26 Burglars Snort Ashes Mistake
In 2010, three burglars breaking into a woman’s house in Central Florida thought they had found a stash of cocaine. They ended up snorting the ashes of a man and his two great Danes.
27. A Florida man named Craig Williamson recognized himself as a missing person from Colorado while watching “Unsolved Mysteries.” He claimed he was beaten in a robbery and developed amnesia. He was later reunited with his wife, whom he had no memory of, though the police remained skeptical of his story.
28. In 2015, the family of a deceased Florida man named Stephan Merrill claimed in his obituary notice that an uppercut from Batman caused his death.
29. Ritch Workman, a Florida man, tried to make dwarf tossing legal in 2011. In 1989, a series of dwarf-tossing events made it illegal. He claimed the ban prevented dwarfs from “gainful employment” and would help the economy, but his effort failed.
30. A Florida man named Michael Wilson wired the front door of his home to a car battery charger in 2017, attempting to electrocute his wife. Before his plan failed, he prematurely changed his Facebook status to “widowed,” leading to his arrest.
31 911 Calls Kool-Aid Demand
A Florida man named Jarvis Carlton Sutton called 911 nearly 80 times in 2013 to demand Kool-Aid, hamburgers, and weed.
32. In 2016, Ray Baluchi, a Florida man, attempted to travel from Florida to Bermuda alone in an inflatable bubble. The US Coast Guard had to rescue him, costing taxpayers $144,000. This was his second attempt after being warned following a failed attempt in 2014.
33. Theodore Thomas Wentworth, Jr., a Florida man, won an election for County Commissioner in 1920 by promising to “keep the county courthouse clock at the correct time.”
34. On his 89th birthday in 2017, a Florida man named Robert Dreyer drowned and died after crashing his car into a fire hydrant. He managed to get out of his car but was sucked into a sinkhole, likely created by the water pressure from the fire hydrant’s destruction.
35. In 2011, a Florida man named Malcolm Brenner published a book called “Wet Goddess,” reflecting on his six-month sexual and consensual relationship with a dolphin named Dolly in 1971. Because Florida only banned bestiality in 2011, there were no legal charges. Dolly died due to “heartbreak” three months after their fling ended.
36 Drugstore Robbery Clue Trail
In 2020, a Florida man and his two friends robbed a drug store of $320,000 in pills, taking precautions like wearing surgical gloves to avoid leaving prints. However, they tossed empty pill bottles out the window of their getaway car, which the cops followed like breadcrumbs to their front door.
37. In 2019, a Florida teenager hacked their high school and emailed everyone an urgent announcement about “mandatory penis inspections in accordance with Florida Penal Code 69.”
38. In 2019, a pet cassowary attacked and killed a Florida man named Marvin Hajos, making him the first human killed by the species since 1926.
39. In 2015, a Florida woman named Cheryl Treadway was being held hostage by her boyfriend, Nickerson. He didn’t allow her to make calls or write texts, so she used the Pizza Hut app to send a discreet call for help. When the police arrived at the location, they freed her.
40. In 2014, a man from Deltona, Florida, accidentally and unknowingly dialed 911 and then talked to his partners in crime about their methamphetamine production. Hearing the conversation, the emergency dispatcher sent local police to bust the man’s meth lab.
41 Greyhounds Test Positive Cocaine
Charles McClellan, a Florida man, had his greyhound training license suspended in 2017 after 12 greyhounds he was training tested positive for cocaine.
42. In 2017, a Florida teenager named Devon Arthur converted from Neo-Nazi to Muslim and killed his roommates for blasphemy.
43. Christopher Freeman, a Florida man, brought an AK-47 to a middle school in 2019 after receiving a phone call from his crying son.
44. Ronnie Dillon Willis, a Florida man, drove a stolen Jeep back to the scene of his crime in 2019 to ask if anybody had found his missing cellphone.
45. In 2019, Martin Skelly, a 380-pound Florida man, faced additional felony charges after jail personnel discovered a bag of meth “wedged deep within the belly button cavity of the defendant.”
15 Most Controversial & Costly Blunders in History
46 Praying Driver Crashes House
In 2016, a 28-year-old Florida woman drove into a house because she was praying with her eyes closed while driving.
47. Three Florida men attempted to steal honey from a hive of more than 20,000 bees in Pasco County in 2015. Each man received about 50 stings from the honey bees. Firefighters hosed them down and transported them to the hospital. A neighbor reported seeing the men “covered in bees,” but no honey was reported stolen.
48. In 2001, Barbara Lee mistook the sign language of two deaf men for gang signs in a Florida sports bar. She left and returned shortly with a juvenile and 19-year-old Marco Ibanez, who is accused of pulling out a knife and stabbing the men.
49. In 2017, Sara Barnes, a Florida woman, accidentally burned down a 3,500-year-old cypress tree, the fifth oldest in the country, because she was smoking meth under it and lit a fire to see her meth better.
50. In 2013, Linda Ducharme, a Florida woman, not only married a Ferris wheel, but she also renewed her wedding vows to it for a documentary and fed it pizza on camera.
