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Mean But Clean: More Key West Crime Stories

July 30, 2007

If you don't come to this website for any other reason - please do check back for the Key West Crime blotter - because - well, it is without question the most enjoyable thing to write about.  I mean - where else do stories like this one dominate the Police Report.  Sick of the drivebys, gang wars, smog, fog and folly in your city?  It's time to take a trip to Paradise folks - where the felonies typically involve beer, a scooter and a piece of pungent pie.  The story below - well - rusty beer - not quite as exotic, but you get the point..:-)


KEY WEST — A man told police that he and a friend were sprayed by a bartender at the Smallest Bar in Town early Friday morning after a dispute about a rusty beer.According to reports, no arrests were made because the bartender argued that he sprayed the 24-year-old Gainesville, Fla., man with soap after he splashed a beer at him.

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Big love in Key Largo:

July 27, 2007

fat_1.jpgThis is a strange and sort of unsettling story. According to todays Key West Citizen - it is against the law to have more than one wife. Now I'm not sure if this is just for Monroe County - or if it applies to Florida as whole - but I got to get my ass back to Utah quick! Read the full story at the link below..;-)

( Hey and I even get to use the Key West Weddings category for a change - but am I allowed to post this twice?)
 

Here come the brides = doom for English groomKEY LARGO — A Key Largo man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he had more wives than the law allows, according to reports.Glen Springer was arrested on felony bigamy charges after authorities reportedly discovered he had married two different women, one in 2003 and one in 2006, at the same church in Homestead, Sheriff's Office reports state.

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Hemingway Look A Like Contest 2007: Insurance Agent Takes the Prize

July 23, 2007

Well - the 2007 Papa Look A Like contest has been decided and first prize was awarded to Larry Austin - a Palm Harboro Insurance Salesman.  Austin said he shared Hemingway's affinity for Key West - and a good time - but other than the striking physical resemblance - that is where the similarity ended.  The only thing he claims to have written - are insurance policies..:-) Which I might add - in my recent experience - are a much longer read than " For Whom the Bell Tolls " or " To Have or Have Not".  Congratulations also to Bruce Overby who won the Hemingway short story contest with his submission - earning about $1000 - but much more importantly - the respect of all of the judges and fellow authors involved in the annual contest.  Read the Full Story at the link below:


KEY WEST, Florida: A white-bearded insurance agent from Florida won the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, a highlight of the annual festival honoring the famed writer.Larry Austin defeated 122 other contenders in the competition at Sloppy Joe's Bar, Hemingway's favorite watering hole when he lived in the Keys in the 1930s. The final round was held late Saturday, which would have been Hemingway's 108th birthday.Austin, of Palm Harbor, said he shares Hemingway's fondness for Key West, cats and having a good time, though he has never attempted writing anything except insurance policies.

Florida insurance agent wins Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest in Key West - International Herald Tribune

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