The "Only In Florida" Police Blotter - Living Proof That Hell Is Other People

[chefcraig]

For one odd reason or another, just about every major national news story has ties to or originated in Florida. Be it embarrassing, horrific, insipid or just fucking strange, more often than not the roots are formed here. A cursory glance at a map reveals the state to be shaped much like a penis. This would suggest that by and large, the local residents are dicks. I would include myself in this category, primarily for being too moronic to have left the area screaming in abject horror by now. Then again, I'm probably immune to it all by at this point.

Or so I thought. Reading the following article in my local paper this morning, it dawned upon me that others should be warned about exactly what goes on around here. So for those that do not live here, thank your lucky stars. And for those that do, I feel your pain. Sartre was correct - "Hell is other people."

Men stabbed when sign language mistaken for gang signs

Hearing-impaired patrons recovering after Hallandale bar stabbing


Local chowderheads Barbara Lee (left) and Marco Ibanez (Photo courtesy of the Broward Sheriff's Office)


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Ihosvani Rodriguez Sun Sentinel (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-hallandale-bar-stabbing-20110503,0,5797144.story)

MIRAMAR— Two hearing-impaired men are recovering from stab wounds they suffered when a patron of a Hallandale Beach bar apparently mistook their sign language for gang signs.

Neither Alfred Stewart nor the other man, whose name could not be confirmed, could be reached for comment on Tuesday, four days after the attack at Ocean's Eleven Lounge. But Stewart's mother, Brenda Stewart, had a lot to say.

She is still livid over the incident that sent her 31-year-old son to the hospital, where he spent more than two days. A knife wound across the upper left side of his back required about 20 stitches to close.

"If I was there [at the bar], things would've been really ugly," said Stewart, 51, of Miramar. "I don't know if they were drunk or stupid, but how can you confuse sign language as a gang sign?"

According to Stewart, her son met up with several of his friends for a birthday get-together — not his — on Friday night at the bar in the 800 block of Federal Highway.

Most of the friends are graduates of Miami Central High School in Miami-Dade, where they took classes for the hearing impaired.

Alfred Stewart told his mother that a woman approached the group at the bar and yelled at them, but since they could not comprehend what she was saying, they paid little attention to her. The woman left the bar and returned moments later with a man carrying a knife.

"He doesn't remember much [about] what happened," Brenda Stewart said of her son. "He only remembers everyone fighting and then he ran to the bathroom, where he noticed blood all over his shirt."

Stewart's son, who became deaf following an illness when he was 4, was resting at home on Tuesday with a sore back. He works for a Coral Gables restaurant, she said.

A woman who answered the phone at Ocean's Eleven on Tuesday said the bar's bouncer tried to break up the fight but was hit on the head with a beer bottle. The bouncer, who was not seriously hurt, was back at work the next evening, added the woman, who declined to give her name.

She said police arrived quickly and arrested the man and woman who started the fight.

"What happened here was stupid, very stupid," she said before hanging up.

Hallandale Beach police charged Barbara Lee, 45, with aggravated battery causing bodily harm, two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and probation violation, according to court records.

They also arrested Marco Ibanez, 19, who is charged with one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Both were listed as incarcerated at the Broward County Main Jail on Tuesday afternoon.

Hallandale Beach police could not be reached for comment on Tuesday. They told other news outlets that the suspects believed the victims had been flashing gang signs.

Shana Williams, a psychologist at the Center for Hearing and Communication in Fort Lauderdale, called the incident "bizarre." She said it is not rare, however, for hearing-impaired people to be caught up in angry confrontations.

"Most of the time it's someone thinking they are being made fun of through sign language, or being mimicked," she said. "But I've never heard of something that has led to such violence."

[Dan]

The Dude On The Right-Hand Side Looks Like A Lady.:hitch:

[fifth element]

just to let you know that you are NOT alone.....
(and I apologize up front for the lack of pics, etc)...

here in the Mid-West a woman is undergoing a trial this week because, as she got a new boyfriend, she decided that she was afraid to reveal that she had a child with Down's Syndrome....
told him about her other 2 children,
and pulled a "Flowers in the Attic" trick, hiding the boy from everyone.

Thank goodness the womans PARENTS had the nerve to step in and call for an investigation.....
and thanks to a "heads up " officer
(they are so few and far in between around these parts)

who noted that when questioned, the younger brother kept looking at the ceiling,

the boy with Down's Syndrome was found, nearly dead,
and the mother is being charged w/ not only the standard charges of abuse,
neglect and child endangerment, but w/ attempted murder.

Anyway.....Florida does not see to be alone in their......own little version of hell
it seems to have spread ....

[lesfunk]

Damn Obama supporters!

[fifth element]

excuse me?

[chefcraig]

Bartow teacher charged with drug possession

Submitted by Eric Glasser, WTSP.com (http://bartow.wtsp.com/news/news/bartow-teacher-charged-drug-possession/57245)

Bartow, Florida -- A Polk County high school teacher was Tasered by police and arrested for drug possession on Monday.

Bartow police say they pulled over 33-year-old Bradley Gummow for a traffic stop shortly before 11 a.m. at the intersection of Polk Street and Baker Avenue.

While talking with Gummow, cops say they observed a plastic bag in his mouth and called in a K-9 unit.

Police say when they asked Gummow what was in his mouth, the suspect turned and refused to cooperate with officers.

Gummow allegedly began resisting police until he was shot with a Taser stun gun. He then spit out what turned out to be five individual bags containing marijuana, weighing a total of 4.7 grams.

Gummow is an 11th and 12th grade teacher at Bartow High School, assigned to teach International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement students.

Before Monday's arrest, Gummow was on probation for reckless driving involving alcohol. He is now charged with possession of marijuana, violation of probation, and resisting an officer without force or violence.



Atheist Official Wachs Charged With Simulating Sex Act

By Jason Geary & Matthew Pleasant THE LEDGER (http://www.theledger.com/article/20110503/news/110509806)

LAKELAND | In her second arrest this year, the Atheists of Florida's legal coordinator was jailed Sunday on a charge of simulating a sex act in the presence of a 10-year-old boy.

Ellenbeth Wachs, 48, of Lakeland, is accused of purposely making noises from inside her home March 13 to pretend as if she were having sex while the boy and his father overheard, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Wachs made the noise in an effort to make the boy stop playing basketball outside her house on Lake Victoria Drive, a complaint affidavit says. She told him to stop shooting baskets because she was trying to sleep.

A Polk County sheriff's detective began investigating after the boy's father, Otto Lehman, filed for an injunction for protection against Wachs in April.

A complaint affidavit says the boy played basketball near Wachs' home about 8:30 a.m. and she yelled through an open window for him to stop.

Lehman and his son, Forrest, returned later and she started to yell "Oh John," repeating it "over and over again and kept increasing the volume until it was a loud scream," according to the complaint affidavit.

Wachs was also moaning and making other sounds that "sounded like a woman experiencing sexual gratification in an extremely loud fashion," the affidavit says. She continued until the father and son left.

On March 3, Wachs was jailed on a charge that she posed as a licensed lawyer. She remained at the Polk County Jail on Tuesday without bail for being arrested while on bail for the previous charge.

John Liguori, a lawyer representing Wachs, said he would schedule a hearing to argue that his client should be released. Wachs, who has multiple sclerosis, requires several types of medication, and her medical needs cannot be properly met while in jail, Liguori said.

He said the State Attorney's Office is using a dispute between neighbors to further prosecute Wachs.

She was trying to get rest after having chemotherapy when she asked the boy to stop playing basketball, Liguori said. He said Wachs was calling to a friend inside her home for help with taking medication.

"There is no simulation of a sex act here," he said. "The kid didn't see anything. Moaning is not a sex act. There is no evidence that a sex act was occurring."

He accused Assistant State Attorney Brad Copley of targeting Wachs on behalf of those who oppose her personal, religious and political views. "For him to deal with something like this is just an extraordinary waste of resources," Liguori said.

In court Monday, Copley denied that Wachs' beliefs were at issue. "We certainly live in a society where a little boy can go outside and shoot hoops," Copley said.

Attempts to reach the Lehmans were unsuccessful.

[chefcraig]

Woman accused of using fradulent cards in spending spree, hiding cards in her private parts

news-press.com (http://www.news-press.com/article/20110430/CRIME/110430009/Pompano-Beach-woman-arrested-using-fake-credit-card-Cape-Coral?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Home|s)

Lee County, FloridaA Pompano Beach woman is in custody at the Lee County Jail for possession of a counterfeit driver's license and a fraudulent credit card, which she allegedly hid inside her vagina.

According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, Ann Marie Hernandez,46, was arrested during a traffic stop on Interstate 75 on Friday night when deputies discovered thousands of dollars in items bought with a fraudulent credit card aboard her vehicle.

Members of the Highway Interdiction Unit pulled her vehicle over at about 7 p.m.

Upon making contact with the driver, the detective immediately noticed the vehicle was full of high-end power tool equipment, some of which still had security tags attached.

As the investigation unfolded, a detective determined the items were recently purchased at a Cape Coral Home Depot using a fraudulent credit card account.

Home Depot was contacted and Citibank confirmed the fraudulent transactions totaling more than five-thousand dollars. Nearly half of the fraudulent items purchased were recovered during the traffic stop.

After a female deputy was called to the scene, Hernandez admitted to concealing a fraudulent credit card and fraudulent Florida driver’s license inside her vagina.

[Dan]

Damn,Nasty Place To keep your Cards.:biggrin:

[chefcraig]

Police arrest man accused of urinating on cough drops at Walgreens

By Walter Pacheco, Orlando Sentinel (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/crime/os-man-urinates-walgreens-arrested-20110429,0,5552203.story)

Police said Larry Donell White Jr. walked up to Aisle 8 of a Sanford Walgreens, unzipped his pants and urinated on an assortment of cough drops.

Sanford officers arrested White at police headquarters Thursday after a tip led them to interview him about the allegations.

Although White admitted to "having frequented several local Walgreens in the past," he did not confess to the crime.

Detectives also presented him with a surveillance recording showing a person resembling White. He became evasive and denied the accusations, the report shows.

A statement from Sgt. David Morgenstern of the Sanford Police Department summed up the case with the following observation: "So the question remains, why did he do it? Guess we'll never know."
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The arrest report shows White entered the Walgreens in the 200 block of South French Street around 10:23 p.m. April. 21.

The pharmacy's recording system caught him walking through the cough-drop aisle. He was observed unzipping his pants and urinating on the lozenges.

Police said White caused about $301 in damages.

He faces charges of criminal mischief with property damage over $200 and crimes against a person with culpable negligence. He left the Seminole County Jail after paying a $550 bond.

[fifth element]

you win! lol

[VanHalener]

a patron of a Hallandale Beach bar apparently mistook their sign language for gang signs...The woman left the bar and returned moments later with a man carrying a knife...[/I]

I hate getting my .45 Sig dirty, but she would have most definitely needed a cleaning after that bullshit if I was there.
Many people are just rabid animals that need to be put down like Old Yeller. For the gun haters... If your mom and dad were the deaf couple at the table and I defended their lives with my Dirty Harry like open can of whoop ass you fucking KNOW your ass would appreciate a gun being pulled out of nowhere by one of the good guys.

Gang signs?!I got your fucking gang signs you filthy animals...:fighting0036:
:finger33::mad0248::give-the-finger::dafinger::finger-attitude::fu:

[ashstralia]

mmmmkay.... i've heard of walmart, is walgreens where you buy your smoko over there?

[fifth element]

Walgreens is a pharmacy / plus type of store, often open 24 hours

[chefcraig]

Walgreens is a pharmacy / plus type of store, often open 24 hours

And, strangely enough, many of them have a liquor store. No, I am not joking. Pick up your prescription, along with something to wash it down with in one convenient location.

[VAiN]

It's so true! I've had this conversation with a buddy not long ago. It seems that just about any ridiculous thing that happens happens in Florida. What the fuck?? I've always said 'welcome to Florida, it's not the heat it's the stupidity.'

I read the sign language/gang sign story also and was just shocked and impressed with a new level of stupid.

[sadaist]

Hearing-impaired patrons recovering after Hallandale bar stabbing


Neither Alfred Stewart nor the other man, whose name could not be confirmed, could be reached for comment on Tuesday


DUH!

How they gonna hear the phone ring?

:lmao:

[Terry]

So many ridiculous things happen down here...all the same, I love it and ain't leavin'!

[Nitro Express]

The only thing that should fuck a horse is another horse. So sayeth the Lord.

[chefcraig]

Man Nabbed At Home Depot After Trying To Cut Off Handcuffs

AOL (http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/05/09/michael-scott-home-depot_n_859700.html)

Escambia County, Fl. - A handcuffed suspect in Florida escaped police custody and fled to a Pensacola Home Depot, where he was spotted shortly after shopping for bolt-cutters.

"He was caught after he stole some items from a [hardware store] to remove the cuffs with," Sena Maddison, a spokeswoman with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office told Weird News.

Michael Jay Scott, 19, was first arrested by police in Pensacola early Monday morning, when he was involved in a disturbance with an unidentified homeowner whom he had previously been warned not to have contact with, according to Maddison.

The genius in question...
http://img1.imagehousing.com/88/e0d4ed51d05b72c56f78651114f89664.jpg (http://www.imagehousing.com/)

"He engaged in a fight with the homeowner and upon deputies' arrival, [he] fled on foot," Maddison said. "He was caught after a brief foot chase."

Scott received several injuries to his face and body during the alleged fight. As a result, the arresting officers transported him to Sacred Heart Hospital for a medical examination. It was during his hospital stay, police said, that Scott sneaked out of his room and escaped the building undetected.

Multiple law enforcement officers and K-9 units were dispatched to the area to search for Scott. His whereabouts remained a mystery until roughly 10 a.m., when staff at a Home Depot about a mile from the hospital called police to report suspicious activity.

"While en-route, dispatch advised that a suspicious person was trying to use bolt cutters to cut off handcuffs," deputy Michael Williams wrote in his police report.

After allegedly failing to cut off the cuffs, Scott, apparently sensing he might have attracted some unwanted attention, fled out the back of the store. The fugitive then scaled a perimeter fence and ran into a local neighborhood, police said.

Contacted by Weird News, a Home Depot manager confirmed that the bizarre bolt cutter incident took place inside his store, but declined to comment further.

Police said a K-9 unit managed to track Scott to a nearby camper he had allegedly broken into. When police took him into custody, he was still wearing the handcuffs that had been placed on his wrists earlier that day. Authorities also found a small nail file and a screwdriver -- items Scott had allegedly stolen from Home Depot to try to get the cuffs off, Maddison said.

Scott was transported back to Sacred Heart Hospital for treatment. This time, however, he remained in the custody of law enforcement. Scott was treated, released and then transported to Escambia County Jail. He has been charged with felony larceny and burglary, as well as misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and damage to property.

[fifth element]

Man Nabbed At Home Depot After Trying To Cut Off Handcuffs

AOL (http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/05/09/michael-scott-home-depot_n_859700.html)

Escambia County, Fl. - A handcuffed suspect in Florida escaped police custody and fled to a Pensacola Home Depot, where he was spotted shortly after shopping for bolt-cutters.

"He was caught after he stole some items from a [hardware store] to remove the cuffs with," Sena Maddison, a spokeswoman with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office told Weird News.

Michael Jay Scott, 19, was first arrested by police in Pensacola early Monday morning, when he was involved in a disturbance with an unidentified homeowner whom he had previously been warned not to have contact with, according to Maddison.

The genius in question...
http://img1.imagehousing.com/88/e0d4ed51d05b72c56f78651114f89664.jpg (http://www.imagehousing.com/)

"He engaged in a fight with the homeowner and upon deputies' arrival, [he] fled on foot," Maddison said. "He was caught after a brief foot chase."

Scott received several injuries to his face and body during the alleged fight. As a result, the arresting officers transported him to Sacred Heart Hospital for a medical examination. It was during his hospital stay, police said, that Scott sneaked out of his room and escaped the building undetected.

Multiple law enforcement officers and K-9 units were dispatched to the area to search for Scott. His whereabouts remained a mystery until roughly 10 a.m., when staff at a Home Depot about a mile from the hospital called police to report suspicious activity.

"While en-route, dispatch advised that a suspicious person was trying to use bolt cutters to cut off handcuffs," deputy Michael Williams wrote in his police report.

After allegedly failing to cut off the cuffs, Scott, apparently sensing he might have attracted some unwanted attention, fled out the back of the store. The fugitive then scaled a perimeter fence and ran into a local neighborhood, police said.

Contacted by Weird News, a Home Depot manager confirmed that the bizarre bolt cutter incident took place inside his store, but declined to comment further.

Police said a K-9 unit managed to track Scott to a nearby camper he had allegedly broken into. When police took him into custody, he was still wearing the handcuffs that had been placed on his wrists earlier that day. Authorities also found a small nail file and a screwdriver -- items Scott had allegedly stolen from Home Depot to try to get the cuffs off, Maddison said.

Scott was transported back to Sacred Heart Hospital for treatment. This time, however, he remained in the custody of law enforcement. Scott was treated, released and then transported to Escambia County Jail. He has been charged with felony larceny and burglary, as well as misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and damage to property.

Hilarious....Belongs w/ the "Are these guys for real?" group....

[chefcraig]

Warning: Walking on a Florida street may be dangerous

Yahoo/Reuters (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110525/od_nm/us_florida_pedestrians)

WASHINGTON – Warning to pedestrians -- Walking down the street in Florida could be hazardous to your health.

Several major cities in the state -- Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami-Fort Lauderdale -- took the top spots on a list of the most dangerous metropolitan areas for pedestrians published by a U.S. transportation reform group on Tuesday.

The "Dangerous by Design" report, produced by Transportation for America, ranked cities with populations over a million people in terms of the danger to pedestrians relative to the amount of walking in a given area.

Riverside, California, Las Vegas, Memphis, Phoenix, Houston, and Dallas filled out the top ten in that order.

The author of the report emphasized the role of planning in the dangerous cities for pedestrians.

The common factor urban sprawl, low-density areas that are organized around wide, high-speed streets known as arterials.

Most of the over 47,700 pedestrian fatalities during the last decade were on these arterial roads, researcher Michelle Ernst said.

Racial minorities and seniors are more likely to be victims of pedestrian fatalities, the report also highlighted.

Transportation for America advocates for federal transportation reform that mandates the complete use of streets, that is a transportation system that facilitates use by pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, motorists, and those using public transportation.

The best cities for pedestrians according to the same list are Boston, Cleveland, New York, and Pittsburgh.

[VAiN]

Tru dat... people around here really don't know how to drive. I blame it on being from an island...

Anyway, here's one we can add to this thread as well.. it didn't technically go down IN Florida - but he's from Florida... represent!!!

Man whips it out and whacks off on United flight
http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?62463-Man-whips-it-out-and-whacks-off-on-United-flight

[Nitro Express]

I always enjoyed going to the Ft. Meyers area. They had some great undeveloped beaches just south of there. Now it's a line of high rise condos as far as you can see. I also noticed there was more riff raff rolling around than there used to be. Florida just suffers from the same urban sprawl and assholes moving in that every other place suffers from.

[VAiN]

I always enjoyed going to the Ft. Meyers area. They had some great undeveloped beaches just south of there. Now it's a line of high rise condos as far as you can see. I also noticed there was more riff raff rolling around than there used to be. Florida just suffers from the same urban sprawl and assholes moving in that every other place suffers from.

No doubt, but the west coast of florida is MUCH nicer and newer then the east, IMO... I love the white sand beaches and the people just seem nicer as well. I'm sure it has to do with being far from Miami.

[Nitro Express]

No doubt, but the west coast of florida is MUCH nicer and newer then the east, IMO... I love the white sand beaches and the people just seem nicer as well. I'm sure it has to do with being far from Miami.

I never cared for Miami. What's nice is for snobs and then it's rot. Daytona and the Orlando area is too touristy. I never made it up to Jacksonville or the panhandle. Tampa seemed boring. I really enjoyed Ft. Meyers and that area for just a low key get away from it all type place. But I've seen Florida completely change.

The place that amazing has changed very little is Maui. That has changed surprisingly little since the early 70's. They don't make koa outriggers on the beach like they used to and some big hotels have popped up but the town and the beach are amazingly the same.

[VAiN]

Ha! This is awesome!

LINK (http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler/article/197332/58/Arrested-man-48-beers-was-about-10-too-many)

Arrested man: 48 beers was about 10 too many

HUDSON, Florida (AP) -- A man told Pasco County Sheriff's deputies he had about 10 beers too many as he celebrated his birthday.

Fifty-eight-year-old James Taylor says he drank 48 beers on Thursday evening, prompting a stern lecture from a deputy for causing a disturbance at Hudson Beach.

Officials say Taylor, a transient, left the beach. But he came back, and officials say this time he caused such a ruckus that he scared a woman and her young grandchildren.

An arrest report states that Taylor exposed his genitals and "urinated in the middle of the sand."

He also continued to shout profanities.

A deputy returned to the beach, arrested Taylor and took him to the Land O'Lakes jail. He is charged with disorderly intoxication in a public place and causing a disturbance.

http://www.wtsp.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/images/110617110148_james-taylor.jpg

48 beers?? This guy should get some sort of award!

[PETE'S BROTHER]

huh, nothin' mentioned on his site..?

http://www.jamestaylor.com/

[VAiN]

huh, nothin' mentioned on his site..?

http://www.jamestaylor.com/

He has really let himself go! :guzzle:

[chefcraig]

Wonder where a transient (politically correct speech for "homeless guy") got the money for two cases of beer?

[ashstralia]

maybe he knows a few 'erotic outsourcing technicians'.:)

[chefcraig]

Hell, I know a few of them, and the only case I ever got from them was a case of the crabs. :ashamed:

[VAiN]

And more South Florida fun! We never disappoint!

LINK (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/boynton-beach/fl-boynton-cop-indicted-20110705,0,475923.story)

Boynton Officer of the Year indicted on drug charges

David Britto, 28, accused of peddling methamphetamine

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63018668-06071135.jpg

The Boynton Beach Police department's 'Officer of the Year' for 2010 was indicted on Tuesday for conspiring to possess and traffic 500 grams of methamphetamine, according to U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer.

