Vacancy sign flashes at Florida
jail dubbed ‘Green Roof Inn’
BUNNELL, Fla. — Looking to stay at the Green Roof Inn? Probably not.
A Florida sheriff says rooms are available and a new retro-neon sign purchased with drug-seized assets features a blinking “vacancy” light.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly has dubbed the county jail the Green Roof Inn. A sign lists the amenities at the facility north of Daytona Beach. There is no privacy, group bathrooms and no meal selection.
But inmates do get free transportation to court and state prisons, designer handcuffs and leg irons, color coordinated jumpsuits and shoes.
A sign at the jail’s exit lets inmates know the Green Roof Inn “always has a light on” and beds are available if they break the law again.
Danish volunteer finds $8,284
in charity shop coat pocket
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A Danish volunteer in a secondhand charity shop has found $8,284 in the pocket of a coat he was preparing to put on sale.
Jens Erik Christensen told a regional daily that the woman’s coat was in a bag with other clothes left in the DanChurchSocial shop’s container near Soroe, 50 miles west of Copenhagen.
Christensen told the newspaper Dagbladet Ringsted og Sjaellandske on Thursday that he was checking the coat’s buttons, zippers and pockets when he noticed a bulge in one pocket and found the money in euro bills.
He said he was “a bit surprised” but didn’t hesitate to call the police so they could investigate who had owned the coat before donating it.
Give me a toy: Florida boy gets
trapped in vending machine
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — When a young Florida boy wanted a stuffed toy, he crawled inside a claw-style vending machine in the play area of a restaurant to fetch one. And, he got stuck inside the glass-encased structure.
Thankfully, off-duty firefighter Jeremy House was also having dinner at the Beef O’Brady’s restaurant in Titusville, on Florida’s Atlantic coast. He yelled for someone to call 911 and his colleagues from a nearby fire station joined him in rescuing the boy named Mason.
“He went in, but obviously he couldn’t come back out the same way,” Battalion Chief Gregory Sutton told The Associated Press.
Mason sat atop the stuffed toys while firefighters took just 5 minutes to get him out.
Sutton says the boy was embarrassed, but wasn’t in distress. And the machine sustained minimal damage.
