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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 11:18 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 31 2010 12:15 PM

Her leukemia's not terminal, and the good citizen in me finds this reckless and disturbing... but it's also kinda terminally awesome. She robbed a bank and then went on the lam for three days. From behind bars, Patricia Edwards tells FOX 35 that it was on her "bucket list," or things to do before you die. Last week, the cancer patient walked into a bank in Sanford, handing the teller a note demanding money. In surveillance video, Edwards, 51, is seen sporting a baseball cap during the heist at the Bank of America branch. “There was no plan, no nothing; just impulse,” she said in an exclusive interview with FOX 35. “I just walked by. I said, ‘I’m gonna go in there… passed a note to gain some cash and I left.” When asked why she did it, Edwards replied, “Because it was something I had on my ‘bucket list,’” adding, “I think everyone should have a list of things they want to do before they ‘expire.’” I'm not sure why, but the fact that it was a BoA heightens the guilty pleasure, doesn't it?

A Boy Named Seo Mar 31 2010 11:31 AM Re: So Many Kinds of Buckets I Want to Own

This line seems maybe as important than the leukemia/kick-the-bucket part. Or more. Edwards said she has leukemia but that it is not terminal. She also said she suffers from bi-polar disorder and was off of her medication. Nothing people in Florida do surprises me anymore.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 12:04 PM Re: So Many Kinds of Buckets I Want to Own

F'real. The story links on the side of the page-- which include "Woman Pulled Over While Shaving Bikini Line"-- are up there with this one for WTF-quotient.

metirish Mar 31 2010 12:07 PM Re: So Many Kinds of Buckets I Want to Own

Amazing the stuff that goes on.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 31 2010 12:10 PM Re: So Many Kinds of Buckets I Want to Own

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: F'real. The story links on the side of the page-- which include "Woman Pulled Over While Shaving Bikini Line"-- are up there with this one for WTF-quotient. THAT was awesome. Turns out this super-hot chick... ...was on her way to meet her boyfriend and wanted to "be ready" for the visit, so while she's driving, she had her ex-husband hold the steering wheel while she shaved her junk. We need a "crazy-shit people do in Florida" thread NOW!!!!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 12:14 PM Florida be Crazy

And just like that... the thread is magically transformed!

A Boy Named Seo Mar 31 2010 12:20 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

15 Minutes on the MyFoxOrlando website, and we'll have a 30-page thread here.

Nymr83 Mar 31 2010 12:21 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

She was just trying to get her (our) money back.

Nymr83 Mar 31 2010 12:23 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Alternatively, they could be looking for another suspect...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 12:26 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Speaking of flamin' righties... this is from earlier in the week, but... frat prank? People not reading clear "No Parking" signs in the lot? Or Socialist-Marxist conspiracy? NOBAMA HAS NOT DENIED INVOLVEMENT WITH THIS, PATRIOTS! (I prefer WFTV-9's coverage, thanks, ABNS.) ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back. A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF. The people parked in a Kappa Sigma lot. Mike Vedder thinks they were set up. He doesn't know if it was a dislike of the conservative commentator or money. “Maybe the have a deal with the tow truck company or maybe they got kickbacks under the table," Vedder said. They all said an event parking sign clearly directed them into the lot. Students at the fraternity wouldn't comment, but WFTV caught up with the owner of Orange County Towing and Recovery, Ronald Hulbert. "I have a lot at stake, a lot invested. I'm not going to lose it over a $125 tow, times 53, times 53, it was a good day," Ronald Hulbert said. Hulbert admits he's never towed that many cars in one day before; he said it took him at least eight hours to tow all the cars. Each driver had to pay cash, netting him more than $6,600. Vedder also had to pay $25 for a cab ride to the tow company. UCF said, out of 30 recent events, it hasn’t had a problem, but Vedder said this was his last at that arena. “I won’t come to anymore. I'm going to tell everyone else it's not a place I want to be," he said. WFTV was told to call Paul Gamble with Kappa Sigma, but he did not return any phone calls.

