Fired For Hunting Spacemen

(Columbus, Ohio) On weekends and weekday nights, 63-year-old computer programmer Charles E. Smith would use a state-owned computer server to search for aliens in outer space. His employer, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, fired him. Smith's boss, Director Tom Hayes, remarked

"I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," Hayes said. "I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building."

It's glaringly apparent that Smith wasn't being very intelligent while looking for spacemen. He risked and lost a job that paid a comfortable $60,000 per year.