Let's just spend one more quick moment with yesterday before we jettison it forever, Leo DiCaprio-in-Titanic-style.
There have been a lot of changes at Busch Gardens since your Senior Skip Day, but one thing is changing back, at least temporarily — free beer is back! Starting today and running through August 5, guests to the park who are over 21 can get two 7-oz. samples at the Garden Gate Cafe, which old-schoolers know as the Hospitality House. The beer options will rotate every two weeks, running from the awesome (local craft beer) to the "eh, it's free and it's really hot out" (Bud Light). So start planning your way to game the system and get more than two beers in 3, 2, 1…
It has been zero days since a student was arrested with a gun on a Hillsborough County campus. This time it was a 16-year-old, and the gun was in the trunk of his car. How did authorities know the gun was in the car? We're going with "the kid just had to show it off to somebody who was unnerved enough to do the right thing." Nice job, Assumed Unnerved Third Party. Also, I'm really tired of writing about this.
Two Polk County teachers have been placed on administrative leave after being accused of making a seven-year-old clean the floor with a toothbrush as punishment for talking in class. Protip: If it sounds like something you think somebody whose first name is "Wicked" might do to a child in a fairy tale, don't do that shit.
And finally, if you left your nearly 30-year-old Bible gifted from your kids on an Auburndale on-ramp in Polk County, it's in the county Sheriff's lost and found. I feel like this is an appropriate soundtrack:
This article appears in Apr 26 – May 3, 2018.