Florida Man Insanity: The Week's Best Stories

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So that video was captured by someone else in the Taco Bell. One of the women fell to the ground after being shot. Another was grazed. And the third woman ran outside. And the employee allegedly followed her and fired another shot. Thankfully, it didn't hit her. The victims drove themselves to the hospital. Two of them were treated for minor injuries and then released. And Patterson was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. Boy, that escalated quickly. If I was the person who ran that particular Taco Bell, I would tell Patterson, appreciate you looking out for the establishment. Right. Taking his job a little too seriously. Appreciate you making sure people aren't stealing soda from the soda fountain, but that's a bit much. Yeah, fine. hiring at that was probably a worse crime than stealing some soda. It's a little much. Now, McDonald's, this is new this morning. They're phasing out those self-serve soda fountains in their restaurants all across the country. They're saying it aims to reduce labor and maintenance costs. And they're also saying their customers, you know, there's a lot of takeout and delivery going on now. So it's maybe not needed as much as when people go inside. I wonder how much of it, though, is McDonald's is sick of this kind of stuff too? Right, yeah, people just taking a free refill. Yeah, who hasn't tried that before? But let's get one more quick story here. So officers with Tampa Police made an unusual discovery during a DUI investigation back in March. They found a happy meal, and it was a little happier than most. This is a really happy meal. They found inside the meal a beer can that was tucked inside. My guy, a happy meal. This was all on video from the officer. They were doing field sobriety exercises on a DUI suspect. And the person said, oh, yeah, I can pass this thing. It didn't go well. So she was tasked with counting her steps, you know, walking a straight line. Video showed her unable to get past the number nine. So it was a rough night. But the thing that was interesting was that... They figured out that she had been drinking because she was trying to hide the beer. In a place that maybe you wouldn't have thought to look. Yeah. But they did. They did. They knew better. And she got charged with DUI. And they've reminded drivers that, you know what, you don't have to do this sort of thing. You don't have to be embarrassed and caught on video. There are plenty of services on partying days like Cinco de Mayo and others where you don't have to drive. And that was their message from this story. All right, Chris Trankman with today's top stories. Chris, thanks so much. Thank you. Florida man was just arrested for stealing from a public's in Lakeland 66 times. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd had this to say. There are those that steal from businesses.

And they think, woo-hoo, I got away with it. Well, I'll do it again. Woo-hoo, I got away with it. That's what Michael McLund fault, he's 38 from Lakeland. He committed 66 separate thefts from Publix. And he got away with some of them. But they've got a great security system. So when they called on to them... They worked with us, and we charged him with scheming to defraud and 66 different counts of theft. Yes, so this dude was using the hand scanner at the self-checkout to scan cheap items and then he wasn't paying for the more expensive ones. Yep. And once they caught on to him and had him on video, they shared the surveillance pictures on the sheriff's office Facebook and got several anonymous tips from people who identified him. I love that part of the story because you had people who obviously recognized him and had absolutely no problem. Narcan him out. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Well, if he's that type of guy, yeah. He's probably a jerk in general. Right. We've seen, you know, a lot of these stories. This is the big issue, it seems like, with self-checkout aside from... people who have a shopping cart full of items, like packed to the very top, who go and use the self-checkout lanes backing up the entire line and causing a huge delay for everybody else in the story. Those kinds of people. Yeah, guilty, but not anymore. I've changed my ways, and now they have big signs that say like 10 items or less and all of it. So I haven't done that in a long time. They had to put those signs there. because of people like Dana. But this is the other issue where you get people, they're scanning like a packet. We recently did a story. It's like a packet of seasoning. Yeah, they get like a packet, like one of those little seasoning packets. And they just kind of strategically keep that in their hand and keep scanning it as they're putting steak and yeah, all kinds of expensive stuff there. A St. Pete man was arrested Monday morning after he was caught flying a drone. Well, under the influence of alcohol, 34-year-old Richard Carpenter was caught on video operating a small drone at a very low altitude just after midnight. And the drone was flying fast and came really close to a vehicle's driver's side window, which was open. And the person inside the car was catching video of this because it was freaking him out. Totally could have caused property damage or even hurt someone. And when police caught up to the guy, he said he was flying the drone because... he believed he was being followed and he wanted to see who was following him.

