Good morning, and happy Wednesday. Thanks for deciding to destroy 10 minutes' worth of morning productivity with us.
A Tampa nurse was arrested and charged with using a dead person's information to illegally obtain the prescription medication Metolazone, a diuretic. Talk about pissing away your future…
Adventure Island announced a new attraction, Vanish Point, in which the floor of a capsule opens to drop riders into a 400-plus-foot tube waterslide. Park executives say it's perfect for thrill-seekers who aren't sure whether they're more frightened of drowning or dying in an elevator.
Hillsborough County deputies burned more than 800 pounds of marijuana seized from grow houses. A pharmaceutical executive was unable to comment, as he was choking on a $2,000 cigar he'd lighted using some old lady's receipt for a prescription for oxycodone.
The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority invited the public to vote on one of two evocatively named, nearly identical designs for the elevated Selmon Extension toll road that will connect Dale Mabry and the Crosstown directly to the Gandy Bridge. Sorry, local businesses who will almost certainly be hurt by the project — "neither" is not an available ballot option. But hey, you get to be grist for the mill of progress! That's… something.
And finally, Winter the dolphin celebrated her 12th birthday with a party at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. I was gonna say something cynical and withering about marketing here, but the marine mammal with the prosthetic tail inspires countless differently abled kids and I'm not a monster, so we'll just wish her a happy belated and thank her for that. Cheers!
This article appears in Oct 5-12, 2017.