The state that keeps giving. 42 stories.
A Florida man led Pearland police on a chase while throwing cash out the window as he went. It is a strategy that works on no one except the people picking it up.
A 22-year-old was applying stick deodorant while taking a curve on the Polk Parkway and finished the maneuver parked on top of a concrete barrier wall. Troopers were careful to specify that the deodorant was a stick, not a spray.
Less than a month out of jail for killing and eating a swan at Lake Eola, he allegedly put an Arby's window through, then the Dunkin' sign next door, then a bank ATM. Police say the tour continued down East Colonial Drive, where he threw a pipe at passing cars.
An 83-year-old was arrested for helping himself to saw palmetto berries he had no permit to pick. In Florida the shrub is protected enough that berry-picking is a felony.
A deputy pulled over a red riding lawn mower on a public road because it was not, in any legal sense, a vehicle. The bag between the driver's feet turned out to hold meth, pills, and weed.
Officers spotted a suspiciously large lump in the middle of a mattress and lifted it to find their wanted man underneath. He immediately started yelling for his mother, who came running and made the situation considerably worse.
A deputy clocked him at 117 in a 70 on I-95, and he explained he was racing to the bathroom at Buc-ee's — 60 miles away. The sheriff allowed that the bathrooms are exceptionally clean, but suggested picking one closer than an hour out.
A deputy clocked him at 117 in a 70 on I-95, and he explained he was racing to the bathroom at Buc-ee's — 60 miles away. The sheriff allowed that the bathrooms are exceptionally clean, but suggested picking one closer than an hour out.
Harvesting saw palmetto berries without a state permit is a third-degree felony in Florida, punishable by up to five years. A Florida man is now finding that out over a load of berries.
A Florida man climbed a barbed-wire fence, went up the maintenance stairs, let himself in an unlocked door of a parked JetBlue jet, and fell asleep in the restroom. The crew found him there the next morning when they went to move the plane.
A Florida man flushed his cocaine down the toilet as officers arrived, which he clearly believed would settle the matter. Police arrested him anyway.
Deputies found their boat-burglary suspect in a full Superman costume, cape included, and he promptly confessed to taking three power tools. The Man of Steel posted $5,500 bond.