I heard that the people in chelm were either the smartest people or the dumbest… There was that story where the malach was distributing his batch of neshamos all over the world. In one bag was his smart ones and in the other was his dumber ones. Somehow the left bag ripped (I dont know the whole story) and those in the bag all fell out. It depended on from which direction you were looking at him from…so were they the smartest ones or the dumbest people around? Their logic makes a lot of sense… but maybe we just dont get it cuz we are the dumb ones…
If it is chelm, Poland… it makes a lot of sense about how foolish they can be.