CHUTZPAH - UNBELIEVABLE GALL OR EXTREME STUPIDITY?

WHICH IS IT:
The fellow who recently planted the Times Square bomb that failed to go off is puzzled. While being questioned he expressed surprise that the device failed to blow up and asked his interrogators why it failed.

WHICH IS IT:
Floyd Landis, disqualified winner of bicycling’s 2006 Tour de France, finally admitted he had lied about whether or not he doped, but he didn’t feel guilty about it. He said he had two choices: he could either do dope and see if he could win, or not dope and tell people he didn’t win because he chose not to do dope. (At least that is how I interpret a rather convoluted quote published in a recent story.) He decided to use the dope and see if he could get away with it.

WHICH IS IT:
A man trying to board a plane in Puerto Rico headed to Boston had in his possession four box cutters, a switchblade knife, a stun gun, pepper spray, two lighters, matches, scissors, a flight stimulation program, a wire device that sets off an electric charge, and information about NYC. After being arrested and obtaining an attorney, he said he would plead not guilty.

WHICH IS IT:
Two Department of Water and Power employees have been fired and four others are still being investigated for visiting a strip club in the middle of the workday or for drinking while driving a city vehicle. Apparently they thought no one was looking, but a TV channel was.

So which is it, gall or stupidity – or both?