We all make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are small and cause no harm. Other times those mistakes are huge and egregious and kill a ton of people.

Then there are the ones that fall somewhere in between forgetting to add fabric softener and, oh, I don’t know… genocide. Mistakes that are big enough to make it onto the local news but still small enough for us to laugh at. These aren’t veterans, and they aren’t firefighters, and they didn’t rescue anyone from the collapsing twin towers. These are ordinary Joe Schmoes, regular folks like you or I who just so happened to mistake peacocks for vampires and acid for wine. With that being said, and with the reverence of yesterday’s Independence Day celebrations still fresh in our heads, I’d like to take some time to honor some of America’s most undervalued heroes: complete morons.

– Man Mistakes Peacock For Vampire

– Man Mistakes Bales Of Pine Straw For Dead Woman, Gives Them CPR

– Man Mistakes Neighbor’s Porn DVD For Woman’s Cries For Help, Tries to Rescue Her With A Sword

– Man Mistakes Onion Story For Reality

– Man Mistakes Acid For Wine, Dies

– Man Mistakes His Life For A Game Of Grand Theft Auto