JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After being told by her apartment complex management that it was not their responsibility to remove a snake on her porch, a woman came up with her own unfortunate solution: She set the reptile on fire and caused $1,000 damage to vinyl siding.
Shatavia Kearney, 19, called the Charter Landing Apartments office Sunday and asked someone to remove a snake on her porch. She said she was told do deal with the situation herself.
So Kearney doused the snake with a flammable liquid and set it on fire, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. In the process, the vinyl siding caught fire and was charred and melted in two places.
No one was charged and – to make matters worse – the snake got away.
Millionaire bitten while wrestling with alligator
LABELLE, Fla. – A real estate tycoon who owns a nature preserve tried to show off for visitors by jumping on an alligator’s back for a ride, but the reptile bit his hand and dragged him into 15 feet of water.
The 8-foot alligator let go of Ronald Bergeron after witnesses pulled its tail. Bergeron, 62, suffered a shattered pinky, a broken ring finger and puncture wounds in his palm.
The multimillionaire developer tried the stunt Sunday while giving a tour of his 5,000-plus-acre preserve to weekend guests who had made large donations to the Boys &Girls Club.
“I always tell them I’m going to wrestle an alligator,” Bergeron said Wednesday. “It’s part of my Florida cracker culture.”
Richard Nixon’s half-eaten sandwich goes on road
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Some might call a partially-eaten sandwich ordered by then-Vice President Richard Nixon more than 40 years ago just a piece of trash.
But Steve Jenne thought he saw a piece of history and has held onto it ever since.
Jenne retrieved the left-behind buffalo barbecue sandwich after Nixon dined at a political rally in Sullivan, Ill., during his 1960 presidential campaign.
Last month, Jenne, 59, was invited to be a guest on an updated version of the classic 1950s and ’60s television game show “I’ve Got a Secret,” in which celebrity panelists attempt to guess a contestant’s secret.
Taking an old sandwich on the road is more difficult than it sounds.
“It ain’t easy,” Jenne said. “First of all, to fly with dry ice I would have had to go through all different channels of security. So I forgot the dry ice and rigged up a way to keep it frozen in a cooler as part of my luggage and made sure it never left my side.”
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