TradeTheBeal! Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Welp, so much for that pardon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Arborists warn of 'zombie trees' in Central Florida Something scary may very well be lurking in your backyard–zombie trees! They’re a thing. And they are right here in Central Florida. “All over the place. All over the place. You just don’t know what tree is a zombie tree, technically, until you look at them,” said Ben Wasielewski, a certified arborist. What is a zombie tree? “Zombie trees in general are trees that at one time or another have gotten damaged in a storm,” Wasielewski said. Wasielewski says the big danger with zombie trees is they look healthy to the untrained eye, but when a homeowner least expects it, they can fail. “When they just want to give up, they give up. We’ve had a few calls already this year on days like today, sunny, and it just falls and it will crush a house, crush a car,” Wasielewski said. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Sarasota man found naked with arm gone after gator attack, witnesses say A man was hospitalized after he was attacked by a gator in Manatee County, authorities said. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officials, they received a report of the man – identified as 43-year-old Eric Merda – who had been bitten near Lake Manatee Fish Camp in Myakka City. FWC said Merda is recovering in the hospital after what was left of his right arm was amputated near the shoulder. A group of people found him Wednesday evening behind a fence, naked, along County Road 675 at the Manatee Fish Camp in Myakka City. Authorities are still trying to confirm this, but a man FOX 13 spoke with, who found Merda, said he told them a gator ripped off his arm days ago, as it had taken him quite some time to find his way out of the woods. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amvbeber Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 (edited) interesting information Edited July 22, 2022 by Amvbeber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Fake Navy SEAL ordered to stop being a fake Navy SEAL lenty of people want to be Navy SEALs. Very few can become one, though. And, in lieu of actually undergoing the rigorous training, a few just cut directly to telling people they’re Navy SEALs. Like Miami resident Joseph Fucheck. As part of a guilty plea for a 2020 aggravated assault, Fucheck, 60, was also ordered to stop posing as a decorated Navy SEAL and police SWAT team member. In June, 2020 Dwayne Wynn was chatting with a neighbor in his North Miami-Dade neighborhood when he saw Fucheck place a small advertising card in his mailbox and drive away. When Wynn went to remove the card, Fucheck returned and began a “profanity laced rant” accusing Wynn of not living at his house and stealing the card. During the incident, which was caught on film, Fucheck began waving around a pistol and referred to Wynn using racial slurs and a derogatory term for gay people. Fucheck, who was never in any branch of the military, let alone the Navy SEALs, also made sure to tout his non-existent Naval service. “Damn right, I carry a gun because I’m a 35-year former Navy SEAL!” he yelled. “Go look at my Purple Heart!” Fucheck was charged with aggravated assault with prejudice, the so-called “hate-crime” enhancement for which he faced up to 15 years in prison. And there was the whole not actually being a Navy SEAL thing. When detectives went to Fucheck’s apartment, they found Navy certificates, dress uniforms and a photo of Fucheck dressed up in an admiral’s uniform. Fucheck was also apparently quite vocal about flaunting his supposed Navy SEAL bonafides. On his Jeep, Fucheck had attached a special license plate for Purple Heart recipients, for which he had submitted faulty paperwork to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. In 2013, his ex-wife’s husband said that Fucheck showed up at his gym in military fatigues claiming to have been a Navy SEAL and “bragging about how many people he killed in the war he fought.” Fucheck’s estranged daughter also reported that his house contained a shrine to his non-existent service, and that he would wear his Navy uniform to get free drinks at restaurants. That kind of behavior hadn’t gone unnoticed. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 RE:Above........it's funny how "old enough to know better" isn't a thing anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 The deadliest road in America Drive along this part of US-19, a stretch of highway in Pasco County that parallels Florida’s Gulf Coast, and you’d be forgiven for not noticing the danger. It looks like a lot of American roads, especially in the South: flat, straight, and wide. Three lanes move in each direction, and extra turn lanes on the right and left bring the total number of lanes to eight or nine at most intersections. The road runs through several cities and places — Hudson, Port Richey, New Port Richey, and Holiday — but because of all the sprawl, you never really feel like you’ve left town. Along the road is a panoply of American consumerism: Walmart, Publix, tattoo parlors, chain hotels, motels, 7-Elevens, multiple Dunkin’s, medical equipment stores, condemned buildings, strip clubs, auto body repair shops, oil change places, custom paint job businesses, chain restaurants, deserted property waiting to be redeveloped, and a mini-golf course where you can feed baby alligators, fenced in near the sidewalk. Walk along this road, and you might begin to notice the danger. The speed limit is 45 to 55 miles per hour, but the cars are often going much faster. The crosswalks are so few and far between that a simple act — crossing the street to get to a business a few hundred feet away — might mean walking over half a mile to reach the nearest crosswalk. Even with sidewalks set back from the road, it’s clear that US-19 wasn’t built for pedestrians. Robert Schneider, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, has never driven on this part of US-19. But amid a rise in pedestrian deaths across the country, Schneider and three of his colleagues — Rebecca Sanders, Frank Proulx, and Hamideh Moayyed — decided to look at the data on pedestrian deaths to try to find out where they were happening most frequently. Using information from the government’s database of fatal car crashes, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, Schneider and his colleagues looked at all the pedestrian deaths recorded between 2001 and 2016. The idea was to identify hot spots: 1,000-meter segments of roadway where six or more pedestrians were killed over two eight-year periods. “We thought: What can we find out about the places where these fatalities happened?” Schneider says. There would likely be similarities, he assumed, which could point to potential safety improvements. “One thing we wanted to shed light on is that they truly aren’t random.” They were expecting to find some overlap. But one road came up so many times that the results, Schneider says, were “eye-popping.” Out of the 60 hot spots they identified as having a high number of deaths, seven of them were on US-19 in Pasco County alone — more than any other road in the United States. “When you add the numbers up, that’s 137 pedestrian fatalities over the entire Pasco County. That’s an incredibly high number,” Schneider says. “If an airplane crashed there and 137 people died, people would know about it,” he says. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Florida man accused of stealing vehicle, driving to Space Force base to 'warn the government' The Brevard County Sheriff's Office says a man was arrested Friday. Corey Johnson, 29, from Ocala told deputies he'd taken a Ford F150 without the owner's permission three days before driving to Patrick Space Force Base. According to deputies, Johnson said he didn't know who owned the vehicle. Upon investigation, detectives discovered the vehicle was stolen from Riviera Beach. Brevard County deputies say when Johnson tried to get on the base, he claimed to be warning the government about a fight happening between Chinese dragons and U.S. aliens. Johnson also told deputies he was sent by the president of the U.S. to give the warning and that in his mind, he heard the president tell him to steal the vehicle. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Well, hey. If you believe that the President told you to commit a crime, then that should be enough. Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Florida man arrested on DUI charge after driving scooter into Walmart shelves, police say A 39-year-old man was arrested on allegations of driving a motorized scooter while drunk and crashing into shelves Sunday at a Walmart in Melbourne, police said. According to Melbourne police, the man was driving a Walmart scooter and had his open backpack sitting in the scooter basket, where an opened bottle of Smirnoff vodka could be seen. Police said the man was seen swaying in the scooter and running into shelves and he nearly stuck other customers. Police said the man had “glassy eyes” and smelled like alcohol. The scooter driver was unresponsive when he was asked to show his ID and had to be taken to a patrol vehicle on a stretcher, police said. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 https://nbc-2.com/news/weird/2022/07/25/florida-man-arrested-while-trying-to-warn-space-force-about-battle-between-aliens-and-dragons/ BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – An Ocala man has been arrested after stealing a car in an attempt to access Patrick Space Force Base. According to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, Corey Johnson, 29, stole a truck in Riviera Beach before heading north to the base three days later. While trying to get into Patrick Space Force Base, Johnson claimed the President told him, through his mind, that he needed to steal the truck to warn government officials about U.S. aliens fighting Chinese dragons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 This week in Florida medicine... Sheriff: Gold bars, $1.9M in cash found in home of Florida doctor who 'preyed on addicts' Investigators say a doctor in central Florida preyed on addicts for years by writing hundreds of fraudulent prescriptions. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Dr. Neelam Uppal, 62, even sold illegitimate prescriptions for Promethazine Codeine Syrup and Oxycodone to undercover narcotics detectives, without examining them or speaking to them. Detectives paid $650 in cash for each codeine syrup prescription and $450 in cash for each Oxycodone prescription. Detectives believe she sold more than 550 of these prescriptions since January. This week, detectives served a search warrant at her home which also served as her place of business. While at the home, two people showed up to get fraudulent prescriptions. Click on the link for the full article ---------------------------- Pensacola dentist arrested fourth time in two months Pensacola dentist Dr. Charles Stamitoles was arrested again Friday for the fourth time in a little over two months. Stamitoles, 65, was arrested and booked into the Escambia County Jail Friday on a charge of battery. Channel 3 is working to obtain Stamitoles' arrest report for more details. The Florida Department of Health recently filed an emergency order, prohibiting Stamitoles "from practicing dentistry on female patients." Multiple alleged victims have come forward to Channel 3 to speak about Stamitoles and their alleged experiences with him. Multiple of which claimed they was touched inappropriately by the dentist. Stamitoles was released from Escambia County Jail on Friday on $25,000 bond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSilverMaC Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 “They was touched” - ABC 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Dagger found in man’s shoe at Florida courthouse, cops say. His explanation is odd An 8-inch dagger was found expertly hidden the sole of a man’s shoe as he tried entering a Florida courthouse, and his explanation was even more awkward, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office. “He told (deputies) he didn’t know the knife was in his shoe, and that the shoes weren’t even his,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release. “He was asked to remove his shoes to be X-rayed, and as they were sent through the machine, Deputy Trevor Gamble discovered the dagger concealed inside the sole of the right shoe.” Investigators didn’t offer details on why the man was wearing someone else’s shoes. A photo shows the metal knife was clearly large enough to making walking uncomfortable, due to lack of flexibility. The suspect faces a misdemeanor charge of “carrying a concealed weapon into the courthouse,” officials said. Investigators say the man is living under a risk protection order filed by the sheriff’s office. The order was requested in September 2021, “following an incident at his home in DeBary where he fired a shotgun at people who didn’t exist,” the sheriff’s office said. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 ^^^ That just doesn't jive with Jeff Foxworthy's joke: "If you think heaven looks like Daytona Beach..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Alligator with knife in head found swimming in Florida pond An alligator was recently euthanized after it was found swimming in a Volusia County pond with a knife stuck in its head. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said photos of the gator were posted to social media, prompting an investigation. Click on the link for the full article Unavailable for comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Man, that area just can't get out from under "IT", huh? (I lived near Daytona and partied more than my fair share...but jeez! Ain't no way I'm goin' back!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Pull fingerprints off the knife. See if the owner is missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Troopers: Drunk woman drove golf cart on Florida highway A woman with an open bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey in a bag was arrested for driving a golf cart on Florida's busiest interstate while drunk, according to an arrest report. The 58-year-old woman was arrested Saturday night on the shoulder of Interstate 95. She is now facing misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication in a public place and resisting an officer without violence. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, a semitruck driver spotted the woman driving in the golf cart in the center lane of Interstate 95 in Brevard County, which is the heart of Florida's Space Coast. The truck driver "advised she observed the driver of the golf cart passing out while driving," the report said. