December 19, 2025 • 8 mins
A Florida Man stole a baby alligator and then took off on the state's preferred mode of travel, mostly due to all the DUIs
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Aud here we go. It is that time on iHeartRadio
where we do have to chase down Florida man and
or Florida we'll end the follow all their exploits and
we do it every day in this it's called WTF
(00:21):
and that stands.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
For what.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Flory we go first to Let's see where do we go?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, let's go to this to a Florida man.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yes, yeah, he is now planning legal action. He feels
that he was arrested wrongfully over a license plate frame
on a rental car, not even his own car.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I guess the laws have changed. So, yes, that's what
I've heard.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The laws have changed with the frames around the license plate.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That don't they come with the dealership sometimes I think
so yeah, yeah, if you.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Now have them on your car, I think you can
get taste.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I think you get in another regions. It happens every time. Yeah,
that's right, and the kibbles and bits, Yeah yeah, yeah
Florida man. Well, he he did get an apology from
the Davy Police after he was wrongfully arrested due to
the license plate frame it was a rental car, but
his attorneys say he's still planning legal action. According to
this the license plate frame. Uh, turned this trip, you know,
(01:25):
which was supposed to be fun, into a trip to
the hospital and into jail for a one D Marquis Dawson.
According to this, he's going to have to relive this
over and over again for something so simple as half
of a letter being blocked on his license plate. His
attorney described how he was in a rental car, not
even his own, near the hard rock uh, and he
(01:45):
was pulled over by Davy police because of the license
plate frame. And the cop said, I'm arresting you because
the S on your license plate is obscured.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
The S in Sunshine Uh, not even you.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Know, like I mean actual letter or numbers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
At it was the S and Sunshine state on the
license plate, which is right up there at the top.
So because part of the S was being obscured. D.
Marquis was now being arrested. Apparently S it really is
an obscured S.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, I'm suing for you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You caused me so much distress.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You I'll never be able to trust what rental cars
or the police again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't think I'll be able to get in a
car at all.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Exactly, I can't drive like this in these conditions.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
No, I'll never be able to drive again.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm gonna have to take a you know what, I'm
gonna need a limousine.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Everywhere I go from now on.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Milk Baby paid for by the Davy Police Department.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
According to this, they say, as long as officers are
able to read your number and registration sticker, and even
if you have a frame, if it's partially covering you know,
the S and Sunshine State, you're all right according to this,
So you're fine as long as it's not you know,
cutting off any of the I'm telling you what they're
going after with the license plate frames. Right now, I
know exactly who and what they're going after. You know
(03:06):
those license plate frames that are kind of like tinted
and bubbled. You know, there's like a plastic overlay over
the top of them.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Oh I know, I don't notice them.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, what that does is that obscures your license plate
when you go blowing through a toll nice and the
camera can't pick you up.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Okay, I got an Amazon this. I hope they got that.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It also obscures when you blow through a red light
and the red light camera picks up your license plate.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's getting nothing but like a grayish blob on the camera,
so it's not.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Getting anything a little reflector. I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, I like that. You like it.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'm done with that cap col toll.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, I'm done paying two dollars every time, whatever it is.
I want my two dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I'm gonna save on my easy pass now.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They say that.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
They say that this man had high blood pressure and
he had a medical episode. Because of all this, it's
understandable that anybody wants I'm having a medical episode.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh yeah, I'm having a grabber my ankle.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Still in the hospital. Oh, there's a lot of stress
in my leg.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We go next to a Florida tow truck driver who
has now run a foul of the law because he
towed a car with a kid inside.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, and that kid fell out of the car. Oh
my god, that's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I ort to man charge with a felony after allegedly
towing a car with a four year old kid inside.
That kid fell out of the car and onto the road. Uh,
they're a fine though. Sergio Suarez, thirty four years old,
seen in a video driving away from a beastro in
Sunrise that's where the vehicle was parked, and the girl's
father was running after him, trying to get him to stop.
He's like, hey, I left my kid inside that car
(04:46):
while I was drinking, drinking and eating at bistro Creole.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah right, yeah, And then you know where's that part?
It was the story?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know the driver was supposed to check his surroundings,
check the car, make sure there was nobody in it.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
But now I believe the driver.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Has a a child abuse charge.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
All right, yeah, right, The dad chased the tow truck
as it was driving away, observing his daughter fall out
of the vehicle and onto the roadway.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The girl had a couple of.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Little scrapes, you know, to her right arm, but otherwise
she was fine. But man, you are you're supposed to
check the vehicles to make sure you know there's no
you know, kids inside there.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But why was dad not carted off to jail right away?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, he was eating at Beastro Creole.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What's really funny is people make more of an uproar
when there's a dog in the car of a child
sitting in a car.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The windows open a crack, she's got cheerios. Back there,
she's watching her YouTube. Oh look at that? Look at
is that blue? It's I don't know, is it, Miss Rachel?
