A warm and probably briefly stormy Monday to you.
FRIDAY, JULY 6:
The Clearwater Ferry added a much-requested 40-minute run from Dunedin to Clearwater Beach on Friday, further exacerbating the pinch felt by national chains of beachside stores selling swimsuits for $60 to tourists who left theirs on their dressers in Michigan. (You don't have to feel bad about that.)
A widow is suing Tampa-based organ recovery agency LifeLink, saying it harvested her late husband's heart without permission after he died suddenly and mysteriously, before an autopsy could be performed. So her man's heart was stolen by another? These modern country songs…
Folks who live on Spring Lake down on Anna Maria Island are calling bullshit on Manatee County leaders who say the lake's water quality has returned to normal after a 2015 sewage spill by saying, basically, "check out how gross this lake is." Time to take a swim, Manatee County leaders.
SATURDAY, JULY 7:
Some alleged asshole allegedly crashed his car into a barrier along the Courtney Campbell Causeway on purpose — causing a five-car pileup that injured two people and killed a pet dog — because he was distraught over a breakup. Gee, I wonder what it was about him that made his partner think a relationship was untenable.
SUNDAY, JULY 8:
A family vacationing in Sarasota found a racist note in their hotel room. This is unsettling on too many levels to even attempt to deal with through humor. On behalf of the entire non-racist contingent of the Tampa Bay region, I'm very sorry, vacationing family.
And finally, the Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation website was down on Sunday for maintenance. We'll just leave this here, and wish you a very satisfying rest of your Monday:
This article appears in Jul 5-12, 2018.