“Florida man” is back at it: a 70-year-old driver has been arrested after an off-duty trooper saw him standing through the moon roof of his car, when he should have been driving it.
And that’s not even the strangest part of this incident: the dude was doing this while speeding down the highway. When police caught up with him, he told them that he was doing it as a means to “praise God.”
He also told cops that he was happy to be going to jail because he was too scared of his wife to return home. And that’s how you know your marriage sucks.
The Springfield News-Sun identifies the driver as Leonard Olsen from Lakeland. According to the arrest report obtained from the Florida Highway Patrol, Olsen’s white Cadillac CT6 “bounced back and forth in the center lane…and sped up to over 100 miles per hour and slowed to about 40 miles per hour.”
Meanwhile, he was hanging out the moon roof, arms outstretched and a blissful expression on his face. And you don’t have to take our word for it either: the trooper who spotted him also captured the whole thing on camera and the video is available at the bottom of the page.
Police caught up with Olsen farther down the road and, naturally, asked him what prompted such a grave instance of reckless driving. His reply was baffling, if unconvincing: “I thought it would be a nice way to praise God for a minute, and I thought it would be nice at the time and that’s what I did.”
He wasn’t worried about crashing because “The car drives itself and has a gigantic computer in it,” so he had complete faith in its cruise control mode.
When informed he would be charged with reckless driving, Olsen told the cops that, “My wife treats me like a servant and she’s the mistress. Lock me up, I’d rather go to jail than go back home.”
Elena has been writing for a living since 2006 and, as a journalist, she has put her double major in English and Spanish to good use. She covers automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, and she always knows the shows worth watching on Netflix and friends. Full profile
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