Edgy DC Mar 31 2010 12:46 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Just read the TC Palm, the local for St. Lucie, and you get your fill. How about... today! FORT PIERCE — An 18-year-old inmate who escaped from Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute when a juvenile detention officer watching him fell asleep was arrested after his mother turned him over to authorities, according to a recently released affidavit.

Frayed Knot Mar 31 2010 01:08 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

If we ever just cut off the state of Florida and set it out to sea, Maury, Jerry, and all those freak & reality shows would lose all their entrants and be off the air inside a week. Hey ....

Fman99 Mar 31 2010 01:38 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Frayed Knot wrote: If we ever just cut off the state of Florida and set it out to sea, Maury, Jerry, and all those freak & reality shows would lose all their entrants and be off the air inside a week. Hey .... You're gonna cut off America's wang? You'll turn us into Canada.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 01:52 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Frayed Knot wrote: If we ever just cut off the state of Florida and set it out to sea, Maury, Jerry, and all those freak & reality shows would lose all their entrants and be off the air inside a week. Hey .... "We have the results... YOU ARE NOT THE ARBITER OF WHAT IS TO HAPPEN TO THE STATES OF OUR UNION!" Also, this. If he did it, then what did he use to light it, huh, Kojak? A man is behind bars today after a suspicious fire gutted his Lake Mary apartment on Wednesday. Seminole County sheriff's deputies arrested 22-year-old Bryan Burkhart on charges of aggravated battery and possession of drug paraphernalia... ... Witnesses told deputies they had seen Burkhart earlier arguing with his girlfriend and threatening to set the apartment on fire. They said he was naked. Deputies said they couldn't locate Burkhart at first, but he later turned himself over to authorities. By that time, he had found a pair of shorts.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2010 03:07 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0331101vag1.html Couple busted after girlfriend accidently shares revealing pic online MARCH 31--A Florida woman claiming to have mistakenly sent a very revealing photo of her private parts to men she was chatting with on the Internet was arrested by sheriff's deputies last week and charged with battery after assaulting her boyfriend who had discovered the online activities. According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office report, while Kizzy Campbell was away from the home they share, Johnny Lowe came across some "very provocative" chat messages between his girlfriend and "'other dudes'" on their computer. Checking more closely, Lowe, 28, looked at the outgoing messages and discovered that Campbell, 31, "had taken a photo of her vagina and sent it out." When she returned home, "Campbell 'started tripping' because she 'hadn't meant' to send out the photo." Lowe, who told a sheriff's deputy that he believed her when she said that the image was sent out mistakenly, then gave Campbell a hug because "he was simply trying to be understanding." But his empathetic gesture did not end her "tripping" and she responded by biting, scratching, and cutting his arm with a kitchen knife. Over the course of the fighting that ensued, Lowe hit Campbell in the mouth and the couple, who have lived together for seven years, were both charged with battery and taken to jail where they posed for the below mug shots.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 31 2010 03:19 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Wish I hadn't followed the link to see the mugshots.

Gwreck Mar 31 2010 03:36 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Edgy DC wrote: Just read the TC Palm, the local for St. Lucie, and you get your fill. How about... today! FORT PIERCE — An 18-year-old inmate who escaped from Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute when a juvenile detention officer watching him fell asleep was arrested after his mother turned him over to authorities, according to a recently released affidavit. I'm thinking you bolded the wrong part. The detention officer fell asleep???

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2010 10:09 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Wish I hadn't followed the link to see the mugshots. I'm amazed there wasn't a similar "flipping out" on the receiving end. Watch the Orlando Sentinel for reports of self-blindings.

