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All right, it is it isthat time on iHeart Radio. Well,
we gotta chase down Florida man andFlorida woman and find out about all their
exploits right here in WTF, whichof course stands for what the Florid Dude?
And we go first Brittany to aFlorida man. Oh, he has
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been arrested over his failed attempt tocross the Atlantic in a giant hamster wheel.
I saw this. It looks sofun, but how would you make
it across the ocean with this?You're not. That's exactly why they scooped
him up, because they said,look, dude, you're just gonna end
up, you know, killing yourselfor you know, floating out, and
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you're just gonna be lost forever.So we just need to stop this right
now. He's a Florida marathoner andhe's now facing federal charges after the US
Coast Guard spotted him seventy nautical milesoff Tybee Island, Georgia and a homemade
hydropod. Now, according to this, he said that he was headed to
London in this human powered vessel.It's like a hamster wheel. That's basically
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what it is. Picture a hamsterwheel with like a bunch of floaties on
the side, you know, Yeah, and that's that's what it is now.
They said, look, this isunsafe, the voyage, everything about
it. Joe. He even threatenedto kill himself with a knife if everybody
tried to apprehend him. Oh mygosh, dramatic. He claimed to have
a bomb on board that turned outto be fake. He really wants to
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just let him go as long ashe signed something that he doesn't have to
be rescued. By the way,this is the fourth time they have stopped
him from doing this. Just lethim go, like Britney said, just
let him do it. Yeah,he is hell bent on doing it.
Let him do it. And speakingabout hellbent, Brittany, we go next
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to a north Fort Myers woman.She clearly is breaking our one rule,
which is don't act in loco.That's right. A north Fort Myers woman
has been arrested in connection to acock fighting ring. Cock fighting. I
thought this was only what men do. What early, There's a lady in
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north Ford Myers is down with thistoo, that's right. A north Fort
Myers woman facing charges related to cockfighting after Jepanese sees chickens and roosters.
The League County Sheriff's Office says thatNatasha Rodriguez Rodriguez. Oh, come on,
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wait a minute, it's Natasha RodriguezRodriguez. Yeah. I love that.
I love that. She well,I don't like what she did,
but she used these these chickens androosters to fight in North Fort Myers.
Not okay. The Sheriff's Office AnimalCruelty Task Force is const that there's a
cock fighting operation, that it wasgoing on in the Marianna Avenue home.
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The arrest reports states that depantys foundevidence that roosters were used for fighting.
They also found scales and other itemsused to weigh birds before fights. I
didn't know that there was a weightclass in cock fighting. I guess there
is. You know, you can'thave one or rooster out weighing another one,
you know, I gotta have afair cock fight. I guess,
Britnie, that's what it is.I guess I don't know how these work.
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I've never been to one. It'swell, you never bought tickets to
one. That does not mean you'venever been to one. Man who you're
lying too? Ah? Yeah?According to this, they say that you
know, you can see these theseuh, these these roosters all over the
place. Sometimes people just see himcrossing the road. But they say that
cock fighting is a very big It'svery big in the Latin American countries.
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Yeah. I used to have anuncle that would do this, allegedly.
It's like a long time ago,and he was caught. And this is
Teo what's his name again? Runningit down? No longer does it anymore?
Right? Otherwise they gonna send theAnimal Cruelty Task Force on you.
You wind up into Marsieno Motel Rodriguez. Rodriguez faces two charges of possession of
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using animals to fight. Wow,not good, don't do that. That's
mean. No, don't right.Chickens are our friends until we cut their
heads off feed them. But thenthey're protein exactly right. Yeah? Or
protein? No, it's protein.Okay, you can't make them your bron,
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can't eat them that Maybe I willmake them my bro. Then I
eat them. You know, Igotta broke down with this chicken and then
take them out. Speaking about takingthem out, we go lastly to a
neighborly love triangle that ended up inthe arrest of a husband and wife here
in the state of Florida, andthen it's a neighborly one, yeah,
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inviting the neighbors in oh According tothis, a chaotic result of a neighborly
love triangle led to the arrest ofa husband and wife accused of shattering a
victim's front door and then threatening himwith a firearm. Authorities responded to a
residence and there was a dispute betweenneighbors. Now it involved a firearm and
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involved a broken door. Deputies contactedthe victim, we explained this is what
happened. He exited the residence toinvestigate screaming in his front yard. As
the victim opened his door, hetold deputies that his neighbor her neighbors,
later identified as Scott Vidale fifty fiveand Marley Rodriguez fifty they were running towards
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his home, causing him to lockhis door. Soon after, he claims
that his hurricane proof glass, well, that was not Scott and Marley proof,
and they broke that door. Thatcaused him to call nine one one.
As he was calling nine one one, apparently this is what had happened,
he gave the backstory he had beeninvited to the residence. The previous
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week right when her when the husband, Fidel, was not at home.
During the visit, the victim claimsthat Marley started kissing and making out with
him and then put his hands inher pants. Very gay, right now,
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According to this, this is whatsparked everything. Uh. Now,
they say that there is surveillance footagethat shows, uh, the guy and
his wife exiting their residence and approachingthe neighbor's house as he was rushing outside.
According to this, it shows thehusband attempting to open the front door
and then finally he used a propanetank to smash the door. My god,
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yeah, him and Hay though,and then she was waving the gun
around. Now, this is whatI don't understand. You would invite the
neighbor over and you put his handin your pants, lady, and then
the next week you and your husbandall crazy at you know, two o'clock
in the morning, comes smashing theneighbor's door in and start waving a gun
around. So he found out.Oh yeah, and that's why I was
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at Rogers house, letting him puthis hand in my pants. What I'm
gonna kill him? Well, Iwant to watch man? Oh, very
yeah. The whole scene. Well, that was a lot of fun.
Yeah, it was. I guessall right, I'll do this again every
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morning at seven thirty and nine thirty. Until then there's all the news that
fits utter aloud. In this godforsaken state, it's WTF or what the
florid duh? And now that handis never gonna come clean.