Today's candidate for TERMINALLY STUPID BOZO of the month:

AUCKLAND (AP) — An investment banker who allegedly killed a colleague by setting fire to his Hawaiian grass skirt at an office party appeared in court Friday charged with manslaughter.
Investment banker Matthew Paul Schofield, 26, is charged in the death of Gareth Stewart Lyndon MacFadyen at a party in an Auckland office block last week. MacFadyen died Monday. three days after his Hawaiian grass skirt costume went up in flames in an office toilet stall.
Schofield was also charged with disfiguring another office worker, Angela Offwood, who was badly burned in the same incident. She remains in hospital in a critical condition.
In Auckland District Court, Schofield's lawyer Stuart Grieve told judge Stan Thorburn the incident was a practical joke that went "terribly, terribly wrong." Schofield allegedly used a cigarette lighter to set light to MacFadyen's skirt. MacFayden and Offwood were in a toilet stall together at the time. Grieve said it was an act of stupidity committed in the atmosphere of an office Christmas party where alcohol had been consumed.
Schofield did not enter a plea. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years if convicted. The case was adjourned until Jan. 19.