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‘Good Morning America’ reported on a Florida deputy sheriff who found a unique way to propose marriage to his girlfriend — over police radio. Deputy Joseph Bracey proposed to Ashley West, who works as a Brevard County sheriff dispatcher, over a county-wide police channel. “I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?” he asked.

Bernadette Besario Catan-Keeler’s first night as a married woman probably did not go the way she anticipated. Police in Lighthouse Point, Florida arrested the 30-year-old woman for attacking and biting her new husband, not even 24 hours after they got hitched.

For his 58th birthday, Florida resident James Taylor (no relation to the singer) drank 48 beers. Or at least that’s what he told the cops when they arrested him last week for causing a disturbance at Florida’s Hudson Beach.

Sure, your feet burn when you have athlete’s foot, but a Fort Walton, Florida man had a foot injury that caused much worse burning than that. The unidentified man accidentally set his house on fire Wednesday while he cleaned an infection in his foot.

The situation a Florida married couple found itself in was stickier than the sandwich at the center of it all. A 24-year-old woman told police her husband hit her in the face with a peanut butter sandwich while they fought over money.

Hey, these are tough times, so even the boogeyman, long known for his work scaring little kids, has had to take a second job. A Florida man who crashed his motorcycle and is accused of being drunk at the time told police the boogeyman was responsible for the crash.

Some women carry gum or mints in their purse. Marie Chester carries dinner for a big family. Police in Fort Pierce, Florida arrested the 40-year-old woman last week for shoplifting six full racks of ribs and two packs of oxtails from a supermarket. Somehow, she carried out the food in her pocketbook. The items she took were worth $57.60.

The bananas foster is a member of the flambe family of desserts; it's prepared by adding alcohol to a hot pan, which in turn causes the dish to briefly ignite into flames. Of course, where there's fire, there's always the chance that something could go wrong. Which is exactly what happened at the Ozona Blue Grilling Co in Tampa, Florida on Saturday night.

A recent story about millionaire Ryan LeVin bypassing jail time with the help of money has infuriated people in his home state of Florida and across the U.S., as well. In February 2010, while racing his Porsche against a friend's BMW in Fort Lauderdale, he ran into and killed two British tourists and then fled the scene.

Over the weekend, all of the personal items from disgraced swindler Bernie Madoff's Palm Beach, Florida mansion were auctioned off by a Miami auction house. And we mean all of his personal items. In fact, an unnamed buyer paid $200 for a couple weeks worth of Bernie Madoff's unmentionables.

Three Orlando citizens who were only trying to do a good deed ended up behind bars on Wednesday. They were part of the international charity organization, "Food Not Bombs," a group that provides meals to those without.

For someone who was at the wrong place at the wrong time, a Florida woman sure found herself at the right place at the right time. The unidentified woman was struck by lightning while attending a wilderness survival class Wednesday in Charlemont, Massachusetts.