When you do something stupid, you will always receive an award, which will lead you to do things of greater stupidity.
This is the first rule of stupidity, and I learned it many years ago in the basements of New York City and the Isle of Long. I was still learning the ins and outs of steam heat at the time. I was reading all the books in the New York Public Library system that mentioned anything about steam heat. I was going out to look at any problem heating contractors invited me to see. We would stare at metal shapes and scratch our heads.