Florida crooks, cops, common folks kept the state weird, wacky and wired in 2007

TALLAHASSEE - Anyone who paid any attention to the news in 2007 should already be familiar with some of the state’s stranger 2007 stories.

There was the battle over Anna Nicole Smith’s body; the Largo city manager who was fired after he became a she; the University of Florida student who shouted “Don’t tase me, bro!” as officers Tasered him during a John Kerry event; and the astronaut love triangle involving the woman who drove 1,000 miles, allegedly using diapers to save time, to confront a romantic rival.

But there was more. So much more.