October 30, 2025 • 10 mins
She pulled a gun on a guy and his dog while they tried to cross the street!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, here we go. It is that time here
on Heart Radio where.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We do have to chase down Florida man and or
Florida woman and follow all their exploits.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We do that every day in this It's called WTF
and that stands for what the Florid? That's all right,
We're getting closed there every single day, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We go first to a Florida man and let me
tell you that cops hate when you do this. He
was arrested because he failed a DUI test and the
cop knew and to give him a DUI test because
first he's struck the deputies vehicle with his car. Oh hey, okay,
that is a tip off that you might have been
(00:46):
doing a bit of the boozing. Is when you rail
your car into a deputies patrol vehicle and then fail
a sobriety test.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That is what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
A man was arrested after he struck a Putnam County
patrol car and then and later failed the field sobriety test. Yeah,
not much an investigation, really not much. Yeah, it all
starts and ends with the crash patrol car. Really when
you think about it, but this man was driving a
silver Ford f one fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
His name is Michael Natail. He's forty two years old.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And he hit the tail end of the deputy's patrol
carr and then he continued driving by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
He's like, wham, let me just keep on going. Maybe
he didn't hear he didn't see me, right. The deputy
followed the truck for about a mile before it stopped. Now, finally,
this is what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I guess mister Natail fell asleep in his vehicle while
waiting for the deputies to arrive. He smelled of alcohol,
he had glassy and bloodshot eyes, and then he failed
the sobriety test. They also found a thhc vappen in
his car.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Don't blame the you can blame the blood alcohol level
of a point one sixty one in a point one
four nine because that's like twice the legal limit exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So there you go, I'll close the world problem. That's
the one exactly. He should have stuck with that vape pen.
He would have been fine. It would have he wouldn't
be paying this thirty two hundred dollars bond. He could
have just enjoyed the pretty lights. That's it. Yeah, he
would have had a good time.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You know, he would have been driving a little bit slower,
but still that's probably a good thing to be honest
with you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We are next to a Florida woman and this happened
in Lee County Waking. This woman a loco acting local.
Oh wait, a local acting loco. There you go, you go. Yeah,
she's twenty three years old. And I actually saw this video.
You might have seen it on social media. I got
to look up. It's It starts with like a blue
(02:39):
kind of sporty kind of card. It's got the vvvv
sound to the engine, you know what I mean. Shots. Yeah,
So she's going down.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
This street at a pretty high rate of speed and
you can see a guy with a dog. He's kind
of like milling about like kind of you know, near
the side of the road or middle of the road,
but not really like is he crossing?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Is he not?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Is he going across the street? What's going on here?
There's some other people pull like off on the other
side of the road, and I guess he's like talking
to them, but he's got this dog. Anyway, she pulls
up and I guess she's waiting for him to cross
the street or not, but the entire time she immediately
starts like revving her engine. The entire time it's aggressive,
and then she the guy starts to cross and.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Then she like like zooms zooms towards him kinda and
he's like got some words to say. She gets out
of the vehicle, gun in hand, points it at the
dog and is going off on this dude. Twenty three
year old woman.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
She was arrested following a road rage incig in where
she pointed a gun at her neighbors. According to this,
there's a camera mounted on her own car and by
the way, that's where you can see the.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Video from it. You can see it because it's like
from the rear of her.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Vehicle, so it was from her own car, and then
it was posted on social media.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Wait, hold on, she thought this was She didn't even
think like she had sound to deleat right, like get
rid of this video that incriminates you heavily. Yeah, no,
she didn't posted that.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I'm not gonna say that as morel Cruise is a
smart woman, Nicole. I'm just saying this is what happened. Yeah,
twenty three year old Esmerelda Cruz. There was a video
camera mounted on her own vehicle, driving toward her neighbor,
before exiting the car and pointing a gun at her
entire family and the dog. You see a man walking
along the side of the road Esmerelda stops her vehicle
(04:19):
and loudly reds her engine while the man crosses the street.
She then drives past them before stopping and exiting her vehicle.
She gets out, she points the gun at the guy,
points the gun at the dog while yelling and waving
the gun around. Two more people approach and stand next
to the guy. She says, don't run in front of
my f and car. She's screaming. She says, I'll light
your life up, and then she tells them to call
(04:40):
the cops, which is exactly what they did. Es morel
Da Cruz was arrested and facing now three counts of
aggravated assaults with the deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So they recovered the firearm from her home. Yeah, there
it is.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But man, they say that road rage has gotten out
of control in the account.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh, absolutely crazy. But everyone can carry a gun. That's
the other thing. Know, anybody from here.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Area in Jersey, we are always verbally assaulting each other,
and this is the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Just so you know, people, good citizens of Florida that yes,
you can carry a gun. Okay, our government has allowed
for that. You can openly carry a gun in the
state of Florida. However, you cannot take it out and
wave it around at people and dogs. Whenever you have
a disagreement, argument, or a difference of opinion with somebody.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know what I'm saying, you just can't do it.
