Why am I not surprised that someone gathers all the weird Florida news stories each day and piles it into a blog? 

Not that Florida is the only place for bizarre. I once wrote a story about a rabid skunk in East Tennessee that ran under a deputy’s patrol car and tried to bite him on the foot. The ricochet from his sidearm damaged the cruiser and it became a county commission issue on who would pay to repair it. 

However, bizarre happens here. First, there are the alligators, especially the amorous ones that trundle from drainage ditch to drainage ditch in April, looking for girlfriends. They’re good for some weird stories annually. Matter of fact, critters from attacking bobcats to circling sharks naturally account for a lot of the bizarre news down here. 

Maybe it’s the heat. I’ve got a 14-foot rose bush in my front yard. Any climate that can stimulate a rose bush to grow like that has got to unbalance a human being. Of course, everybody’s got access to air conditioning, but it simply means when you go outside you get the heat and the humidity AND the “hummm” of thousands of droning heat pumps. 

Go figure and check out http://www.bizarreflorida.com for a little head shaking.