You're watching Miss Rachel? Rachel.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All right, I'm not going to bother breaking the window
to free you. I'll see you later, little girl.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, you know what, I'm gonna change the channel.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Your dad's just having some drinks over at Beastro Creole
right there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'm sure he's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Unreal, unrel We go lastly to eight Florida. Well, apparently
there's a Florida man and he stole a baby gator
from a Florida business.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, not a gator, a baby gator.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Deputy say, this happened right before four am on Monday,
and it happened in Port Richie. The Pasco County Sheriff's
Department is now looking for a man who stole a
baby gator from a Port Richie business. This Florida man
used a device to catch the baby gator. He wrapped
it in a white cloth, and then he took off
on a blue bicycle. Oh, come on, what.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is he gonna do with a baby gator?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah? They may right, that's gonna get bigger.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That is gonna get bigger, and now he's gonna have
to get a sidecar for his bicycle for this thing.
If you're do you know how much a sidecar for
a bicycle for an alligator costs? I mean, I have
not run the crunch the numbers, but I imagine it's
got to be in the hundreds of dollars that this
man certainly doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Have the helmet and the goggles.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Listen, this is gonna this has to be tens of
dollars that this man definitely doesn't have.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What a load of croc it really is? Alligator? Yeah, yeah,
he rode off on a bike.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The guy's a white male, he's between twenty and thirty
years old.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He's got a beard and a mustache.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
At the time of the incident, he's wearing a black
hat and a blue white plaid long sleeved shirt, just
screaming criminal, black shorts and shoes, you know, just yeah, exactly,
he's a criminal, mostly real crib from the fashion police.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, you know, I'm just trying to do make a
little wallet.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What are you doing making shoes with this gator? A belt?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Not a baby gator?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Come on, as a baby you're not even make a
belt buckle. Lot of that thing. Terrible, don't you dare,
don't don't even think about it.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Gat kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's delicious when they do him right, when they do him,
had some they're good. Oh man, Well we will do
this again every morning at seven thirty, nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Remember to listen to the podcast. It's free.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There are so many episodes right now, hundreds on iHeartRadio.
Look for the Freak Show DOUBTF the podcast that is
The Freak Show DOUBTF the podcast on the free, new
and improved iHeartRadio app. And you know, unfortunately, this Florida business,
they were watching the video of this guy walk off
with their baby alligator, and all they could say was later, Gator, Later,
(08:17):
Gator
Aud here we go. It is that time on iHeartRadio
where we do have to chase down Florida man and
or Florida we'll end the follow all their exploits and
we do it every day in this it's called WTF
(00:21):
and that stands.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
For what.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Flory we go first to Let's see where do we go?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh, let's go to this to a Florida man.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yes, yeah, he is now planning legal action. He feels
that he was arrested wrongfully over a license plate frame
on a rental car, not even his own car.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I guess the laws have changed. So, yes, that's what
I've heard.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The laws have changed with the frames around the license plate.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
That don't they come with the dealership sometimes I think
so yeah, yeah, if you.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Now have them on your car, I think you can
get taste.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I think you get in another regions. It happens every time. Yeah,
that's right, and the kibbles and bits, Yeah yeah, yeah
Florida man. Well, he he did get an apology from
the Davy Police after he was wrongfully arrested due to
the license plate frame it was a rental car, but
his attorneys say he's still planning legal action. According to
this the license plate frame. Uh, turned this trip, you know,
(01:25):
which was supposed to be fun, into a trip to
the hospital and into jail for a one D Marquis Dawson.
According to this, he's going to have to relive this
over and over again for something so simple as half
of a letter being blocked on his license plate. His
attorney described how he was in a rental car, not
even his own, near the hard rock uh, and he
(01:45):
was pulled over by Davy police because of the license
plate frame. And the cop said, I'm arresting you because
the S on your license plate is obscured.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
The S in Sunshine Uh, not even you.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Know, like I mean actual letter or numbers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
At it was the S and Sunshine state on the
license plate, which is right up there at the top.
So because part of the S was being obscured. D.
Marquis was now being arrested. Apparently S it really is
an obscured S.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, I'm suing for you.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You caused me so much distress.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You I'll never be able to trust what rental cars
or the police again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't think I'll be able to get in a
car at all.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Exactly, I can't drive like this in these conditions.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
No, I'll never be able to drive again.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm gonna have to take a you know what, I'm
gonna need a limousine.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Everywhere I go from now on.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Milk Baby paid for by the Davy Police Department.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
According to this, they say, as long as officers are
able to read your number and registration sticker, and even
if you have a frame, if it's partially covering you know,
the S and Sunshine State, you're all right according to this,
So you're fine as long as it's not you know,
cutting off any of the I'm telling you what they're
going after with the license plate frames. Right now, I
know exactly who and what they're going after. You know
(03:06):
those license plate frames that are kind of like tinted
and bubbled. You know, there's like a plastic overlay over
the top of them.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Oh I know, I don't notice them.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, what that does is that obscures your license plate
when you go blowing through a toll nice and the
camera can't pick you up.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Okay, I got an Amazon this. I hope they got that.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
It also obscures when you blow through a red light
and the red light camera picks up your license plate.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's getting nothing but like a grayish blob on the camera,
so it's not.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Getting anything a little reflector. I like that.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, I like that. You like it.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'm done with that cap col toll.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, I'm done paying two dollars every time, whatever it is.
