So Bad It's Funny

At work I've been taking a program written by another engineer and trying to merge the functionality into a program that I've been writing. During this process, I have found some code so bad that it's both funny and depressing at the same time. Here is a great example:
[Update 10 Feb 2010: This code is C#]

public bool CheckMsgValid(byte[] _myArray, int _myIdx) {
   bool t;
   t = ((_myArray[_myIdx] & 0x80) == 0x80) ? true : false;
   return t;
}

...which is basically the long way to write:

public bool CheckMsgValid(byte[] b, int x) {
   return b[x] & 0x80 != 0 ;
}

I guess the original coder wanted to make double-sure that the two values were equal.