Getting back to the bizarre reputation Florida holds in the US, I must share that it is not limited to the US. Back in the day Adam Carolla used to have a game on his radio show Loveline which I LOVED. The game was called Germany or Florida, the basis of which was that all the most bizarre and twisted tales in the news wither emerged from Germany or Florida. Callers would call the show with whatever recent strange event and the hosts, Adam + Dr. Drew, would have to figure out if the story came from Germany or Florida.
Examples:
A 35 year old man was arrested today, after a waitress squealed on him for leaving a small pile of marijuana as a tip.
An alleged child porn offender turned himself in to the police after mistaking an e-mail he received from a computer worm for an official warning that he was under investigation, authorities said on Tuesday.
“It just goes to show that computer worms aren’t always destructive,” said a spokesman for the police. “Here it helped us to uncover a crime which would otherwise probably have gone undetected.”
The 20-year-old was duped by a version of the “Sober” worm, a prolific Internet virus that can invade computers and then send out messages from a host of fabricated addresses.
The trap was set when the man got an e-mail saying “an investigation is underway” and that listed the sender as a Federal Criminal Police Office.
Police charged him after finding pornographic images of children on his home computer.
An inventor has angered animal rights activists with his answer to fighting the soaring cost of fuel – dead cats.
The inventor, 55, told a newspaper that his organic diesel fuel – a home-made blend of garbage, run-over cats, and other ingredients – is a proven alternative to normal consumer diesel.
“I drive my normal diesel-powered car with this mixture,” he said. “I have gone 106,000 miles without a problem.”
The website of the inventor’s firm says his patented machine can produce what he calls the “bio-diesel” fuel at about $1.20 a gallon, which is about one-half the price at gas stations now.
The inventor said around 20 dead cats added into the mix could help produce enough fuel to fill up an 11 gallon tank.
The president of the local animal protection society has said using dead cats for fuel is illegal.
Prosecutors are apparently in a bind: How do they charge a blind man who has been accused of having sex with his guide dog? There is no law that specifically prohibiting sexual contact between humans and animals.
So the man, originally was charged with felony animal cruelty, but court records show that charge was dropped last Friday and replaced with a misdemeanor - disorderly conduct.
He now is charged with a “breach of the peace, by engaging in sexual activity with a guide dog,” according to a court document.
One of two prosecutors on the case, did not return a call Thursday. The other Attorney said she could not answer specific questions, including explaining why the charge was lowered to a misdemeanor.
The blind man reached by telephone, declined to be interviewed. His attorney said he has filed a not-guilty plea on his client’s behalf but declined to discuss details of the case.
“However lurid the allegations may be, we should resist a rush to judgment,” he said.
Here’s what happened, according to the police reports:
The man, who lives in a local apartment complex, last month asked a female acquaintance to join him in a sex act with the dog, a male dog named “Lucky.”
She demurred, but later told a friend about it. That person called a social worker, who called police.
Investigators spoke to him on June 16, who admitted performing certain sex acts with the dog, even going into detail with them, but denied doing others. He was arrested and booked June 22, charged with animal cruelty.
An animal-control officer took the dog to a veterinarian The Vet could not determine whether the dog had been sexually abused.
A judge withheld adjudication and ordered five years of probation and a psychological evaluation. He also prohibited the 27-year-old man from “owning pets of any kind while on probation and from having unsupervised contact with other people’s pets.”
So is it Germany or Florida?