MFS62 Apr 01 2010 09:37 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Fuhgeddaboutit! The most dangerous thing that happens in Florida is all the 80+ year olds driving their big cars at break neck speed to make sure they're on time for the early bird specials. Many of them can't even see over their steering wheels. Later

Ashie62 Apr 01 2010 10:01 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

The chances of forum posters living in Florida one day chasing the early bird and shrinking a day at a time maybe higher than some thing. Laughing at what we may become can be dangerous.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 01 2010 02:00 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

There goes the neighborhood. http://www.wesh.com/news/22927935/detail.html Lions, Tigers Not Welcomed In Neighborhood Residents Up In Arms About 50 Unusual Pets POSTED: 6:35 am EDT March 24, 2010 UPDATED: 1:17 pm EDT March 24, 2010 SCOTTSMOOR, Fla. -- A local community is getting ready for a big cat battle. Some people in Brevard County are upset that a man will be moving into a new house with his 50 tigers and lions. The man and his unusual pets were recently booted out of his current home in Canaveral Groves because of a potential danger to the residential community. They're now headed to agricultural land in Scottsmoor, but the lands backs right up to another neighborhood. People who live in the area said they were stunned to learn that more than 80 cages were being built for jungle cats in their backyard. People in Brevard County will have a chance to argue the move during next week's commission meeting.

Frayed Knot Apr 01 2010 03:02 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Then there's the central Florida town of Islesworth where housewife Elin W. filed a complaint recently about the behavior of a tiger living in her neighborhood and is considering legal action to get it ousted.

Centerfield Apr 01 2010 04:09 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

There goes the neighborhood. http://www.wesh.com/news/22927935/detail.html Lions, Tigers Not Welcomed In Neighborhood Residents Up In Arms About 50 Unusual Pets POSTED: 6:35 am EDT March 24, 2010 UPDATED: 1:17 pm EDT March 24, 2010 SCOTTSMOOR, Fla. -- A local community is getting ready for a big cat battle. Some people in Brevard County are upset that a man will be moving into a new house with his 50 tigers and lions. The man and his unusual pets were recently booted out of his current home in Canaveral Groves because of a potential danger to the residential community. They're now headed to agricultural land in Scottsmoor, but the lands backs right up to another neighborhood. People who live in the area said they were stunned to learn that more than 80 cages were being built for jungle cats in their backyard. People in Brevard County will have a chance to argue the move during next week's commission meeting. I read this as "Lions, not Tigers, Welcomed In Neighborhood. Reading comp has never been my strong suit. No wonder they didn't want me at Harvard.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 01 2010 04:32 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Tigers play too rough. And lions ain't the kind you love enough.

Valadius Apr 01 2010 06:14 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

There goes the neighborhood. http://www.wesh.com/news/22927935/detail.html Lions, Tigers Not Welcomed In Neighborhood Residents Up In Arms About 50 Unusual Pets POSTED: 6:35 am EDT March 24, 2010 UPDATED: 1:17 pm EDT March 24, 2010 SCOTTSMOOR, Fla. -- A local community is getting ready for a big cat battle. Some people in Brevard County are upset that a man will be moving into a new house with his 50 tigers and lions. The man and his unusual pets were recently booted out of his current home in Canaveral Groves because of a potential danger to the residential community. They're now headed to agricultural land in Scottsmoor, but the lands backs right up to another neighborhood. People who live in the area said they were stunned to learn that more than 80 cages were being built for jungle cats in their backyard. People in Brevard County will have a chance to argue the move during next week's commission meeting.

DocTee Apr 01 2010 06:16 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

http://blogs.tcpalm.com/off_the_beat_wi ... l-car.html After being pulled over for driving "crazy" in Martin County, FL last Monday, Douglas Malcolm Macarthur, pictured, was asked to produce his license, but is said to have done something unconventional instead. He ignored the request and accepted a cup of vodka that was offered to him by one of his passengers, sipping it as the officer watched, according to a sheriff's deputy from Palm Beach County. Macarthur, 40, then went for the gold by allegedly crawling under the deputy's car, and when extracted, he tried to bite the officer. He was taken to jail on a DUI and other charges. Read the whole story here on Will Greenlee's tcpalm.com blog. As the similarly-named (but no relation as far as we know) General Douglas Macarthur once said, "You are remembered for the rules you break."

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 01 2010 07:30 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

What I love is that we're 26 posts and about 6-7 stories into this thread, and we haven't sniffed Tampa, the panhandle, or Dade County.