The indictment accuses David Britto, 28, of drug dealing from June 2009 until March 4, 2011. Britto faces a potential life sentence if convicted, prosecutors said.

Police Chief G. Matthew Immler released a statement saying, in part, "the Boynton Beach Police Department vigorously polices itself, and this case is an example of how law enforcement roots out corruption from within its own ranks."

Officer Britto was named 'Officer of the Year' in January for, among other things, helping to identify a man suspected of shooting two street preachers and for performing CPR on a 2-year-old girl who almost drowned in her family's swimming pool in November.

"I saw the little baby on the ground and started praying," Britto said, recounting the life-saving effort at a December reunion with Elionore Dieujuste and her daughter, Vitalice, who made a full recovery.

Britto said at the beginning of last year, he took out a pen and a piece of paper and wrote down that on every call he wanted to make a difference in someone's life.

"It is nice to be recognized when you have really tried your best," he said upon receiving the 'Officer of the Year' honor. "This only motivates me to keep doing what I'm doing and reach my goals."

In 2010, Britto also worked 11 burglaries resulting in 19 arrests and 18 narcotic cases leading to 25 arrests, records show.

In 2008, Britto was one of three Boynton Beach police officers who fired 23 shots into a stolen Dodge Caravan as the vehicle's driver tried to run them down, investigators said.

None of the officers or the seven suspects in the van was injured, according to the police report.

Britto has been a Boynton Beach police officer since September 2006, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement database.

He was caught in a Drug Enforcement Administration led Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation.

"The decision to deal drugs while carrying a badge is not only a breach of the law enforcement oath, but a community tragedy as well," DEA Mark R. Trouville,Miami Special Agent in Charge said in a statement.

Chief Immler echoed that sentiment in his statement.

"We realize that when an officer stands accused of a violation of the public trust, all of law enforcement pays the price in eroded citizen confidence and the perception of diminished integrity," Immler said.

[SunisinuS]

No surprises here. A cop and his wife call in for an overdose on MJ.



Lol this cop stole the stash off a perp and then called "rescue". Lol straight out of "Up in Smoke".

[chefcraig]

VAiN, did you see that story over the weekend about the cop who took a girl for a spin on his ATV at the beach at 5AM, ran over two people and wound up fleeing the scene?

Fla. officers fired after on-duty ATV crash

Officer Derick Kuilan took a woman for a ride on his department-issued ATV, crashing the ATV and injuring the woman and two beachgoers

By PoliceOne Staff (http://www.policeone.com/police-products/vehicle-equipment/motorcycles/articles/3950072-Fla-officers-fired-after-on-duty-ATV-crash/)

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — City officials have fired two South Florida officers after one crashed his ATV while on duty Sunday.

Officer Derick Kuilan took a woman for a ride on his department-issued ATV, which ended in a crash just before dawn that injured the woman and two beachgoers.

Adelee Sharie Martin, the passenger, was not authorized by the department to ride the ATV, police said.

An investigation confirmed that Kuilan and a second officer, Rolando Gutierrez, were at the Clevelander hotel on South Beach before the accident Sunday, according to WSVN.

"They were in a place where they were not supposed to be during working hours," Miami Beach Mayor Matti Bower said.

Kuilan and Gutierrez were fired because of "conduct unbecoming an officer" and for actions amounting to "dereliction of duties," Miami Beach Police Department said in a statement.

Kuilan and Gutierrez were both tested for their blood-alcohol levels, but no results have been released, NBC Miami reported.

"We do not tolerate, in Miami Beach, something like that happening," Bower said.

Beachgoers Kitzie Nicanor and Luis Almonte are currently recovering from their injuries at local hospitals.

Kuilan, who has been with the department since 2005, could face criminal charges.

[sadaist]

Boynton Officer of the Year indicted on drug charges


Okay, I have never been in Florida but this story reminds me of a personal story I will share with you guys.

At age 15 I got busted for shoplifting at Target. A fucking Bic lighter and 2 cassette tapes (Ozzy & Whitesnake). Anyways, security took me into the room and called Mom down. they threatened to call police but didn't. So what they did was release me to my Mom but took my picture. They said it would be posted in the security room of every target worldwide and I was BANNED FOR LIFE from ALL Target stores.

Flash-forward to age 19. I am working as a cashier for Target in the same city. I catch a lady that swapped the scanning sticker on a $300 bread maker with a $2 tackle box. Anyways, now my picture is up in the employee break room as........




wait for it......





wait for it.......






remember I am banned for life for shoplifting............






wait for it.........






wait for it...................







EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH - THEFT PREVENTION!

[VAiN]

VAiN, did you see that story over the weekend about the cop who took a girl for a spin on his ATV at the beach at 5AM, ran over two people and wound up fleeing the scene?

Ha!! No, I missed that one, thanks for pointing it out... What the fuck is wrong with this state? :lmao:

[howie]

:barf::barf:One of the 12 jurors who acquitted Casey Anthony of first-degree murder told ABC News that she didn't think there was enough evidence to convict the Florida mother of killing her 2-year-old.
:barf::barf::barf::barf:
Jennifer Ford, or juror No. 3, said the jurors were "sick to their stomach" after coming to the decision. "I did not say she was innocent," Ford, a 32-year-old nursing student told ABC. "I just said there was not enough evidence. If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be."

Ford also explained why the jury opted against speaking to the media right after the verdict was announced. "It was emotional and we weren't ready. We wanted to do it with integrity and not contribute to the sensationalism of the trial."

Earlier, an alternate juror also defended the not guilty verdict. Russell Huekler, who did not play a part in deciding the case but sat through the trial, told NBC's TODAY that the prosecution had failed to prove the murder charge beyond a reasonable doubt.

"I definitely agree that they (jurors) did get it right. I support that decision whole-heartedly," he said, speaking from St. Pete Beach, Florida.
:barf::barf::barf::barf:

[LoungeMachine]

The Prosecution failed at their job....

Don't blame the jury, moron.

:gulp:

[howie]

[QUOTE=LoungeMachine;1549962]The Prosecution failed at their job....


And you're an idiot...you probably thought OJ was innocent too I'll bet...
( funny how the "innocent" ones pick a judge and jury trial but never testify on their own behalf - argue the system all you want but at the end of the day, you just can't teach common sense...)

[sadaist]

The Prosecution failed at their job....

Don't blame the jury, moron.

:gulp:


Exactly.

But I kinda like that Linda Drane Burdick prosecutor lady. I don't know...just always been attracted to mean bitchy looking women.


http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/02hP2Yw0SZ5XC/350x.jpg

[VAiN]

Unfortunately you need more than a 'feeling' to convict.




The jury did their job properly. Nobody likes it, but the prosecution did fail. It's sad, really. I'm sure Anthony will go on to write a book, movie of the week, whatever...

And yeah, sadaist, That chick looks like she'd pin you down and have her way with you. Which is OK with this guy! :baaa:

[Jagermeister]

Yeah I mean the constitution and the system is what it is. No matter how you look at it she was found not guilty which leads me to believe she is not guilty. They couldn't prove she did it so maybe she didn't.

[chefcraig]

Yeah I mean the constitution and the system is what it is. No matter how you look at it she was found not guilty which leads me to believe she is not guilty. They couldn't prove she did it so maybe she didn't.

Two words: Robert Blake
Another two, substantially more obvious: O.J.

[VAiN]

And back on topic... The hits just keep on comin!

LINK (http://www.local10.com/news/28477423/detail.html)

BSO: TSA Worker Steals iPad, Electronics From Luggage

Baggage Screener Accused Of Stealing Electronics, Selling Them Online

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Transportation Security Administration worker is accused of stealing from the luggage of travelers at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport Monday.

Broward Sheriff's Deputies said a Continental Airlines worker saw Nelson Santiago, 30, slip an iPad out of a suitcase and into his pants.

That worker reported the theft to his supervisor and Santiago was arrested.

Deputies said Santiago is responsible for a string of thefts over the past six months. They said he told detectives that he stole computers, GPS devices and video cameras from luggage he was screening.

He then allegedly took pictures of the stolen goods with his cell phone, and posted them for sale online.

BSO said the items would often sell by the time Santiago's shift ended.

Detectives estimate Santiago stole about $50,000 worth of electronics. So far, he was charged with two counts of grand theft and has been released on bond.

Detectives are trying to locate possible victims, though most will never recover their property.

Santiago had worked as a TSA officer since January 2009, but no longer works with the agency.

Goddamn! 50k!! :barf:

[PETE'S BROTHER]

pay up, suckas. :mad:

No one knows where Casey Anthony is, but America's most notorious recent murder defendant doesn't have to fret about her legal bills reaching her.
That's because $119,000 in defense fees racked up during her trial—which produced a shocking not-guilty verdict in her home jurisdiction of Orlando, Fla., earlier this month—have been picked up by Florida taxpayers. The same is true for another pending $5,800 in fees that Anthony's attorney Jose Baez has billed to his client's case, putting the overall taxpayer tab at just shy of $125,000.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/taxpayers-foot-bill-casey-anthony-defense-155506468.html

[Little Texan]

The latest, crazy, national news story from Florida ...


FBI: Merritt Island woman, 2 siblings won't hesitate to 'battle' cops
Trio wanted by authorities

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To her acquaintances in Brevard County, 29-year-old Lee Grace Dougherty seemed sweet and harmless, but a wild side lurked beneath.

In recent months, Dougherty had worked part-time as an exotic dancer at a Cocoa Beach nightclub, where a manager said she never caused problems. She lived on Merritt Island with her boyfriend's parents, Darryl and Pamela Bookman, who became attached to the "nice and polite young woman."

But for the past week, Dougherty and her two brothers have been the subjects of a nationwide FBI search, accused of shooting at a Zephyrhills police cruiser last week, then robbing a bank in Georgia.

"She was a lot of fun to be around and talk to," said Darryl Bookman, 66, the father of Dougherty's boyfriend. "She just didn't come across to me as the kind of person they're portraying her as.

"I'm sure she was involved in that shootout and probably in that bank robbery. But I would have never seen that coming."

Dougherty's two arrests in Brevard paint a different picture.

After two car crashes in May, Dougherty, whose driver's license wasn't valid, refused to go to jail without a struggle. She blamed her behavior in the wrecks on opiate painkillers.

After she traveled more than 90 mph and crashed a Ford Mustang on May 7 near Cocoa, she kicked and punched the deputy trying to arrest her for driving under the influence, court documents show. Even after a state trooper managed to handcuff her, Dougherty headbutted the deputy, according to a report.

"Once (Dougherty) was out of the vehicle and on the ground, she continued to kick and scream," the deputy wrote. "While on the ground, (she) attempted several times to bite my arm."

Ten days later, troopers say Dougherty was driving a Chevrolet Impala that crashed into a pickup on Merritt Island and fled. When troopers caught her and placed her in a patrol car, she rolled down the windows and stripped to her bra, complaining that she was hot.

The woman wrapped a seatbelt around her neck and pulled it tight when a trooper tried to stop her.

Read the rest here (http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110810/NEWS01/108100331/FBI-Merritt-Island-woman-2-siblings-won-t-hesitate-battle-cops)

[VAiN]

Goddamn, that chick CANNOT drive for shit! Crazy story all together..

[Little Texan]

Goddamn, that chick CANNOT drive for shit! Crazy story all together..

Yep, and apparently that's what ultimately did them in...

Link (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44091088/ns/today-today_news/t/dougherty-gang-siblings-custody/)

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Dougherty Gang’ siblings in custody
Colorado sheriff says arrests came after high-speed chase, shootout

breaking news

The three siblings on the run from authorities are now in custody in Colorado following a high-speed chase that ended in a crash and shootout, officials said Wednesday.

According to Colorado State Patrol, 21-year-old Ryan Edward Dougherty, 26-year-old Dylan Dougherty Stanley and 29-year-old Lee Grace Dougherty will be booked into Pueblo County Jail.

Pueblo County Sheriff Sheriff Kirk Taylor told NBC News all three were being treated at Spanish Peaks Regional Hospital in Walsenberg, Colo., first. Two were injured in the crash, the third was shot.

They had been sought since Aug. 2, when they allegedly fired 20 shots at a Florida officer during a high-speed chase and later became suspects in a Georgia bank robbery.

The Wednesday vehicle chase started after authorities received a report that the suspects were at a campground near Colorado City, the Colorado State Patrol said in a statement obtained by NBC News.

The car was gone by the time deputies arrived but was spotted by another Pueblo County deputy near a Subway restaurant near Exit 74 on Interstate 25, Taylor said.

One suspect was in the car when deputies spotted it, and the other two siblings jumped in and a chase began at 9:36 a.m., NBC station KUSA reported.

The roughly 20-mile chase ended when the siblings' vehicle crashed after troopers set tire-puncturing stop-sticks on the road, the State Patrol said.

Chase speeds were over 100 mph at times and shots were fired, Taylor said.

Deputies told KUSA the siblings were traveling so fast, they ran off the side of the road, hit a guardrail and flipped their car. Lee Grace Dougherty then reportedly got out of the car and began shooting at authorities, they said. She was shot in the leg by authorities, but her injury is non-life threatening, deputies said.

Lee Grace Dougherty and one man were arrested at the shootout scene, deputies told KUSA. The second man fled but was captured at a nearby hotel, they said.


The Colorado State Patrol first confirmed the arrests via the Public Affairs Unit's Twitter account: "Short pursuit with 3 sibling fugitives from Florida ends in crash, three in custody."

"Ladies and gentleman, I'm proud to say we won," said Pasco County, Fla., Sheriff Chris Nocco said at a news conference following their capture. "We continuously said that if these three fugitives wanted a battle with law enforcement, we would win that battle. And that's what happened today."

He called the siblings "very, very dangerous people" and their capture a tremendous relief.

"It's uncommon that we would come across these three siblings who would have an arsenal and (are) not afraid to use it," he said.

Some of Nocco's deputies were expected to fly to Colorado on Wednesday night to interview the trio.
Story: Fugitive siblings may be in Colorado, cops say

The Dougherty siblings' mother, Barbara Bell of East Palatka, Fla., spoke briefly with The Associated Press on the phone Wednesday.

"I'm sorry. I'm making no comment at this time. Bye," said Bell, who last week had urged the trio to give up before there was bloodshed.

Next step
Bernie McCabe, the state attorney for the judicial circuit that includes Florida's Pasco County, said officials in the various jurisdictions have not decided how to handle the extradition of the suspects.

"I don't know the status of the Georgia situation," he told The Associated Press. "They might get first crack at them. That has not been decided yet."

McCabe said that the only local warrants currently outstanding are two for Ryan Dougherty for grand theft auto and failure to register as a sex offender — both of which are based on events that occurred before the shooting at police in Florida. He said it would be up to the sheriff to forward charges to his office related to the chase and shooting, if they decide to.

On Tuesday, authorities said they received "credible information" that people matching the description of the three were spotted in Colorado.

A possible sighting near Interstate 25 north of downtown Colorado Springs was reported around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday (3:30 p.m. ET), Colorado Springs police said.

The Colorado Springs Gazette reported the possible sighting Tuesday was called in by a customer in the parking lot of an REI store. REI spokeswoman Libby Catalinich told The Associated Press only that the company was contacted by law-enforcement officials. She declined further comment.

They were also seen trying to buy ammunition for an AK-47 at an area Walmart, Taylor said.

The FBI had said the people spotted Tuesday were in a small white Subaru Impreza with the stolen Texas license plate LCS 909.

A nationwide manhunt for the siblings began Aug. 2. The three are suspected of firing at least 20 shots at a Florida officer during a chase that reached 100 mph after he tried to pull them over for speeding.

Hours later, three people wearing masks robbed a bank in Valdosta, Ga., about 210 miles north. One robber brandished an AK-47 assault rifle while another was photographed by a security camera waving a machine pistol, the FBI said.

Siblings have records
Nocco said all three siblings had been living together in Lacoochee, Fla., about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Tampa, and each had a criminal record. Lee Dougherty has charges pending against her in Florida for hit and run and had previously been charged with battery, Nocco said, and Stanley Dougherty had been charged with marijuana possession.

Nocco also said police feared the siblings were carrying an arsenal of weapons. Tracing prior background checks run by gun sellers, police confirmed that Ryan Dougherty bought an AK-47 assault rifle — like the one used in the bank robbery — at a pawn shop two years ago. Similar checks showed his brother also owned guns.

Police posted photos of the suspects on electronic billboards across the Southeast. Valdosta Police Cmdr. Brian Childress said it seemed the three had a "death wish."

Lee Grace Elizabeth Dougherty's first brush with the law appears to have been last May after she was involved in a traffic accident on Interstate 95 in Florida's Space Coast.

At the accident scene, Dougherty began screaming and yelling at her boyfriend. Deputies placed her in a patrol car, trying to calm her down, but she kicked and tried to head-butt a deputy, tried to break out a car window with her foot and spit in the face of a state trooper, according to the accident report.

She was arrested for driving under the influence and battery on a law enforcement officer. She had been driving with a suspended driver's license and she refused to take drug and alcohol tests.

Just 10 days later, she was involved in another traffic accident and charged with driving with a suspended license and leaving the scene of an accident. Her boyfriend, who was in the car with her, was arrested for an earlier domestic violence charge in which Dougherty was the victim. While in the trooper's patrol car, she put a seat belt around her neck and pulled it as if to choke herself, the incident report said.

Lee Dougherty pleaded guilty to the DUI charge and to driving with a suspended license last month. She was sentenced to a year of probation.

She was on the run by the time a probation officer made a home visit Aug. 3 in Merritt Island, Florida.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

nice :biggrin:

http://news.yahoo.com/police-fla-pizza-workers-burned-down-rival-store-235723310.html

[VAiN]

nice :biggrin:

http://news.yahoo.com/police-fla-pizza-workers-burned-down-rival-store-235723310.html

You beat me to it, Pete.... man - times must be tough if these dumb asses are willing to burn a place down for minimum wage..

[Little Texan]

You beat me to it, Pete.... man - times must be tough if these dumb asses are willing to burn a place down for minimum wage..

...And willing to go to prison for 10 years and be Bubba's bitch for minimum wage.

[VAiN]

Distracted Miami Cop Drives Cruiser *Up* Utility Pole...

This is something you don’t see everyday.

Miami police officer J. Brutus is OK, but possibly feeling a bit sheepish Tuesday morning, after getting distracted while driving and running his patrol car up a pole. Not into it, but up it.

“I heard boom, boom, boom!” Pamela Green said. “Then all the lights went out. I look out, I see he’s up the pole.”

The accident happened before rush hour Tuesday morning, near the intersection of NW 6th Avenue and 67th street in Miami.

Miami police spokesperson Detective Willie Moreno said Brutus, a 4 year veteran, was driving when he was momentarily distracted, as he reached for a fallen pen. His patrol car left the road and headed for a utility pole, but before it struck the pole, the car rode up along a guide wire.

“His vehicle rode on to the tension cord of this pole,” said Moreno.

The officer was briefly trapped inside the patrol car, but was helped to freedom by Miami Fire Rescue.

The officer was not hurt, and after the door was opened from the outside, the officer was able to walk away while laughing.

“For us to look and see him come out of the car, not a scratch on him,” said Yvonne Sorellis, “He didn’t even look shook up because he was just laughing.”

Yvonne grabbed a lawn chair to wait and watch because she said the ‘police car up a pole’ is better than any movie.

“Just been very interesting; I hadn’t seen nothing this good since ‘Bad Boys’ with Will Smith,” Sorellis said.

Sorellis took pictures and had a quick plan on what to do with them, “I’m going to put them on Facebook.”

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/12/13/up-a-pole-miami-cop-ok/

Amazing... I wonder what would happen if I did something like this..

[Terry]

Exactly.

But I kinda like that Linda Drane Burdick prosecutor lady. I don't know...just always been attracted to mean bitchy looking women.


http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/02hP2Yw0SZ5XC/350x.jpg

Being that this is the case, do you spontaneously ejaculate whenever Nancy Grace is on tv?

Although in all fairness, Nancy does have some big titties...

[Sensible Shoes]

Distracted Miami Cop Drives Cruiser *Up* Utility Pole...

This is something you don’t see everyday.

Miami police officer J. Brutus is OK, but possibly feeling a bit sheepish Tuesday morning, after getting distracted while driving and running his patrol car up a pole. Not into it, but up it.

“I heard boom, boom, boom!” Pamela Green said. “Then all the lights went out. I look out, I see he’s up the pole.”

The accident happened before rush hour Tuesday morning, near the intersection of NW 6th Avenue and 67th street in Miami.

Miami police spokesperson Detective Willie Moreno said Brutus, a 4 year veteran, was driving when he was momentarily distracted, as he reached for a fallen pen. His patrol car left the road and headed for a utility pole, but before it struck the pole, the car rode up along a guide wire.

“His vehicle rode on to the tension cord of this pole,” said Moreno.

The officer was briefly trapped inside the patrol car, but was helped to freedom by Miami Fire Rescue.

The officer was not hurt, and after the door was opened from the outside, the officer was able to walk away while laughing.

“For us to look and see him come out of the car, not a scratch on him,” said Yvonne Sorellis, “He didn’t even look shook up because he was just laughing.”

Yvonne grabbed a lawn chair to wait and watch because she said the ‘police car up a pole’ is better than any movie.

“Just been very interesting; I hadn’t seen nothing this good since ‘Bad Boys’ with Will Smith,” Sorellis said.

Sorellis took pictures and had a quick plan on what to do with them, “I’m going to put them on Facebook.”

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/12/13/up-a-pole-miami-cop-ok/

Amazing... I wonder what would happen if I did something like this..

"Jerry, is your car up a pole again?"

"I miss you Jessica."

"Jerry are you crying?"

" No I bit my tongue."

[jhale667]

Exactly.

