I hope that alcohol was involved

I used to think that all the crazy stuff happened in California. I guess they're now going to Florida to retire. 

When the Manatee County Sheriff’s office got the call that a woman was standing on a street in broad daylight kicking strangers in the genitals, reports the Miami Herald, they sent an undoubtedly unlucky deputy to investigate.

When the deputy found a woman who matched the description of wearing red pants and braids, he called for her to come towards him. Instead the woman, now identified as Katina Jane Collins, ran for it. As the deputy gave chase, Collins allegedly stopped in her tracks and punched the officer in the face, knocking his sunglasses off. The deputy was able to get Collins on the ground and in handcuffs, despite her alleged attempts to scratch the deputy while he handcuffed her, the report said.

What led Collins to be standing in the “street kicking people in genitals and running around kicking a man,” according to an arrest affidavit from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, is unclear. Collins, a 38- year old resident of Sarasota, Florida, was fresh off of another charge for battery of a police officer. It’s unclear if the incidents are related.

According to the Florida Sun-Sentinel, Collins has been charged with battery of an officer and is being held at the Manatee County jail on a $1,500 bond. There is no word on the number of individuals who fell victim to genital kicking spree before police intervened.

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This didn't seem to make the papers yesterday, but wouldn't surprise me. We have a lot of "transients" that come down here in the winter rather than sleep on grates up north in the blizzards. Interestingly, while waiting outside a doctor's office yesterday (in Sarasota), I observed an older lady in red pants and a sequined baseball cap with a small suitcase. She was waiting by a bus stop in front of the office, so I figured she was waiting for a bus. (Maybe she had been let off by one earlier?) While I waited, an ambulance came by and they whisked her into it, somewhat wobbly. Wonder if they took her to the hospital or the Manatee jail?