Ƒlorida Man has many skills, including turning an everyday traffic accident into a wild incident involving partial nudity and a police chase through a swamp. Authorities say a 23-year-old man drove his Nissan Sentra across the center line and collided with a semi truck, but instead of exchanging information and waiting for police, he stripped down to his underwear and took off in the swamp.
Police say the crash happened around 8:30 p.m. on April 10 near Mulberry in Polk County, Florida. After the collision, the truck driver was in pain but was able to give police a description of the man, who they say stripped down to his underwear before falling into the water.
The dogs found the driver a mile deep in the swamp, wearing only his boxers. While police can be scary, the man likely found countless other horrors lurking in the swamp at night, and officers said he was ready to come out when they found him. “He did not resist. He just wanted to get out of the woods and out of the swamp,” an officer told local news. Officials speculated that the man probably stripped to make it more difficult to search, but as they noted, running through a crowd in his underwear make it easier to choose you.
While this story is certainly hilarious, it ended as well as it could have. No one was killed, no one was shot, and the suspect was caught. This is a net positive when we consider the number of fatal accidents caused by road rage. Late last year, the IIHS said aggressive driving accounted for 66 percent of fatalities, and the NHTSA counted 300 road rage-related deaths since 2013. Florida was one of the states where people were talking more about rage online, so it’s a good thing this incident just ended with soaked underwear and a funny story instead of bullets