But I kinda like that Linda Drane Burdick prosecutor lady. I don't know...just always been attracted to mean bitchy looking women.


http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/02hP2Yw0SZ5XC/350x.jpg

Holy crap... totally looks like my ex fiance auditioning for the new version of "LA Law"... :jaw:

[So this is love]

Naked man killed by Police near MacArthur Causeway was ‘eating’ face off victim
BY DANIELA GUZMAN AND JULIE K. BROWN The Miami Herald
Questions remain about why naked man on Miami causeway tried to rip flesh off another man’s face BY DANIELA GUZMAN AND JULIE K. BROWN
jbrown@MiamiHerald.com
It was a scene as creepy as a Hannibal Lecter movie.
One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked, and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp Saturday, police said.
The horror began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building.
According to police sources, a road ranger saw a naked man chewing on another man’s face and shouted on his loud speaker for him to back away.Meanwhile, a woman also saw the incident and flagged down a police officer who was in the area.
The officer, who has not been identified, approached and, seeing what was happening, also ordered the naked man to back away. When he continued the assault, the officer shot him, police sources said. The attacker failed to stop after being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.
Miami police were on the scene, which was just south of The Miami Herald building on Biscayne Boulevard. The naked man who was killed lay face down on the pedestrian walkway just below the newspaper’s two-story parking garage. Police have requested The Herald’s video surveillance tapes.
The other man was transported to the hospital with critical injuries, according to police. Their identities were not released.
The incident, which came as crowds descended upon South Beach for the annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival, snarled traffic on the causeway for several hours.
In a text message, Javier Ortiz, spokesman for Miami police’s Fraternal Order of Police, said the officer who fired the fatal shots was “a hero.”
“Based on the information provided, our Miami police officer is a hero and saved a life,’’ he said.
Sergeant Altarr Williams, supervisor of Miami police’s Homicide Unit, said a man doesn’t have to be armed to be dangerous.
“There are other ways to injure people,’’ Williams said. “Some people know martial arts, others are very strong and can kill you with their hands.’’
Investigators believe the victim may have been homeless and laying down when the crazed man pounced.
Police theorize the attacker might have been suffering from "cocaine psychosis," a drug-induced craze that bakes the body internally and often leads the affected to strip naked to try and cool off.
Miami Herald writers Alexandra Leon and Curtis Morgan contributed to this report.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/2818832/naked-man-shot-killed-on-macarthur.html#storylink=cpy

[FORD]

Sounds like Jeb put some bad coke on the streets down there.:smiley-sniffer:

[ELVIS]

I guess the mighty nanny government should ban teeth in order to protect us...

[ELVIS]

Sounds like Jeb put some bad coke on the streets down there.:smiley-sniffer:

Why can't you just come out and admit that the savior Obama is BCE ??

[FORD]

Obama's not BCE. He just refuses to get rid of their fucked up policies. But I'm not sure what he has to do with Jeb putting bad coke on the streets of Miami.

[Nickdfresh]

I guess the mighty nanny government should ban teeth in order to protect us...

Maybe the nanny gov't can provide you with a brain so you stop making such stupid, gay strawman arguments...

[Nickdfresh]

Sounds like Jeb put some bad coke on the streets down there.:smiley-sniffer:

Sounds more like PCP...

[ELVIS]

Obama's not BCE. He just refuses to get rid of their fucked up policies.

So, sow does that make him any different ??

[ELVIS]

How even...

[chefcraig]

So, sow does that make him any different ??

It's sorta like you or me getting a job at KFC. Although we did not invent the idea of ghastly chicken nor come up with it's style of preparation, we get the right to endorse it without actually having to be official members of Colonel Harland Sanders' family. It's kind of a "friends with benefits" thing, unfortunately lacking any of the sex but plenty of the remorse.

[ELVIS]

And even more corruption...

[sadaist]

I guess the mighty nanny government should ban teeth in order to protect us...


Nah. They'll just tax them and regulate them.

[sadaist]

Sounds more like PCP...


News story I watched last night said a strong strain of LSD. Although that seems like something only people who know nothing about drugs would say.


I'm gonna go with the Zombie story.

*I didn't see it here but the story I watched earlier said the victims eyes were gone. GONE!!!!

[Little Texan]

Here's another of those weird, only in Florida type stories...

Link (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/us/florida-winner-of-roach-eating-contest-dies.html?_r=0)

Florida man dies after winning cockroach-eating contest

Broward County

Eddie Archbold, 32, died Friday night after winning a giant cockroach-eating contest.

By Isolde Raftery, NBC News

Edward Archbold was, according to those who met him on Friday night, the life of the party – a bit of a showoff who was up for anything, even a giant cockroach-eating contest.

He won. And then, tragically, he died.

Now police from Deerfield Beach, Fla., about 40 miles north of Miami, are investigating the death of the 32-year-old, who on Facebook went by Edward William Barry.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Archbold, of West Palm Beach, and several other contestants signed up to eat a variety of insects at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach. After eating dozens of giant cockroaches, Archbold was declared the winner of an ivory-ball python. (The prizes, Archbold indicated on his Facebook page that night, were less significant than the glory.)
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He had also entered a superworm-eating contest earlier in the night.

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But after winning, Archbold felt sick and started vomiting. He then collapsed in the store and was later pronounced dead. The medical examiner’s office is conducting tests to determine a cause of death, according to the sheriff’s office statement.

On Facebook, Ben Siegel Reptiles wrote that staff met Archbold the night of the Midnight Madness sale: “We all liked him right away. All of us here at Ben Siegel Reptiles are sad that we will not get to know Eddie better, for in the short time we knew him, he was very well liked by all.”

In the comments beneath the statement, the reptile store wrote that the prize “now belongs to his estate.”

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In another Facebook comment, an attorney claiming to represent Ben Siegel Reptiles wrote that contest participants had signed waivers accepting their participation in this “unique and unorthodox contest.”

“The consumption of insects is widely accepted throughout the world, and the insects presented as part of the contest were taken from an inventory of insects that are safely and domestically raised in a controlled environment as food for reptiles,” wrote attorney Luke Lirot.

No other contestants felt sick, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

And Archbold seemed to be doing all right earlier in the night, according to his own account on Facebook. He took photos of the superworms and wrote: " Also side note im NOW in a super worm eating comp now.......what ever the hell a super worm is?"

Eating the bugs yielded valuable rewards, according to the store's Facebook page: “Eat the most bugs in 4 minutes, win the ball morph. That’s it. Oh yeah, any vomiting is an automatic DQ,” the advertisement stated. “Eat the most crickets, win a male lesser. Eat the most superworms, win a female orange belly. Eat the most discoid roaches, win a female graphite sired ivory!”

Michael Adams, a professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, told The Associated Press that he has never heard of someone dying after eating roaches.

"Unless the roaches were contaminated with some bacteria or other pathogens, I don't think that cockroaches would be unsafe to eat," Adams said. "Some people do have allergies to roaches but there are no toxins in roaches or related insects."

Meanwhile, Archbold's friends took to his Facebook page to remember him. Wrote one: "This goes out to one of the most funnest, craziest, and most energetic person I have ever met!!! I will never ever forget u Eddie... I don't think anyone could!!"

[chefcraig]

Yep, the cockroach eating story was the main headline in our local paper this morning. It is odd that none of the other "contestants" suffered any ill effects, leading one to suspect the victim had something wrong with him to begin with.

[VAiN]

I was at that event when it started. A coworker of mine was going to do it but he missed the registration.. Super gross event - they had qualifying rounds with meal worms, crickets, some blue squirting bug and then finally roaches. Disgusting.
I left early, but heard it was killer.

Too soon?

[ashstralia]

I was at that event when it started.
I left early, but heard it was killer.

Too soon?

Nah, I wonder if any roaches marched out of him during the autopsy, flipping the bird? :)

[jhale667]

EVERYONE KNOWS you're not supposed to mix giant roaches and superworms, especially if you're lactose intolerant, or on days ending in 'y' .... :umm:

[chefcraig]

You just knew this would happen: One bonehead drops dead and ruins it for the rest of us...

Six Flags suspends cockroach-eating contest after Florida death

By Elisabeth Mistretta Daily Herald (http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121009/news/710099696/print/)



Six Flags Great America in Gurnee has suspended its seasonal cockroach-eating contest, in response to reports of a man’s death after a similar competition at a Florida pet store.

The 32-year-old man reportedly collapsed last week after eating dozens of roaches and worms during a contest to win a python at a pet store in Deerfield Beach, according to the Associated Press. Six Flags Great America officials said they’ve suspended their contest, which happens weekly during its Halloween-themed Fright Fest, while the amusement park reviews the competitions nationwide.

Officials said the weekly contest attracts about 10 to 20 participants each week and an audience of roughly 50 people.

Katy Enrique, communications manager for Six Flags Great America, added that the theme park has never received reports of health problems following its contests, which began in fall 2006. “We are confident our eating contests are safe as the insects we use are raised specifically for human consumption,” said a prepared statement from Six Flags Entertainment Corp.. “Insects are considered a delicacy in many cultures; however, even though this appears to be an isolated incident, we are reviewing the eating contests at our parks to ensure we maintain a safe environment for our guests.”

Fright Fest runs this year through Oct. 28 and Enrique said Great America is not creating a replacement for the contest that allowed adults, ages 18 and older, to eat live adult Madagascar hissing cockroaches. The winner would have received a 2013 seasons pass and a one-day Flash Pass, which allows them jump to the front of the line on any ride in the park.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches are among the largest species of cockroach and can reach 2- to 3-inches in maturity. In previous years, the competition has also included contestants eating grasshoppers, snails and silk worms that shipped to the park dead, as well as super worms and night crawlers were alive during consumption.

Patrons at Six Flags Great America were required to sign a waiver before digging in during previous contests.

And when the contest launched in 2006, officials from the Lake County Health Department cautioned would-be eaters to think twice, “due to the risk of gastrointestinal illness and allergies.” Florida police are awaiting cause of death of Edward Archbold, pending an autopsy. The Associated Press reports Archbold collapsed shortly after consuming dozens of roaches and worms and was later pronounced dead at a Florida hospital. No other contestants reported medical problems after the competition, according to the Associated Press.

[Little Texan]

Are people in Florida just into eating cockroaches or what?

[DONNIEP]

So these mofos were eating this shit just to win a season pass?? Who the fuck are these people?

[VAiN]

Are people in Florida just into eating cockroaches or what?

No... No we are not.

[chefcraig]

Are people in Florida just into eating cockroaches or what?

Nah, having resided here since 1968 or so, I'd have to say that the main diet consists of eating a great deal of shit, while not only refusing to complain about it, but remarkably enough, asking for seconds.

[gbranton]

Florida does not have the market cornered when it comes to trashy, illiterate idiots. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

http://blog.al.com/live/2011/01/mobile_farnell_drive_robbery.html?mobRedir=false

MOBILE, Ala. -- A Mobile man remained in the Mobile County Metro Jail this evening, charged with first-degree robbery for an incident that occurred in early December, police said.

Nigah Kawmon Edwards, 18, was scheduled for a court appearance Wednesday, according to jail records.

Edwards was arrested about 11 this morning on the 1600 block of Hartwell Drive, Officer Christopher Levy, police spokesman, said.

Police said that about 7 p.m. Dec. 4 in the 2500 block of Farnell Drive, the victim was coming home when he was approached in his front yard by a man with a handgun. The gunman told the victim to empty his pockets. The robber fled on foot, police said.

[Nitro Express]

The places I've been in Florida where a lot of New Yorker transplants and upscale hispanics. Actually it was sophisticated. In the more sleepy areas it was much like you would find in any other beach area in the world. I really didn't see a big hick factor there. Maybe that's up in the panhandle more or in places like Jacksonville? I never made it that far north.

[chefcraig]

The places I've been in Florida where a lot of New Yorker transplants and upscale hispanics. Actually it was sophisticated. In the more sleepy areas it was much like you would find in any other beach area in the world. I really didn't see a big hick factor there. Maybe that's up in the panhandle more or in places like Jacksonville? I never made it that far north.

Exactly what type of space suit do you wear when traveling, Major Matt Mason? At your nearest opportunity, you might wish to readjust your oxygen supply or at the very least, clean off your helmet visor.


http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/lahalbo/Major-Matt-Mason.jpg

[VAiN]

Shit does roll downhill...

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Man-Cut-Almost-All-of-Girlfriends-Nose-Off-Police-179355821.html

Man Cut Almost All of Girlfriend's Nose Off: Police

A man was arrested for cutting almost all of his girlfriend's nose off after she refused to have sex with him, Fort Lauderdale Police said.

Ricardo Salamanca, from Plantation, faces a charge of aggravated battery causing bodily harm and remains in jail on $75,000 bond on Wednesday. It wasn't immediately known if he had an attorney. On Oct. 28, the victim was taken to North Broward Hospital for surgery to have her nose reattached. "The victim's nose was severed down to the sinus cavity where the victim's nose was only attached by a thread," the complaint affidavit said. The woman identified Salamanca as the person who did this to her, authorities said. She said that she had been in a relationship with him, and they lived together, the report said. That night, she had seen him at a Plantation nightclub but went home alone, the affidavit said. Later, he knocked on the door and she let him in, but he started yelling when she would not have sexual intercourse with him, and he threw her down, trying to place her in a chokehold, the affidavit said. She told authorities that he couldn't place her in a chokehold and she was ran to the front door, according to the affidavit. She remembered being thrown across the room, and then saw that she was bleeding from her face, authorities said."That's what you deserve, b****," the affidavit quoted the defendant as saying. Salamanca left, and she drove herself to the hospital, the report said. She told authorities that she had been a victim of domestic violence from Salamanca in the past.

[Seshmeister]

http://andrewsidea.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/sleeper5.png

'Don't move or the nose gets it!'

[chefcraig]

That night, she had seen him at a Plantation nightclub but went home alone, the affidavit said.

Ummm...we don't have nightclubs in Plantation. For shit's sake, we don't even have a McDonald's franchise. WTF? :doh:

[qikgts]

Ummm...we don't have nightclubs in Plantation. For shit's sake, we don't even have a McDonald's franchise. WTF? :doh:

There actually is a McDonald's in Plantation. University just north of 595. West side of the road...

[VAiN]

I'm just more impressed with her driving herself to the hospital with her nose hanging off..

[chefcraig]

There actually is a McDonald's in Plantation. University just north of 595. West side of the road...

Yeah, but in terms of conveniance it might as well be in Davie. And you certainly don't want to go eat anywhere East of the turnpike, ya know? Which means going North into Sunrise or waaay the hell West out beyond Plantation Acres, by the ghastly Sawgrass Mills Mall.

[ODShowtime]

Go to the Primanti Brothers in Oakland park or where ever the hell it is. Get a sandwich with some french fries. That's a weird ass area of the world and I've spent way too much time there. Davie is really weird.

[chefcraig]

Go to the Primanti Brothers in Oakland park or where ever the hell it is. Get a sandwich with some french fries. That's a weird ass area of the world and I've spent way too much time there. Davie is really weird.

Ya know OD, a Primanti Brothers opened up in Sunrise on University Drive, just North of Sunrise. (It's located on the west side of University.) And speaking of fries, a 5 Guys recently opened up in the Fountains shopping center. But as far as good fast food goes, that's about it. Thankfully, the city has a handful of mom & pop pizzerias still going strong, all within home delivery or work distance.

[VAiN]

Go to the Primanti Brothers in Oakland park or where ever the hell it is. Get a sandwich with some french fries. That's a weird ass area of the world and I've spent way too much time there. Davie is really weird.

They make a nice pizza, but I just can't get into the sandwiches with slaw and fries on them..

[Nickdfresh]

Your football fans ain't the brightest either:

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/26XQBYu4Sj9J1Si6rqw1GA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusncaafexperts/fsu.jpg

:)

[chefcraig]

Your football fans ain't the brightest either:


:)

Perhaps, yet you have to admit it was one hell of an entertaining game. :thumb:

[Blaze]

Florida man who died in cockroach-eating contest choked to death, autopsy says

:puke:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121009-edwardArchbold-511p.photoblog600.jpg

By NBC News staff
A man who collapsed after winning a cockroach-eating contest last month at a Florida pet store choked to death, according to a Broward County Medical Examiner report released Monday.
Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, and several other contestants signed up to eat a variety of insects at Ben Siegel Reptiles in Deerfield Beach on Oct. 6. After eating dozens of giant cockroaches, Archbold was declared the winner of an ivory-ball python.

Earlier in the night, he had also entered a superworm-eating contest.

But after winning, Archbold felt sick and started vomiting. He then collapsed in the store and was later pronounced dead. The medical examiner’s office conducted tests to determine the cause of death, which was revealed more than a month later.

According to the report, the death was deemed an accident as a result of "arthropod body parts" blocking Archbold's airways. The autopsy tested negative for toxic substances.:clock:

[VAiN]

Uhh... just full of fucking chomped up bugs. Fucking gross. And I was there to boot.

[Blaze]

Uhh... just full of fucking chomped up bugs. Fucking gross. And I was there to boot.
Did you place and were the bugs better with mustard? o.0

[VAiN]

Did you place and were the bugs better with mustard? o.0

Oh hell no!! I saw that shit and left. I enjoyed chicken wings that night.

[WARF]

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Good God Y'all

[WARF]

Gregory Matthew Bruni

http://antzinpantz.com/kns/images/DEC12/nekkid-masturbater.jpg

WTF!?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

OCALA, Fla. — Police in north Florida cited country music singer David Allen Coe for running a red light before being struck by a tractor-trailer near downtown Ocala.

[private parts]

We live in a strange world

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/strap-on-dildo-heist-9182345

[Sensible Shoes]

No. You can't.

[FORD]

Why would anybody keep dildos in a storage unit? They don't take up that much space.

[DLR Bridge]

The article title starts off sounding like a tale of reconciliation.

[chefcraig]

Why would anybody keep dildos in a storage unit? They don't take up that much space.

This would have been interesting if it had shown up on that Storage Wars show on A&E.

[FORD]

This is obviously just speculation, but I'm guessing the woman in question, who would presumably be the "butch" in the relationship, judging by her picture, might have recently begun a new relationship and may not be sure yet how the new girlfriend feels about "meat substitutes", so she wanted to hide them until she gets an answer to that question. Some Lesbians don't even like fake dick, and might freak out if they saw an arsenal of strapons hanging from the walls in their new girlfriend's bedroom.

So then, the new girl says she's OK with the plastic penis... butch goes to retrieve her tools of pleasure, and finds out the ex has run off with them. Guess they should have split custody when they broke up? :biggrin:

[ELVIS]

Isn't this Mr Maddow ??

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/ashleyrivera.jpg

[ODShowtime]

dildoes

[private parts]

Isn't this Mr Maddow ??

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/ashleyrivera.jpg

:biggrin:

[Seshmeister]

Old but I just spotted it... :)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-06-28/florida-man-shot-in-head-complains-of-headache/83320

Florida man shot in head, complains of headache
Posted Thu 28 Jun 2007, 11:33am AEST



A Florida man woke up with a severe headache and asked his wife to drive him to a hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged behind his right ear.

"The nurse looked at him and said, 'It appears that you've been shot,'" the Fort Pierce Tribune quoted St Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara as saying.

"And he said, 'No way.'"

The man's wife, April Moylan, fled the emergency room when the bullet was discovered but later told deputies she had accidentally shot her husband as he slept early on Tuesday.

She was jailed on a weapons violation charge while deputies pursued additional charges.

The husband, 45-year-old Michael Moylan, woke up with a head pain so severe he suspected he was having an aneurism and asked his wife to take him to the emergency room.

Police arrested the wife after obtaining a search warrant and finding a gun and bloody rags in the couple's home near the Atlantic coastal town of Port St Lucie.

The husband is in hospital in stable condition.

- Reuters

[Satan]

Posted: 6:29 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013

WFTV - Orlando

PALM BAY, Fla. —

A Florida man was hospitalized with serious burns he suffered while decorating his home for Halloween Tuesday night, according to police.

According to his wife and friends, the 50-year-old man was using gas to light a wooden cross as a joke when he set himself on fire at his Palm Bay home.

Investigators said the man's wife used a water hose to douse the flames.

The man was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center with burns over 40 percent of his body and suffered second-degree burns to his upper torso.

Police said the man had been drinking.

His name was not released.

[jhale667]

Wow, where's a GIF file of the self-immolating Klansman from Harold and Kumar when you need one...? :biggrin:

[Satan]

Wow, where's a GIF file of the self-immolating Klansman from Harold and Kumar when you need one...? :biggrin:

Will this tool do?

http://assets.explainthisimage.com/hashed_silo_content/silo_content/8876/resized/klansman-on-fire.jpg

[jhale667]

Will this tool do?

http://assets.explainthisimage.com/hashed_silo_content/silo_content/8876/resized/klansman-on-fire.jpg

Sure! :baaa:

[chefcraig]

Police said the man had been drinking.

OK, who didn't see that one coming? :duh:

[Terry]

Every Thanksgiving down here I await the local news reports of someone burning their house to the ground because they decided to deep-fry a turkey in their kitchen using a frying apparatus that was designed to be used exclusively outdoors. It happens every year without fail, and I've been down here 13 years now.

[FORD]

By David Edwards
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 15:49 EST (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/06/florida-teacher-suspended-for-forcing-kids-to-say-pledge-on-sept-11-or-go-to-your-home-country/)

A Florida teacher was recently suspended without pay for five days after school officials said that she forced a fourth grade student to violate his religious beliefs and say the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Tampa Bay Times reported that the student, whose Jehovah’s Witness religion forbids him from worshiping objects, was used to standing silent while the other students put their hands over their hearts and recited the pledge.

But on the morning of Sept. 11, Explorer K-8 School teacher Anne Daigle-McDonald forcibly placed the boy’s hand over his heart.

“You are an American, and you are supposed to salute the flag,” she said, turning to the class. “In my classroom, everyone will do the pledge; no religion says that you can’t do the pledge.”

“If you can’t put your hand on your heart, then you need to move out of the country,” the teacher reportedly added.

Hernando County Schools Division of Business Services-Heather Martin Executive Director later told Daigle-McDonald that nearly all of the students in her fourth grade class had recalled her telling them the next day to move back to their home country if they didn’t want to say the pledge.

“But that’s not what I said,” Daigle-McDonald insisted. “It was directed at citizenship. I was talking about pledging allegiance to our country, and if you don’t want to pledge to our country, you should go to your home country.”

The teacher said that she had no idea that the boy was a Jehovah’s Witness but admitted that the mother had told her he did not celebrate holidays.

“[I] just wanted all of the students to respect the day,” she remarked. “It wasn’t a holiday, so I didn’t see why the whole class couldn’t say the pledge.”

In its 1943 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette ruling, the Supreme Court found that it was unconstitutional to force students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Watch this video from WTSP, broadcast Nov. 5, 2013.



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[Seshmeister]

The Tampa Bay Times reported that the student, whose Jehovah’s Witness religion forbids him from worshiping objects,

That sentence actually does the almost impossible by making the JW religion sound quite sensible... :biggrin:

[jacksmar]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crack-cocaine-sweatshirt-guilty-plea-675432

NOVEMBER 20--The narcotics trafficking defendant who attended a Florida court hearing wearing a sweatshirt imprinted with a cartoon-like recipe for producing crack cocaine was convicted last week of a pair of felonies and sentenced to three years in state prison.

Christopher Patterson, a convicted felon who previously served time for cocaine possession, entered no contest pleas last Tuesday to distribution and conspiracy charges related to the sale of the painkiller Oxycodone to an undercover cop.

The 27-year-old Patterson, who was jailed following his plea, has an August 2016 release date. He is pictured below in a Florida Department of Corrections mug shot.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/christopherpatterson_0.jpg

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/crackjacketinsdieinct.jpg

[Satan]

By Amy Pavuk, Orlando Sentinel

5:40 PM EST, December 30, 2013

A man whose parenting plan was detailed during a graphic child-sex trial in Orlando federal court this year will soon learn how much prison time he will serve for his crimes.

Jonathan Adleta, a 26-year-old former Marine officer who once lived in Central Florida, was accused of sexually abusing his children, as well as a girlfriend's daughter.

He was convicted of two child-sex charges during his weeklong trial in September and will be sentenced Jan. 6. He faces up to life in prison.

His ex-wife, 29-year-old Sarah Adleta, served as a key witness for prosecutors, explaining how having sex with their two children was part of their family parenting plan — even after they divorced.

Prosecutors said Jonathan Adleta had a "sexual appetite" for his own daughter and dreamed of the day when he could have "daddy-daughter sex."

After Sarah Adleta had a son, she was expected to have sexual encounters with him.

Sarah said she needed Jonathan's financial security, loved him, and did whatever it took to not lose him. They married in 2010.

Jonathan Adleta sexually abused the couple's daughter while they were stationed in California, his wife said. By late 2011, he filed for divorce and Sarah Adleta returned to Oviedo with the children.

But the parents stayed in close contact, and Sarah Adleta said she allowed her ex-husband to continue to prey on their daughter through the videoconference program Skype.

By the spring of 2012, he met a new girlfriend, Samantha Bryant, who also had a daughter. Bryant testified she too let Jonathan Adleta molest her daughter.

Months later, in December 2012, Sarah Adleta and her two children traveled to Oklahoma to spend time with her ex-husband and Bryant.

Sarah Adleta and her two children returned to Oviedo after Christmas, and weeks later, Jonathan Adleta suggested she find another man to sexually abuse their daughter so the girl would become more comfortable with being assaulted.

At that time, Sarah Adleta was communicating with Aaron Dixon, a North Carolina man who was later arrested on child-sex charges in an unrelated case.

FBI agents received a tip that Sarah Adleta was communicating with Dixon, and learned she performed sex acts on her children while Dixon watched via Skype.

Sarah Adleta, who was a student at University of Central Florida, was arrested after that discovery and subsequently pleaded guilty in Orlando federal court, admitting she too sexually abused her children.

After testifying against her ex-husband, Sarah Adleta was sentenced to 54 years in federal prison — more than twice as much time she was hoping to receive as part of her plea deal.

Bryant, Jonathan Adleta's girlfriend, was also charged with and pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her daughter and allowing him to abuse the girl.

apavuk@tribune.com or 407-420-5735

Copyright © 2013, Orlando Sentinel

[PETE'S BROTHER]

:019: .

[Seshmeister]

Haha!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/1688770_10151823922635566_1753715705_n.jpg

[FORD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gE_XhYT7g

[VAiN]

Woman made up rape story to cover for missing work, deputies say

http://www.trbimg.com/img-52fe4245/turbine/sfl-deputies-say-woman-made-up-story-of-sex-assault-on-turnpike-20140214/187/187x105

A woman who didn't want to get in trouble for skipping work fabricated a story about being sexually assaulted on the side of the highway, leading investigators from multiple agencies to waste more than 100 hours searching for a suspect who didn't exist, deputies say.

LINK (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-turnpike-rape-lie-20140214,0,2858339.story)

Wow.. this was her best solution to get out of going to work. What a fucking retard.

[FORD]

Wait a minute.... isn't that the same chick from the "Toy Yoda" story above?

Looks like it could be.......

[FORD]

By Adrienne Cutway, Orlando Sentinel

12:35 p.m. EST, March 5, 2014



Shocked neighbors begged and pleaded as they watched a Florida man have sex with a pit bull in his yard, The Tampa Tribune is reporting.

Bernard Marsonek, 57, of Tampa was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with aggravated animal cruelty, sexual activity involving animals and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Locals who saw the alleged sex act yelled at Marsonek but he ignored them. Witnesses flagged down an officer who interviewed and arrested Marsonek.

Tampa man has sex with pit bull as neighbors beg him to stop.

Eight pit bulls were taken from the home.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

http://www.uproxx.com/up/2014/03/florida-karma-driver-video/

"This happened to me on SR 41 in Tampa on Monday March 24th. This pathetic excuse for a human being tailgated me for about three minutes. After about a minute, and me shaking my head, I pulled out my phone and started recording. I couldn’t move over because there were trucks in the right lane, and I sure as heck wasn’t going to speed on a rainy day with the roads being as slick as they were. I was turning left in about a half-mile when this happened. [...]

He initially fled the scene of the accident, but thanks to this video he has been caught and charged. Massive props to the Sheriffs Department and most especially the Highway Patrol who responded to the scene. This moron could have easily killed somebody with his moronic behavior, and my laughing at the end would have been replaced with tears. Needless to say though, I’ve never seen Karma come back so fast."

[FORD]

What a dumbass. Good thing his stupidity didn't take out anybody else :biggrin:

[SunisinuS]

Why not slow down...go behind the other "right lane" trucks....allow the jack ass to pass and take an extra 45 seconds to make your left turn?

Guess "machismo" applies to right lane drivers in the "passing lane". Not impressed by this person's solution when she could have been the cause by encouraging someone's road rage to cross into other traffic and kill other people in oncoming traffic. This "go on girl" shit must have meant she was a doctor trying to get to an emergency room triage where she was indispensable. Not impressed.

As a pilot....this mentality gets everyone killed. Let a jackass be one...take an extra 1.5 minutes to let the road rage idiot do their thing. Guess this is funny because of what did not happen. The video chick still might deserve a ticket.

[Nitro Express]

He wrecked daddy's Ford pickup. Daddy is going to be pissed.

[Nitro Express]

Why not slow down...go behind the other "right lane" trucks....allow the jack ass to pass and take an extra 45 seconds to make your left turn?

Guess "machismo" applies to right lane drivers in the "passing lane". Not impressed by this person's solution when she could have been the cause by encouraging someone's road rage to cross into other traffic and kill other people in oncoming traffic. This "go on girl" shit must have meant she was a doctor trying to get to an emergency room triage where she was indispensable. Not impressed.

As a pilot....this mentality gets everyone killed. Let a jackass be one...take an extra 1.5 minutes to let the road rage idiot do their thing. Guess this is funny because of what did not happen. The video chick still might deserve a ticket.

Yup. If someone gets on my tail like that and there is room to get in the right lane I let them through. It's the fast lane and I hate it when there is a slowpoke in it when I want to barrel on through. In Germany on the autobahn you can get ticketed for doing what that lady was doing. Get your slow ass over to the right!

[ODShowtime]

It's a war every day to get to work in Tampa Bay. Fucking old people straight chillin' in the left lane, macho assholes up your ass while you're driving behind the slow people, morons weaving in and out.

I have two philosophies; 1) golden rule and 2) get the fuck out of my way. I absolutely yield to fast drivers whenever I can because I hate having to drive behind slow people.

It's just a big asshole festival down here.

[VAiN]

It's just a big asshole festival down here.

No shit man.. Pound for pound S. Florida has the worst drivers in the country. Probably because most of them aren't from this country.

[chefcraig]

Florida woman arrested in topless rampage at McDonald's


Reuters April 8, 2014 6:30 PM (http://news.yahoo.com/florida-woman-arrested-topless-rampage-mcdonalds-223009491.html)

MIAMI (Reuters) - A bare-breasted woman wearing only bikini bottoms was observed by security cameras vandalizing a Florida McDonald's.

In the video, which went viral on Tuesday, the woman is seen shoving cash registers onto the floor, overturning a drinks dispenser and throwing items at staff before helping herself to some ice cream.

Sandra Suarez, 41, entered the McDonald's in Pinellas Park on Florida's west coast on March 24, and when an employee asked her to put on some clothes, she refused and became destructive, according to a police report obtained by the Tampa Bay Times.

"She destroys it," Pinellas Park police spokesman Sgt. Adam Geissenberger, told the newspaper. "You name it, she's turning it over."

The police report said she caused about $10,000 in damage.

Suarez was taken to a local hospital and was charged with felony criminal mischief and resisting arrest.

(Reporting by David Adams and Kevin Gray; editing by Gunna Dickson)

By the way, the idiotic employees gleefully enjoying the footage in the background of the clip have since (deservedly) been fired.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImPbLxy9sT4

[VAiN]

I don't know if anyone has been following this outside of Florida, but basically an underage nitwit with a suspended license went out after work, got hammered and got on the highway going the wrong direction causing a head-on collision and killed 2 girls in the process.. this is the follow-up story. I cannot believe that there is a lawyer shiesty enough to actually employ the 'involuntary intoxication' defense... just mind blowing and sad on so many levels. Fuck this bitch, she deserves to rot in jail.

Cry me a river, bitch.
http://www.trbimg.com/img-536120bb/turbine/sfl-wrongway-driver-heartbroken-over-crash-that-killed-2-women-20140430/187/187x105

A woman accused of drunken driving in a wrong-way crash that killed two 21-year-old friends from Coral Springs says she has no recollection of the accident. She also questions why the head-on crash didn't kill her.

LINK (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-wrong-way-sawgrass-driver-speaks-20140430,0,3222800.story)

[Zing!]

No shit man.. Pound for pound S. Florida has the worst drivers in the country. Probably because most of them aren't from this country.

I went to Miami once.

Once.

F that hellhole. The traffic was so nuts I felt lucky to get out of there alive. Hopefully global warming sinks the place and its crappy baseball team.

[Seshmeister]

I thought it must be a great place to pick up girls since every guy on South Beach seemed to be a self obsessed flaming homo. :)

[VAiN]

I thought it must be a great place to pick up girls since every guy on South Beach seemed to be a self obsessed flaming homo. :)

There's that for sure.. Although the women are pretty much gold-digging filthy whores.

[ELVIS]

They're all nasty as hell...

[Seshmeister]

Ok guys I officially win this thread!



http://jezebel.com/woman-who-shot-missile-into-car-has-most-florida-name-e-1589467389?


Woman Who Shot Missile Into Car Has Most Florida Name EVER



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A Florida woman was arrested in May for shooting a missile into a vehicle. While this already raises some interesting questions (how did someone get access to a missile and why would she waste it on a car instead of selling it to the Russians), what's even more interesting is the woman's name, which appears on her booking record as, well, here's a photo:

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While I couldn't get any information on the actual arrest, I had to confirm that the name was real so I put on my reporter hat and started making phone calls. After talking to a worker who wouldn't give me her name at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, I was directed to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, where I spoke with Sharon (not interested in talking to me) and Linda, tireless public servant. keeper of the records and star of this particular story.

Here's how our conversation went:

Me: Hi, I'm calling to ask about a name of one of the people you booked and released in May.

Linda: Not yesterday?

Me: No, May.

Linda: Okay, what is her name?

Me: Crystal Metheney.

Linda: Hmmm. And what is your question, sir? (Linda calling me sir was the highlight of my day because usually my high-pitched nasal twang gets a "ma'am" or an "are your parents home?")

Me: Is that her real name? And was she arrested for shooting a missile?

Linda: That's what it says here.

Me: Not an alias?

Linda: No.

Me: That's a pretty amazing name.

Linda: (Sighs) Sir, this is Florida. We have a lot of interesting names here.

It's unlikely that we'll ever know more about Metheney — she was released on a $5000 bond and is hopefully not using her money to buy any more missiles — but Linda will live on through the ages. In fact, if anyone deserves a sitcom (or a documentary on TRU TV) it's Linda.

Premise from an editor: It will be a new FX sitcom starring Elisabeth Shue as Linda, a small-town florida sheriff trying to keep control of her team of madcap meth-fighting officers. Brilliant!

[ODShowtime]

There's that for sure.. Although the women are pretty much gold-digging filthy whores.

Yes they are it's awesome!

[ODShowtime]

Ok guys I officially win this thread!

If you really wanna have some fun, read about Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. He's quite a character. He's always preening for cameras. He also likes to preach from his high horse. He's a son of a bitch. I live in the next county over and I don't even fuck around over there at all. Nobody does he has that shit on lockdown. It's worthless meth country anyway.

I think you would like this guy Sesh


A man in Colorado a couple of months ago published a book called The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure, and he didn't get arrested for it, and this made Grady Judd mad.

So the sheriff of Polk County, whose job is to protect and serve the roughly 500,000 people who live in the mostly agricultural area between Tampa and Orlando, had one of his undercover detectives contact Phillip Greaves of Pueblo, Colo., and ask to buy his book. Greaves sent a signed copy back to Polk, where Judd got a search warrant, and then sent two of his men 1,856 miles to arrest him the week before Christmas.

After the news broke, Judd sat in the studio of a country radio station in Lakeland and told two nodding disc jockeys, "He had porn plastered — ugly, nasty porn — plastered all over his room.

"I mean," he added, leaning in toward the microphone, "he's a real weeeiiirdo."

The episode was no surprise to those who have watched the public ascent of this man's career. Judd, who turns 57 next month, envisions himself as not just a local enforcer of laws but a more universal arbiter of morals. He inserts himself into some of the most sensitive fissures in the country's culture wars, a "true believer," as his friends say, or a savvy opportunist, or both, and then goes on television to state his case. It has made him a face on a screen as much as a man in a uniform.

How did Grady Judd become Sheriff America?

Is it because his mother was a Sunday school teacher? Is it because he counts as two of his closest friends a Catholic priest and a Baptist pastor? Is it because he keeps a Bible on his desk?

Is it because he has planted at the base of his driveway a sign that says MAYBERRY?

Judd won't say, but his son will: "I think it has to do with honestly just the strong belief of what's right and what's wrong," said Graham Judd, 30, the younger of his two boys. "He's been quoted as saying the only time there's a gray area is when people try to justify their wrong actions."

In 2007, commenting on a case in which he had arrested a man who was running a porn site out of his home in Polk, he said: "No normal person could even imagine what's depicted in those videos and in those photographs." A sexual behavior expert from the University of Central Florida said in a motion in the man's court file that it was run-of-the-mill erotica available anywhere on the Internet to anyone who wanted it.

"Normal people," Judd insisted, "don't have the ability to imagine how perverse and horrific these images were."

All of this has gotten him on Tampa TV, Orlando TV, Fox News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and CNN.

His certitude plays well on the screen. He uses words like "never," "ever" and "absolutely." He sends "messages" and calls for "outrage." He traffics in vivid images and stark contrasts. Drug dealers are thugs. Inmates are criminals. Sex offenders are perverts. And they don't just show up. They show up with "condoms in one hand and candy bars in the other." As for his critics? "Radical, mean-spirited dissidents," he told Bay News 9 last year.

He was re-elected in 2008 in a landslide. His supporters say he'll be Polk County's sheriff for as long as he wants to be. So do his critics.


There's a lot more

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/polk-sheriff-grady-judd-makes-his-name-on-moral-outrage/1149570

[FORD]

By Brian Shields

Wed Nov 12th, 2014 9:26am America/Los_Angeles
(http://news.kron4.com/news/florida-teen-charged-with-masturbating-with-stuffed-pony-in-wal-mart-aisle/)
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BROOKSVILLE, Florida (KRON) — A 19-year old Florida man is pleading not guilty to performing lewd acts with a stuffed animal in the comforter aisle at a Wal-Mart.

Police say surveillance tape shows Scott Fredericksen walked into the Wal-Mart back in October, took a “brown, tan, and red stuffed horse from the clearance shelf in the garden department” and then proceeded to the aisle where they sell comforters and other bedspreads.

According to the police report, Fredericksen “proceeded to pull out his genitals which were in an aroused state. The defendant then proceeded to hold the stuffed horse’s chest area to his genitals and proceeded to hump the stuffed horse utilizing short fast movements. The defendant continued this action until he achieved an orgasm and ejaculated on the stuffed horse’s chest area.”

Witnesses say Fredericksen then put the stained stuffed horse inside a bag containing a comforter set and left the store.

A Wal-Mart security officer watched the whole thing and testified he saw the teen’s penis during the incident.

When police arrested Fredericksen, he reportedly told the officer, “I did unmentionables to a stuffed animal” adding “I need to think before what I do. I’m extremely sorry.”

The teen is due back in court on misdemeanor indecent exposure and criminal mischief charges next month.

[ELVIS]

STUART, Fla. (http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/27612523/man-found-naked-and-masturbating-outside-home-told-police-mother-wont-allow-pornography-inside-house) - Police say a man was arrested after he was found naked and masturbating outside of his Stuart home.

http://wttg.images.worldnow.com/images/6198892_G.jpg

According to tcpalm.com, the incident happened back on November 14.

Police say the man, identified as 21-year-old Anthony Smith, told deputies that his mother won't let him watch pornography inside of the house.

He told officers that he goes outside naked hoping to be seen by neighbors.

Smith faces exposure of sexual organs charges.

[ELVIS]

Thanks for nothing, asshole...

[VAiN]

LINK (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/pompano-beach/fl-pompano-fast-food-shooting-20150113-story.html)

At least this one has a happy ending.. this is a few miles from my place.. in the not-so-nice part of town.

[DLR Bridge]

Why oh why couldn't somebody have shot this Floridian bastard before he acted? Still sick over this one...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/01/08/Florida-dad-charged-with-throwing-girl-off-bridge-to-her-death/5611420726436/

[VAiN]

No shit man.. that one is beyond sickening..

[PETE'S BROTHER]

tee hee

http://moron.com/florida-murder-imaginary-friend/

[Seshmeister]

Crazy crazy crazy....


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-circumcision-mother-court-hearing-20150522-story.html#page=1

[Terry]

Crazy crazy crazy....


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-circumcision-mother-court-hearing-20150522-story.html#page=1



Look, the strained maternal relations I have regarding the battle over my circumcision aren't geographically specific: this would have happened regardless of location, so you can snip the Florida angle right off the top of it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, Mother's inert body (referred to in technical medical jargon as a 'corpse' by those medical examiner dirty birdies) needs to be moved from the bed to the chair facing the window, enabling Mother to keep an eye on me while I go down the hill and open up the motel: she's my only friend and the sole buffer between me and those filthy whores who want to come between us.

[Seshmeister]

http://www.moron.com/florida-woman-drives-drunk-loves-beatings/

[FORD]

http://thugvirals.com/florida-man-arrested-for-having-sex-with-an-alligator/

[Phil theStalker]

BiN THeRE/

:deadhorse:

[ODShowtime]

Ah yes, wishing revenge on animals... So rational. Maybe it's because I live in FL, but this seems reasonable to me:

"The witness heard Darwin say, “next time you try to kill a man, you best get the job done. Now you’re my bitch forever.”"

I mean come on! What else could he do after almost being eaten except fuck the thing forever?

[Seshmeister]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34450057

[Seshmeister]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34519334?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

[Seshmeister]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/11/10/florida-cop-turned-up-drunk-collect-mothers-against-drunk-driving-award/75507038/


Florida cop turns up drunk to collect Mothers Against Drunk Driving award


Call it dumb while intoxicated.

A Florida police officer who was due to be honored at a Mothers Against Drunk Driving conference turned up drunk to collect his award, according to local media.

So wasted, according to an internal affairs investigation, that he was found wandering in a hotel hallway stripped to his underwear. He also was described as "staggeringly drunk" by a witness at the Friday night banquet where he was set to receive the MADD accolade.

Records obtained by two Tampa TV stations show that Michael Szeliga, a deputy from neighboring Pinellas County, packed a bottle of Jameson Irish whiskey in his patrol car before driving across the state to the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel in Fort Lauderdale with two other deputies.

They were there in July for two days of training to combat drunken driving. Szeliga was also supposed to receive a MADD decoration for making more than 100 DUI arrests, WFLA reported.



The bulging 274-page report detailed how a local police chief, Robert Vincent, encountered Szeliga outside the banquet and suggested it wasn't appropriate for him to attend due to his intoxication. That led to "disrespectful" comments, which prompted Vincent, who commands the Gulfport police, to tell one of Szeliga's supervisors that the deputy was "wasted."

"I thought, 'Hmm, probably not the right place to be intoxicated,'" Vincent told WFTS. "I asked if he would tell me his name, and he said he wasn't going to tell me his name and I said well you probably don't want to be at a MADD awards banquet while you are intoxicated. He didn't take my advice – he kind of just walked away, so I reported that to his supervisor.


"When you recognize someone who is a police chief in your home county who says you are too drunk to be going to a MADD conference and you ignore that, blatantly that's just not right."

Szeliga's supervisor, according to the investigation seen by WFLA, said he smelled alcohol on Szeliga's breath and ordered him to return to his room and miss the banquet – and his award.

But that wasn't all, the stations reported.

According to the document, Szeliga signed in and attended a morning session of the DUI training but left with two other deputies following the first break, having decided it was no longer "relevant" to him since he was transferring to the child-protection unit. This despite the fact that MADD required attendance at all training in exchange for picking up expenses.

[FORD]

I'd probably have to be drunk to sit through a MADD conference, but I'd at least call a cab or a designated driver first. :gulp:

[jacksmar]

http://www.wsvn.com/story/30492691/elderly-miami-woman-shoots-at-attempted-burglars

Elderly Miami woman shoots at attempted burglars




MIAMI (WSVN) -- Crooks picked the wrong place to attempt a break-in, after they were nearly shot by an elderly woman.

Little did these burglars know that when the door of a Miami home was kicked in, 88-year-old Arlene Orms would be waiting behind it, locked and loaded.

According to the Miami Police Department, burglars attempted to enter her home at 6060 N.W. 2nd St., around 10:30 p.m., Tuesday night. After kicking in the door, Orms fired her .25 caliber baretta pistol into the door from inside, sending the burglars running off. "He never made it in," said a responding Miami Police officer.

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lol,,,,,,,,,,,,,imagine ........................


a woman in declining years................................

88 yo woman.....................................

having to defend herself..........................








lol....................................

[jacksmar]

only in florida








lol

[Seshmeister]

You see it's not rocket surgery... :)

[twonabomber]

Florida burglary suspect hides near lake, gets eaten by alligator

A burglary suspect trying to evade Florida sheriff's deputies by hiding near a lake was drowned and partially eaten by an alligator, reports say.

Matthew Riggins, 22, was found in Barefoot Bay Lake missing his lower extremities and part of an arm, Brevard County deputies tell the Orlando Sentinel.

The incident occurred last month. WFTV.com reports Riggins had told his girlfriend that he was going to Barefoot Bay, Florida, with a friend to burglarize homes in the community on the night of Nov. 12 and early morning of Nov. 13.

Deputies responded after callers said two men wearing black were spotted behind homes, according to Florida Today.

The two men fled and Riggins called his girlfriend, telling her he was being chased by authorities, the Sentinel reports.

Neither suspect was caught that night, but Riggins was reported missing on Nov. 13. Florida Today reports officers searching for the suspects the night of the robberies heard "yelling" but could not determine from where it was coming.

Riggins' body was found Nov. 23, and an alligator also was trapped and euthanized. WFTV.com reports "remains consistent with the injuries to Riggins" were found inside the gator's stomach by investigators.

Florida Today says the investigation determined Riggins was dragged by the gator into the water and drowned before being partially devoured.

The Sentinel reports the other man with Riggins has been identified but is not cooperating with investigators.

http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2015/12/florida_burglary_suspect_hides.html#incart_river_h ome

[Seshmeister]

http://urbanleak.com/man-kills-friend-after-their-balls-touch-during-a-three-some/

[b]Man Kills Best Friend After Their ‘Balls Touch’ In Threesome With Stripper]/b]

http://urbanleak.com/wp-content/uploads/ph-exhow-charles-david-richardson-photo.jpeg

Curtis Mayfield(not that one) murdered his best friend after an incident involving him, one of his friends and Laquifa Thompson. Laquifa and the two men were in the middle of having a threesome when Curtis told his friend it was time to switch postions:

According to Curtis Mayfield:

“There’s only so much a man can take, and dick or balls ain’t one of them.
I yelled switch, you know from mouth to butt, he went left when he should’ve went right and next thing you know we ball to ball”

Curtis was so enraged by what happened he grabbed his gun and shot his friend while screaming out “I ain’t with that gay shit”

Curtis feels no remorse on the death of his “friend” and claims

“It was his fault, if he would’ve never touched my balls he would still be alive”

[Igosplut]

That's the thing with three-ways....somebody always gets mad....

[Seshmeister]

Florida boy of four shoots mother


A four-year old boy accidentally shot and injured his mother in their car in northern Florida, US media report.
The woman told police the incident happened while the boy was sitting in the back seat.
A local police spokesman said that the round went through her back after she was shot through the seat.
The boy was unharmed and his mother - named as Jamie Gilt, 31 - is said to be in a stable condition after being taken to hospital.
Police said a .45 calibre handgun was on the floor of the truck, the Florida Times-Union reported.
A public Facebook account for a woman named Jamie Gilt who lives in Jacksonville features pro-gun messages and has another page called "Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense."


http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/172A6/production/_88668849_7fc933b7-ffe5-453b-8294-75918882397c.jpg

[Kristy]

Old story, slave SESH

[Seshmeister]

From yesterday

[Kristy]

Over 24 hours. So it's old slave SESH

[Terry]

http://urbanleak.com/man-kills-friend-after-their-balls-touch-during-a-three-some/

[b]Man Kills Best Friend After Their ‘Balls Touch’ In Threesome With Stripper]/b]

http://urbanleak.com/wp-content/uploads/ph-exhow-charles-david-richardson-photo.jpeg

Curtis Mayfield(not that one) murdered his best friend after an incident involving him, one of his friends and Laquifa Thompson. Laquifa and the two men were in the middle of having a threesome when Curtis told his friend it was time to switch postions:

According to Curtis Mayfield:

“There’s only so much a man can take, and dick or balls ain’t one of them.
I yelled switch, you know from mouth to butt, he went left when he should’ve went right and next thing you know we ball to ball”

Curtis was so enraged by what happened he grabbed his gun and shot his friend while screaming out “I ain’t with that gay shit”

Curtis feels no remorse on the death of his “friend” and claims

“It was his fault, if he would’ve never touched my balls he would still be alive”

Well, he'll be touching plenty of balls where he's going now.

[SunisinuS]

The Criminal in Chief gets an earful and flees the scene:

[Satan]

Florida boy of four shoots mother


A four-year old boy accidentally shot and injured his mother in their car in northern Florida, US media report.
The woman told police the incident happened while the boy was sitting in the back seat.
A local police spokesman said that the round went through her back after she was shot through the seat.
The boy was unharmed and his mother - named as Jamie Gilt, 31 - is said to be in a stable condition after being taken to hospital.
Police said a .45 calibre handgun was on the floor of the truck, the Florida Times-Union reported.
A public Facebook account for a woman named Jamie Gilt who lives in Jacksonville features pro-gun messages and has another page called "Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense."


http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/172A6/production/_88668849_7fc933b7-ffe5-453b-8294-75918882397c.jpg

Well that was a dumb move. If you're a redneck with a pickup truck, the first accessory you buy is a gun rack. You don't put them on the floor!

[Seshmeister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/accused-florida-vandal-tells-cops-masturbation-made-him-do-it_us_570d4907e4b01422324a655f?ir=UK+Comedy


Florida Man To Cops: Masturbating Makes Me Feel Like ‘Destroying Stuff’
A good lawyer will work to get him off.
04/13/2016 01:53 pm ET

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/570d7a2c2e000064009511db.jpeg?cache=bkbxq5wmsn



Well, when you put it that way....

A Florida man accused of vandalizing a home in Largo allegedly told police he was masturbating to loud music when he suddenly felt “like going out and destroying stuff,” according to WFLA.com.

The Largo Police Department got a call Friday about a man smashing a mailbox.

Responding officers arrived at the home and found a man later identified as William Timothy Anderson Thomas shirtless and covered in dirt, according to the Palm Beach Post.

The officers also noticed a flattened trailer tire, a broken window, and that a real estate sign and a garden angel were demolished, according to the arrest affidavit.

Officers said Thomas admitted causing the destruction. They claim he told them “he had listened to too much music and masturbated too much and he felt like going out and destroying stuff.”

Police did not note what music Thomas was listening to before the incident. We at HuffPost Weird News suspect it was Guns N’ Roses, “Appetite for Destruction,” simply because it would be so appropriate.

The 25-year-old self-pleasurer was taken to the Pinellas County Jail. He was charged with burglary and criminal mischief.

He remains behind bars on $7,000 bond.

[SunisinuS]

Sorry that this is a Florida Criminal Thread....Kansas needs an honorable mention:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kansas-revenue-forecast-expected-spur-budget-changes-054630086.html?nhp=1


14451

[Seshmeister]

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.....

[Seshmeister]

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14292402_1090354694335166_1506683407870841350_n.jp g?oh=614b221bebd4a5ddc9741f1acb95c95a&oe=5871ED66

Fla. Pastor Accidentally Burns 2,000 Bibles in Protest of 9/11 Attacks

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MULBERRY, Fla. — A Florida pastor set fire to more than 2,000 Bibles that he believed to be Qurans before authorities could extinguish the flames and arrest him.

According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Rev. Terry Jones and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr., set out to burn 2,998 Qurans, one for every victim of the 9/11 attacks. The two men were arrested Wednesday on felony charges as they drove a 1998 Chevrolet pickup truck “towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with Qurans soaked in kerosene.”

Sheriff’s officials said that the trailer caught fire as the truck was being towed. After the fire department extinguished the flames, a closer examination revealed that the books, which were stacked inside highly flammable cardboard boxes, were actually Bibles.

“We don’t condone the burning of any religion’s holy book,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, “but we were absolutely sickened to discover that Pastor Jones reduced a couple thousand Christian Bibles to ashes.”

While Jones was not available for comment, Frann Ingram, a spokeswoman for his Dove World Outreach Center, said that Jones ordered copies of the Muslim holy book wholesale from Amazon. “They were supposed to arrive on the 10th, but they were a day late. We were in a hurry, and we didn’t check inside the boxes.”

“I’ve been praying for God’s forgiveness non-stop since this happened,” said Ingram. “I still feel like the Muslims are partially to blame for this. If we didn’t have to protest them, this wouldn’t have happened. They tricked us!”

While there is no law against burning Bibles or Qurans, Jones and Sapp were charged with unlawful conveyance of fuel and several traffic violations.

Opponents of Jones’s evangelical church hope that his arrest will prevent future anti-Muslim protests. His congregation burned the Quran in March 2011, and last year he promoted an anti-Muslim film. Both incidents sparked violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

The remaining Bibles are being held as evidence until the case is resolved, and authorities say that six boxes of Bibles remain completely unscathed. “I think those six boxes are miracles,” said Sheriff Judd. “Proof that He will protect His word to the best of His ability.”

[Terry]

By Adrienne Cutway, Orlando Sentinel

12:35 p.m. EST, March 5, 2014



Shocked neighbors begged and pleaded as they watched a Florida man have sex with a pit bull in his yard, The Tampa Tribune is reporting.

Bernard Marsonek, 57, of Tampa was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with aggravated animal cruelty, sexual activity involving animals and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Locals who saw the alleged sex act yelled at Marsonek but he ignored them. Witnesses flagged down an officer who interviewed and arrested Marsonek.

Tampa man has sex with pit bull as neighbors beg him to stop.

Eight pit bulls were taken from the home.

The part of this story that struck me as somewhat humorous when it was first broadcast on the local news is that the guys' neighbours were begging him to stop fucking the dog, and he responded to them by yelling "hold on a minute, I'm almost finished!"

[Seshmeister]

Also did he threaten the dogs with his guns in order to coerce them into it? :)

[cadaverdog]

Also did he threaten the dogs with his guns in order to coerce them into it? :)
He threatened them with the gun to make them squeal like a pig.

[Seshmeister]

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p403x403/14202548_1015769851877489_4089395885883819036_n.jp g?oh=64cbb3747f453dca70cc4020ed210538&oe=587534DF

https://coxrare.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/photo.jpg?w=1200&h=627&crop=1


Facebook is a great way to communicate and connect with old friends and family.

If you are wanted by the police, it's probably not a good idea to use the "Wanted of the Week" poster of yourself as your profile pic.

Mack Yearwood must have thought differently.

On Tuesday, Stuart Police caught up with Mr. Yearwood and arrested him with two outstanding warrants. While he was taken into custody, he asked to put on a pair of jeans that were located on the floor beside him. Mr. Mack must have forgotten that his bag of marijuana was still in the pocket.

Mr. Yearwood also picked up an additional charge of possession of cannabis under 20 grams.

[DONNIEP]

Facebook is Devilly! And that guy looks a lot older than 41. It must suck to be born ugly.

[Terry]

Also did he threaten the dogs with his guns in order to coerce them into it? :)

Quite the opposite: during his court hearing, he argued before the judge that the dogs in question were not coerced, and they clearly wanted it.

[Seshmeister]

To be fair if a pit bull doesn't want fucked it does have the tools to stop it happening. :)

[Terry]

To be fair if a pit bull doesn't want fucked it does have the tools to stop it happening. :)

Yes, indeed, the old "because the dog didn't turn around and bite my cock off I took that as a clear sign that I should continue fucking it until I cum" defense. :love0072:

[Seshmeister]

Saw the headline and thought wonder if it's in Florida...? :)

http://nypost.com/2017/02/16/woman-arrested-for-performing-oral-sex-in-courthouse/

Woman arrested for performing oral sex in courthouse

By Associated Press February 16, 2017


https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/brittney-jones.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=664&h=441&crop=1

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Authorities say they’ve arrested a 26-year-old woman accused of performing a sex act inside a Florida courthouse and then posting a video online.

Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office records show Brittney Lahcell Jones was arrested Wednesday.

The Florida Times-Union reports Jones and 35-year-old Jeremiah Isiah Robinson had been wanted on a charge of a lascivious act. The newspaper reported a video surfaced online in January showing a woman performing oral sex on a man in front of what appeared to be a courtroom.

The newspaper reported Jones was being arraigned on a drug charge at the time in the Duval County Courthouse. A message on her Twitter account said, “Found a way to get my charges dropped.”

Police say Robinson turned himself in. Records don’t show whether either has an attorney.

[Terry]

Well, at least she seems upbeat about her predicament, if her mugshot photo is anything to go by.

Maybe she can hook up with the Tampa dogfucker...

[Nickdfresh]

The RV Bandit who stole a million dollars, one wallet at a time
Jay Busbee,Yahoo Sports 22 hours ago
http://www.trinityrvrentals.com/images/SKYDECKDAYTONA1COMP.jpg
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Don’t steal.

But if you’re going to steal, don’t return to the same locations to commit your crimes. And if you’re going to return to the same locations, don’t keep souvenirs of your thefts. And if you’re going to keep souvenirs, for heaven’s sake don’t let yourself get caught on camera.

Because if you steal long enough, and you return to the same locations, and you keep souvenirs, and you get caught on camera … well, son, you’re pretty much screwed.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present the story of the RV Bandit. It’s a tale that spans decades, involving dozens of crime scenes at countless racetracks, hundreds of victims, one Hollywood star and one thorough ass-kicking. It’s a tale of a million-dollar heist, one wallet at a time. And naturally, it’s centered in Florida.

Five days before this year’s Daytona 500, the United States Secret Service presented the city of Daytona Beach with a check for $188,000. It marked one of the final chapters in a story that began more than a quarter-century ago in an infield in Daytona International Speedway. Or perhaps Atlanta Motor Speedway. Or maybe any of a dozen or so other racetracks across the country.

What’s known is this: Sometime in the late 1980s, a traveling salesman by the name of Steven Garry Sanders wandered into an empty RV or team hauler parked at a racetrack and pocketed a wallet. Then he did it again. And again. And again. Same routine, different track, month after month, year after year.

“Pick a raceway, he was there,” said Robert Fultz, a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, “and he probably committed a burglary.”

Sanders is a tall, heavyset white guy, which means he was like hay in the haystack of a racetrack. Throngs of anonymous heavyset white guys roam the grounds of every track, some working security, some cleaning up, some helping the race teams, some hanging out and taking in the spectacle. And some taking much more than that.

Sanders’ routine was brilliant in its simplicity: First, visit a track during preliminaries or lower-level events, where security was lighter. Second, act like you belong; act like anywhere you are, that’s where you ought to be. Third, watch the crowd, and when race teams start moving toward the starting line for the beginning of the race, swoop in behind them and sneak into their RVs. Fourth, take advantage of systemic weaknesses for maximum profit.

RVs “are always unlocked, because you’ve got 25 or 30 guys going in and out all the time,” said Det. Scott Frantz of the Daytona Beach Police Department. “Firesuits don’t have pockets, so guys would leave their wallets, their Rolexes right there in the motorhome. [Sanders] would never grab anything like a laptop, nothing that he couldn’t fit into his pocket.”

Frantz began investigating Sanders as a patrolman on the Daytona Beach police department in the mid-1990s, working robbery detail at Daytona International Speedway. Sanders had been on the department’s radar for years; accurate police sketches already sat in the P.D.’s filing cabinets.

Track security everywhere from Daytona to Atlanta had suspicions – when you’ve got literally dozens of people every weekend reporting thefts, you know something’s up. But police could never catch Sanders, who threaded in and out of RVs and team haulers like a ghost, race after race, year after year.

Frantz began developing a profile of Sanders, hoping to figure out how exactly he was staying so far ahead of law enforcement. Up until 2000, Sanders used stolen credit cards to purchase merchandise like appliances and laptops. By 2000, the gift card economy was in full swing, and Sanders altered his approach, flipping plastic to plastic. And when it became clear he was crossing state lines, Frantz brought Fultz and the Secret Service on board.

“He would buy gift cards at a Wal-Mart near Daytona, then launder them at a Wal-Mart in Jacksonville,” Fultz said. “He would exchange them for smaller and smaller values. And the trail would always end somewhere in Georgia.”
http://l3.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YmREjCMa7.XGHgcICnVDcA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9Mzg0O2g9NDgw/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/8def78f6b86cce49f110ac696804222a
Steven G. Sanders (Alachua County Sheriff's Department)

Frantz and Fultz also had a sense of what Sanders looked like, thanks to security cameras that caught his transactions. Cameras in Daytona Beach caught Sanders at stores including Publix, Dillard’s and Wal-Mart using stolen cards to purchase gift cards, bottled water and necessities like an 18-pack of beer. At one point, Sanders also somehow managed to spend $55 at a McDonald’s in Deltona, which is a feat in itself.

By 2012, Frantz and Fultz had made Sanders their mission, even if they didn’t know his name. They staked out the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, held that year on Jan. 28-29. They knew Sanders would be working the crowd, and so they were there, eyes open, watching and waiting.

And then the burglary calls began coming.

“We were right there!” Frantz said. “It was happening as we were there at the track!”

Frantz and Fultz began interviewing victims. During one interview, one victim’s bank called with an incredible tip: someone was using the stolen credit card, right then, at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach, just seven miles up the road from the track.

Could this be it? Would the detective and the special agent finally nail the man who’d vexed them for years? They reached out to Wal-Mart’s loss prevention team and tried to get them to hold Sanders, but by the time they arrived, he was gone. They reviewed security tape and discovered an even more infuriating truth.

“While we were walking in one door, he was walking out another,” Frantz said. “He wasn’t hours or minutes ahead of us. He was feet away from us.”

“Bad-guy luck,” Fultz said.

You can imagine the fury and cursing that followed. To be so close, to be in the same store as their quarry …

The next major race in the area was the NHRA Gatornationals, held at Gainesville Raceway on March 8, about a hundred miles northwest of Daytona. Frantz and Fultz figured they’d start getting word of burglaries there soon enough. What they didn’t count on was a 90-second video that would prove critical.

As cars rocketed down the raceway, Sanders once again crept into drivers’ motorhomes. This time around, he stole six credit cards and $202 in cash from one. He pilfered a wallet with $700 in cash from another. He snagged $1,500 in cash from a third.

Then he entered a brown-and-beige-toned American Eagle RV, and that’s where everything turned hard south for Sanders. Wearing a navy blue ballcap and golf shirt, he poked around the front of the RV, then edged his way to the door, carrying a rag in his hand. He then took one more look around inside the RV, put on his sunglasses and walked down the stairs out of the RV, wiping down the door handle as he went.

We know all this because a gentleman named Christopher DePascale was right next door, using his phone to film Sanders’ every move.


But Sanders wasn’t done, and neither was DePascale. Sanders left the first motor home, owned by DePascale’s friend Matt Cooke, walked around the front of DePascale’s Monaco Knight motor home as DePascale filmed from inside. Then, as DePascale sat within, Sanders crept into DePascale’s RV.

“Yes?” DePascale said as Sanders came into view.

Without missing a beat, Sanders lifted a phone. “Found a cell phone,” he said, not explaining why he’d just happened to casually walk right into an RV not his own.

“Ain’t mine,” DePascale said, and Sanders laughed.

“Found it right out here,” Sanders said, and left the phone with DePascale.

“That was his move,” Fultz said. “He always had a prop he would carry with him, a tool or a phone, something he could use to make it look like he was just trying to return a lost item.”

This time, the move failed. As soon as Sanders left, Depascale located Cooke, and the two chased down Sanders. Cooke, at least 40 pounds smaller than Sanders, nonetheless wrapped him up like a scrappy cornerback looking to take down a bruising fullback. DePascale screamed for onlookers to call the police, and then came in for the takedown.

A crowd of several dozen quickly gathered around the three men. “What are you doing?” one shouted, seeing what appeared to be two young men going to work, hard, on an older gentleman.

DePascale reached into Sanders’ pocket and withdrew wallets and credit cards. “He’s been stealing from all of you!” DePascale shouted. That turned the crowd to his favor in a hurry.

“The fans found him and put a little street justice on him,” said Art Forcey, public information officer for Alachua County, Fla. “They got a hold of him and pretty well put a beat-down on him before contacting us.”

An NHRA official who was also an off-duty cop arrived and subdued Sanders until police could arrive. But the fans had administered racetrack justice with enough force that Sanders needed to go to Gainesville’s Shands Hospital; his booking shot shows his bruised face and the neck brace he needed to wear after his victims got through with him.

“That’s the price you pay when you’re going around committing crimes,” Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood said at the time.

At the hospital, a police officer spoke to Sanders, who initially gave his name as “Mr. Parker.” The net closing in, Sanders began to twitch.

“Every question he was asked about his personal information, he would hesitate to give, and then, if he gave any information, he would let his voice trail off,” Officer Clare M. Noble wrote in Sanders’ arrest report. “He gave two false names and a false address which cost this writer approximately three hours of investigation time.”

But eventually, Sanders surrendered to the inevitable. Alachua County police seized his vehicle – seeing as how it was used in the commission of a crime – and evidence within led Alachua to bring in the Daytona Beach Police Department, the Hall County (Ga.) Sheriff’s Office, the Highlands County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office and Charlotte, N.C. police. Each jurisdiction had an active investigation involving Sanders, and each jurisdiction pounced.

