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SoFlo: WHERE WE LIVE (4#) -

netable, notable & a sign of the times . . .

# By far, the story that has dominated the local news for me since dinner hour last evening, actually took place off shore and conveniently tucked away from the main highways here, so it was just off everyone's main radar screen...

Evening Commuter Traffic was snarled for about three hours last night on the Resort Strip, which is a long sandbar just off Florida's Atlantic Coast. SWAT and Hostage Negotiating Teams were called to the Ocean Drive scene where a man entered a law office late in the afternoon and demanded to see a lawyer, then put a gun to his own head, pulled the trigger, and committed suicide. The man has never been identified.

Most of the local MSM virtually ignored the story or treated it as a traffic nuisance, but I suspect we are going to see a lot more stories like this one because of foreclosures.

# Closet Cache Killer Convicted: For nearly three weeks, Moninger lived in the apartment with his dead roommate, Beth Berger, entombed in the hall closet. Her body was eventually found wrapped in plastic trash bags and stuffed into a cardboard box which was hidden away. [herald] and [sent] So, how well do you think you know your roommate, hmmm?

# Another ATM Toppled: "Thieves looking for loot knocked over an ATM in Lauderdale Lakes using a front-end loader." Not a very unusual type of story around these parts, where there's a lot of construction equipment laying around.

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