A man in Alachua who objected to the way his neighbors were parked decided the best way to get their attention was by shooting fire from his flamethrower. Meanwhile, an Orange County elementary school principal driving a BMW was charged with trying to run over three neighbors while they were out walking their dogs. Neighborhood disputes created a lot of headlines this year. The difficulty was increased because, in true Florida Man fashion, he was wearing socks and slides. Not only did he catch the gator, but he also rolled it down a hill and released it back into the wild-so it’s still out there, and now has a healthy fear of garbage cans. Iguanas also got in on some of the Florida reptile fun. A South Florida trapper reported that he was getting 10 calls a month about iguanas popping up in toilets in Hollywood. If you want to give someone an iguana for Christmas, I know where you can get several somewhat damp ones for free.
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I say that because that same month, the Fort Walton Beach police pulled a driver over for a DUI and found the car contained what the driver claimed was an “ emotional support snake.” Just looking at the pictures of that python curled around the police officer’s arm made me feel like I was the one needing some emotional support.Īnother unexpected reptile story featured a Mount Dora man who became a surprise Internet sensation after a video of him capturing an alligator near his house by the strategic positioning of a trash bin went viral. I read that and thought to myself: Lady, you have no idea. OK, Florida!” and “Florida, you have outdone yourself.” That prompted the driver, who was oh so safely recording the whole thing, to shout things like, “OK, so this is a little much. The one that slithered out from under the hood crawled onto the windshield while the car was in motion. So far this year, people in Florida have found ginormous snakes inside the shower stall of a sailboat off Marco Island, in the cushions of a recently purchased couch in Clearwater, on the counter of a bathroom in Orlando, inside a clothes dryer in Groveland, inside a new stove in Miami and emerging from the hood of a car in Palm Coast. Photography courtesy of the Clearwater Police Department. Officers from Clearwater Police Department helped remove a snake from a local’s new couch. Those are not unexpected. When I refer to “unexpected reptiles,” I mean snakes that turn up in places so unusual that Samuel L. We in Florida have grown accustomed to stories of the professional python hunters-male and female-pulling big snakes out of the Everglades.
Despite the pandemic, Florida has consistently produced massive amounts of weird news.įor instance, 2021 was clearly the Year of the Unexpected Reptile.
I’m talking about Netflix’s decision to film its new “ Florida Man” series someplace other than Florida-namely, North Carolina. I mean, how weird is that? The show will follow an ex-cop who returns to the Sunshine State in search of a mobster’s runaway girlfriend but “what should be a quick gig becomes a spiraling journey into buried family secrets,” the description reads. You know, in Florida, we call that “Tuesday.” Listen, Netflix, you are missing out on some really rich source material here. As 2021 draws to a close, it’s time for us Floridians to look back at how we dealt with the year’s biggest challenge. No, I am not talking about the omicron variant, mask debates or the spurious claims of election fraud.
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