Fultz and Frantz interviewed Sanders in Gainesville, and found him less than cooperative. (Sanders didn’t believe Frantz was really a Secret Service agent, which earned Frantz plenty of grief from wise guys back at the office.) But when they listened to Sanders’ calls to his family in Macon, they discerned that he appeared to be using coded terminology, directing family members to conceal evidence. Fultz and Frantz followed the trail back to Sanders’ home, and what they found there stunned them.

“There were truckloads, and I do mean truckloads, of stolen merchandise,” Frantz said. “You know how when you buy a computer it’s out of date right after you buy it? There was a closet full of computers, still unopened in boxes, the receipts right there.” They seized Rolexes, cash, merchandise, and an estimated $130,000 – six figures – in gift cards.

And then they found the journal.

Since 1996, Sanders had kept a meticulous journal documenting his crimes. Each page included a listing of each event he’d visited – 24 Hours of Daytona, Gatornationals, and so on – as well as two columns labeled “C” and “M.” “C” stood for cash, “M” for merchandise like watches, money clips and so on, as well as the merchandise he’d purchase with stolen cards, like cameras, ties and computers. He also wrote the date and location of the theft on the credit cards he’d stolen.

“He was like any kind of serial criminal, tracking his crimes like that,” Frantz said. “And he kept trophies.” Sanders’ collection included – of all things – a credential once held by Patrick Dempsey, “McDreamy” of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame. Dempsey, an accomplished racer, drove in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona over several years.

The journal allowed the detectives to get an estimated total of how much Sanders stole over the course of his “career”: more than $1 million.

In all, Sanders either documented or was suspected of committing crimes literally nationwide, with tracks in California, Nevada, Wisconsin, Virginia, New York, Alabama, and Georgia all suffering thefts similar to Sanders’ style. (In a savvy bit of police sleuthing, Frantz and Fultz matched up expense reports Sanders filed at his traveling-salesman day job – lunch on the road at a Subway, say – to tracks which reported thefts, establishing his proximity at the time of the crime.)

The very nature of Sanders’ crimes – small-scale theft, repeated ad infinitum for decades – could have led unwary prosecutors to underestimate the extent and severity of the operation. The crimes stretched for miles, but only a few inches deep. So Frantz and Fultz attended hearing after hearing – up to 40 in all – determined not to let Sanders slip the net once again.

“[Sanders’ defense] tried to portray this as the equivalent of a criminal tugging on car doors and grabbing change,” said Tammy Jaques, the Volusia County state’s attorney who prosecuted a successful case against Sanders. “This was much more sophisticated than that. This was invading the privacy of an area that was essentially home for these racers: They ate there, they slept there. You have a greater expectation of privacy in your dwelling than in your vehicle.”

Manatee County (Fla.), home of several of Sanders’ thefts, got the first conviction, sentencing him to five years. Last year, Jaques won a 10-year conviction, plus five years of probation – to be served once Sanders finishes his five-year Manatee sentence later this year. Sanders is currently 56 years old, and there are still several jurisdictions which could seek their own restitution.

The moral of the story? Crime can pay … but justice always comes to collect. Sometimes, with force.

From YAHOO (https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/the-rv-bandit-004524310.html)

[Seshmeister]

I'm honestly starting to think that maybe Florida is the most fucked up place in the world.

This is about 5 times in a row now I've seen a headline and thought, 'hah if that happened in Florida I'll put it on the website' and every fucking time it has been.

http://www.floridasunpost.com/tampa-man-loses-testicles-trying-fill-scuba-tank-weed-smoke/

[FORD]

Hopefully he's going to stick to edibles for his pain management. Now that he has no balls

[FORD]

Oops... looks like this one is "Fake News"......

http://www.snopes.com/man-loses-testicles-while-trying-to-fill-scuba-tank-with-weed-smoke/

[Seshmeister]

Aha maybe what is happening is if I see that a story is in Florida I haven't been bothering to check snopes... :biggrin:

[Seshmeister]

https://www.local10.com/news/crime/margate-man-who-claimed-girlfriend-accidentally-choked-during-oral-sex-found-not-guilty-of-murder

Man who claimed girlfriend accidentally choked during oral sex found not guilty of murder
Richard Patterson acquitted by jury hours after hearing closing arguments

By Peter Burke - Local10.com Managing Editor , Michael Seiden - Reporter

https://www.local10.com/news/crime/former-medical-examiner-testifies-in-margate-mans-penis-defense-murder-trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A South Florida man who was on trial in the 2015 choking death of his girlfriend has been found not guilty of murder.

Richard Patterson, 65, of Margate, was acquitted Monday of second-degree murder. His attorney, Ken Padowitz, argued during trial that his client accidentally choked Francisca Marquinez, 60, during oral sex.

The jury heard closing arguments in the morning and deliberated for a few hours in the afternoon before returning the verdict.

Patterson did not testify. Instead, the defense called on Dr. Ronald Wright, a former Broward County medical examiner, who said it was possible that Marquinez could have choked during oral sex.

Padowitz told jurors that the medical examiner's autopsy report said the manner of death was undetermined.


Assistant state attorney Peter Sapak questioned why Patterson didn't call 911 right away and reminded jurors of testimony from an ex-girlfriend, who said he told her that he choked Marquinez. He also re-read a text message that Patterson's daughter said she sent him to him the day after Marquinez was killed.

Defense attorney Ken Padowitz makes his closing arguments to the jury in the second-degree murder trial of Richard Patterson.
Before the trial began, Padowitz filed a motion asking that the jury be allowed to see Patterson's penis, but the defense rested before Broward County Judge Lisa Porter made a decision.

Patterson hugged Padowitz after the verdict was announced.

"This was a terrible tragedy that happened to this lady who my client was very much in love with," Padowitz told Local 10 News outside the courtroom.

[Sarge]

The RV Bandit who stole a million dollars, one wallet at a time
Jay Busbee,Yahoo Sports 22 hours ago
http://www.trinityrvrentals.com/images/SKYDECKDAYTONA1COMP.jpg
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Don’t steal.

But if you’re going to steal, don’t return to the same locations to commit your crimes. And if you’re going to return to the same locations, don’t keep souvenirs of your thefts. And if you’re going to keep souvenirs, for heaven’s sake don’t let yourself get caught on camera.

Because if you steal long enough, and you return to the same locations, and you keep souvenirs, and you get caught on camera … well, son, you’re pretty much screwed.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present the story of the RV Bandit. It’s a tale that spans decades, involving dozens of crime scenes at countless racetracks, hundreds of victims, one Hollywood star and one thorough ass-kicking. It’s a tale of a million-dollar heist, one wallet at a time. And naturally, it’s centered in Florida.

Five days before this year’s Daytona 500, the United States Secret Service presented the city of Daytona Beach with a check for $188,000. It marked one of the final chapters in a story that began more than a quarter-century ago in an infield in Daytona International Speedway. Or perhaps Atlanta Motor Speedway. Or maybe any of a dozen or so other racetracks across the country.

What’s known is this: Sometime in the late 1980s, a traveling salesman by the name of Steven Garry Sanders wandered into an empty RV or team hauler parked at a racetrack and pocketed a wallet. Then he did it again. And again. And again. Same routine, different track, month after month, year after year.

“Pick a raceway, he was there,” said Robert Fultz, a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, “and he probably committed a burglary.”

Sanders is a tall, heavyset white guy, which means he was like hay in the haystack of a racetrack. Throngs of anonymous heavyset white guys roam the grounds of every track, some working security, some cleaning up, some helping the race teams, some hanging out and taking in the spectacle. And some taking much more than that.

Sanders’ routine was brilliant in its simplicity: First, visit a track during preliminaries or lower-level events, where security was lighter. Second, act like you belong; act like anywhere you are, that’s where you ought to be. Third, watch the crowd, and when race teams start moving toward the starting line for the beginning of the race, swoop in behind them and sneak into their RVs. Fourth, take advantage of systemic weaknesses for maximum profit.

RVs “are always unlocked, because you’ve got 25 or 30 guys going in and out all the time,” said Det. Scott Frantz of the Daytona Beach Police Department. “Firesuits don’t have pockets, so guys would leave their wallets, their Rolexes right there in the motorhome. [Sanders] would never grab anything like a laptop, nothing that he couldn’t fit into his pocket.”

Frantz began investigating Sanders as a patrolman on the Daytona Beach police department in the mid-1990s, working robbery detail at Daytona International Speedway. Sanders had been on the department’s radar for years; accurate police sketches already sat in the P.D.’s filing cabinets.

Track security everywhere from Daytona to Atlanta had suspicions – when you’ve got literally dozens of people every weekend reporting thefts, you know something’s up. But police could never catch Sanders, who threaded in and out of RVs and team haulers like a ghost, race after race, year after year.

Frantz began developing a profile of Sanders, hoping to figure out how exactly he was staying so far ahead of law enforcement. Up until 2000, Sanders used stolen credit cards to purchase merchandise like appliances and laptops. By 2000, the gift card economy was in full swing, and Sanders altered his approach, flipping plastic to plastic. And when it became clear he was crossing state lines, Frantz brought Fultz and the Secret Service on board.

“He would buy gift cards at a Wal-Mart near Daytona, then launder them at a Wal-Mart in Jacksonville,” Fultz said. “He would exchange them for smaller and smaller values. And the trail would always end somewhere in Georgia.”
http://l3.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YmREjCMa7.XGHgcICnVDcA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9Mzg0O2g9NDgw/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/8def78f6b86cce49f110ac696804222a
Steven G. Sanders (Alachua County Sheriff's Department)

Frantz and Fultz also had a sense of what Sanders looked like, thanks to security cameras that caught his transactions. Cameras in Daytona Beach caught Sanders at stores including Publix, Dillard’s and Wal-Mart using stolen cards to purchase gift cards, bottled water and necessities like an 18-pack of beer. At one point, Sanders also somehow managed to spend $55 at a McDonald’s in Deltona, which is a feat in itself.

By 2012, Frantz and Fultz had made Sanders their mission, even if they didn’t know his name. They staked out the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, held that year on Jan. 28-29. They knew Sanders would be working the crowd, and so they were there, eyes open, watching and waiting.

And then the burglary calls began coming.

“We were right there!” Frantz said. “It was happening as we were there at the track!”

Frantz and Fultz began interviewing victims. During one interview, one victim’s bank called with an incredible tip: someone was using the stolen credit card, right then, at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach, just seven miles up the road from the track.

Could this be it? Would the detective and the special agent finally nail the man who’d vexed them for years? They reached out to Wal-Mart’s loss prevention team and tried to get them to hold Sanders, but by the time they arrived, he was gone. They reviewed security tape and discovered an even more infuriating truth.

“While we were walking in one door, he was walking out another,” Frantz said. “He wasn’t hours or minutes ahead of us. He was feet away from us.”

“Bad-guy luck,” Fultz said.

You can imagine the fury and cursing that followed. To be so close, to be in the same store as their quarry …

The next major race in the area was the NHRA Gatornationals, held at Gainesville Raceway on March 8, about a hundred miles northwest of Daytona. Frantz and Fultz figured they’d start getting word of burglaries there soon enough. What they didn’t count on was a 90-second video that would prove critical.

As cars rocketed down the raceway, Sanders once again crept into drivers’ motorhomes. This time around, he stole six credit cards and $202 in cash from one. He pilfered a wallet with $700 in cash from another. He snagged $1,500 in cash from a third.

Then he entered a brown-and-beige-toned American Eagle RV, and that’s where everything turned hard south for Sanders. Wearing a navy blue ballcap and golf shirt, he poked around the front of the RV, then edged his way to the door, carrying a rag in his hand. He then took one more look around inside the RV, put on his sunglasses and walked down the stairs out of the RV, wiping down the door handle as he went.

We know all this because a gentleman named Christopher DePascale was right next door, using his phone to film Sanders’ every move.


But Sanders wasn’t done, and neither was DePascale. Sanders left the first motor home, owned by DePascale’s friend Matt Cooke, walked around the front of DePascale’s Monaco Knight motor home as DePascale filmed from inside. Then, as DePascale sat within, Sanders crept into DePascale’s RV.

“Yes?” DePascale said as Sanders came into view.

Without missing a beat, Sanders lifted a phone. “Found a cell phone,” he said, not explaining why he’d just happened to casually walk right into an RV not his own.

“Ain’t mine,” DePascale said, and Sanders laughed.

“Found it right out here,” Sanders said, and left the phone with DePascale.

“That was his move,” Fultz said. “He always had a prop he would carry with him, a tool or a phone, something he could use to make it look like he was just trying to return a lost item.”

This time, the move failed. As soon as Sanders left, Depascale located Cooke, and the two chased down Sanders. Cooke, at least 40 pounds smaller than Sanders, nonetheless wrapped him up like a scrappy cornerback looking to take down a bruising fullback. DePascale screamed for onlookers to call the police, and then came in for the takedown.

A crowd of several dozen quickly gathered around the three men. “What are you doing?” one shouted, seeing what appeared to be two young men going to work, hard, on an older gentleman.

DePascale reached into Sanders’ pocket and withdrew wallets and credit cards. “He’s been stealing from all of you!” DePascale shouted. That turned the crowd to his favor in a hurry.

“The fans found him and put a little street justice on him,” said Art Forcey, public information officer for Alachua County, Fla. “They got a hold of him and pretty well put a beat-down on him before contacting us.”

An NHRA official who was also an off-duty cop arrived and subdued Sanders until police could arrive. But the fans had administered racetrack justice with enough force that Sanders needed to go to Gainesville’s Shands Hospital; his booking shot shows his bruised face and the neck brace he needed to wear after his victims got through with him.

“That’s the price you pay when you’re going around committing crimes,” Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood said at the time.

At the hospital, a police officer spoke to Sanders, who initially gave his name as “Mr. Parker.” The net closing in, Sanders began to twitch.

“Every question he was asked about his personal information, he would hesitate to give, and then, if he gave any information, he would let his voice trail off,” Officer Clare M. Noble wrote in Sanders’ arrest report. “He gave two false names and a false address which cost this writer approximately three hours of investigation time.”

But eventually, Sanders surrendered to the inevitable. Alachua County police seized his vehicle – seeing as how it was used in the commission of a crime – and evidence within led Alachua to bring in the Daytona Beach Police Department, the Hall County (Ga.) Sheriff’s Office, the Highlands County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office and Charlotte, N.C. police. Each jurisdiction had an active investigation involving Sanders, and each jurisdiction pounced.

Fultz and Frantz interviewed Sanders in Gainesville, and found him less than cooperative. (Sanders didn’t believe Frantz was really a Secret Service agent, which earned Frantz plenty of grief from wise guys back at the office.) But when they listened to Sanders’ calls to his family in Macon, they discerned that he appeared to be using coded terminology, directing family members to conceal evidence. Fultz and Frantz followed the trail back to Sanders’ home, and what they found there stunned them.

“There were truckloads, and I do mean truckloads, of stolen merchandise,” Frantz said. “You know how when you buy a computer it’s out of date right after you buy it? There was a closet full of computers, still unopened in boxes, the receipts right there.” They seized Rolexes, cash, merchandise, and an estimated $130,000 – six figures – in gift cards.

And then they found the journal.

Since 1996, Sanders had kept a meticulous journal documenting his crimes. Each page included a listing of each event he’d visited – 24 Hours of Daytona, Gatornationals, and so on – as well as two columns labeled “C” and “M.” “C” stood for cash, “M” for merchandise like watches, money clips and so on, as well as the merchandise he’d purchase with stolen cards, like cameras, ties and computers. He also wrote the date and location of the theft on the credit cards he’d stolen.

“He was like any kind of serial criminal, tracking his crimes like that,” Frantz said. “And he kept trophies.” Sanders’ collection included – of all things – a credential once held by Patrick Dempsey, “McDreamy” of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame. Dempsey, an accomplished racer, drove in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona over several years.

The journal allowed the detectives to get an estimated total of how much Sanders stole over the course of his “career”: more than $1 million.

In all, Sanders either documented or was suspected of committing crimes literally nationwide, with tracks in California, Nevada, Wisconsin, Virginia, New York, Alabama, and Georgia all suffering thefts similar to Sanders’ style. (In a savvy bit of police sleuthing, Frantz and Fultz matched up expense reports Sanders filed at his traveling-salesman day job – lunch on the road at a Subway, say – to tracks which reported thefts, establishing his proximity at the time of the crime.)

The very nature of Sanders’ crimes – small-scale theft, repeated ad infinitum for decades – could have led unwary prosecutors to underestimate the extent and severity of the operation. The crimes stretched for miles, but only a few inches deep. So Frantz and Fultz attended hearing after hearing – up to 40 in all – determined not to let Sanders slip the net once again.

“[Sanders’ defense] tried to portray this as the equivalent of a criminal tugging on car doors and grabbing change,” said Tammy Jaques, the Volusia County state’s attorney who prosecuted a successful case against Sanders. “This was much more sophisticated than that. This was invading the privacy of an area that was essentially home for these racers: They ate there, they slept there. You have a greater expectation of privacy in your dwelling than in your vehicle.”

Manatee County (Fla.), home of several of Sanders’ thefts, got the first conviction, sentencing him to five years. Last year, Jaques won a 10-year conviction, plus five years of probation – to be served once Sanders finishes his five-year Manatee sentence later this year. Sanders is currently 56 years old, and there are still several jurisdictions which could seek their own restitution.

The moral of the story? Crime can pay … but justice always comes to collect. Sometimes, with force.

From YAHOO (https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/the-rv-bandit-004524310.html)

How did the guy spend $55.00 at McDonalds?

[Seshmeister]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5454845/Teacher-sex-student-14-released-bond.html

Married school teacher, 26, filed for divorce two weeks before she was arrested for 'having sex with a 14-year-old student'


A former Florida middle school teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student as well as supplying him marijuana was released from jail on Thursday night after having her bond reduced - as it emerged that she is divorcing her husband.

Stephanie Peterson Ferri, 26, was led into a Daytona Beach courtroom dressed in an orange jail garb and with handcuffs restraining her wrists for her initial court appearance.

Ferri appeared somber and pale during the brief hearing, and at times used her long black hair to shield her bare face from the news cameras in the courtroom.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/02/14/49BBF90F00000578-0-image-m-8_1520001139412.jpg

Her defense lawyer asked the judge to release his client from jail on her own recognizance, arguing that she posed no threat to the public, had no prior criminal history and was not a flight risk, reported WKMG.

The prosecution asked the judge to keep the bond amount unchanged, given the 'egregious' nature of the crime and the victim's young age, according to Ocala.com.

But County Judge Bryan Feigenbaum agreed to lower the bond amount form $25,000 to $12,500.

He also barred Ferri from having contact with the victim and his parents, or anyone under the age of 18 who is not related to her.

Under the conditions of her release, the 26-year-old who stands accused, among other things, of sending nude photos of herself to her former student, is prohibited from using the Internet to post selfies online, and must take unspecified medications that have been prescribed to her.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/28/20/49ACE33000000578-5447051-Stephanie_Peterson_26_has_been_arrested_for_an_all eged_sexual_re-m-57_1519851585500.jpg

Ferri posted the bond amount a short time after Thursday’s court appearance and walked out of Volusia County Jail about 5pm.

It then emerged that about two weeks before she was arrested for allegedly having sex with her underage student, Ferri filed paperwork seeking to divorce her husband of two years, DeLand firefighter Brandon Ferri.

The teacher was arrested in Wednesday morning in New Smyrna, Florida after the alleged victim confided in his parents about his suspected relationship with the New Smyrna Beach Middle School science teacher.

The eighth-grader told them that Ferri picked him up occasionally from their home at 11pm and often spent hours with him at her home while her firefighters husband was at work.

He also said that she sent him nude photographs of herself and that she had bought him marijuana and a 'bowl to smoke it'.

The boy is said to have told his parents that the relationship made his grades suffer.

Ferri was booked into the county jail on charges of lewd or lascivious battery and transmitting harmful materials to a child.

Volusia County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest on Facebook.

Its investigators alleged that the relationship between Ferri and the boy began in November 2017.


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/28/21/49ACE31700000578-5447051-The_teenage_boy_told_his_parents_the_teacher_told_ him_not_to_spe-m-66_1519852293247.jpg

She resigned from her job at the New Smyrna school on Monday.

According to the boy, Peterson told him he could not tell anyone about their relationship when she they were together alone.

Peterson and her soon-to-be ex-husband Brandon Ferri had been married since 2015 and do not have any children.

They both deleted their social media profiles as news of her arrest emerged.

[Terry]

Man, that kid must have been half a fag to have to run and tell Mommy and Daddy about tapping that...PLUS she got him weed on top of it?! Although I think the parents caught onto it, rather than the kid just offering up the info, but still.

[Seshmeister]

https://news.sky.com/story/homeless-man-with-no-arms-charged-with-stabbing-tourist-in-florida-11434490

Homeless man with no arms charged with stabbing tourist in Florida

https://e3.365dm.com/18/07/1096x616/skynews-crenshaw-armless-stabber_4360185.jpg?bypass-service-worker&20180712154959

By Lucia Binding, news reporter

A homeless beach artist with no arms has been charged with stabbing a tourist in Florida.

Jonathan Crenshaw, who paints pictures with his feet and weighs around 90lbs, was arrested in Miami Beach for allegedly stabbing a tourist from Chicago with a pair of scissors.


The Florida native clutched the scissors with his feet and knifed 22-year-old Cesar Coronado twice before running away, according to the arrest report.

Crenshaw, 46, told police he was lying down when the tourist approached him and punched him in the head.

Mr Coronado told investigators he had stopped to ask Crenshaw for directions before he jumped up and stabbed him.

After the attack, Crenshaw is alleged to have put the scissors back into his waistband and quickly left the area.

Police found Mr Coronado bleeding from his left arm and he was taken to hospital for treatment, the Miami Herald reported.

It noted that Crenshaw is a popular fixture in the area and is known for painting canvases along a trendy spot in the neighbourhood of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach.