You're not. That is one hundred percent not allowed. So yes,
pedestrians have the right a way, though no, yes, all
the time. Oh my god, yeah, no, no, no, no.
Esmerelda doesn't like to wait, but unfortunately she's gonna have
to wait for a while because she's sitting in jail.
So the dog house put her down. But really, we
(05:46):
go next and lastly to a Florida homeowner. He is
a Florida man.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He was arrested after an armed clash with a team prankster.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh no, wait what it was a ding dong ditch?
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Fourteen year old kid does a ding dong ditch to
this guy and he makes this kid get down on
his knees at gunpoint. Oh yeah, that was a little
bit heavy handed really to be honest with you, but yeah.
Florida man's response to a ding dong ditch prank has
reportedly landed him behind bars. He pointed a gun at
a teenage kid. According to this, Santiago Cairo, forty noticed
(06:20):
a group of people at his front door. This is
in a Boca. He called nine to one one then
armed himself with a gun. That's when he confronted this
fourteen year old outside of his home. Now there is
an arrest report. He told authorities that he didn't aim
the gun at the kid, but instead he kept it
at a low and ready position and while he waited
for the cops to get there. However, the fourteen year
(06:41):
old says, no, he was a lot more violent than that.
The teen said, yes, I did definitely ding dong ditch
mister Cairo's house, but he said that the guy came out,
he was holding a flashlight in a gun.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He was yelling. He said, you mess with the wrong guy.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
The teen said that mister Cairo then ordered him to
get down on his knees at one, grabbed him by
the shoulder, tried to push him down to the ground,
and then.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Ultimately left him. You know, obviously feeling threatened and everything else.
Investigators determined that the fourteen year old never tried to
break into his house or anything like that. It was
just a prank and that mister Cairo quote went too far.
I would say, so, yeah, he definitely went too far.
But you know, this day and age, nobody.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, this is not that we are not back in
the day where we could totally dig that, throw a
piece of poop in a bag and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
We can't have those kinds of fun, right, I know.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We used to have so much fun. It's just so
you know, we had a great time, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We used to run through our neighborhoods freely without parents
like behind us, you know, helicoptering us all over us.
And don't do that. Don't do that. That are you okay? Okay, here,
let me wipe your hands hand sanitizer. Let me like
that exactly right right back outside. There's no such thing
as helicopter parents. My parents didn't know where I was
for a full nine years, you know what I'm saying,
Like a whole nine years of my life. My parents
(07:54):
had no idea where I was at all, ever, and
that wasn't during adulthood. I was a kid, you know
what I'm saying. They had no clue what I was
up to, where I was, what we were doing out
in the woods and jumping off of bridges and riding
our bikes like eight miles from where we lived. I mean,
they had no clue what we were doing. We used
to do all that, and yes, you're right. We used
to get a little like brown paper bags. We would
(08:15):
fill them with dog poop that we'd find, and then
we'd light them on fire and put them in front
of some of these porch and they'd step on the poop.
It was hilarious. We would toilet paper people's houses. We
would run through other people's backyards, ding dong, ditches, all
kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
We used to be able to make prank calls because
they didn't have like a caller ID that we could
get caught with. It was glorious. But the pranking days
are over.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, people are too emotional nowadays, right, and well, I
mean also not just too emotional.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Crazy things are happening. Everybody's got a gun now, Yeah,
everyone's got a gun.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You don't know, you can't trust nobody doors.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I don't know why anybody would would would try any
kind of prank now, or any kind of road rage
or anything like that. Rage is different. I'm still funny.
Everybody's got guns. They got guns for their guns. Yeah,
their guns got gun their guns got good.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, that was a lot of fun I mean minus
the kid being horrified, you know, yeh, the chick.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The twenty three year olds right with the door and
the gun. That was no funny. There's a lot of guns. Yeah,
this whole story is about guns. Too many guns.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
All right, Well, we'll do this again every morning at
seven thirty and nine thirty. Remember to listen to the podcast.