His speech was slurred, eyes glassy, he reeked of alcohol, and he also admitted to police that he had been drinking before flying the drone. He was charged with operating an aircraft while intoxicated in a careless or reckless manner. I didn't know drinking and droning was against the law. I had no idea. I mean, it makes sense. If those things can hurt someone, you've got to be responsible, but I just had no idea that drinking and operating a drone was against the law. I didn't either. Now, clearly. Like what this guy was doing, super irresponsible because you've got a driver, you know, who was freaking out. And wouldn't you normally, if you were someone who thought, someone else was following you normally i would think it's the person who sees a drone and they think that that drone is following them yeah this guy was using the drone to basically follow someone else right but yeah that was news to me so uh the more you know you learn something new every day uh can't what would you call it drinking and droning yeah a married couple facing felony charges after reportedly admitted to burning a drone in their fire pit after the thing landed in their yard by accident. So 40-year-old Christopher Paula flying a fancy drone worth $1,200, a DJI Mini 3 pro drone. And he lost communication while it was in flight. I've wondered about this. You know, if you see these people out flying their drones, what happens when, like, the remote's battery dies or you lose your internet connection or something? What happens to the drone, right? So when drones first became a thing, my ex-husband went through like three or four drones just messing around with them. They would end up in the pond. He would lose them in the woods. Yeah. Yeah, it was a disaster. Well, apparently the drone was programmed to automatically return to its home point when the connection's lost. That's not what happened. It ended up in the back of Paula's residence, and it touched down, or it flew back, instead of going back to his residence, it touched down into the backyard of 43-year-old Sandra Marcellus. And she lives there with her husband, Al-Qaeda Devon Daniels. Now, they used a GPS tracking feature to discover that the drone was on their property. So they knock on the door and they essentially get an answer saying, you don't have a drone anymore. Yeah, you don't have an effing drone. That's right, sir. I love that out. Apparently, he found the drone and he put it in the fire pit and burned it because they were sick and tired of drones flying over their neighborhood and had an issue with this. Now, the best part is that they've had a previous problem. Marcellus told police that she was outside undressed one day when a drone flew over her property.

Yeah, that's really scary. Yeah. What a nutcase. Right. And those searches. So we just saw what happened at the White House correspondence dinner. You got these threats. It's a heightened threat environment. We've said it time and time again. It's just a dangerous time. Right. It absolutely is. It's expensive time, too. You know, you took the words right out of my mouth. A motorcyclist was arrested Sunday night after leading police on a high-speed chase through Hernandez and Pascoe counties, and he sped through those two counties at 120 miles an hour and ran several red lights. all while wearing a massive bunny helmet. Of course. When a Florida Highway Patrol officer caught up to him in Spring Hill, he finally slowed down, put his hands up, and was taken into custody, and then he was brought back to Pascoe County to be booked. And if you want to see the video of this guy, the picture of the bunny helmet, it's on our Facebook page at Ryan Gorman Show. I mean, it's a huge helmet. He looks like, it looks like an Easter bunny head on him. Right, right. And he wasn't going 120. like on the Suncoast. He was doing that on 19. Yeah. It was just an insane scene, super dangerous, and all while wearing a bunny helmet. Yeah. And, you know, sometimes, I'm sure you've been in this situation where you've got these motorcyclists who just zip past you. You can't believe how fast they're going. You don't even see them. They just come out of nowhere and they're gone. And I can only imagine some people seeing that and then wondering, was that guy wearing a... Bunny helmet. Yeah, exactly. Did I see that right? Yeah. Did I not get that right? You have to one more quick story. Speaking of the bad. Oh, God, this is just weird. This happened in Miami-Dade, a man's attempt to cover up a self-inflicted gunshot wound landing him behind bars. So Miami-Dade's sheriff's deputies say 46-year-old Joel Morales size. He called police claiming a masked intruder, shot him in the foot while he was washing dishes in his trailer. However, investigators say surveillance footage told a whole different story. Talk about a completely different story. The video shows this guy accidentally shooting himself in the foot. Then he tossed a bag containing the gun into his neighbor's trailer. Police later found that that weapon had been reported stolen and, whoa, it gets better because Morales size is a convicted felon. So now his laundry list of charges include armed burglary, making a false report, and he is being held without bond. I mean, he initially said, look, I was just doing my dishes and this masked person came in and shot me in the foot with my own stolen gun. Right. And then things quickly devolved from there for... him real florida man story there out of miami all right natalie rodriguez with today's top stories natalie thanks so much you got it listen live to the ryan gorman show on i heart radio every weekday morning on w iod and miami w f la in tampa presented by vera and faira accident attorneys tampa