Non-political things that make you say...WTF?!?! (Welcome To Florida!) **NOT CV RELATED** NO TALKY!

Not everyone in the world sucks.

https://twitter.com/HealDepressions/status/1477957104178765824

 

Now that's thinking outside the box.

 

Obviously clean burning.

Probably next on California's "To Do" list.

 

Anti theft device.

 

Ummmm what is it

 

The FB page caption says it's a 2-stroke V8.

 

It runs on water, man

 

Yeah, buddy said that after i asked. Kinda crazy thing

 

He might be a big dummy but he gets his in the end….

https://mobile.twitter.com/BanginTweets_/status/1481361279268839428

 

Remember to tip your bartender... and don't do stupid sht.


How a Key West bartender and his boss helped solve the burning of a beloved landmark




Who cracked the case of the burned buoy?

Key West police got some help tracking down two men they said vandalized the beloved landmark at the Southernmost Point of the U.S.

Credit the detective work at a Duval Street bar.

A bartender with a good memory and his boss with a curious mind figured out the suspects’ names after going through receipts and security camera footage.

Cameron Briody, who tends bar at Irish Kevin’s on Key West’s most famous street, awoke New Year’s Day to learn that the giant buoy landmark had been scarred by a fire two people set next to it with a burning pine tree.

The vandalism struck a nerve on the island. People wanted to see the suspects identified and arrested. The “coconut telegraph,” the nickname for the island’s gossip chain, was on high alert, of course.

So how did a bartender turn into a detective?

Briody recognized one face from a Southernmost Point webcam video circulating online. He said he served the man on New Year’s Eve that police later identified as a suspect, Skylar Jacobson, 21, of Henrietta, Texas.

The customer ordered drinks three times and never tipped, Briody recalled.

“I knew immediately that I had served him and that he had used a card, so his name would be on the slips,” Briody said in an interview via Facebook message.

So he immediately called work with the intel. Daylin Starks, the bar’s general manager, started hunting.

“We have a ton of cameras here,” Starks said. “Because Cameron remembered everything, it was super easy for me.”

“It took five minutes to breeze through the credit cards and find it,” Starks said.

With the time stamp on the receipt, she then found camera footage that she said showed both suspects at the bar. “We could follow them the whole time, in and out of the bar,” Starks said. “We could see them getting rejected from all the girls they were trying to hit on.”

The day after the vandalism, police said they knew who the two suspects were but wouldn’t release names while searching for them. By the end of the week, they announced they had arrest warrants for Jacobson and David B. Perkins Jr., 22, of Leesburg, Florida.

On Friday, Perkins was booked into the county jail on Plantation Key in the Upper Keys, and released in a couple of hours without having to post a bond, according to online records from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

 

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight...

WWII soldier’s letter from Germany finally delivered 76 years after sending

WOBURN, Mass. — A letter penned by a young Army sergeant in Germany to his mother in Woburn was lost in the mail for 76 years until finally being delivered last month.

On Dec. 6, 1945, 22-year-old Sgt. John Gonsalves wrote to his mother, sending his well wishes and hopes of returning home soon.

“Dear, Mom. Received another letter from you today and was happy to hear that everything is okay,” he wrote from Bad Orb, in central Germany. “As for myself, I’m fine and getting along okay. But as far as the food it’s pretty lousy most of the time.”

That letter wouldn’t make it to its destination, sitting unopened for more than three quarters of a century, until suddenly and inexplicably, late last month, it showed up in a United States Postal Service facility for processing and distribution in Pittsburgh.

USPS employees searched for next-of-kin to Gonsalves, who had died in 2015, his mother also long gone. They found an address for Gonsalves’s widow, Angelina, whom the young solider would only meet five years after he sent that letter.

On Dec. 9, 2021, Angelina “Jean” Gonsalves opened a package containing the sentimental note from her brave would-be husband to his worried mother.

“Imagine that! Seventy-six years!” Mrs. Gonsalves said to Boston 25 News from her Woburn home Tuesday. “I just I couldn’t believe it. And then just his handwriting and everything. It was just so amazing.”

Along with the handwritten letter was a note from USPS expressing condolences for Mrs. Gonsalves’s loss. The couple was married for 61 years and raised five children.

“We are uncertain where this letter has been for the past seven-plus decades, but it arrived at our facility approximately six weeks ago,” the letter reads. “Due to the age and significance to your family history… delivering this letter was of utmost importance to us.”

The Gonsalves family called the facility to thank them for their dedication to delivering the letter, which Sgt. Gonsalves had signed, “Love and kisses, Your son Johnny. I’ll be seeing you soon, I hope.”

Reading the letter has brought back fond memories for Mrs. Gonsalves, who turns 90 years old this month. While she spent another holiday without her husband, she felt his presence more than she could have ever expected.

“It’s like he came back to me, you know? Really. That was amazing,” Mrs. Gonsalves said. “He was a good man. He really was. Everybody loved him.”

 

Ummm what?

 

"... Delivering the letter was of utmost importance to us"

Well apparently not....

 

My exact thoughts.

 

Yea, that made me laugh.

 

I've seen The Postman, it takes time.