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The latest issue of Mad Magazine, which ranked the "20 Dumbest People, Events and Things 2016'' put as No. 6 Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and their supporters' takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. (Mad Magazine)

So many people have covered Ammon Bundy and his supporters that the footnotes on his Wikipedia entry go up to almost 100. There's the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News.

You knew it was only time before Mad Magazine would weigh in.

The humor publication takes aim at Bundy's exploits at the eastern Oregon wildlife refuge, rating him No. 6 on its list of "20 Dumbest Things, Events, People 2016.'' ("The Donald Trump Run For the Presidency'' landed at No. 1.)

The magazine's headline reads: "Cliven Bundy's Sons Lay Siege to Wildlife Refuge'' above a take-off on the Candy Land board game. This one is dubbed: "Bundyland - The Game of Armed Illogical Protest.''

Players on the game board "scamper through the Blazing Fields of Arson,'' rally their militia in the "First Amendment Forest,'' pass through the "Snack-less Desert of Doom!'' and wade into the "Lagoon of Incoherent Press Conferences.''

The Bundy-led seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge began Jan. 2 and lasted through Feb. 11. Ammon Bundy said he staked claim to the bird sanctuary to protest federal control of public land. Police arrested Bundy, his older brother Ryan Bundy and other leaders on Jan. 26 as they were driving off the refuge to go to a community meeting in John Day. Four people stayed on the refuge for another two weeks before they surrendered to the FBI.

"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry - so imagine how badly things can go when you don't even HAVE a plan! Just ask Ammon Bundy!'' the magazine's spoof says.

"He wanted the government to give federal land back to the individual states - a complex issue that requires a nuanced, measured solution,'' it read. "So, naturally his approach was to get a bunch of friends, a lot of guns and take over a national wildlife refuge!''

And there's a Portland connection. The author turns out to be a 2014 graduate of Lincoln High School. Writer McKinley Rodriguez was an editorial intern for the magazine last summer. She now does freelance work for Mad Magazine as she attends college in Boston, her father Marcel Rodriguez said.

Her "Bundyland'' instructions say the game is for "reckless idiots,'' and includes "40 wasted days" plus "1 Leader Who Received a Divine Message.''

The object? Get to the refuge as fast as you can and "then stay there for weeks on end while you figure out what to do next,'' the magazine's report said.

Yet the Bundys may have had the last laugh. They convinced a federal jury in Portland in late October that they weren't guilty of federal conspiracy and weapons charges.

-- Maxine Bernstein

mbernstein@oregonian.com

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