IT PROBABLY SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME

Self-help guru James Arthur Ray says it was all a tragic accident when his followers began collapsing one by one in a sweat lodge at his retreat, with three of them dying (no joke). Autopsies of the deceased indicate that their deaths were caused by the "massive amount of stupidity that motivated them to enter the sweat lodge in the first place," according to County Coroner Lenwood Tossler. "It's rare to see so much brainlessness concentrated in such a small space," Tossler commented. "They never had a chance."