Crazy Florida Year in Review: Bong Baby, CPR Dog, and ‘Crack’ Smuggler
- Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:36pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — 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.
Raymond Roberts, arrested for hiding crack in his, well, crack.
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.
Busted for "bong baby" pic.
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
Daniel Scott of N. Carolina was "buried" at sea, only to have his body eventually turn up in Florida.
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.
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Bic
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 10:43pmLets not forget about the Lee County women who lived in a filthy house with the decomposing body of her dead mother. She couldn‘t find the time to clean the house or bury her mom but she always found the time to cash her mom’s social security checks
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/dec/24/Gail-Andrews-Fort-Myers-dead-mother-skeleton-house/
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 10:36pmMy vote goes to the “district of columbia”——-they have prozac cocktail parties
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:56pmAs a(n obvious) pot smoker…that bong looks like it’s got a full chamber…hang em high!
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 9:25pmeveryone has forgotten the great wonderful governor we’ve had, his claim to fame today was the not increase of property taxes – well duh – if property loses value, the taxes go down – does that mean he is personally responsible for the devaluation of property? !!! no one at all mentions the huge increase in the cost of a drivers license or vehicle registration – oh yes, he’s done such wonderful things for Florida – Thank goodness for Marco Rubio and putting Charlie Crist out to pasture.
Report Post »Speak without Fear
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:54pmDISGUSTING…..and Shameful any adult would encourage and promote this to a child.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:54pmLeave the baby bong hitter alone, this is one of our future Government officials. How do you think Pelosi and Obama got so smart?
Report Post »tellthem
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 6:33pmThe song Florida says it all!! http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_4668249
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:57pmIt seems as though Florida has become the “poster-child” state for low-life miscreants and human slime. We are turning into a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY and Florida is at the forefront of the demise!
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 5:19pmRomans 3:16
Report Post »Destruction and misery are in their ways:
And the way of peace have they not known:
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
SlimnRanger
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:36pmFl. and Ca. both have such a huge mix of people it’s not surprising what you hear in either state
Report Post »catllers
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:10pmhow many of those “Floridians” come from New York? or Michigan? how about New Jersey? and wasn‘t it years ago other states that got sick of their homeless and mental disturbed resident’s gave them a one way grayhound ticket to Florida?
Report Post »Joseff
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:43pmWho wrote this story? What ever happened to journelistic integrity? I’m not even talking about content, the grammar in this is embarrassing. A professional wrote this? I can’t spell to save my life, and its been 30 years since my last English course, but when I have trouble reading a news story because of the blatent grammatical errors, I have to wonder how these news agencies stay in business.
Joe
Report Post »Chickweedtea
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:18pmI’m sure that editors are some of the many new positions opening up on The Blaze soon. I’ve seen problems like this on many of the articles, but as this is a very new site and still expanding they’re probably shorthanded. If Glenn or Scott are reading, I’d love to work from home checking grammar, spelling and punctuation!
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:27pmWait until marijuana gets legalized in another 10 years. Incidents like these will be daily occurances.
Report Post »Chris G
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:00pm10 YEARS???? You can’t be serious…hopefully it will be 10 MONTHS. 2012 @ the latest. I’m sure that incidents like the bong baby happen all the time; the parents aren’t stupid enough to take a pic of it & put it on the internet.
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:11pmOh the humanity!!
Report Post »PatriotDaze
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:11pmRed State. PREPARED
Report Post »cubber
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:40pmNo comment. Except, BE PREPARED.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:40pmGoes in as crack, comes out as heroin.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 1:56pmI’m embarrassed to be from Florida when it comes to the news… smh
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:13pm@@leftfighter
Why? You guys save dogs with your mouths!
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:24pmFlorida sounds like a hoot. In Illinois we have Blago and Rahm-bo and a host of shuffling shiftless characters. It makes you want to LAUGH.
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http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:30pmDat crack in my crack ain’t mine but the pot is ROFLMAO
Who put the crack in his crack? You can’t fix stupid..
Report Post »sconnolly
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:42pmThe guy who pulled his gun on the gator to save his dog is a Patriot!
The rest Pinheads!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 2:49pmI avoid Florida if I can. IMO, there are too many weird people and too much crime there. No offense, Floridians, it’s just been my experience.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 3:09pmLOL .. I have to say after moving from Michigan to Florida .. I don’t know if it is any more “crazy” but more reported … at least in Florida the news is rarely dull. I am on the southwest coast .. woke up to the “news” that the Bush family was vacationing a few miles from my home .. I have been told I live in the most boring part of Florida … works for me.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on December 27, 2010 at 4:49pmWith all the viruses and stuff going around, I don’t take communal snail mucus at church anymore.
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