

Those caught fire, too, causing the fire to spread.

The grill and cookies caught fire, so he put dry towels on top of the grill.

He refused further medical treatment.īased on the fire department’s investigation, the man allegedly tried baking cookies on a George Foreman grill which he left unattended. He was examined at the scene and had no life threatening injuries, the report said. The man admitted to drinking two liters of vodka and smoking marijuana starting around 9 a.m. Firefighters went inside with oxygen masks to remove the burning items.

In the report, an officer said he and another officer were in the house for about five minutes and had a hard time breathing. Firefighters said that if he had stayed in the home much longer, he could have possibly died from smoke inhalation. There were several things on fire inside the home, including some towels.Īn officer detained the man and removed him from the house for his own safety. The man came to the door again, left it open and went back into the house.Īccording to the offense report from the Police Department, the man showed no signs of understanding the danger he was in. Police officers arrived shortly after to assist. A naked man opened the front door, said, “I’m sorry” and closed the door. When firefighters got to the home around 5:30 p.m., they could see smoke coming from inside. Responding to a house fire last week, Niceville police officers and firefighters encountered an odd sight. On February 14th, NPR broadcast a news segment on “All Things Considered,” featuring audio clips of reporters reading headlines containing “Florida man.NICEVILLE, Fla. In the next several days, compilations of notable tweets from the Twitter account were featured on several Internet news and tech blogs, including The Daily Dot, Laughing Squid, Gawker, Mashable and BuzzFeed. An argument over passing gas and a request for a courtesy flush after using a jail toilet led to a Florida man beating his cellmate, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. On February 8th, Slate published an article noting that the profile avatar was a mug shot of Indiana resident Ricky Lee Kalichun, who was arrested in January of 2011 after covering his face in black marker and attacking his neighbor with a sword. The same day, the Tumblr blog StuckInABucket published a list of notable “Florida Man” news headlines, which accumulated more than 200 notes in the next month. On January 31st, the /r/FloridaMan subreddit was created with links to news articles containing the words “Florida Man” in the title. Within one month, the post received over 22,700 up votes and 360 comments. On January 30th, 2013, Redditor Deus_Ex_Corde submitted a post titled “Florida Man is a terrible superhero” featuring a screenshot of Google News search results for news stories containing the keywords “Florida Man.” (shown below).
