US Independence Day stupidity

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Will we EVER stop pretending that parades are fun?

Boru

The uni I graduated from had a fraternity that lost their charter for various acts of stupidity. One sticks in my mind. They went to a wrecking yard and bought a junked car, to enter in a local parade. Painted it all stupid and drove it the same way in the parade. Named the "Stud Mobile". Reason it was in the wrecking yard? It had no brakes. Went up onto the curb and injured some people. Many years later, I was conducting a training for rifle range officers. As the training progressed, I kept looking at three of the trainees, and it finally clicked when I was handing out the cards saying that they had been trained. I said, "Oh yeah, I remember you guys from Zeta Beta Tau!" Which they denied and claimed to have been in the honor frat, whatever that TLA was. I was not in a fraternity, they just had that kind of infamy. I damned near took their cards back and refunded their money. It was 10+ years after I graduated, but those three got my dander up in a chem lab by squirting their wash bottles over the riser and giggling. I went over and took the ring leader's lab note paper, as it was dry and mine was wet. I could have had them kicked out for it, but wasn't that pissed. They couldn't understand why I didn't appreciate their 8-year-old type of humor.