Hello, rough beast known as Friday. Your hour hath come round again at last. Slouch this way, please.
Residents of a New Port Richey subdivision protested the planned conversion of a nearby Boys And Girls Club facility to a homeless shelter, saying the facility is too close to an elementary school but meaning it's too close to them, or anything.
The principal of a Polk County middle school and anybody else with any sense of situational awareness are pissed off about a form announcing a program that lets students pay $100 to jump to the front of the school lunch line that somehow accidentally made its way into the school's student orientation packet and onto its website. The school's Parent Teacher Student Association explained that the program was discussed and shot down and apologized for the error, but didn't explain or apologize for even considering such a baldly wrongheaded idea in the first place.
An Oldsmar financial planner arrested around midnight Wednesday night for DUI and marijuana possession allegedly offered the arresting officer a $10K bribe to let him go. You can get a limo driver to overlook pretty much anything short of setting up a mobile meth lab in the back of his ride for like 120 bucks. Which is the better financial plan?
And finally, a story broke yesterday about a man who was arrested in St. Pete Beach after he crashed his scooter, then set it on fire because he was mad at it for crashing. He was also on probation, intoxicated and in possession of cocaine… but his scooter.
This article appears in Aug 10-17, 2017.