Wasn't yesterday great, what with the swimming through the humid air to the mailbox, then breaking a nice, funky sweat after getting back into the AC? Looks like the summer pattern is here; you know what they say about the more things change…
Four people were arrested and charged with stealing $400,000 worth of apartment rental payments at more than a dozen complexes around the bay — by using a wire hanger with what amounts to a wad of gum on the end to pull the envelopes out of drop boxes. Hanger: free. Gum: 89 cents. Turning something you saw on a Saturday-morning cartoon in the '70s into a lucrative crime spree it took a joint task-force operation to bring down: Priceless.
A Tampa Trib piece straight-facedly reported that an air pollution precaution warning was issued for Hillsborough County on Earth Day. It was tough to know exactly what John Lennon song all the hippies in the park was singing through those white masks…
St. Pete's Pier Selection Committee came out in favor of the Pier Park design, rather than the Destination Pier design that was overwhelmingly popular with poll respondents in the community at large. The recommendation now moves on to the City Council, who will hopefully be unable to agree on any of the top three committee choices and start the whole process over again, because I need to eat.
And finally, deals monolith Groupon reportedly sold a bunch of hole-riddled counterfeit Durex condems to its loyal bargain-dependent customers. In order to create more loyal bargain-dependent customers, duh.
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2015.