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 10:08 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Here's General MacArthur:

Edgy DC Apr 14 2010 09:49 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Some folks down there are good strange. "I got ya."

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 19 2010 01:40 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Strange and tragic. Justice long-delayed, or an unfortunate miscarriage of justice... that just feels right? "I didn't know I hurt her that bad."

metirish Apr 19 2010 01:51 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Strange and tragic. Justice long-delayed, or an unfortunate miscarriage of justice... that just feels right? "I didn't know I hurt her that bad." I hate reading stories like this, where the parent shakes the baby to death....1 year didn't seem enough when he first got prosecuted .

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 20 2010 11:13 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

And newly chilling to me these days. Strange, though... the ADA's office had been through more or less a complete turnover since the original crime. I wonder whether the current prosecutors had their eye on this before coming into the office, or whether there was some detailed discussion upon handing over the figurative keys. On a much lighter note... a plain old Peeping Tom case, with a twist or two. ORLANDO, Fla. -- Deputies are seeking the public's help after students caught a man touching himself on camera on Monday... Two of the incidents were caught on camera by concerned students. The footage shows a man who Evan estimated to be in his 40s wearing khaki pants and a dark polo. The video captured on Monday shows the man pull his shirt over his head at one point. Each time, the man has been spotted at about noon, facing either the Arden Villas student housing or an assisted living home. "In the middle of the daylight," Evan said. "It was even raining today and he was out there." "Obviously he doesn't care if he's seen," McMullen added. I wonder... do most peepers check the weather forecast before doing the Dew?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 07 2010 01:05 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Reacting with a violent assault is probably not the best way to quash an embarrassing rumor, I'm thinking. Perhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing. A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after police say he attacked a colleague who'd made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners during a recent training session. Rolando Negrin, 44, was busted for assault after things got ugly at Miami International Airport between Negrin and some of his fellow Transportation Security Administration workers on Tuesday. Sources say Negrin stepped into the machine during the training session and became embarrassed and angry when a supervisor started cracking jokes about his manhood, made visible by the new machine. According to the police report, Negron confronted one of his co-workers in an employee parking lot, where he hit him with a police baton on the arm and back. "[Negron] then told victim to kneel down and say 'your sorry,'" the report reads. "Victim stated he was in fear and complied with [Negron]." Negron was arrested the next day when he arrived for work. He told police he had been made fun of by coworkers on a daily basis. "[Negron] stated he could not take the jokes anymore and lost his mind," the report reads. Negrin was arrested and booked into Miami-Dade County Jail. His arrest photo (above) shows him wearing his blue TSA shirt at the time of the arrest. The attack may be the first piece of proof that the new scanners may be leaving too little to the imagination. The $170,000 machines, which were introduced last year, took some heat from fliers who weren't quite ready to show their bod to government employees. But if this latest incident is any indication, the scanners sound like good news for anti-terrorism and bad news for less-than-average men.

A Boy Named Seo May 12 2010 10:01 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

I thought of this thread when I saw that story on the news. Never-ending supply of dumb shit spewing from Florida's anus.

Rockin' Doc May 13 2010 07:49 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

I like how the owner has to resort to using a "5" to form the "s" on the vanity plate. I find it hard to conceive that ANUS really so popular that some other idiot has already beat this poor schlup to it, thereby forcing this misguided sole to get creative, in order to have the vanity plate they truly desire above all others.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2010 03:09 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

It's like Tassey was trying to do the human gene pool a favor. RIDGE MANOR, Fla. - A Hernando County man was reportedly run over by his own truck after his dog put it into gear. The sheriff's office reports that 43-year-old Christopher Bishop was checking under his Ford F-150 for oil leaks Sunday evening. He had put the running truck into neutral and left the driver's door open. While he was under the truck, Bishop's bulldog, Tassey, jumped into the truck and knocked the vehicle into gear. The truck rolled over the left side of Bishop's body. Bishop managed to get up, stop the vehicle and go into his house. After several hours of pain, Bishop finally called for help.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2010 03:15 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

DATELINE: Keystone Heights (panhandle FL). "If u look at the picture u can see that there is no bowl in the TABACCO (sic) pipe. And i took a pic to show one (expletive) person and it was a mistake. I would never ever ever let him get high."

