Tampa’s Creative Loafing joins the game of curating Lakeland news, focusing on the weird and unseemly stuff: an alligator roaming Eaglebrooke, two 14-year-olds stealing Dad’s gun and holding someone up, another 14-year-old found with a gun at school, a guy facing 65 counts of molesting kids and an after-school program under investigation after leaving a 6-year-old locked in a van.
Their conclusion: “That seems a little busy with the crazy even for Florida.” Somehow I don’t see civic boosters trading “little mecca of cool” for “busy with the crazy.”
Source: Creative Loafing Tampa Bay