It is free and it's on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Just look forward The Freak Show, WTF the podcast that
is the Freak Show. WTF the podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And yes, this Florida man did hold a fourteen year
old at gunpoint on his knees. But now that I'm
thinking about it, you give this kid long enough and
he's going to be Florida man before you know it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
So
All right, here we go. It is that time here
on Heart Radio where.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We do have to chase down Florida man and or
Florida woman and follow all their exploits.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We do that every day in this It's called WTF
and that stands for what the Florid? That's all right,
We're getting closed there every single day, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
We go first to a Florida man and let me
tell you that cops hate when you do this. He
was arrested because he failed a DUI test and the
cop knew and to give him a DUI test because
first he's struck the deputies vehicle with his car. Oh hey, okay,
that is a tip off that you might have been
(00:46):
doing a bit of the boozing. Is when you rail
your car into a deputies patrol vehicle and then fail
a sobriety test.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That is what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
A man was arrested after he struck a Putnam County
patrol car and then and later failed the field sobriety test. Yeah,
not much an investigation, really not much. Yeah, it all
starts and ends with the crash patrol car. Really when
you think about it, but this man was driving a
silver Ford f one fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
His name is Michael Natail. He's forty two years old.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And he hit the tail end of the deputy's patrol
carr and then he continued driving by the way.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
He's like, wham, let me just keep on going. Maybe
he didn't hear he didn't see me, right. The deputy
followed the truck for about a mile before it stopped. Now, finally,
this is what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I guess mister Natail fell asleep in his vehicle while
waiting for the deputies to arrive. He smelled of alcohol,
he had glassy and bloodshot eyes, and then he failed
the sobriety test. They also found a thhc vappen in
his car.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Don't blame the you can blame the blood alcohol level
of a point one sixty one in a point one
four nine because that's like twice the legal limit exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So there you go, I'll close the world problem. That's
the one exactly. He should have stuck with that vape pen.
He would have been fine. It would have he wouldn't
be paying this thirty two hundred dollars bond. He could
have just enjoyed the pretty lights. That's it. Yeah, he
would have had a good time.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You know, he would have been driving a little bit slower,
but still that's probably a good thing to be honest
with you.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We are next to a Florida woman and this happened
in Lee County Waking. This woman a loco acting local.
Oh wait, a local acting loco. There you go, you go. Yeah,
she's twenty three years old. And I actually saw this video.
You might have seen it on social media. I got
to look up. It's It starts with like a blue
(02:39):
kind of sporty kind of card. It's got the vvvv
sound to the engine, you know what I mean. Shots. Yeah,
So she's going down.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
This street at a pretty high rate of speed and
you can see a guy with a dog. He's kind
of like milling about like kind of you know, near
the side of the road or middle of the road,
but not really like is he crossing?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Is he not?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Is he going across the street? What's going on here?
There's some other people pull like off on the other
side of the road, and I guess he's like talking
to them, but he's got this dog. Anyway, she pulls
up and I guess she's waiting for him to cross
the street or not, but the entire time she immediately
starts like revving her engine. The entire time it's aggressive,
and then she the guy starts to cross and.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Then she like like zooms zooms towards him kinda and
he's like got some words to say. She gets out
of the vehicle, gun in hand, points it at the
dog and is going off on this dude. Twenty three
year old woman.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
She was arrested following a road rage incig in where
she pointed a gun at her neighbors. According to this,
there's a camera mounted on her own car and by
the way, that's where you can see the.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Video from it. You can see it because it's like
from the rear of her.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Vehicle, so it was from her own car, and then
it was posted on social media.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Wait, hold on, she thought this was She didn't even
think like she had sound to deleat right, like get
rid of this video that incriminates you heavily. Yeah, no,
she didn't posted that.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I'm not gonna say that as morel Cruise is a
smart woman, Nicole. I'm just saying this is what happened. Yeah,
twenty three year old Esmerelda Cruz. There was a video
camera mounted on her own vehicle, driving toward her neighbor,
before exiting the car and pointing a gun at her
entire family and the dog. You see a man walking
along the side of the road Esmerelda stops her vehicle
(04:19):
and loudly reds her engine while the man crosses the street.
She then drives past them before stopping and exiting her vehicle.
She gets out, she points the gun at the guy,
points the gun at the dog while yelling and waving
the gun around. Two more people approach and stand next
to the guy. She says, don't run in front of
my f and car. She's screaming. She says, I'll light
your life up, and then she tells them to call
(04:40):
the cops, which is exactly what they did. Es morel
Da Cruz was arrested and facing now three counts of
aggravated assaults with the deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So they recovered the firearm from her home. Yeah, there
it is.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But man, they say that road rage has gotten out
of control in the account.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh, absolutely crazy. But everyone can carry a gun. That's
the other thing. Know, anybody from here.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Area in Jersey, we are always verbally assaulting each other,
and this is the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Just so you know, people, good citizens of Florida that yes,
you can carry a gun. Okay, our government has allowed
for that. You can openly carry a gun in the
state of Florida. However, you cannot take it out and
wave it around at people and dogs. Whenever you have
a disagreement, argument, or a difference of opinion with somebody.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You know what I'm saying, you just can't do it.