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 People Run for Cover, Wade Through Water as Mass Floods Wreak Havoc on Disney World The "Happiest Place on Earth" just made customers very unhappy … and very soaked! Over the past few weeks, massive thunderstorms have hit Orlando, Florida, leading to floods and frequent rainfall at Walt Disney World Resort. Videos have been making the rounds, including those showing people nearly swimming through the parks, waist-deep in rainwater while others run for cover, their oversized ponchos barely making a difference in keeping them dry. Based on the videos, it appears the infrastructure and storm drainage systems might not be equipped to handle such torrential rainfall, leaving many customers disgruntled and disappointed. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Hunters are swarming the Florida Everglades for the annual python challenge. The state says it's vital to save the ecosystem Deer, raccoons, possums and fox once flocked the area of the Everglades National Park in south Florida. Nowadays, you're lucky if you spot one mammal in the area, according to wildlife experts. Who's to blame for this decline in wildlife? The invasive species known as Burmese pythons. To help combat this problem for Florida's ecosystem, snake hunters are congregating in the hundreds for the Florida Python Challenge. The event, created by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, started in 2013. "I love snakes. I hate that we have to do this, but they're invasive and changing the entire ecosystem." professional python hunter Amy Siewe told CNN. According to the commission, these reptiles were detected as early as 1979 in Florida. "They were introduced to Florida through accidental and intentional release through the pet trade," a spokesperson with the commission told CNN on Friday. Since then, they've killed and continue to pose a major threat to wildlife. The event brings hundreds of professional snake hunters to the Everglades to hunt and kill the reptiles. As of Friday, more than 850 people had signed up, the commission said. Aside from the challenge, year-round removal efforts are still in play. Since 2000, more than 17,000 pythons have been removed and reported, according to the commission. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 (edited) Miami Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Bonkers Plan to Move Homeless to Island On Thursday night, it seemed there was no more exclusive place to be in Miami than the District 7 town hall Zoom chat room. As local officials, scientists, and advocates spoke during the one-hour conversation, Miamians were furiously typing their thoughts on what has quickly become the biggest topic of conversation in the area: the under-the-radar approval to pursue a pilot program for a homeless encampment in Virginia Key. “This will be a bigger mistake than the Metro Rail system,” one commenter posted in the chat to over 200 residents at 7:10 p.m. While the full effects of the niche insult can only be enjoyed by anyone who has suffered through Miami’s illogical two-line rail system, it speaks volumes about the public sentiment around the plan to erect up to 100 “tiny homes” on a historic barrier island with a stained racial history. The encampment plan has spurred outrage from every type of Miamian: environmentalists who are worried about destroying the island’s already endangered ecosystem, outdoor enthusiasts concerned about ruined recreational activities, and homeless advocates sounding the alarm about the lack of infrastructure in the area off Rickenbacker Causeway, which could leave relocated people without transportation, sewerage systems, and even access to food. Click on the link for the full article Edited August 8, 2022 by China Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 A man was hospitalized after an alligator bit him in the face at Florida's Lake Thonotosassa An alligator bit a man's face while he was swimming in Lake Thonotosassa in Florida, according to officials. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission received a call about the incident at around 3:45 p.m. Thursday, according to a statement shared with CNN. Lake Thonotosassa is in Hillsborough County, near Tampa. The Hillsborough County Fire Rescue transported the 34-year-old victim to the hospital, the fish and wildlife commission said, adding that it dispatched a contracted alligator trapper to the lake and is continuing to investigate the incident. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 Florida man dies after sand dune collapses Florida deputies believe the death of a 35-year-old man whose body was found near Hutchinson Island, was likely an accident. A beachgoer noticed a portion of the victim’s body in the sand south of House of Refuge and called for help. According to Martin County Sheriff’s deputies, the man appears to have died hours earlier from asphyxia as a result of being trapped under the sand. Detectives said no foul play was involved and the victim appears to have been resting underneath a sand dune while taking a video of a sunrise, but the sand dune collapsed trapping him underneath the sand. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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