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Zachary Bird, DUI Suspect Who Busted His Own Head in Cop Car, Was Going to Help His Friend Fred

By Rich Abdill Mon., May 28 2012 at 8:44 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas
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If you haven't already heard about the weirdest DUI arrest since the Ron Jon Surf Shop guy got caught drinking Four Loko in his car, a quick run-down: Police say Orange County anesthesiologist Zachary Bird was arrested on DUI charges after he almost side-swiped a cop car and failed sobriety tests. Then, Bird smashed his own face into a partition in the back of the cop car over and over again to force police to take him to the hospital.

Oh, and then he allegedly spit blood on two police officers. They found pills, two loaded handguns, and more than $54,000 in his pockets and car. We've got the pictures, video, and documents to satisfy any nagging curiosity you might still have about this guy.
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Two Men Break Into House Full of Poison Gas, Take Stolen Jewelry to Swap Shop, Police Say

By Rich Abdill Thu., May 10 2012 at 10:02 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Crime
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Sometimes it's fun to play "Termites, Circus, or Crime Scene?"
Tuesday night, the guy who lives at 420 SW 18th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale couldn't sleep. He was put out of his house by a termite infestation and was staying elsewhere while exterminators draped a giant tent over his house and filled it with poison gas.

It was around 4 a.m. when he took out his smartphone to check a surveillance camera he'd installed in his living room -- and saw two dudes with shirts over their mouths rummaging around through his stuff.
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Darrin Green, Jamarion Lee
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John Goodman Juror Selling Book About Trial Online, Admits to Doing Vodka Experiments Before Verdict

By Rich Abdill Fri., May 4 2012 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas
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The cover of Believing in the Truth. If you look at the title text in the mirror, it changes to I Am Catastrophically Stupid.
John Goodman was supposed to get sentenced on Monday. He could have gotten 30 years in jail for killing Scott Wilson in a drunk-driving accident in 2010. The jury found him guilty.

But that same jury is what's standing between Goodman and his sentence -- jurors have come forward twice this week and revealed potential misconduct, the most recent instance involving some questions about the fact that there was proof at the trial that Goodman had only three or four drinks before the crash.

Juror Dennis DeMartin heard that during the trial and wanted to find out what it meant -- so he drank three vodka tonics, got lost in his condo complex, and decided Goodman must have been too drunk to be driving, using this information to inform his verdict vote.

How do we know this? He wrote it in a self-published book, then gave a copy to the Sun-Sentinel yesterday.
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Business

Bride Says Spirit Airlines Ruined Her Wedding

By Deirdra Funcheon Tue., May 1 2012 at 6:15 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Business, Really?
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Rachael Barach and her fiancé spent months planning their dream wedding: a small ceremony on the remote Caribbean Island of Jost Van Dyke. Pulling it off would require some effort: flying from Fort Lauderdale to St. Thomas, then taking a ferry over to Jost Van Dyke; hiring a wedding photographer, a captain, and a six-foot sailboat; arranging international paperwork; renting hotel rooms; and bringing over days' worth of provisions, decorations, and champagne.

The couple plus seven of their friends spent thousands of dollars to put the plan into action. On Thursday, March 22, the bride and groom and five others in their party caught a Spirit Airlines flight to St. Thomas. The wedding was scheduled for Sunday, March 25, and the group planned to fly back Monday so everyone could be back at work on Tuesday.

But, says the bride, "It basically turned into a big disaster."

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Florida Republican Reps Vote to Pass CISPA, Let the Government Root Around in Your Internet Data

By Rich Abdill Fri., Apr. 27 2012 at 11:35 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas
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For all their talk of small government, Florida's Republicans sure do like a bill that would let Big Brother spy on all the stuff you've been doing online.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act would remove the legal barriers between the websites that have your data and the government that wants it: For example, right now, if Facebook gives a bunch of your private information to the government, you can sue them. But if CISPA becomes law, you can't, because this lovely law makes it totally cool for companies to hand over your online data (including emails and pictures) to the government -- without a warrant -- if the reason is ostensibly connected to cybersecurity.

It passed in the House of Representatives yesterday with the help of 17 of the state's 19 Republican legislators.
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Education

Fort Lauderdale Mavericks High Fight Posted on YouTube (Video)

By Lisa Rab Wed., Apr. 25 2012 at 7:07 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas, Education
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Two young women throw punches and tear at each others' hair while a crowd of onlookers shouts around them. Teenagers hold cell phones to record the fight as the women tumble to the ground. In the center of the video frame is a man wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of Mavericks High -- the South Florida chain of charter schools that has been plagued by whistle-blower lawsuits and academic troubles.

According to the student who posted the video on YouTube, this fight took place near the Fort Lauderdale campus of Mavericks. "Shit got to real in skool 2day these hoes stay fighting !" Junior Lamy tweeted on April 16 before posting a link to the video.

Mavericks enrolls students who are at risk of dropping out of high school, promising to
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Bizarre Kony 2012 Posters Seemingly Contain No Trace of Irony

By Stefan Kamph Tue., Apr. 24 2012 at 7:00 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas
Kony 2012 is a viral video that attempts to bring us together by alarming us over a common enemy (a dictator using child-warrior slaves) that absolutely nobody could object to. The fuss about the cofounder of Invisible Children, Jason Russell, who apparently went haywire a while back, has died down. But over the weekend, we heard reports of anti-Kony posters cropping up around town after Friday's international "Cover the Night" event. On the way downtown, we saw a couple posted on Himmarshee Street...

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...that had been torn down after a day. Which is a shame, because the originals are painfully misguided and strange. 
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Tarvess Taylor Mailed Mystery Powder to Fort Lauderdale Government Offices, Included His Name in Letter, Feds Say

By Rich Abdill Thu., Apr. 19 2012 at 5:49 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas
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A 26-year-old Miami Springs man is set to be arraigned Friday on charges that he sent five envelopes containing threatening letters and a powdery substance to the Broward Sheriff's Office and the Broward Courthouse last October, according to newly released documents.

Tarvess Taylor sent one powder-filled letter to the courthouse at 201 SE Sixth St. in Fort Lauderdale and four letters to the BSO office at 2601 W. Broward Blvd., according to prosecutors, all on or around the same day. A recently unsealed indictment says one of the letters to the BSO included the line, "I smell death And guess What it's Tarvess Taylor and his family and friends."
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Broward Antibullying Event Features Two Accused of Domestic Violence

By Rich Abdill Mon., Apr. 9 2012 at 12:47 PM
Categories: Bad Ideas
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Remember pretending you didn't buy this?
The National Voices for Equality, Education and Enlightenment is a South Florida-based antibullying organization. It's holding a "VIP Reception and Recognition Ceremony" tonight at the Hard Rock with a "special appearance" by Creed frontman Scott Stapp and a "lifetime service award" being given to Liza Minnelli. 

Neither is a stranger to bullying, though, and according to their significant others, both Stapp and Minnelli were the perpetrators.
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Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen Goes Two Games Before Offending Everybody

By Rich Abdill Mon., Apr. 9 2012 at 11:30 AM
Categories: Bad Ideas
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"I don't really even know what I'm saying with my mouth anymore."
The Miami Marlins' season started Wednesday. By Sunday, news outlets across the country were writing about all the people calling for manager Ozzie Guillen's resignation.

The hubbub is over an article from Time magazine that quotes Guillen saying pretty much the one thing Miami public figures should be told not to say in their first weeks on the job: "I love Fidel Castro."
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