It’s refreshing to learn that even in the midst of a deadly pandemic where thousands are dying and millions are containing themselves in self-isolation, that some men have not abandoned their sense of priorities. Men who understand what’s truly important, who are willing, ready and able to stand up and be counted, to throw themselves in harm’s way on behalf […]
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Maybe they’ll make a movie about this–Inside the Green Egg, or Deep Bunny, or Easter Bunny Does Bunnell. Bunnell? Yeah, it’s a town just north of Dayton Beach on Florida’s east coast and it’s making headlines for an arrest there this week. Police began receiving calls earlier this month from residents disturbed to find Easter eggs in their mailboxes stuffed […]
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We start off today’s report with news certain to bring a smile to your bandanna-covered face. In a town outside of Flint, Michigan, a woman named Kris Gibson spotted a black dog hanging around outside her fence. Her first instinct was to find the dog’s owner, so she took the puppy to a nearby animal clinic where an embedded microchip […]
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So, if you want to rob a bank in the worst way, how do you go about doing it? Take a lesson from a Fort Lauderdale man who entered an east coast Florida bank pretending to have a gun. A terrified teller handed over $4,700. And a little bonus, too—a dye pack. The 25-year-old Florida man then ran out of […]
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A stretch of Interstate 4, known as the Dead Zone, has been eating cars. In its entirety, I-4 connects Tampa with Daytona Beach, cutting through central Florida and, importantly, is the most heavily trafficked route used by millions of tourists flocking to Disney World each year. So, just by virtue of the volume of vehicles traversing the highway every day, […]
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I’m stranded aboard my houseboat, the Miss Demeanor, practicing social distancing while we wait and pray for the coronavirus pandemic to pass. Trying to be productive while in isolation, I’ve been cleaning out old files of stories that I thought might someday make interesting submissions for The Strange Files. Here are some random notes: Can I have a condom with […]
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So there you are on a hot, tropic day and a shower breaks out. So you slip under a pretty green tree sporting what looks like crabapples. Of course, hiding under a tree during a thunderstorm is an inherently bad idea. Trees being what scientists call Lightning Magnets. But this particular tree you’ve sought shelter under has its own nasty […]
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A Florida woman (of course she had to be from Florida) found herself uncomfortably pinned to the ground by a camel at a truck stop and did the only thing she could think of to save herself: She bit the camel on his testicles. Now, before going further, there are several questions that are sure to spring to mind, not […]
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