busting paradegoers
107 people were arrested during last month’s Gasparilla invasion and parade. The two you see being carted off 
here were busted before the parade even started. There were eleven felonies reported and 96 misdemeanors, including nine charges of boating under the influence.
The director of Hillsborough County Health Department and professor of internal medicine at the University of South Florida, Dr. Douglas A. Holt was arrested during Gasparilla festivities Saturday on a charge of boating under the influence. His response:
“I’m a very responsible person, but I made perhaps a wrong choice,” Holt said. “I certainly put no one in danger.”
Meanwhile, Mark Koert was drunk when he tried to slam a 28-foot Maxim he stole from the municipal docks at the Tampa Convention Center into Deputies Paul Shute and Timothy Lundy, both of the sheriff’s marine unit. The Realtor has a mostly clean record, so I’m thinking he was quite inebriated.
Don’t forget, the Knight Parade is this Saturday. Have fun with that!
Photo courtesy of J William Robinson. Check out his other work at jwilliamphoto.com.
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February 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
this is a city sponsored event that encourages drunkenness and lewd behavior. i am not a prude but this faux mardis gras has gotten out of hand. Maybe someone should do some journalism and expose this celebration as what it started out as, a party for the rich and priveleged so called Krewes of Tampa. It is time to end this disgraceful event if Tampa wants to really be respected.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Thank God I am in the parade not watching it!
February 16th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Hey piratesrdead,
You are a prude get over it!