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How stupid are people?

RBK said:
You have to try pretty hard to get a coat hanger to hold on to that one.
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Not really. Imagine you’re at the beach for a week, and you need to string a clothes line to hang the kids wet towels and swimsuits.
 
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Wedding Dress Hung from Hotel Sprinkler

Drunken bride's attempt to hang up her wedding dress results in hotel evacuation.
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Oddly enough, this bridal catastrophe echoed an event that had taken place under similar circumstances three years earlier. On her wedding weekend in June 2004, a Manhattan bride hung her wedding dress from a sprinkler head in a room at the Thayer Hotel in West Point, New York — an action that triggered the Thayer's fire sprinkler system, causing water damage to five guest rooms, hallways, a stairwell, and the hotel's famed Crest Ballroom. The Thayer's insurance company placed the total damages at $87,637.51, and after the hotel paid a $10,000 deductible, the insurance company filed suit against the bride to recover the balance.
 
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