Friday, December 29, 2006

Florida is just plain weird

Here are a few of the strange things that happen3ed there in 2006:

  • Two Escambia County middle school teachers faced felony charges after being accused of taking bribes from students to let them skip gym class. The amount per class? $1.
  • The Easter Bunny was fired after he punched a Fort Myers mall customer who was upset that photo ops with the giant costumed rabbit were closing 10 minutes early.
  • A man driving in Naples with a pet snake wrapped around his neck crashed his car when the reptile began attacking him. He got out of his car, wrestled with the snake and then drove off, reports said.
  • A 74-year-old Punta Gorda woman did a better job of fighting off an alligator. She was bit on the ankle by a 5-footer, but she beat it back with a hose.
    "I just whacked him right in the snout with the nozzle," the woman said. "After that, he took off." She finished her gardening before seeking treatment for the wound.
  • A man doubted whether the crack cocaine he bought was real, so he asked two uniformed Tampa police officers to verify. They did. It was. He was arrested.
  • An Orange County sheriff's deputy was in uniform and sitting in his marked patrol car when a man walked up to him an asked if he wanted to buy some cocaine. The deputy said yes, the man pulled out a bag with cocaine and the officer arrested him.
  • A 15-year-old boy stole a transit bus in Orlando and drove it about 12 miles, picking up passengers, collecting fares, driving the speed limit and making all the right stops before police arrested him.

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