Cindy Barrientos, who was travelling with Mr Coronado, described the attacker as a homeless man with no arms to officers.

He was found a short distance away and arrested after midnight on Tuesday.

Crenshaw, who has been charged with aggravated battery, has a court date on 18 July.

[Seshmeister]

Holy shit! :D

Republican very right wing candidate for governor of Florida.


https://youtu.be/z1YP_zZJFXs

[FORD]

And just hours after the primary, be basically called his African American opponent a "monkey".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRIxGgSjjs

[Seshmeister]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/10/us-woman-flight-plane-emotional-support-squirrel


US woman removed from plane after boarding with 'emotional support' squirrel


Flight from Orlando to Cleveland was delayed by two hours
Frontier Airlines says rodents are not allowed on its planes

https://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2014/12/gray-squirrel-uc-berkeley.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg

The passenger was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed even though it was an evening flight.

Literally, as it turned out. The passenger was a squirrel. It hadn’t scampered on to the plane while people or bags were being loaded, or anything like that. A human passenger had brought the squirrel on board with her as her “emotional support animal”. When she refused to leave and take her squirrel with her, the police were called. The woman and the squirrel were removed from the Tuesday evening flight by the police. The passengers all had to disembark and reboard, causing a two-hour delay in the departure of Frontier Airlines flight 1612 from Orlando to Cleveland.

Frontier said the passenger had noted in her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal – but she did not indicate it was a squirrel. The airline says rodents, including squirrels, are not allowed. The company said the police were called when the passenger refused to leave the plane. Police then requested that the other passengers disembark while officers dealt with the woman, who was eventually escorted into the main terminals.

The incident followed others where an “emotional support peacock”, Dexter, was barred from boarding a flight with its owner earlier this year and, of course, Pebbles, the emotional support hamster, which ended up flushed down a toilet.

The name of the squirrel has not yet been released.

[FORD]

.....so she took it to her doctor


POLK COUNTY, Fla. — An elderly woman is accused of taking her methamphetamine to the doctor for testing after she became concerned about the drug’s effect on her.

Barbara Lee Ray, 73, of Polk County, Florida, asked her doctor to test the meth because she was worried it was doing harm, the Miami Herald reported.

Ray had been using the drug for about a month, but it remains uncertain where she got it or why she was smoking it, according to the paper.

Deputies said she went to Complete Care Family Medicine Associates on Nov. 5 to test the product, which came back positive for meth.

Ray was booked into the Polk County jail on two counts of possession of methamphetamine and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.

She was released two days after visiting the doctor.

[Terry]

And just hours after the primary, be basically called his African American opponent a "monkey".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRIxGgSjjs

And. naturally, went on to win the Governorship.

[Terry]

I'm honestly starting to think that maybe Florida is the most fucked up place in the world.

This is about 5 times in a row now I've seen a headline and thought, 'hah if that happened in Florida I'll put it on the website' and every fucking time it has been.

http://www.floridasunpost.com/tampa-man-loses-testicles-trying-fill-scuba-tank-weed-smoke/

If you looked closely at other states in the country, there is no shortage of bizarre/dumbass crimes outside of Florida.

It's just easier for news outlets to go with another piece of low hanging "only in Florida" fruit than to point out the same types of stuff happening in every other state. Same goes for close elections/recounts, with the tossed out undervotes and the rest of it.

Which isn't to say a lot of fucked up shit doesn't happen here in Florida.

[jacksmar]

http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/clearwater-man-says-syringes-found-in-rectum-are-not-his-deputies-say#/

CLEARWATER, Fla. (FOX 13) - Three syringes were found in a Pinellas County man’s rectum, which he claimed didn’t belong him, deputies said.

A warrant was out for 40-year-old Wesley Dasher Scott on a drug charge, and deputies took him into custody on January 4 around 4:30 a.m. During his strip search, deputies with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said he removed three syringes from his rectum and handed it to them.

Scott said he found them, and they weren’t his, deputies said.

Additional drug charges were added during his arrest.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simple math: Possession is how many tenths the law?

My advice to all criminals with syringes up their ass: never say those are not mine. Because there will be an investigation...

[Seshmeister]

If you looked closely at other states in the country, there is no shortage of bizarre/dumbass crimes outside of Florida.

It's just easier for news outlets to go with another piece of low hanging "only in Florida" fruit than to point out the same types of stuff happening in every other state. Same goes for close elections/recounts, with the tossed out undervotes and the rest of it.

Which isn't to say a lot of fucked up shit doesn't happen here in Florida.

It comes with a great deal of affection, I've spent far more time in Florida than anywhere else in the US. Not just the Orlando parks either, Gulf coast, the Keys, Tampa, Miami, all over basically apart from the north.

[Nitro Express]

Man, that kid must have been half a fag to have to run and tell Mommy and Daddy about tapping that...PLUS she got him weed on top of it?! Although I think the parents caught onto it, rather than the kid just offering up the info, but still.

Where were all these hot teachers who liked to party with and fuck their students when I was in middle school. All my teachers were ugly bitches or old hags.

[Hardrock69]

2 in just the past week. Must be some sort of cycle of the moon or some shit:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mcdonald-s-employee-fights-back-after-florida-man-attacks-her-n954286





McDonald's employee fights back after Florida man attacks her over plastic straw
A plastic straw ban in St. Petersburg, meant to increase sustainability, apparently caused a patron to attack a McDonald's employee.

A viral video shows that a McDonald's worker fought back against an enraged customer who attacked her over a plastic straw.

The man, who the St. Petersburg Florida Police Department identified as Daniel Taylor, attacked employee Yasmine James on Monday, grabbing her shirt and trying to pull her over the register.

Brenda Biandudi, the mother of the man who posted the video, which has amassed more than 3.5 million views, told NBC affiliate WFLA that the fight began when Taylor complained there were no straws at the store’s drink station.

According to Biandudi, James explained that a new law mandated that the store remove straws from the lobby, but that straws still could be requested. This was a result of a St. Petersburg ordinance passed last month that mandated “plastic straws can be given only upon customer request”— an effort to increase the city’s sustainability.

[Hardrock69]

This just yesterday:

https://nypost.com/2019/01/08/woman-threatened-to-kill-parents-for-denying-her-outback-steakhouse-cops/


Woman threatened to kill parents for denying her Outback Steakhouse: cops

She went bloomin’ mad.

A hangry Florida woman “became enraged” and threatened to kill her parents when they refused to take her to Outback Steakhouse, police said.

Deana Seltzer, 28, started punching her mother Lydumila Seltzer on the chest and arms last week after being told she couldn’t go to the Australian-themed eatery known for its fried onion blossom, the local ABC affiliate reported.

Seltzer, 28, “began screaming and flipped over a large heavy glass table top,” breaking it into “hundreds of pieces,” according to a probable cause affidavit.

She continued her rampage through the house, flipping over recliner chairs and tearing up other pieces of furniture.

Seltzer then allegedly ripped a 12-inch decorative knife from the wall and ran towards her dad, Vadim Seltzer, making “slashing” motions with the weapon and screeching: “I’m going to f—ing kill you” as she chased him.

Eventually, her father was able to wrestle the knife away and called the cops.

Seltzer was charged with simple domestic battery, battery of a person 65 or older and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

A Palm Beach County judge ordered her to undergo a mental health assessment and she was released on supervised recognizance.

[Seshmeister]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/florida-police-lunar-eclipse-run-over-people-west-palm-beach-a8739631.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR007NYy-uYmSiJFNzQjfIaozFpzMQdoLLkhj1BILt3fnySGkYh6HRx6L2Q #Echobox=1548113553


Florida police run over couple lying in the road to watch lunar eclipse


Both individuals were taken to the hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries

Clark Mindock


A police officer in Florida ran over two people lying on a dark road to watch the lunar eclipse, leading them requring hospital treatment.

The West Palm Beach Police Department has confirmed the officer ran over the two people, who were taken to the hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the incident on Sunday night.

Police said that the individuals, who have not been identified, were hit around 11.30pm, just at the height of the eclipse.

The officer was strolling a park at the time, and driving at about 5mph when he struck the two.

One of the individuals was a man, and the other a woman. Both were 24-years-old and lived nearby, according to police.

[Seshmeister]

https://youtu.be/fnNYY78XqbY

[FORD]

rawstory.com
Slur-spewing white men open fire on biracial children as they walk to a gas station to buy candy
Noor Al-Sibai28 Mar 2019 at 13:33 ET

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/os-1553741619-iz2hicx329-snap-image-800x430.jpg

James Reidnauer (left) and Brent van Besien (right), two men arrested on hate crime charges for shooting at children of color. Images via Lake County Sheriff's Office.

A pair of white Florida men have been arrested after shooting at and shouting racial slurs at two biracial children — and claimed that they did so because they thought the kids were on meth.

Orlando’s WFTV reported that James Reidnauer and Brent van Besien were arrested in the city of Leesburg on hate crime charges after shooting at the 16 and 12-year-old brother and sister on March 17.

According to the report, the men confronted the children on a trail owned by a nearby church as they were walking to a convenience store to buy candy.

“Deputies said Reidnauer and van Besien fired at least two shots — one near the girl’s foot and one in the air — before shouting slurs at the biracial children,” WFTV reported, adding that both were uninjured and able to run home.

According to police, the men said they shot at the children because they thought they were, the Orlando Sentinel reported, “meth heads.”

In an interview with local news, Michelle Sabb, the kids’ mother, said she was grateful they made it home unscathed.


“I mean, Trayvon [Martin] — he didn’t make it home,” Sabb said. “What if my son wouldn’t have made it home?”

This Lake County Mom says her two biracial kids, were confronted by two armed suspects. She says the suspects yelled racial slurs and even fired shots. pic.twitter.com/VfpOQQDYmo

— Myrt Price (@MPriceWFTV) March 27, 2019


In 2016, Lake County’s Daily Commercial newspaper reported that van Besien was arrested on domestic violence and armed robbery charges.

A 2017 Lake County booking photo of van Besien shows him with multiple tattoos, including one that appears to be an “Iron Cross,” a German military symbol that according to the Anti-Defamation League later became associated with Nazi Germany.

“After World War II, the medal was discontinued but neo-Nazis and other white supremacists subsequently adopted it as a hate symbol and it has been a commonly-used hate symbol ever since,” the ADL noted.

[FORD]

Those mugshots make it obvious who was on meth. And it wasn't the kids. White supremacy & meth are each brain cancers on their own. Together, it's a terminal diagnosis. Send these two miserable Nazi fucks to Hell and get it over with already. :smiley-sniffer: :meinsmiley:

[private parts]

White supremacy & meth are each brain cancers on their own. Together, it's a terminal diagnosis. :smiley-sniffer: :meinsmiley:

Don't forget Smollett Syndrome and TDS. Both will f you up bad yo.

[Terry]

It comes with a great deal of affection, I've spent far more time in Florida than anywhere else in the US. Not just the Orlando parks either, Gulf coast, the Keys, Tampa, Miami, all over basically apart from the north.

Some of it has to do with the Florida law regarding arrest records and public domain, which is much less restrictive here than in many other states in the country. So it's just easier to get arrest record info on Floridians than elsewhere, and mainstream journalists are fundamentally lazy in terms of investigative work.

[Nickdfresh]

Those mugshots make it obvious who was on meth. And it wasn't the kids. White supremacy & meth are each brain cancers on their own. Together, it's a terminal diagnosis. Send these two miserable Nazi fucks to Hell and get it over with already. :smiley-sniffer: :meinsmiley:

German soldiers and SS routinely took Pertivan in WWII. A stimulant drug that is basically meph in a pill form...

https://www.dw.com/en/a-fresh-light-on-the-nazis-wartime-drug-addiction/a-18703678

[Seshmeister]

To be fair his accent doesn't sound Floridian... :)



https://youtu.be/CgyeY6Z819c

[Terry]

To be fair his accent doesn't sound Floridian... :)



https://youtu.be/CgyeY6Z819c

Sounds like a Bostonian transplant.

Quite a few people from all over the country come down here to give living in Florida a try. I read that up to 20% of the Florida population turns over every decade, with different people moving out and new residents coming in.

I'm a transplant from New England (I thankfully never had that obnoxious Boston accent like the cunt in that video), and at least here in the Tampa area I run into more people who were originally from out-of-state than I do native Floridians.

[Fairwrning]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-year-olds-arrested-in-florida-orlando-police-officer-dennis-turner-suspended-after-incident/


How would this play out if the cop were white?..He isnt so you dont get that in the story at all..

[Seshmeister]

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/71809865_2009179705849970_3775914966360522752_n.jp g?_nc_cat=105&_nc_oc=AQk6EJ50YzhcTENrr7--T-wKb1VHSBaGIRDcVn7LIWzFIimXeCl7PHHQIPQYNIPBtZA&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=82c50d1395d90c4a6e618e42be413096&oe=5E383031

[Seshmeister]

https://bokdaily.com/man-shot-his-male-dr-after-he-made-him-cum-during-a-prostate-exam/

Man shot his male Dr. after he made him cum during a prostate exam
Luckily the doctor he shot survived the gunshot wounds and he had now fully recovered

Jacksonville, FL| A 56-year-old man from Florida shot his doctor twice on the chest, close range for giving him an orgasm during a prostate exam.

Milo Johanson fled the state of Florida on the day of the incident which took place on August, 22. Luckily the doctor he shot survived the gunshot wounds and he had now fully recovered. Milo who was a car salesman in Jacksonville had disappeared without a trace. He is now a fugitive and some people think he probably left the US.

The doctor he shot says he had been doing prostate exams for over 30-years and men cum all the time during the prostate exam and it has nothing to do with sexuality. “Milo needs help.” Said Dr. Smith.

https://i1.wp.com/bokdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Man-shot-his-male-Dr.-after-he-made-him-cum-during-a-prostate-exam.jpg?resize=696%2C696&ssl=1
Dr. Herald Smith Jr

“The prostate is like a male G-spot and it carries semen, it is very sensitive so when it is touched and massaged you get an orgasm with almost no effort. The prostate is only accessible through the anus and that’s not very comfortable for most men.”

“I understand that Milo was shocked by what happened to him, an orgasm meant something sexual had taken place between us and he became very aggressive. Ordering me to apologize and say no-homie, I did not even know what that means.” Dr. Smith said he was trying his best to calm Milo down and let him know it was a normal thing but he pulled out a gun and fired two shots at him and left. That was the day he was last seen in Jacksonville.

His 29-year-old girlfriend said he called her and said “hasta la vista” and she never heard from him. His number was out of service after that call. “He hated homosexuals I know that but the shooting?, I never thought he’d take it that far.”

Milo’s assistance, a young man in his mid-20s said Milo was extremely homophobic, and he always said if a homosexual man touches or makes a move on him they won’t see the sunset. “He forces people to say no-homo when they made contact with him, even if you just accidentally touch his hand while handing him something”.

[Funkmonkey]

no-homo

[Nickdfresh]

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/126260410_10158477296766943_5264905733259403672_n. jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=2d5d41&_nc_ohc=4Viy6M9paTMAX-STFgj&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=a9d2e0410683df49bfc2f53c153c7b12&oe=5FDEB70A

[silverfish]

Florida Man, 23, Arrested Following Indecent "Civil Rights Protest" - link (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/civil-rights/civil-rights-protest-327854)

"A Florida Man arrested yesterday for indecent exposure told police that he was
“protesting for civil rights by showing his penis to traffic,” according to a criminal
complaint."

=====

Florida Man, 22, Leaves No Doubt That He Is A Florida Man™ - link (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/florida/florida-man-forehead-082415)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/matthewleatham21.jpg

[Terry]

I particularly enjoyed how the town of Oldsmar, part of the Greater Tampa Bay Metro area, discovered a hack on the local water system computer system, where the hacker attempted to manipulate the town water facility's computerized release of lye used to treat the town water and increase the amount of lye to dangerous levels.

The detection was made on Friday, February 5th.

Far as local Tampa news stations went, coverage of this event was minimal to non-existent. Said local news opted instead to maintain wall-to-wall coverage of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and their prospects in the SuperBowl on Sunday, February 7th.

Last time I checked, Tom Brady could neither walk on water nor could he decontaminate it: to use a cheesy sports metaphor, a case of local media taking their eye off the ball.

Post-SuperBowl local media follow up on the water hacking story? Minimal to none, instead concentrating on Tom Brady being drunk on a boat celebrating the Bucs winning the Superbowl.

I enjoy living in this state, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't understand why the rest of the country sometimes rolls their eyes at us.

[Nitro Express]

Florida is so hated everyone moves there. My main beef with Florida is secluded spots of beach I enjoyed in the 80’s are now covered with high rises and the beach is infested with retired New Yorkers.

[Terry]

Florida is so hated everyone moves there. My main beef with Florida is secluded spots of beach I enjoyed in the 80’s are now covered with high rises and the beach is infested with retired New Yorkers.


Naples, Florida springs to mind, where in the early 1990s when I first started visiting there one saw plenty of high dollar high rises built next to the Gulf (or on the Gulf side or whatever), but there was an ample amount of spaces between the high rises and plenty of paths between the high rises accessing the Gulf beaches for non-residents.

Thirty years on, those public access spaces that once existed between the high dollar high rises have now been filled in with MORE high dollar high rises, to the point where it's just an unbroken row of high rises. Then again, Naples was always a retirement destination spot for aging New Yorkers, so in THAT aspect the population (in Naples, anyway) hasn't changed much.

[silverfish]

Cops: Girl, 12, Sold Stun Guns To Classmates - link (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/k-12/stun-gun-salesgirl-389670)

"FEBRUARY 26--A 12-year-old Florida girl is facing criminal charges
after she admitted to selling stun guns to classmates, police report."

[Seshmeister]

I know I know a bit sad but I have to admit this is fun.

Google 'Florida man' plus your birthday so for example 'Florida man march 27'

[FORD]

Well my birthday is a holiday which usually involves a lot of alcohol & explosives, so I can only imagine

[FORD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkGp6iR16ec

[Seshmeister]

https://youtu.be/XFoXmnBuLw0

[FORD]

msn.com
Florida Barbershop Owner Shoots Masked Gunman Who Was Angry Over Haircut: Police
Andre J. Ellington

A Melbourne, Florida barbershop owner allegedly shot and injured a masked gunman who turned out to be a disgruntled customer who was upset about his haircut.

On August 28, 24-year-old Palm Bay resident Marlon Mascoe entered New York Hair Barbershop while other customers were being serviced. Mascoe then allegedly pointed a firearm at several people, according to Melbourne Police. The owner of New York Hair Barbershop allegedly shot Mascoe in the hip and apprehended him until Melbourne Police arrived at the barbershop.

Mascoe has been charged with aggravated assault with a firearm.

Melbourne Police Lieutenant Ryan Schorer spoke to Florida Today regarding the shooting. Schorer stated Mascoe had no intentions of robbing the barbershop at all.

"The investigation revealed that it wasn't related to a robbery," Schorer said to Florida Today. "It was actually related to a prior haircut transaction he was unhappy with or an interaction inside the business."

Additionally, Schorer told Florida Today that Mascoe is currently being treated at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne.

Across America, there have been numerous barbershop crimes involving patrons and owners.

On July 16, a Detroit woman took matters into her own hands after attacking and detaining a customer after he stole her car.

Over the course of three days, 32-year-old Bianca Chambers tracked her car through its GPS system after it was stolen in front of a local department store.

Chambers ended up finding her car at 7 Days West Barbershop and confronted the alleged thief by attacking and detaining him until police arrived.

"I slashed all the tires and I thought that he was gonna take off and I didn't know how long it was going to take for the police to pull up," Chambers told Fox 2. "I refused to let him pull off again."

On May 31, an Illinois barber allegedly shot and killed a customer after he refused to pay for his haircut.

Deshon McAdory, 40, allegedly killed 31-year-old customer Christian McDougald at Studio 914 barbershop. McAdory's attorney Anthony Burch told the Chicago Tribune that his client acted in self-defense.

"A person came into the store who's clearly the aggressor. He got a haircut, argued about not wanting to pay. There was an argument that ensued outside. As [McAdory] is retreating into the store, he is approached by the aggressor and fired one shot," Burch said to the outlet.

McAdory was held on a $250,000 bond and charged with first-degree murder.

Newsweek has reached out to New York Hair Barbershop for further comments.

[silverfish]

Six-Hour SWAT Standoff With Armed Teen on Roof Interrupted by Naked Woman on Golf Cart
https://toofab.com/2021/09/08/six-hour-swat-standoff-with-armed-teen-on-roof-interrupted-by-naked-woman-on-golf-cart-in-of-course-florida/

[Seshmeister]

Model posed on Instagram by dad's casket. She wasn’t prepared for the backlash.


https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-360w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2021-10/211027-Jayne-Rivera-instagram-father-coffin-6-se-458p-ddd2fd.jpg

Oct. 27, 2021, 10:37 PM BST / Updated Oct. 28, 2021, 4:03 PM BST
By Wilson Wong
A social media influencer defended herself Wednesday after she was criticized for sharing photos of herself posing in front of her father's open casket.

In the photos, Jayne Rivera, 20, was wearing a fitted, black one-sleeve blazer dress as she stood by her father’s coffin, which was adorned with an American flag. She posed with her hands in prayer in one picture.

Rivera, of Florida, told NBC News in an interview that she “understood the negative reception,” but clarified that the photos were taken “with the best intentions in a manner my father would have approved with had he still been alive.”



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Rick & Morty already covered this. Probably where she got it from


https://youtu.be/_Yt7XF_qMH8

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usually I wouldn't post a political article in this thread... but this is such a classically Florida clusterfuck that it totally belongs here......


miamiherald.com
Republican primary winner is ex-felon who never applied for the right to hold office
Corbin Bolies

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Jason Mariner appears in a campaign video posted on YouTube on Aug. 16, 2021. Image via screen grab from Mariner For Congress/YouTube

The winning Republican in this week’s congressional primary in South Florida is a convicted felon who did not go through the state’s process to restore his civil rights after his imprisonment, interviews and records show. That step is required under Florida law for a candidate to hold political office.

