Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
People are products of their environments. Maybe that is why the Florida man in today's story picked such a bizarre method to try to steal a free meal.
23-year-old Joshua James pulled up to a Wendy's drive-thru in Loxahatchee, Fla. and ordered a meal and a drink. But after getting his hands on the grub he didn't hand over any money. Instead he threw a 3 1/2 foot alligator into the window of the drive-thru.
I have never had an opportunity to handle an alligator, but I can't imagine 3 1/2 feet of thrashing reptile is either light or easy to throw. But somehow James managed it.
He was later arrested by U.S. Marshals.
James was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, illegally killing, possessing or capturing an alligator, and second-degree larceny petit theft.
Assault with a deadly 'weapon'? Since when is an alligator considered a weapon?
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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*------ An Amazing One-In-a-Million Birth ------*
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*-------- READER COMMENTS --------*
Lewis.... Regarding the story of the guy in Illinois who stole the money from the photo booth.... at least he save the police the trouble of taking his mug shots down at the station.
[But did he make any funny faces while cracking into the cash box?]
So you say there was a man with a hollow leg named Terrance Seymour? What was the name of his other leg?
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