Mmmmm, some half-assed statistics should put this in context...
Say if 1% of any population are utter morons (And I mean 'utter morons' not to be confused with regular, run-of-the-mill morons), then going by the population of the USA (305 925 000+)*, that means there's 3 059 500 absolutely clueless morons drawing breath, so you're bound to get stories like this....
*
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
We're lucky in Australia - with our smaller population, we only have about 200 000 utter morons. Here's an example:
