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"In the annals of crime it wasn’t the most lucrative shoplifting caper but it may have been one of the most showy. Police in Pembroke Pines are trying to identify two women who investigators say are seen on a store’s security surveillance system stealing nearly $400 worth of merchandise from a clothing store. The showy part? On the surveillance video, one of the two women is seen walking down a shiny checkerboard-colored aisle — racks of colorful clothing to her left and to her right — as she starts wiggling her hips, bending down and thrusting out her prominent rear end in a booty dance twerking motion. It’s not known if this was a planned distraction or sudden impulse that played out April 26 during a shoplifting spree at the MadRag women’s clothing store at 626 N. University Dr. Pembroke Pines police Thursday released surveillance images and video of the two women who investigators say left the store with more than $377 worth of items without pa...

" CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a ball python slithered out of a toilet and bit a South Florida man on the arm. Coral Springs police spokesman Chris Swinson said the man was treated at the scene after the 4-foot (1.2-meter) snake bit him when he lifted the toilet seat on Sunday morning. The snake is nonvenomous. Swinson told news outlets the snake didn't belong to the man and it was unclear how it got into the apartment. The South Florida SunSentinel reports the Coral Springs Humane Society took the snake to a veterinarian's office. It was being treated for a scale infection. Over the years other creatures have found their way into toilets in South Florida, including an iguana freed by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue in March." Source

PANAMA CITY — Tuesday afternoon drifted into evening just like any other day in Florida, a steady rain falling, commuters headed home, and a man in what appeared to be bright yellow underwear walking his goat along East Avenue near U.S. 231. “What (expletive deleted) did I just witness?” wrote one woman on Facebook after sharing a videotape of the unknown man and his goat. “Dude is in his underwear, straw hat, playing a harmonica and walking a goat on a leash down East Avenue.” “I’m not kidding, he’s walking a dang goat through the parking lot,” said Hoot Crawford, a local defense attorney who sent The News Herald one of the pictures accompanying this story. “I don’t know where he’s going, but it’s a goat, I’m serious!” Another man on Facebook wrote about his encounter with the goat man, saying, “While on my way to the beach I saw this guy in bright yellow underwear, which did nothing but accentuate his package, a straw hat and shoes walking a big ass Billy goat down Hwy 231 ...

The 22-year-old Floridian was arrested for allegedly pelting  his mother with sausages inside the  kitchen of their Bradenton residence. Cops charge that Callijas-Gasperin battered his 41-year-old mother after asking her to make him some food around 8 PM Monday. The victim agreed to prepare a meal, but asked her son “to give her a few minutes due to being busy.” The unemployed Callijas-Gasperin became angry when asked to wait, according to a probable cause statement. Callijas-Gasperin “threw the remaining sausages” at his mother, with one sausage striking her in the right eye. He also allegedly pushed the victim backwards and placed his hands around her neck (but did not restrict her breathing). During police questioning, Callijas-Gasperin claimed that his mother walked up and “bumped” him while he was eating in the kitchen. “The defendant stated that he got mad, so he threw the remaining sausages at her.” Callijas-Gasperin contended that he had done nothing wrong, a...