Jason Mariner, 36, of Palm Beach Gardens, an advertising executive and self-described “America First” conservative candidate, won Tuesday’s GOP primary with 58 percent of votes in the heavily Democratic 20th Congressional District.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the election’s outcome would be challenged. The general election will be Jan. 11. Democrats have held the seat — one of the most Democratic districts in Florida — for more than two decades.

Mariner had served roughly two years total in the Palm Beach County Jail over 2007 and 2012 on charges that included felony theft, burglary, cocaine possession, obstruction and violently resisting arrest, records show. He was open during his campaign about his criminal background, telling voters, “Before running for Congress, I ran from the law.” He also promised he would be tough on crime.

Under new clemency rules Gov. Ron DeSantis announced earlier this year, ex-felons are automatically entitled to have their rights restored — including the right to hold political office — but must submit to a formal process administered by the Florida Commission on Offender Review and Office of Executive Clemency. Under a constitutional amendment that Florida voters approved in 2020, ex-felons can register to vote once they serve their prison terms and pay any court fines.

Mariner confirmed Thursday in an interview he did not go through the process to restore his right to hold office. “No, nothing,” he said. He said later he was confident he was a lawful candidate. “No, it’s not going to be an issue,” he said.

Mariner said he followed the same process as other candidates and noted he was a registered voter. “As I am not an attorney or official in state government, it is not really my place to answer your legal or procedural questions about Florida law, applicable scenarios, etc., or advise you legally,” he said in an email.
No evidence that he applied

Florida records this week did not include any evidence that Mariner’s rights had been restored. Mariner signed a sworn statement in August he sent to the Florida Division of Elections attesting that he was qualified to run for Congress in Florida.

“All forms of clemency, should they be granted, would be searchable in that database,” said Angela Meredith, a spokeswoman for the Florida Commission on Offender Review. She said privacy rules prohibited her from discussing Mariner’s case specifically.

The new clemency rules describe restoring the civil rights of ex-felons — including the right to hold public office and serve on juries — “automatically upon processing and without a hearing,” but also specify that, “A clemency application is required for the restoration of civil rights.”

It wasn’t clear whether Mariner could retroactively apply to restore his rights after he already won this week’s congressional primary — as long as his right to hold political office was restored prior to Jan. 3, 2023, when the 118th Congress would convene in Washington.

The press secretary for Republican Gov. DeSantis, Christina Pushaw, said Thursday that, in response to questions from a reporter, lawyers in the governor’s office were trying quickly to determine whether the state’s rules requiring restoration of civil rights would apply to a Florida candidate for federal office.

A spokesman for Florida’s secretary of state’s office, which is responsible for ensuring candidates are eligible to run, did not return phone calls or emails over two days this week.

Mariner on Tuesday night defeated Republican Greg Musselwhite, a former pipe-fitter and welding inspector who also lost the election in 2020 to incumbent Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who died earlier this year. Over two months, Mariner’s campaign committee raised $22,553 and spent $18,310 ahead of the two-person primary, including only modest support from the Republican Party.

Musselwhite laughed Thursday when asked about Mariner’s eligibility. He said he was unsure whether he would contest the outcome. He said he trusted Florida’s officials to confirm his opponent was qualified to run for office.

“I guess I trusted the system a little too much,” he said. He later added: “Best case, they call another special election. Worst case, there will be no Republican on the ballot.”

On the Democrats’ side, election officials were recounting ballots Thursday after Dale V.C. Holness led Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick by only 12 votes, or two-tenths of a percentage point, out of more than 49,000 votes cast.

Ex-felons have to follow specific process

The deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, Neil Volz, which supported passage of the constitutional amendment and pushed for the new clemency reforms earlier this year, acknowledged that ex-felons under the new rules must submit to a process before they can legally hold political office.

“The nightmare scenario is, someone is eligible but the government bureaucracy is holding hostage the ability for them to move forward with their lives,” said Volz, who had been monitoring Mariner’s political campaign because of his criminal past.

It wasn’t clear why no one raised questions about Mariner’s eligibility as a candidate until after he won the primary. The supervisor of elections for Palm Beach County, where Mariner first registered to vote in March 2020, said the state Division of Elections in Tallahassee — under the secretary of state — was supposed to determine whether federal candidates are eligible.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel endorsed Mariner in the Republican primary and noted that he had regained his right to vote through the constitutional amendment, but its endorsement did not specify whether it had confirmed that Mariner could hold office if elected.

Mariner is the manager of Adskinz LLC, a small advertising firm in West Palm Beach he started in 2017 and pays drivers to affix logos and slogans to their vehicles on behalf of paying advertisers. The U.S. government in April forgave a $24,700 loan it provided to Adskinz under a program to help small businesses during the pandemic.

In his email Thursday, Mariner described himself as “a father, businessman, someone who has turned their life around, and now as a U.S. congressional primary race winner,” and said he understands those who try to overcome past struggles.

Police in Delray Beach said they watched Mariner buy crack cocaine at a home in April 2012, and he tried to swallow it when an officer pulled over his car for speeding moments later, according to court records. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 months in prison and fined $2,792.

In December 2011, Delray Beach police said Mariner stole a Greyhound Bus sign they found in his apartment and accused him of stealing four brass urns from a cemetery and selling them for $30.

In May 2014, police in Riviera Beach said Mariner spit at and tried to punch another driver, and damaged the other driver’s pickup, during a road rage incident in front of a Dunkin’ Donuts.

Mariner also has a history of traffic violations, including tickets accusing him of speeding 93 mph on Interstate 95 last year and careless driving earlier this year. His license was suspended during the summer until August, just before he began campaigning for Congress.

This story was produced by Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. The reporter can be reached at corbinbolies@freshtakeflorida.com.

This story was originally published November 4, 2021 2:34 PM.

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Motorcyclist 'cooked alive' after being 'tasered by police' at petrol station


A Florida motorcyclist is fighting for his life after he was tasered by a police officer at a petrol station which sparked a "horrific explosion" that "cooked" him alive, his lawyers have said.

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Jean Barreto suffered third-degree burns over 75% of his body during the incident on 27 February as he filled up his dirt bike at a Wawa petrol station in Orlando, the NeJame Law firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

An Osceola County sheriff's deputy is accused of tackling the 26-year-old from behind, knocking him and his motorbike to the ground and spilling petrol, the statement said.

At least three other officers arrived at the scene, and one of them used his stun gun on the motorcyclist, sparking a "fireball" and "engulfing almost his entire body in flames and approximately half of the other deputy's as well".

"This fireball, caused by the reckless, foolish, unnecessary and deadly tasing leading to the horrific explosion, engulfing the two of them and injuring two other deputies with minor burns," the lawyers said.

They said the motorcyclist "is still undergoing potentially lifesaving but excruciatingly painful treatment" and "he is without skin on most of his body, his skin having been burned off".

The lawyers said he was to be placed in a medically induced coma over the next couple of days, as he undergoes further new treatment at Orlando Health, which has been growing tissue taken from a 4-inch patch of unburned skin for grafting.

"While being cooked alive, Mr Barreto sustained third-degree burns on approximately 75% of his body, front and back from his feet to the bottom of his neck," they said.

NBC News affiliate WESH reported the sheriff's office said in February that the incident started when police received calls about a group of motorcyclists pointing guns at people.

Mr Barreto is alleged to have fled from an attempted traffic stop, and officers said they later found him at the Wawa petrol station.

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Florida man and woman crash into FedEx truck during sex act
Byron Hurd
Fri, June 3, 2022, 10:29 AM


https://youtu.be/-7EZ0PnS-NI


Well, there's really no way to put this delicately. A Florida driver distracted by receiving intimate services from his passenger lost track of his surroundings and crashed head-on (it only gets worse from here, folks) into a FedEx delivery vehicle in Ft. Lauderdale on Thursday, resulting in "injuries to his private area," WPLG Local 10 reports.


The driver and passenger were apparently driving northbound in an SUV on North Ocean Boulevard when the driver became distracted by his passenger's performance and crossed the center line, striking the delivery van as it traveled southbound near the intersection with Northwest 19th St. Neither occupant of the FedEx vehicle was injured; the only package harmed was the one being attentively gift-wrapped by the passenger of the SUV.


Aerial footage of the aftermath showed both SUV occupants being treated at the scene, pants around their ankles. Other reports indicate that the driver and his passenger were both injured in the collision, which happened while the deed was being done. Despite suffering perhaps the most predictable consequence in the world, the driver appears to have gotten lucky twice over, and the resulting injuries were not reported to be reproductively catastrophic.

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So.... in other words, she might have bit down, but not bit it off? :headlights:

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clickorlando.com
Man bitten by gator he mistook for dog in Florida, deputies say
Samantha Dunne

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. – A man was bitten by an alligator he thought was a dog Tuesday morning in Sarasota County, deputies told WTSP-TV.

The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. at Warm Mineral Springs Motel on South Tamiami Trail in North Port, according to a report from the Tampa station.

Investigators said the man was walking outside the motel overnight when he spotted a dark figure that “appeared to look like a dog with a long leash,” a sheriff’s office spokesperson wrote in an email to WTSP-TV.

Deputies said the alligator bit the man’s right leg as he tried to escape, the station said. The man flagged down a deputy who was in the area for an unrelated call, according to WTSP-TV.

The man was taken to a hospital, and the gator was captured, the station reported.

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What breed of dog remotely resembles a gator?? :headlights:

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fox13news.com
Father, son shoot at person they thought was burglar after neighbor brings package delivered to wrong address
Ken Suarez
4 minutes

Published October 17, 2022 12:56PM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y-qwE_0Ig0


WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A doorbell camera alerted a father and son that someone was outside the door of their Winter Haven apartment. They armed themselves and went out to find who they suspected of burglary and ended up firing seven shots into the car of a woman who was parked outside of her own apartment.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said there was never a burglar. The person who triggered the doorbell camera was a neighbor returning a package that was delivered to his address by mistake.

It all started when the Colonacosta home’s doorbell camera alerted a 15-year-old resident that someone had been outside the door. The teen peeked out of the door to see who was there, and then went to get a firearm.

Meanwhile, his father, Gino Colonacosta, grabbed his cane and a loaded semi-automatic handgun. Gino and his teen son left the house, both carrying loaded weapons.
Surveillance video shows deputy shot in bulletproof vest

The Polk County Sheriff's Office released surveillance video from a nearby home of a shooting that could have been tragic for a deputy and his family, but wasn't thanks to a bulletproof vest, a St. Michael’s medallion and the "good Lord," according to Sheriff Grady Judd.

Sheriff Grady Judd said the two split up. Gino Colonacosta walked around his apartment building and his son checked the perimeter of the building.

Gino reportedly found a vehicle with tinted windows in the parking lot in front of the building. Assuming the person inside was a burglar, he approached and started demanding the person get out.

Polk sheriff shows case of father and son accused of shooting at woman in parked car

The woman inside, who had just returned home and was checking messages on her phone before going inside, put her vehicle in reverse to try and get away from the apparently random, armed person yelling outside of her car.

As she quickly backed up to flee, the teen heard a commotion and ran toward his father.

When the vehicle passed by the teen, he began shooting at the passenger side.

The victim swerved, hitting a parked vehicle, which then hit another parked vehicle.

As the victim drove away, Gino and his son continued to shoot at the car. One bullet went through the empty child seat in the rear of the vehicle.

The victim was able to get to a nearby gas station and call for help.

Gino Colonacosta fired two shots and his teen son fired five during the incident.

Gino Colonacosta is being charged with contributing to the delinquency or dependency of a child, possession of firearms by minor under 18 prohibited, attempts, solicitation, and conspiracy, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, attempted felony murder, culpable negligence, discharging firearm in public or on residential property, improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms.

His 15-year-old son is charged with possession of firearms by minor under 18 prohibited, attempts, solicitation, and conspiracy, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, attempted felony murder, culpable negligence, discharging firearm in public or on residential property, and improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms.

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School principal fired for showing Michelangelo’s David in class

A parent called the lesson ‘pornographic’

Graig Graziosi

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A parent in Tallahassee, Florida cost a charter school principal her job after complaining that one of the world's most beloved artistic masterpieces was pornographic.

Hope Carrasquilla, who had just stepped into her role at Tallahassee Classical School less than a year prior, announced her resignation on Monday during an emergency board meeting, according to the Tallahassee Democrat's reporting.

She spoke with the Tallahassee Democrat about the incident and the end to her time at the school.

Ms Carrasquilla told the paper that the school board's chair, Barney Bishop, informed her that she would either need to quit or she would be fired. Though it appears he did not specify why the principal was asked to leave, she believes it was related to a lesson on Renaissance art.


The paper spoke to Mr Bishop, who said he did give the ultimatum to the principal. However, he refused to explain why he did so on advice of the school's legal team.

“It saddens me that my time here had to end this way,” Ms Carrasquilla told the Tallahassee Democrat.

The former principal explained that the school is required by law to teach lessons on Renaissance art to sixth-graders — typically 11 and 12-year-old children — as a small portion of the annual curriculum. She said that three parents complained that their children were made uncomfortable by the lesson, which included a section on Michelangelo’s David.

The school board enacted a rule two months ago requiring parental notification two weeks before the teaching of any "potentially controversial" information.

Two of the three parents who complained about the Renaissance art lesson said they wished they'd been notified before it was taught. The third parent complained the lesson was pornographic, despite being taught to 11 and 12-year-olds who almost certainly have phones and access to fullness of the internet's depravities.


More at
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michelangelo-school-principal-fired-david-statue-b2307088.html#Echobox=1679608673

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Devin Stone, the "Legal Eagle" of YouTube, with a 16 minute video (last 90 sec is a sponsor ad) on:

The Bizarre Origin of Florida Man


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOxCU3wY3kA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myihQlWtRxw

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Notorious ‘Boozy Burglar’ took only ingredients for making cocktails, Florida cops say

A Florida burglary suspect has become the butt of jokes on social media after video revealed he only
stole ingredients needed to make cocktails, investigators say.

The video, posted Dec. 15 by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, shows the so-called “Boozy Burglar”
entered someone’s apartment at 5:30 a.m. after finding the door unlocked.

“The unknown suspect walked in, uninvited of course, then walked back out with a bottle of Svedka
vodka and a bottle of Florida’s Natural Orange Juice,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Dec. 15 Facebook
post.

Full story at:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article283177998.html

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Florida Sex Scandal Shakes Moms for Liberty, as Group’s Influence Wanes
The conservative group led the charge on the Covid-era education battles. But scandals and losses are threatening its power.
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Bridget Ziegler sits by herself at a long desk used for meetings of the Sarasota County School Board. Nameplates for each board member are arranged along the front of the desk, and the logo of Sarasota County Schools hangs on the wall behind her.
Bridget Ziegler, a founder of the advocacy group Moms for Liberty, during a meeting of the Sarasota County School Board in Sarasota, Fla., on Tuesday. Ms. Ziegler was asked to resign her position at the meeting.Credit...Zack Wittman for The New York Times

Lisa LererPatricia Mazzei
By Lisa Lerer and Patricia Mazzei
Published Dec. 16, 2023
Updated Dec. 18, 2023, 1:48 p.m. ET

So when one of its founders, Bridget Ziegler, recently told the police that she and her husband, who is under criminal investigation for sexual assault, had a consensual sexual encounter with another woman, the perceived disconnect between her public stances and private life fueled intense pressure for her to resign from the Sarasota County School Board.

“Most of our community could not care less what you do in the privacy of your own home, but your hypocrisy takes center stage,” Sally Sells, a Sarasota resident and the mother of a fifth-grader, told Ms. Ziegler during a tense school board meeting this week. Ms. Ziegler, whose husband has denied wrongdoing, said little and did not resign.

Ms. Sells was one of dozens of speakers who criticized Ms. Ziegler — and Moms for Liberty — at the meeting, an outcry that underscored the group’s prominence in the most contentious debates of the pandemic era.

Perhaps no group gained so much influence so quickly, transforming education issues from a sleepy political backwater to a rallying cry for Republican politicians. The organization quickly became a conservative powerhouse, a coveted endorsement and a mandatory stop on the G.O.P. presidential primary campaign trail.

Yet, as Moms for Liberty reels from the scandal surrounding the Zieglers, the group’s power seems to be fading. Candidates endorsed by the group lost a series of key school board races in 2023. The losses have prompted questions about the future of education issues as an animating force in Republican politics.

Donald J. Trump, the dominant front-runner for the party’s nomination, makes only passing reference in his stump speeches to preserving “parental rights” — the catchphrase of the group’s cause. Issues like school curriculums, transgender students’ rights and teaching about race were far less prominent in the three Republican primary debates than abortion rights, foreign policy and the economy. And the most prominent champion of conservative views on education — Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida — has yet to unite conservatives behind his struggling presidential bid.

John Fredericks, a Trump ally in Virginia, said the causes that Moms for Liberty became most known for supporting — policies banning books it deemed pornographic, curtailing the teaching of L.G.B.T.Q. issues and policing how race is taught in schools — had fallen far from many voters’ top concerns.

“You closed schools, and people were upset about that. Schools are open now,” he said. “The Moms for Liberty really have to aim their fire on math and science and reading, versus focusing on critical race theory and drag queen story hours.”

He added: “It’s nonsense, all of it.”

The two other founders of Moms for Liberty, Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, have distanced themselves from Ms. Ziegler, saying she has not been an officer in the national organization since early 2021. Ms. Ziegler did not respond to a request for comment.

“To our opponents who have spewed hateful vitriol over the last several days: We reject your attacks,” Ms. Descovich and Ms. Justice said. “We are laser-focused on fundamental parental rights, and that mission is and always will be bigger than one person.”

Ms. Justice declined to answer questions about the continued influence of their organization or their electoral losses.

Tina Descovich, left, and Tiffany Justice, the two other founders of Moms for Liberty, distanced themselves from Ms. Ziegler.Credit...Matt Rourke/Associated Press

Nearly 60 percent of the 198 school board candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty in contested races across 10 states were defeated in 2023, according to an analysis by the website Ballotpedia, which tracks elections.

The organization claims to operate 300 chapters in 48 states and to have about 130,000 members.

Jon Valant, the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, a left-leaning think tank, found in a recent study that the group had an outsize presence in battleground and liberal counties. Yet in those areas, the policies championed by Moms For Liberty are broadly unpopular.

“The politics have flipped on the Moms for Liberty, and they’re turning more people to vote against them than for them,” Mr. Valant said.

In November, the group announced that it had removed the chairwomen of two Kentucky chapters after they had posed in photos with members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence. That came several months after a chapter of Moms for Liberty in Indiana quoted Adolf Hitler in its inaugural newsletter. The year before, Ms. Ziegler publicly denied links to the Proud Boys after she had posed for a photo with a member of the group at her election night victory party.

The episodes have transformed the group’s image and alienated it from the voters it once claimed to represent. The group was at one time particularly strong in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, where education issues helped spur Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, to victory in the 2021 governor’s race. (This year, Mr. Youngkin failed in his high-profile attempt at a Republican takeover of the Virginia Statehouse.)

Anne Pogue Donohue, who ran for a school board seat in Loudoun County, Va., against a candidate endorsed by the group, said she saw a disconnect between the cause of Moms for Liberty and the current concerns of voters.

On social media, Ms. Donohue, a former government lawyer and mother of two young children, faced a barrage of personal insults, death threats and accusations that she was trying to “groom” children to become transgender, she said. But during her in-person interactions with voters, she added, a vast majority of parents seemed more concerned with practical issues like math and reading scores, support for special education and expanding vocational and technical programs.

Ms. Donohue won her seat by nearly seven percentage points.

“There is a pushback now,” she said. “Moms for Liberty focuses heavily on culture-war-type issues, and I think most voters see that, to the extent that we have problems in our educational system that we have to fix, the focus on culture-war issues isn’t doing that.”

One place where Moms for Liberty maintains a stronger hold is the state where the group has had perhaps the most influence: Florida.

Since forming in 2020, the group has aligned itself with Mr. DeSantis, backing his parental-rights-in-education law that critics nicknamed “Don’t Say Gay.” The law prohibits classroom instruction on L.G.B.T.Q. topics.

Mr. DeSantis then campaigned for conservative candidates for local school boards, turning nonpartisan races into ones heavily influenced by politics. Several school boards with newly conservative majorities ousted their superintendents.

In Brevard County, the school board is now entirely conservative except for Jennifer Jenkins, whom Mr. DeSantis has already listed as someone he would like to help defeat in 2024.

Ms. Jenkins, an outspoken Moms for Liberty critic who wrested Ms. Descovich’s school board seat from her in 2020, said the organization, while small, had remained a vocal fixture in school board meetings, with about 10 regulars who sometimes bring along people from Indian River and other nearby counties.

“Their members are definitely more extreme than they ever were before,” said Ms. Jenkins, who has been a frequent target of the group. They have picketed outside her house, sent her threatening mail and, she said, taken photos of her in the grocery store as recently as a couple of weeks ago.

On Tuesday, some Moms for Liberty members from Brevard and Indian River Counties attended a Brevard County School Board meeting to protest books that they say should be pulled from schools. Most of the books they named had already been formally challenged.

Still, one by one, group members stood behind the lectern and read explicit scenes from the books until the board’s chairwoman — whom Moms for Liberty and Mr. DeSantis endorsed last year — warned them to stop.

It was what the speakers wanted: Under a Florida law enacted this year, if a school board denies a parent the right to read passages deemed “pornographic,” then the school district “shall discontinue the use of the material.” In other words, cutting off the reading would effectively result in pulling the book from schools, board members said.

“I highly encourage all of you to look at this statute,” Julie Bywater, a member of the Brevard County chapter of Moms for Liberty, told the school board.

Such tactics have become typical for Moms for Liberty members. In response, opponents have started showing up to school board meetings in force, trying to counter the group’s message — including in Sarasota, where Ms. Ziegler’s critics turned out to try to push her out.

The school board, which includes several conservatives who have aligned with Ms. Ziegler before, voted 4 to 1 on Tuesday for a nonbinding resolution urging her to resign; Ms. Ziegler was the only one on the board to vote against it.

NY TIMES LINK (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/us/politics/moms-for-liberty-sex-scandal.html)