As Michelle, Diz and I walked on our beach last evening,
with another spectacular sunset ringing down, I couldn’t resist. As I used to do while living in Greece, and
as I have done here oft as well, when the urge itches, I scratch. Pealing off my flip-flops and shirt I jumped in.
No swimming trunks? Skrew
ceremony! Bull shark supper time? Life is short! Water wet.
Water warm. Water wonderful.
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Great News—The season’s baby turtle crop was not wiped out as earlier
reported. Although furious waves did
indeed destroy the nests that had already been dug and covered over, many more
mother turtles came ashore in the following weeks until we now have on this
island the largest number of nests in 30 years, or so the experts report. If the ‘canes leave us alone, it will be a fantastic
year for the little flippers.
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Bad News--Some useless d-bag was fleeing an early morning burglary in
Cooper City over on the wrong side of the state. Two cyclists ahead? Both bikers in the way? No problem.
In his stolen car the thief simply ran over the men. Two valuable people trying to stay in shape
mangled and murdered by someone probably not worth his weight in fertilizer--and
so it goes.
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Good Gun Control—When 27-year-old Christian Robinson stormed into a home
in Sarasota one morning waving a pistol and threatening the occupants, a
resident of the place whipped out his own cop-in-a-pocket and shot the intruder
dead. Over the last ten years Robinson
had been a one-man wrecking crew by racking up 30 offenses. One might imagine that at some point the
criminals will get the message that the rest of us are armed to the teeth and
more than happy to correct nature’s mistakes, if necessary, one thug at a time.
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Lousy Ways to Go #379—A PO’ed lady up in Sarasota decided that since the
county had not mowed the median outside her home since June, she would tackle
the sightly two-foot grass herself. Seconds
after a county worker saw the woman and told her that a crew would be out the
following day to tackle the chore, a car hit and killed the community-minded
lady.
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Heads She Wins—Some lost hikers up in the Ocala National Forest decided
to float down a small river in hopes of finding their way home rather than hack
through the surrounding jungle. Even on
tiny Florida streams one can find large alligators and this day one such found
the floaters. Before one woman knew what
had happened she found her head in the jaws of the scaly brute. Much like the gator attack reported on in the
last blog, however, this person too made her escape from the jaws of forever. Maybe gators don’t like round hard objects
like shot puts, bowling balls and human heads.
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