This is part of my FLORIDA WEIRD coverage. Now, I'm not the only one doing this. Colbert has his eye on this also. So. When I looked up this story, I discovered that, heck, I could just devote my attention solely to Pasco County! (I lived in New Port Richey briefly.) ALSO during a month's timespan, these things happened there: a 15 foot alligator was caught (ho-hum); multiple people were arrested for smuggling multiple exotic animals (also ho-hum); a Pasco deputy was fired for mistreating animals (kind unspecified); 2 whales beached themselves (obvs desperate, I'd never choose Pasco County); a man involved in an assault and vandalism case bizarrely claimed he was just chasing his kitten (Is this some sort of new drugspeak? Like the old "chasing the dragon" for smoking opium? His pic looked he was on meth. But so did most of these Floridians that made the papers. It must be the new look.) And finally, a mother defended her son who burglarizes homes-while naked. (The son was naked, not the mother.) WHEW!