A Boy Named Seo Jun 24 2010 04:01 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Two back-to-back doozies leaving me with the impression that the driving dog and the stoned baby were the headiest of the bunch.

Fman99 Jun 24 2010 09:06 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: It's like Tassey was trying to do the human gene pool a favor. RIDGE MANOR, Fla. - A Hernando County man was reportedly run over by his own truck after his dog put it into gear. The sheriff's office reports that 43-year-old Christopher Bishop was checking under his Ford F-150 for oil leaks Sunday evening. He had put the running truck into neutral and left the driver's door open. While he was under the truck, Bishop's bulldog, Tassey, jumped into the truck and knocked the vehicle into gear. The truck rolled over the left side of Bishop's body. Bishop managed to get up, stop the vehicle and go into his house. After several hours of pain, Bishop finally called for help. Wait, this was a Marmaduke wasn't it?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 13 2010 01:11 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Sinkhole... or hellmouth? July 11, 2010, Tampa, FL – The Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross is assisting four families that were forced from their homes early this morning after a sinkhole opened up, swallowing a car and threatened condominiums of the Bordeaux Village Condos located at 12701 N 50th Street in Tampa.

Edgy DC Jul 13 2010 07:34 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

It's that Guatemala City sinkhole that really chilled me.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 13 2010 08:09 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

They lost 2-3 whole houses down there, IIRC. The thing about the Tampa area... this is not an isolated incident at all. They've had dozens in the last few months (all smaller than the Guatemalan one... but then, so are most soccer fields).

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jul 27 2010 02:56 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Proud Broward County man does blow, gets bad ideas. It's an age-old story: Matthew Magnus was awfully impressed with his manhood, so much so that the Hallandale Beach man decided to show it to the world. Unfortunately for Magnus, police generally consider that lewd and lascivious conduct. The 30-year-old was arrested this past Saturday after police said he exposed himself multiple times to both adults and juveniles, asking his victims: "Have you ever seen the biggest penis in the world?" According to a Hallandale Police arrest report, in the first incident, Magnus asked a group of kids the question before pulling his pants down. When the kids ran away, he found another group of kids and followed them, again asking the "biggest penis" question. The kids ran away before he could expose himself again. The children, all under 16, identified Magnus in a photo line-up, according to the report. When police went to arrest Magnus, they found him naked in his apartment. Police said the apartment was covered in dog feces, urine and trash, and when they did a search, they found white powder in baggies, which later tested positive for cocaine...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 05 2010 10:22 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Appropriately enough, the crime took place at twilight. (Look closely, and you'll see a couple more shades of wrong twinkling here in the motive.) Mariella Mendez, who lived with Lopez and the victim, told police that Lopez then laughed and said "This is my secret."

Edgy DC Aug 05 2010 10:47 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

That sounds like an awful sordid mess, made no more clear by the horrible writing. I can't get over how awful the journalism is when you folks link to New York tabloid articles --- particularly with regard to the blatant editorializing, but also when it comes to constructions like this: On Sunday, Lopez went and stabbed Cruz's brother, Juan, in his lower back, causing a minor wound. Did he? Did he done do that?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 10 2010 03:49 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Yes, but was he actually listening, or just hearing? JULY 28--Declaring that white people "shouldn't be listening to rap music," a 14-year-old Florida boy allegedly assaulted a man Monday night in what police say was a racially-motivated attack. The teenager was arrested after he allegedly struck the 22-year-old victim, who is white, in the face. According to a Palm Bay Police Department report, a copy of which you'll find at left, the victim was on a sidewalk listening to rap music when he was confronted by the boy and other teenagers. The suspect told the man to turn off his music, adding that he was "white and he shouldn't be listening to rap music." When the victim replied that he "could listen to whatever he wants," the suspect "repeatedly" punched him in the face. Though "other black juvenile males and females...attempted to get involved in the dispute," the victim fled "before any further battery could occur." The man sustained a swollen left eye during the assault, cops reported. The teen attacker gave a fake name when initially approached by cops, but was later identified by his mother. The boy was arrested and booked into Brevard County's juvenile detention facility for misdemeanor battery and giving cops a false name. However, if the incident is determined to be racially motivated, the battery charge could be elevated to a felony via a so-called hate-crime enhancement.

