I'm sick. Here you go.
FRIDAY, DEC. 1:
Two Tarpon Springs schools were evacuated after a bomb threat was received and a suspicious backpack was found. How do you even know which backpack is the suspicious backpack at a school? In any case, it was a false alarm.
An employee at a Land O' Lakes convenience store was fired after being caught on surveillance cameras stealing $5,000 in lottery tickets. It was not her lucky day.
SATURDAY, DEC. 2:
A skydiving Santa was injured in Gulfport when he clipped a tree while parachuting into town for an event. Nothing traumatic about the kids having to see Santa taken away in an ambulance, no siree.
SUNDAY, DEC. 3:
And finally, Orange County cops blocked off the entrance to a townhouse complex after getting calls about a domestic incident involving a child and a gun being broadcast via Facebook Live. Yep. This is the world now.
This article appears in Nov 30 – Dec 7, 2017.