind of like watching America’s Funniest Home Videos with the VCR stuck on fast forward.
