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Fish are falling from the sky in Florida

Dented Fish Now Swims In Tank At Sushi Restaurant

An equipment worker had just gotten into his truck and was leaving a restaurant in Melbourne when a fish landed on his windshield.

The fish was still alive when it landed outside the sushi bar Chameleon's.

The worker rushed it into the restaurant to show the other employees.

"They brought him into the kitchen, put him in some water, he started flopping around and they said, 'Oh wow, we're going to have fresh sushi because we're a great sushi bar here,' and I said, 'Wait a minute. That's our lucky fish. That doesn't just happen every day. We need to put him in our pond up front so everybody can enjoy him,'" Angel Pacheco said.

The fish has a dent in its head, but is now swimming around in a tank with the rest of the fish at Chameleon's.

As for how it fell out of the sky in the first place, it likely fell out of the talons or the beak of a bird flying overhead.

"The Beef Jerky Got Me"

Bedridden 600-pound Florida man cops to series of food thefts

Meet George Jolicoeur. The 600-pound Florida man copped yesterday to criminal charges of stealing food from restaurants and convenience stores. The bedridden Jolicoeur was not in a Seminole County courtroom when his lawyer entered a no contest plea on the 38-year-old's behalf to five misdemeanor petty theft counts. The plea deal spared the 5' 11" Jolicoeur--who breathes with the aid of a respirator--a jail term, though he was ordered to pay court costs and restitution.

According to investigators, Jolicoeur would con businesses out of food or refunds by claiming that his grub was spoiled, adulterated, or inedible (Jolicoeur's ruse dates back several years and resulted in a prior no contest plea to theft charges). A Seminole County Sheriff's Officer report details an August 2007 incident in which Jolicoeur attempted a refund scam at a 7-Eleven. Jolicoeur, described as having "labored breathing, similar to wheezing," claimed to have purchased $50 worth of beef jerky that turned out to be moldy.

When Seminole cop Jeff Sabounji went to Jolicoeur's home to arrest him, the officer reported hearing "what sounded like a male trying to cover his voice as a female. The person said that Jolicoeur was not here." At that point, Sabounji noted, "I could hear a female inside of the residence stating, 'George, just turn yourself in.'"

As he was later being transported to jail, Jolicoeur explained to Sabounji, "the beef jerky got me." Jolicoeur was busted again two months later for swindling $50 from a different 7-Eleven store. Masquerading as a fireman, Jolicoeur pretended to have been sold 10 "damaged" containers of Breyers ice cream, according to an Oviedo Police Department report. Not surprisingly, he claimed to have purchased 10 gallons of the frozen confection.

Otter friends pass away together

Two zoo otters who were always together have died of heart attacks on the same night.

Staff at Nelson's Natureland zoo, New Zealand, were reeling from the shock of their deaths last week, operations manager Gail Sutton said. However, they were also relieved that they had gone together.

Daz, 19, and Chip, 16, were elderly, as an otter's average lifespan was 13 to 15 years, she said. They had been unwell for two weeks and had spent a week in a quarantine area

After completing treatment, they were due to return to their enclosure the next day but died that night. Autopsy results indicated that they suffered heart attacks, she said. Pathology reports were expected to determine what caused the attacks.

"It seems the stress of one having a heart attack was enough to trigger the other heart attack," Ms Sutton said. "They were always so close and never apart. They always cuddled together. Both went together, and that's a blessing for them."

The otters, which were popular with Natureland visitors, lived there for 15 years and helped to raise awareness about the threats facing otters in the wild.

Woman says she robbed bank because it was on her "bucket list"

DELAND -- A DeLand woman who said robbing a bank was something she wanted to cross off her "bucket list" took a bus downtown to rob one, DeLand police said.

Patricia Dianne Edwards, 51, called the heist at the Bank of America at 230 N. Woodland Blvd. on March 9 one of the things she wanted to do before she died, a charging affidavit showed. Edwards is charged with robbery of the DeLand bank and is also charged with the robbery of a second Bank of America in Sanford.

She was arrested on Friday and is being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on $20,000 bail, a booking officer said this afternoon.

On March 9, Edwards walked into the DeLand Bank of America, handed the teller a note that read "I have a gun, give me all your money. Give me straps of $100s, $50s and $20s," the police report said. The teller put the money on the counter and Edwards left the bank. Police saturated the area but could not find Edwards.

When Edwards was arrested on Friday on a warrant charging her with the robbery of a Bank of America in Sanford, the woman told DeLand detectives how she eluded them.

Edwards said she took a Votran bus from her apartment at the Applewood Apartments to downtown DeLand and got off in front of the county administration building on Rich Avenue. She planned to rob the PNC Bank at Woodland Boulevard and Ohio Avenue but left that bank because everyone at the bank greeted her. She then went to the Bank of America and waited in line, the report said.

Edwards said when she approached the teller she gave her the note telling her, "I have a gun, I will use it." She grabbed the money the teller put on the counter, walked out and boarded a Votran bus at the same place she departed and went to her apartment. Edwards said that as she rode in the bus, she watched as patrol cars and police officers swarmed the bank looking for her, the report said.

Once at her apartment, Edwards counted the money and realized she had stolen $4,300, the report said.