Anybody getting the anticipatory "family shakes" yet?
Hillsborough deputies responding to a domestic disturbance call instead found a loud TV and a grow house with $36K worth of pot in it. Solid criming, there. You know that feeling you get when you're high where you think everyone knows you're high? Everyone knew these two were high.
An accident that shut down southbound U.S. 19 in Tarpon Springs early yesterday morning was caused by someone who was driving a stolen car, and fled the scene despite likely being injured. In all seriousness, we desperately need to either radically reform our nation's driver's education programs, enact insanely tough penalties for car theft/irresponsible driving, or just totally Death Race it and put up signs at every on-ramp saying "Here there be monsters. But yolo, right?"
And finally, a story broke yesterday about a Florida Man who walked into a Treasure Island convenience store's cooler Saturday night and urinated all over about 100 bucks' worth of beer. When pulled over (!) after the incident, the man claimed he pissed in the walk-in because he couldn't find the bathroom, but I think we can all agree this was probably one of those closet/pile of laundry/refrigerator crisper drawer kind of deals.
This article appears in Nov 17-24, 2016.