You're not. That is one hundred percent not allowed. So yes,
pedestrians have the right a way, though no, yes, all
the time. Oh my god, yeah, no, no, no, no.
Esmerelda doesn't like to wait, but unfortunately she's gonna have
to wait for a while because she's sitting in jail.
So the dog house put her down. But really, we
(05:46):
go next and lastly to a Florida homeowner. He is
a Florida man.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He was arrested after an armed clash with a team prankster.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh no, wait what it was a ding dong ditch?
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Fourteen year old kid does a ding dong ditch to
this guy and he makes this kid get down on
his knees at gunpoint. Oh yeah, that was a little
bit heavy handed really to be honest with you, but yeah.
Florida man's response to a ding dong ditch prank has
reportedly landed him behind bars. He pointed a gun at
a teenage kid. According to this, Santiago Cairo, forty noticed
(06:20):
a group of people at his front door. This is
in a Boca. He called nine to one one then
armed himself with a gun. That's when he confronted this
fourteen year old outside of his home. Now there is
an arrest report. He told authorities that he didn't aim
the gun at the kid, but instead he kept it
at a low and ready position and while he waited
for the cops to get there. However, the fourteen year
(06:41):
old says, no, he was a lot more violent than that.
The teen said, yes, I did definitely ding dong ditch
mister Cairo's house, but he said that the guy came out,
he was holding a flashlight in a gun.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
He was yelling. He said, you mess with the wrong guy.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
The teen said that mister Cairo then ordered him to
get down on his knees at one, grabbed him by
the shoulder, tried to push him down to the ground,
and then.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Ultimately left him. You know, obviously feeling threatened and everything else.
Investigators determined that the fourteen year old never tried to
break into his house or anything like that. It was
just a prank and that mister Cairo quote went too far.
I would say, so, yeah, he definitely went too far.
But you know, this day and age, nobody.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, this is not that we are not back in
the day where we could totally dig that, throw a
piece of poop in a bag and stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
We can't have those kinds of fun, right, I know.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We used to have so much fun. It's just so
you know, we had a great time, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
We used to run through our neighborhoods freely without parents
like behind us, you know, helicoptering us all over us.
And don't do that. Don't do that. That are you okay? Okay, here,
let me wipe your hands hand sanitizer. Let me like
that exactly right right back outside. There's no such thing
as helicopter parents. My parents didn't know where I was
for a full nine years, you know what I'm saying,
Like a whole nine years of my life. My parents
(07:54):
had no idea where I was at all, ever, and
that wasn't during adulthood. I was a kid, you know
what I'm saying. They had no clue what I was
up to, where I was, what we were doing out
in the woods and jumping off of bridges and riding
our bikes like eight miles from where we lived. I mean,
they had no clue what we were doing. We used
to do all that, and yes, you're right. We used
to get a little like brown paper bags. We would
(08:15):
fill them with dog poop that we'd find, and then
we'd light them on fire and put them in front
of some of these porch and they'd step on the poop.
It was hilarious. We would toilet paper people's houses. We
would run through other people's backyards, ding dong, ditches, all
kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
We used to be able to make prank calls because
they didn't have like a caller ID that we could
get caught with. It was glorious. But the pranking days
are over.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, people are too emotional nowadays, right, and well, I
mean also not just too emotional.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Crazy things are happening. Everybody's got a gun now, Yeah,
everyone's got a gun.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You don't know, you can't trust nobody doors.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I don't know why anybody would would would try any
kind of prank now, or any kind of road rage
or anything like that. Rage is different. I'm still funny.
Everybody's got guns. They got guns for their guns. Yeah,
their guns got gun their guns got good.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Well, that was a lot of fun I mean minus
the kid being horrified, you know, yeh, the chick.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The twenty three year olds right with the door and
the gun. That was no funny. There's a lot of guns. Yeah,
this whole story is about guns. Too many guns.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
All right, Well, we'll do this again every morning at
seven thirty and nine thirty. Remember to listen to the podcast.
It is free and it's on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Just look forward The Freak Show, WTF the podcast that
is the Freak Show. WTF the podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And yes, this Florida man did hold a fourteen year
old at gunpoint on his knees. But now that I'm
thinking about it, you give this kid long enough and
he's going to be Florida man before you know it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
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