What The Florida (WTF)
The strangest things happen in Florida. Florida news stories are almost unbelievable, generally true and usually hysterical! Listen to these episodes for a good laugh and you'll find yourself saying "What the Florida"!
Episodes
July 10, 2019
Shout out to Cheryl Lynn for this Florida story! A man has been arrested for feeding his best friend, a 10 foot Alligator named Frank who happens to love Bagels.
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A woman who gave a waitress in Clearwater a $5000 tip as a revenge plot against her boyfriend for not buying her a plane ticket to New York. Serina Wolfe potentially faces charges of grand theft for her little stunt.Wolfe voluntarily handed over the card she used to deputies and was arrested for grand theft.
Wolfe denied making the purchase. Then her boyfriend reported the charge to his credit card company as fraudulent, saying he ...
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Shoutout to Nick Smith for this Florida story. Summertime is coming and it's starting to heat up. So much so that a Florida man went on a seemingly stroke induced rant. Josh Pray, of Naples Florida gives his opinion and explains how the heat has affected his life.
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A man in southern Florida is claiming he was victimized by Florida Police. After bidding over 9,000 dollars on what police described as a Villa, he came to find out later that he had overbid by roughly 8,950 dollars because the "Villa" actually ended up being a 12 inch strip of land in between two separate villas.
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When Delana went home to Florida a while back, she was part of a 4 wheeler truck smoke gender reveal. This couple from Florida may have topped it! Chad and Stacy Wright of Tampa Florida ended up incorporating their pet alligator of 10 years ago, Amos, into their gender reveal!
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A 37 year old man destroyed his own trailer and lost his life in the process of lighting up Blue Flames to entertain his wife, but the story doesn't stop there. His wife intends to sue Chipotle for damages...... Not to the trailer or for loss of life, but for her eyebrows that she just had did.
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Juan Lozano gets the credit for this one! They say clothes make the man, but how about the crook? Christopher Patterson broke into a 77 year old woman's house while she was gone. Patterson took a shower, dressed himself in the woman's clothes, and her late husband's watch. After requesting a cold drink and driving off in her car, he was located in an Ikea parking lot and arrested.
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Head on down with us to Clearwater Florida. A woman called police when an ELEVEN FOOT ALLIGATOR broke into her house and started thrashing through her kitchen. Police and Wildlife officials arrived on scene to handle the situation, but not before the gator helped itself to some wine and food. Just another typical day in the state of Florida.
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Chelsea Upham gets the shout out for this WTFlorida story!
St John's county, a man was arrested for multiple traffic infractions and misusing 911 by calling to brag about his escape from police. Long story short, he did a donut around a police officer in his Hyundai Elantra before driving away and evading police... and that's just the tip of the rap sheet.
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Lucina Jelassian gets credit for this one! Let's take a trip back to Delana's hometown of Winterhaven Florida. A woman on the run from a shootout with cops is an ironic way to word this..... considering she has no legs. The suspect got into a shootout with police while trying to rob a Burger King..... with a BB Gun. This caused her to lose her legs. Later when police arrived to arrest her, her boyfriend attempted to hide her inside...
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Let's take a trip to Milton, Florida. A Wendy's Employee was recently fired due to a viral video of the employee taking a "bath" in one of the industrial sinks. I'd be wary next time you order the chili, as it might be the Wendy's Sink Special Chili.
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If you are looking for a VERY large flightless bird as a pet there's one for sale from an estate that was basically a zoo. It is clearing out it's animals with an auction because the owner died. The bird is a Cassowaries which are similar to emus, stand up to 6 feet tall and weigh up to 130 pounds.
This was just one of the many animals making up the menagerie. The problem is...... the bird that's up for auction is the bird you hear...
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Thanks to Brittany Daniels from Santee! Police were on patrol near Orlando when they witnessed a car fly by at over 100 MPH with a man hanging out of the sunroof. Upon being pulled over 70 year old Leonard Olsen explains that his wife treats him like a servant, where she is the mistress of the house and he would rather take jail time than go back home. What's more is that when asked why he chose to hang out of the sunroof, he expla...
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Three women are in custody and facing felony charges.
It began at a rest stop where they had pulled over along interstate 75 to take a break, and take a shower.
According to the women they were air drying after a shower at the rest stop... but that's not how most people saw it. A custodian called the police to report 3 women sunbathing in the nude. A state trooper says.....They got in their car and drove off, before she told t...
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May 9, 2019
Sometimes it gets really really hot in Florida... so you kinda do anything to cool off, or cool someone else off. 2 Tampa Bay coworkers found themselves having an argument during work and it seemed to fester during the rest of the shift. After work, 71 year old male, Joel Benjamin followed the female coworker out of the restaurant and back to her residence. He then chased her down when she went out to walk her dog and shot her. Tha...
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Transporting an Alligator in your yoga pants isn't a crime, but smuggling protected animals is.
Shoutout to our listener CJ @MadloveHQ1 for this story.
Let's take a trip down to Punta Gorda, Flroida. A Florida Woman was pulled over for a routine traffic stop, running a stop sign actually. She revealed to police that she was transporting an alligator in her yoga pants and wanted to be completely forthcoming. She admitted that she ...
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From the pointification of life and sharing feelings, to retirement plans, to the deadly mosquito-riddled weather... Joe covers it all in this very special segment of WTFlorida.
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Tyler Parker was taken into custody on charges for domestic battery. While his stepsister was uninjured, she was still hit by the hot potato and legal action was taken. Could you imagine being so angry at someone that you'd be willing to throw your freshly made meal at them?
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April 23, 2019
They say justice is best served swiftly. One Floridian thinks it's best served with eggs. Apparently a fight occurred when a man and woman bumped into each other with the man reacting by spitting on the woman. This led to the fist fight and once the Easter Bunny costumed individual saw what was going on, they stepped in to help the woman in her bout. Just goes to show that Peter Cottontail might not just be hiding eggs, but haymake...
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April 17, 2019
62 year old Robert Mirabella was arrested for disorderly conduct for "serenading" his neighbor with a highly inappropriate song. Apparently he had issues with his neighbor and decided writing an original song could help get his point across. Well the good news is that it DID indeed get his point across, so much so that the woman called 911 for to report his harassment. Police arrived and arrested the 62 year old man. Think twice be...
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