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A Florida Exacta
I’ve got two Florida stories for you this morning. Borrowing from horse racing lingo, the place horse would be the story of two Tampa-area siblings. Monika Iverson, 23, and her 18-year-old brother Jeremiah were arrested last Thursday after using their Ford Focus to cut off a school bus dropping off their 16-year-old sister. Jeremiah threatened the bus driver with a brick and, not wanting to be left out of the fun, Monika decided to beat up a cop car when the deputies finally showed up (she kicked out a window and dented a door frame). Nobody knows why they were pissed off at the school bus. My guess - it was just a case of the Florida crazies. (And it should probably go without saying that both are facing quite a few criminal charges.)
But that story was only good enough to come in second - the win, by a good four horse-lengths, goes to William R. Cohen, a Fort Lauderdale attorney. He’s suing a family for at least $15,000, and up to $1 million, after their dog bit his nipple. One million dollars for a nipple bite! Cohen was at a Boca Raton dog park back in March and he alleges that Taz, a 2-year-old terrier, bit a little girl’s puppy and then bit her. He jumped in and grabbed the dog, which is when his nipple got chomped. But the family says that this was just two dogs involved in a minor scrape, and that Cohen should’ve known better than to jump in to grab their terrier. They say that when Cohen was bit, “he was kind of like: ‘Ow. That kind of hurt,’” but that there was no blood and that Cohen didn’t seem to be in bad shape. Cohen says he’s not usually a litigious person, but he wants money for his medical treatment and loss of income, as well as for damages to cover his pain and suffering and “loss of sexual comfort and desire.”
