Posted on 09/17/2023 6:13:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A man in Florida is accused of stealing a large construction excavator and taking it for a drive, knocking down power poles before plowing through the front of a Walmart store in Gainesville, police said.
Police said 47-year-old Jesse Charles Smith hot wired the excavator and stole it from a nearby storage area. He damaged other storage units, a Starbucks, and the Walmart on SW 42nd Street during the joyride, police said.
Police estimated the total damage to Walmart near $2 million.
Police said Smith was also armed with a machete.
It's not known why Smith stole the excavator, police said. However, Smith reportedly admitted to detectives that he was on drugs.
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Florida man strikes again!
Killdozer at home:
In nature the dangerous things have markings to identify them as such...
Something tells me that this guy doesn't have that kind of cash.
Bring back the 60’s when all the drugs were so wonderful and only the terminally socially repressed didn’t do them.
Years ago we brought our cub scouts to a friends construction site. My friend, the site supervisor told me to take the boys in the excavator and let them move the bucket around.
I had run Bobcats before but never real heavy equipment
“Uh Brad. You want to show me how to run it first?”
I had more fun the the six year olds did.
Something tells me he’s had this kind of photo taken before.
There was a story a few years ago about a gravel quarry in Germany where the owner had his 9-year-old grandson running a front-end loader, one of the fairly large ones. Some busybodies were getting upset about it, and the owner told them it was private property and the kid was a better operator than most of the other employees.
This man should have been shot.
You have no idea how many people you can kill toppling a wall at Walmart.
An upstanding Christian man I see…
In the way that a herd of antelopes on the African savannah attracts lions, Gainesville and its mass of naive college students draws criminal predators and the criminally unbalanced. And, by a happenstance of history working to the convenience of the predators today, the State of Florida has numerous prison facilities located within an hour or two of Gainesville.
That’s cool.
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Like Raiford?
There has to be an alligator in the story somewhere.
Joystick and foot pedal controlled, they are now just video games that move stuff.
She figured it out and ran it very efficiently, probably better than many adults would.
Part of homeschooling.
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