Florida Woman Arrested For Riding A Manatee

By Time.com

Credit: Pinellas County Sheriff's Department

Florida Woman Arrested For Riding A Manatee

November 26, 2012 Updated Nov 26, 2012 at 11:33 AM PDT

(Time.com)-Samantha Grossman In the latest dispatch from Florida, the country’s unofficial capital of bizarre news, the woman who recently turned herself in for riding a manatee has now been arrested.

Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez, 53, of St. Petersburg, came forward and admitted to the crime in early October, after being photographed riding on the back of one of the marine mammals in Fort De Soto Park, just outside St. Petersburg — though she said she was unaware that she’d committed a crime at all. Alas, ignorance does not equal innocence, and on Saturday she was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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