Attention, residents of Florida: a 64-year-old, male sex offender will be at large in your area in the month of February! Hide your children!

Oh, what's that? He was cleared of those charges? So, he's not guilty. Huh? Oh, he's also rock legend Pete Townshend of the Who and he's here not to molest a gang of Floridian babies but, rather, to play with his band at the Super Bowl? Oh, okay, just checking.

So, it seems a correction seems to be in order.

Attention, residents of Florida: the Who will be playing at halftime during the Super Bowl and the only convicted sex offenders around will likely be scattered randomly throughout the crowd. By the way, you should probably not be too worried about Pete Townshend anyway because he's easy to spot, he'll be on stage the entire time and he's probably looking forward to getting out of your crazy state as soon as possible. Thanks anyway, Florida, for embarrassing the crap out of a rock legend who was cleared of all charges!

By the way, if you don't already, start listening to Uhh Yeah Dude from which this bit was stolen. [SportingNews.com]

I was checking out Yahoo's Odd News section and Florida didn't disappoint. Not one but two headlines come from the Sunshine State this morning and both are hilarious:

Fla. woman in PJs charged with DUI twice in 3 days
Fla. woman just out of prison allegedly steals car

Perhaps the best part of these stories is that the woman in both cases is in her forties. Most women I know who are in there forties are too busy working and/or taking care of their kids to be stealing cars and/or drunk driving in pajamas. Not in Florida! I would have loved to post a picture of either woman, however, no picture was available. Instead, I posted a picture of what appears to be a dachshund mix in pajamas because dogs wearing sleepwear is hilarious. My friend Marissa got a Snuggie for my dog but he hates it, so, in order to check out dogs wearing hilarious sleepwear, I have to go to the Internet. I'm not sure if a Snuggie counts as sleepwear (I guess it's more "loungewear") but what's the point of even owning a dog if he won't wear one? 

By the way, if you don't already, start listening to Uhh Yeah Dude from which this bit was stolen. [Yahoo News]

If you listen to podcasts, you should really listen to Uhh Yeah Dude which is probably the funniest podcast around. In Uhh Yeah Dude, or UYD for short, Seth and Jonathan will periodically bring up something insane that happened in Florida and utter the motto, “Fine with 49,” as in, the United States might be better off just dumping Florida due to all the nutty action that seems to be going on down there. Well, as a sort of homage to the podcast and in the interest of providing some comedy at Florida’s expense, I’m going to try an post whenever I see a bizarre story out of the Sunshine State.

Grandma Goes to Jail: A 78-year-old woman was arrested for driving without a license. The officers arrested her in her own kitchen, cuffed her and sent her to jail. She was left in jail for over two weeks. Her bond was set at $2,000. This is bad enough, except that her license wasn’t really suspended! Way to go, Florida. If the elderly can’t even expect to be treated with respect on their home turf, where are they supposed to turn? [Miami Herald]