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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida was weird as only it can be in 2011
This Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 file photo provided by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office shows a 45-kilogram, 2.44-meter-tall statue made to look like a Lego man that was found on Siesta Key beach in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, File)
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- Did you hear about the giant Lego man that washed up on Siesta Key beach? What about the man who walked into a bar, ordered a beer and disappeared for 30 minutes to rob a bank, only to return and finish his drink? Or how about the puzzling story of the baby grand piano that showed up on a sandbar near Miami?
That's Florida, where weird is an everyday event.
Over the past year, a 92-year-old woman fired four shots at a neighbor who refused to kiss her, a Delray Beach man cut off a piece of a dead whale that washed ashore -- planning to eat it -- and an 8-year-old girl gave her teacher some marijuana and said: "This is some of my mom's weed."
The piano was a mystery for about a month. On Jan. 1, 2011, the charred instrument showed up on a Biscayne Bay sandbar, a couple hundred yards from shore. A 16-year-old student eventually admitted he put it there as part of an art project. A day after it was removed, someone set up a table with two chairs, place settings and a bottle of wine.
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*Just love stories like this..
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Florida was weird as only it can be in 2011 (Original Post)
AsahinaKimi
Jan 2012
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greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)1. I was pissed...
That I didn't find the Lego Guy first!!!! LOL!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. Keep Florida weird! Nt
VWolf
(3,944 posts)3. "No real than you are"
Quick - call the grammer police!