Edgy DC Aug 10 2010 07:01 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

They kind of tapdance around the alleged perp's blackness there, don't they? They leave you to infer it right up to the last sentence, when it seems apparent, but still left to inference.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 10 2010 07:40 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

It's like the textual version of whispering "black."

Edgy DC Aug 10 2010 07:45 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

I mean, since the thread is called "Florida Be Crazy!" I was willing to believe a white 14-year-old started punching a white adult in the face for listening to black music, until told otherwise. And they never explicitly told me otherwise.

Ceetar Aug 10 2010 07:51 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Edgy DC wrote: I mean, since the thread is called "Florida Be Crazy!" I was willing to believe a white 14-year-old started punching a white adult in the face for listening to black music, until told otherwise. And they never explicitly told me otherwise. You know.. I wonder which would be considered _more_ racist?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 10 2010 11:17 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

To be fair: UFC 117 kicked ass. There was that roidy dude who almost broke the arm of that one guy with the tats... and that other guy, with the punching. Sad stuff, though. Good luck in foster care, kid.

Fman99 Aug 18 2010 10:11 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

More model parenting from the Sunshine State.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 18 2010 10:24 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Well, it keeps him/her calm. And speaking of needing to calm down... homes probably should have done so before clicking the "send request" button: A Florida man was arrested last night after he allegedly violated a protective order by sending his estranged wife requests to “friend” him on Facebook. According to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office report, Harry Bruder, 54, admitted contacting his wife twice last last month via the social networking site. Investigators charge that Bruder’s Facebook requests violated a domestic violence injunction obtained by his wife Carole, from whom he has been separated for two years. “Yeah, I did it,” Bruder said when confronted by cops. He remarked that the friend requests were “stupid” and knew that he should not have sent them. Bruder, who also copped to changing the password to his wife’s Yahoo e-mail account, said that he was upset that he had to attend court-ordered counseling sessions as a result of the injunction (which bars him from any contact with his wife). Bruder, pictured in the above mug shot, was jailed in lieu of $5,000 bail. The sheriff’s report lists his employer at Bud’s Plumbing. Bruder’s Facebook page can be found here. In an apparent reference to the filing of the restraining order, Bruder wrote in a July 27 post to his Facebook wall that, “today my future x wife thinks she won but the real winner is me for i know the truth she is nothing but a lying emotionally disturbed woman who needs help to handle previous abusive relationship." You catch more flies with e-honey than with virtual vinegar, guy.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 20 2010 02:17 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

There are no state laws outlawing bestiality in Florida. I feel a little weirder than usual presenting y'all something where that comes into play. (If you click through, you'll want to watch the video, as well.) "I have walked these pastures in the middle of the night checking on mares that were due to foal, and never felt the slightest worry about being endangered and now, I don't even like to have the dog out at night lately because we don't know if that man is standing over there in the corner somewhere watching," says Priscilla.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 24 2010 07:36 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

No takers on the horse... um... loving? How about some arm-wrestling gone wrong? FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Police in South Florida say a 25-year-old man went into a violent rage after losing an arm-wrestling match. Police say Erick Lee Blanton drove his pickup truck across a lawn, over a mailbox and at several people after losing on Sunday. Witnesses told Fort Pierce police he also drew a rifle and pressed the barrel against the forehead of the man who beat him. Police arrested Blanton at his home shortly afterward. He faces four counts of aggravated assault with a vehicle and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. It could not be immediately determined if Blanton has an attorney.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 26 2010 09:50 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Publix worker not a police officer Published: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, August 23, 2010 at 11:54 p.m. SIESTA KEY - When his acquaintances got rowdy over the weekend on Siesta Key, Matthew Proudfit stepped in to use his law enforcement credentials to keep them from being arrested. The only problem, deputies say, is that Proudfit's only "credentials" were a pocket knife with the words Law Enforcement stenciled on it and an application to the Cape Coral Police Department. In reality, Proudfit, 22, is a Publix grocery stocker. Authorities say Proudfit tried to interfere when deputies detained three men who were intoxicated outside Siesta Key Oyster Bar. He reportedly said he was a law enforcement officer and offered to take custody of the drunken men and give them a lift home. Eventually, deputies asked for his credentials, found out he was not an officer and charged him with impersonating a law enforcement officer.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 26 2010 10:25 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

