playing catchup.

in the craziness of the holidays, i'm gonna throw out a reader's digest version of several stories i found late in december, but was too busy (or unmotivated) to post for you. enjoy, and it's a whole lot of HOORAY at once, so be careful!

it's legal to spit in sarasota now! it was a law dating way back to prevent the spread of pathogens and disease from all the saliva in the streets. but they realized (finally) that it's a nearly unenforceable crime. Commissioner Kelly Kirschener suggested they start in baseball dugouts.

eggbeaters = a hot commodity in plant city. two men forcibly entered a house in plant city, demanding an eggbeater from the owner. and no, this wasn't code for anything- an eggbeater was found in one of the men's pockets upon their arrest, where they were charged with armed burglary of a dwelling and aggravated assault.

someone, somewhere is pissed. 26-year old devin perry is being held in alachua county jail for the theft of a fridge containing urine samples from a probation center. apparently he was taking them for "drug use." the fridge is still unaccounted for, but perry remains in jail. course, at this point, they could really follow their noses to the missing samples.

and in the category of stupid s*** teenage girls do... 9 girls from a boynton beach middle school were arrested for declining to share details about a fight on the school bus. it was later discovered, i'll find the story soon, that one of the girls pulled a knife. it does not remotely surprise me that something like that could happen on a school bus. needless to say, they're not allowed to ride the bus anymore. however, counterpoint: should these girls really be carpooling?

and this one is my personal favorite. a woman walked on campus to westchase elementary school, approached another woman while she was eating with six-year-olds, repeatedly punched her, left the lunchroom, yelled profanities at students, urinated in the hallway, and then was removed. she said it was an accident. i'm sure the cold bottle of her wine in her purse played a role as well. in any case, it's one of my favorite stories of 2008, no question. it just has so many parts! so many amazing parts!

may 2009 prove to be as prolific a year as 2008 was. otherwise, i'm out of a job!