Florida Friday: Hazmat team called after naked man spills formaldehyde he was dunking his weed in

Written by Vince Mancini / 04.05.13

As I’ve said many times, it’s not a Florida party until the Haz Mat team shows up, and it sounds like a Florida man was partying pret-tay hard recently when he crashed his car and spilled his formaldehyde. Why did he have formaldehyde? Why, he was using it as a dunking sauce for his weed, of course. This story highlights a very serious problem in this country – the need for more adequate cupholders.

A hazardous materials team was called to the scene of a formaldehyde spill in Orange County Wednesday morning.
The spill happened after a car crashed into a wall along Honour Road at about 10 a.m.
Felix Locket, of Orlando, told investigators he was mixing marijuana and formaldehyde to get high.
Investigators said the 34-year-old had stripped naked and was dancing outside his car when they arrived to investigate the crash.

Ahh yes, Naked Man and Florida Man, they’re practically kissing cousins. Now, be careful. Reading “the 34-year-old had stripped naked and was dancing outside his car when they arrived” might paint such a glorious mental picture that you overlook another important aspect of the story: it was 10 am. For you and I, it might seem crazy to get stoned on frog fumes at 10 am on a Wednesday. But to be fair to Felix, he could’ve just been trying to blow off steam on the way to perform some heart surgeries. I know that can be a stressful job.

“We seen the car had hit the wall and then there was the man, he was naked. Nothing on, I mean nothing,” said neighbor Trudy Lane. “He had the music in the car playing real loud and he was whamming, whamming on the car. Like he was beating to the sound of the music.”

So was he “whamming,” or more “wham-whamming?” Here, onomatopoeia fails. When you’re talking about a naked guy “beating to the sound of the music,” we’re going to need specifics.

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Florida Friday: Woman shot by oven while trying to make waffles

Written by Vince Mancini / 02.22.13

By now, we’re all familiar with the ubiquitous “Florida Man” stories. But for today’s Florida Friday, we bring you news of Florida Man’s lesser-known feminine (sorta) counterpart, Florida Woman. Faster than meth high, dumber than a flying cinder block, she fights sanity in an invisible trailer and lassos decorum with a python she won in a bug-eating contest. Florida Woman this week took the form of 18-year-old Aalaya Walker. Walker was in St. Petersburg visiting her friend JJ, and at some point, they both got hungry, so she decided to warm up the oven to make some waffles. That’s when she found out JJ keeps his bullets in the oven, because one exploded and shot her. So I guess technically, this is all Florida Man’s fault after all.

A few moments after Walker, 18, preheated the oven in the apartment, at 218 24th St. N., there was an explosion. Walker was peppered with shell casing fragments though technically not shot.

I like that they use “peppered.” Because in Florida, shell-casing fragments are the spice of life.

Her friend, Jarvarski Sandy, 25, told police he had left his Glock 21 .45-caliber handgun in the oven drawer but had put the magazine, with four rounds in it, in the oven itself, the police report says.

The magazine exploded about 9 p.m. ET, spraying casing fragments at high speed and striking Walker. She managed to pick some of the fragments out of her leg and chest and then took a bus to the hospital, where she was treated and released.

“She took a bus to the hospital.”

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