I want my two dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I'm gonna save on my easy pass now.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
They say that.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
They say that this man had high blood pressure and
he had a medical episode. Because of all this, it's
understandable that anybody wants I'm having a medical episode.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh yeah, I'm having a grabber my ankle.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Still in the hospital. Oh, there's a lot of stress
in my leg.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We go next to a Florida tow truck driver who
has now run a foul of the law because he
towed a car with a kid inside.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, and that kid fell out of the car. Oh
my god, that's terrifying.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I ort to man charge with a felony after allegedly
towing a car with a four year old kid inside.
That kid fell out of the car and onto the road. Uh,
they're a fine though. Sergio Suarez, thirty four years old,
seen in a video driving away from a beastro in
Sunrise that's where the vehicle was parked, and the girl's
father was running after him, trying to get him to stop.
He's like, hey, I left my kid inside that car
(04:46):
while I was drinking, drinking and eating at bistro Creole.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah right, yeah, And then you know where's that part?
It was the story?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I know the driver was supposed to check his surroundings,
check the car, make sure there was nobody in it.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
But now I believe the driver.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Has a a child abuse charge.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
All right, yeah, right, The dad chased the tow truck
as it was driving away, observing his daughter fall out
of the vehicle and onto the roadway.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The girl had a couple of.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Little scrapes, you know, to her right arm, but otherwise
she was fine. But man, you are you're supposed to
check the vehicles to make sure you know there's no
you know, kids inside there.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But why was dad not carted off to jail right away?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, he was eating at Beastro Creole.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What's really funny is people make more of an uproar
when there's a dog in the car of a child
sitting in a car.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
The windows open a crack, she's got cheerios. Back there,
she's watching her YouTube. Oh look at that? Look at
is that blue? It's I don't know, is it, Miss Rachel?
You're watching Miss Rachel? Rachel.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All right, I'm not going to bother breaking the window
to free you. I'll see you later, little girl.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, you know what, I'm gonna change the channel.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Your dad's just having some drinks over at Beastro Creole
right there.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'm sure he's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Unreal, unrel We go lastly to eight Florida. Well, apparently
there's a Florida man and he stole a baby gator
from a Florida business.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
No, not a gator, a baby gator.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Deputy say, this happened right before four am on Monday,
and it happened in Port Richie. The Pasco County Sheriff's
Department is now looking for a man who stole a
baby gator from a Port Richie business. This Florida man
used a device to catch the baby gator. He wrapped
it in a white cloth, and then he took off
on a blue bicycle. Oh, come on, what.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is he gonna do with a baby gator?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah? They may right, that's gonna get bigger.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That is gonna get bigger, and now he's gonna have
to get a sidecar for his bicycle for this thing.
If you're do you know how much a sidecar for
a bicycle for an alligator costs? I mean, I have
not run the crunch the numbers, but I imagine it's
got to be in the hundreds of dollars that this
man certainly doesn't.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Have the helmet and the goggles.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Listen, this is gonna this has to be tens of
dollars that this man definitely doesn't have.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What a load of croc it really is? Alligator? Yeah, yeah,
he rode off on a bike.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The guy's a white male, he's between twenty and thirty
years old.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
He's got a beard and a mustache.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
At the time of the incident, he's wearing a black
hat and a blue white plaid long sleeved shirt, just
screaming criminal, black shorts and shoes, you know, just yeah, exactly,
he's a criminal, mostly real crib from the fashion police.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, you know, I'm just trying to do make a
little wallet.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What are you doing making shoes with this gator? A belt?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Not a baby gator?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Come on, as a baby you're not even make a
belt buckle. Lot of that thing. Terrible, don't you dare,
don't don't even think about it.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Gat kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's delicious when they do him right, when they do him,
had some they're good. Oh man, Well we will do
this again every morning at seven thirty, nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Remember to listen to the podcast. It's free.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
There are so many episodes right now, hundreds on iHeartRadio.
Look for the Freak Show DOUBTF the podcast that is
The Freak Show DOUBTF the podcast on the free, new
and improved iHeartRadio app. And you know, unfortunately, this Florida business,
they were watching the video of this guy walk off
with their baby alligator, and all they could say was later, Gator, Later,
(08:17):
Gator
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