I'm just wondering whether that was more of the drunk in him talking or the stupid. I'd say 70-30 "drunk."

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 23 2010 01:03 PM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

Hey, at least she's being supportive of her child's endeavors. I couldn't pay my mom to watch one of these when I was in high school. According to the Bradenton Herald, Newcomb told police after her arrest, "Of course, we're both wrong and I understand that, and I understand where y'all are coming from. I think unfortunately it was going to happen, no matter what." Video here.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 15 2010 09:38 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

About as scary a thing as you'll ever see, hopefully. [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/15/florida.meeting.shooting/

Valadius Dec 27 2010 09:40 AM Re: Florida Be Crazy!

The AP agrees: Florida be crazy. Snail mucus, potheads add to strange Fla. news TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – This year, Floridians learned that burials at sea don't work if the body doesn't sink, giant snail mucus can make you sick and that an underwire bra can stop a lawyer from visiting her client in prison. Florida lived up to its reputation for being an odd state in 2010, with residents committing stupid crimes, making poor decisions and exhibiting general weirdness. There was the man pulled over in Manatee County who claimed the crack in his crack wasn't his. Officers found bags of marijuana and crack cocaine stuffed between the man's butt cheeks. He said the pot was his but "the white stuff is not mine." That was far from the only weird case handled by police. A 32-year-old Pasco County man called 911 to complain his mother took his beer, while police in Deland said a man walked out of a bar and head-butted a street preacher who called him a sinner. A Pasco County man was charged with slashing his father with a knife during an argument over who would walk the dog. There were other strange dog stories. A man was walking his Jack Russell terrier in Tampa when an alligator snatched it. He pulled out his handgun and started shooting at the gator. It let go of the dog, but the pet wasn't breathing until the man performed CPR and revived it. Dogs weren't always the victim. A Hernando County man was run over by his own pickup truck after his dog jumped into the running vehicle and put it in gear. Threatening items that bomb squads had to handle this year included a box with two kittens in Cocoa and a stuffed pony in Orange County. Authorities blew up the stuffed pony, but spared the kittens. A Melbourne street was shut down for three hours, the time it took the bomb squad to figure out the flashing object in the middle of the street was a restaurant pager. If that didn't make you lose your appetite, this might: Several people in Miami complained got sick after consuming mucus from a giant snail in a religious ceremony. 2010 wasn't the year to mess with the elderly. An 84-year-old man was arrested in Bay County for allegedly hitting a deputy with his cane. Would-be robbers knocked an 83-year-old man to the ground in Clearwater only to turn and run when the victim pulled a gun on them. A 69-year-old woman turned back a robber after picking up the gun he dropped in her car while smashing the windshield with it. He also dropped his cell phone and was caught. Weirdness didn't just involve senior citizens: A Clay County woman was arrested after posting a photo of her baby with a bong on Facebook. Nor was odd news limited to the living. A family honoring a relative's dying wish gave him a burial at sea, only to have the body resurface off a Fort Lauderdale beach. A Tampa-area couple paid $8 for a box of bones at a yard sale that they planned to use as Halloween decorations, until they got home and realized it was a real human skeleton. Finally, Florida has the kind of corrections officials that will make you rethink what you're wearing. A Miami attorney said she was kept from visiting her client at a federal detention center because the underwire of her bra set off the metal detector. After she took it off, she said guards wouldn't let her in because she was braless.