It’s been a while since we checked in with Floriduh! Man, or at least Floriduh! Man not trying to blow up a couple of dozen people, so let’s see what we’ve got cooking. Er, um…
Police in Florida stumbled upon the strange video of a naked man helping himself to food from a restaurant while investigating a separate burglary at the establishment. ?https://t.co/E32AKmfRwD
— CBS4Local (@CBS4Local) November 13, 2018
Take it away Tampa Bay Times!
ST. PETERSBURG — It started with chicken wings, a beer and a burglar.
It went downhill from there.
A St. Petersburg police officer was investigating a Nov. 6 break-in at The Chattaway restaurant, reviewing surveillance video that shows the burglar devouring a plate of chicken wings and enjoying a beer inside the kitchen. But then the officer stumbled across another incident from the night before.
The video shows a man riding his bike up to the restaurant at 358 22nd Ave S, pedaling around the parking lot for 10 minutes, then slipping in through the back gate. After wandering around for a bit, he opens the door to a shed for storing odds and ends, and removes them one by one.
Then the man gains access to a restaurant bathroom. And exits without his clothes.
He proceeds to sit naked at one of the restaurant’s picnic tables and digs into a meal he brought with him — Maruchan Instant Lunch ramen. The video also shows him playing the bongos, also naked.
“He came in with pants on but he rode off on the bike without pants,” Chattaway server Chad Pearson said. “I’m not sure if he took his pants with him but we didn’t find them. We still don’t know where his pants are.”
He spray-painted a few chairs, the bongos and a pickle jar, but his handiwork was barely noticeable, manager Amanda Kitto said. Everything was put back so neatly, in fact, it was four hours before anyone noticed he had been there.
“We would not have known about the naked guy without the cop finding that video,” Kitto said.
Police identified the man, who is homeless, but did not release his name publicly. Kitto declined to give his name and said the restaurant will not press charges because he caused no harm.
“His goal was to not break in, his goal was to just hang out at The Chattaway.”
What about the first guy?
Police still are trying to catch him.
He enjoyed the plate of chicken wings and some beer, and stole an estimated $500 worth of stuff, including cash tips, a laptop, a tablet, and a grocery bag he filled with beer.
“He made himself at home,” Kitto said. “He spent over an hour just milling around going room to room and eating and drinking while he did it.”
The man also tried unsuccessfully to access the safe using his hands, a pot handle and tongs.
Kitto is confident that even though the two incidents happened back-to-back, they are not connected.
“I used to always joke and say that if you were going to break into The Chattaway to make sure to grab a beer. And it finally happened.”
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Floriduh! Woman, however, also put in a strong showing.
42-year-old Kimberly Gabel cursed out the manager of a Red Lobster before snatching a live lobster from its tank and running out.https://t.co/CFUlJQ669j
— KOLD News 13 (@KOLDNews) November 14, 2018
Once again The Tampa Bay Times has got this story well in hand…
The lobster never saw it coming.
One second it was floating listlessly in a glass tank, vying against endless shrimp, the smell of Cheddar Bay Biscuits hanging hauntingly in the air. Then, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said, an apparently intoxicated St. Petersburg woman snatched the lobster from its crustaceous purgatory and ran.
The lobster was never seen again.
Kimberly Gabel was arrested Saturday on charges of disorderly intoxication and petit theft for causing a disturbance in the Red Lobster at 6151 34th St N . The restaurant had barely been open two hours.
It was just after 1:15 p.m., deputies said, when a manager at the restaurant asked Gabel to leave. The manager said she was disturbing customers and shouted obscenities as she made her way to the door. Before she could leave, though, the 42-year-old woman reached into the oft-familiar entryway lobster tank, grabbed a live lobster and bolted.
Deputies said they caught up with Gabel a “short distance later.” They said she smelled of alcohol and slurred her words as she continued cursing, telling deputies she didn’t know what she did with the lobster because she was “blacked out drunk” and that she “did not care because she did not do anything wrong.”
Deputies described Gabel as a homeless woman. According to Pinellas County Jail records, she has been arrested numerous times for charges ranging from public intoxication to multiple counts of burglary and theft. She is currently awaiting trial in Pinellas County Jail.
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