Two Very Stupid Men Arrested Over False Coronavirus Claims

Believe it or not these two idiots aren't Trump supporters or rightwing conservatives who live in a world of conspiracy theories.   No these two idiots live in Japan. 

The first Darwin award winner nominee was on an aeroplane about to depart from Narita when he did this:

A man was arrested Friday on suspicion of obstructing business after he allegedly delayed a domestic flight in Japan on Thursday immediately before takeoff by telling cabin crew he was infected with the novel coronavirus.

Norihiro Kojima, 69, is suspected of delaying a Jetstar Japan flight scheduled to depart from Narita airport for over an hour and interfering with the business of the low-cost carrier after he told cabin crew around 4:05 p.m. on Thursday, "I have tested positive (for the virus) but it is okay."

Our second nominee was just a creative as the first. (Meaning just as stupid) When decided to do this:

Police in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, have arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business after he coughed at two female employees in a drugstore, while yelling “I have the coronavirus.”

According to police, the incident occurred at 12:55 p.m. on Wednesday in the store in Tenpaku Ward, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police said Hirokazu Nakayama, a part-time worker, 49, coughed and blew his breath at two female employees and then yelled out that he was infected with the coronavirus. A store employee called police.

Neither one of these future Darwin award winners tested positive for covid19.

Dumb criminal in Japan tries to sell stolen goods back to shop he just robbed seven minutes ago

So on October 16, a 19-year-old man in Niigata Prefecture’s Nagaoka decided instead to target a “recycle shop,” a store that deals in second-hand goods of just about any nature. His plan started out strong, as he entered the shop at around 11:40 a.m. and pretended to browse the wares. Taking advantage of a moment when the employees’ eyes were off him, the man slipped a speaker, which the store was selling for 18,252 yen (US$165) into his bag and nonchalantly making his escape by strolling out the exit.

So far so good, but now he needed to convert the hot speaker into cold cash. The obvious way to do this, of course, would be to sell the speaker to a recycle shop, since the second-hand merchants are accustomed to purchasing items without documented proof of ownership and generally pay sellers on the spot, in cash, thus minimizing the paper trail.

Ready to move into his endgame, the man removed the price tag from the speaker and headed for a recycle shop…or perhaps we should say he headed for the recycle shop, as in the exact same store he’d stolen the speaker from just seven minutes ago.

The man walked up to a clerk and said he’d like to sell a speaker. The clerk, showing off his completely ordinary memory capabilities, recognized it as having been in the shop until just a few minutes ago and promptly called the police, who came and arrested the man on theft charges.

Obviously a future Darwin Award winner that one.  Good luck