There must be something in the water in Florida — or perhaps folks are suffering from heat on the brain — because residents there are constantly “wilding out” and “losing it” under the weirdest circumstances.
Take this strange episode as a perfect example. A Florida woman set a man’s car on fire after he refused to buy her a McFlurry from McDonald’s for dessert, the media is reporting.
Burning a car over a McFlurry?!?
Witnesses at the Jacksonville, Fla., store said the alleged arsonist was bickering with her man about what to eat at 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning.
“She was saying she wanted this and wanted that, and she wanted either a McFlurry or an ice cream on top and he was not in for it,” bystander Sabryna Maré told Action News Jax.
“Next thing you know, she says ‘I’m going to blow it up,’ and we were wondering what are you going to blow up?” she recalls.
The scorned woman allegedly then grabbed the keys to his 1994 El Dorado and ran outside, according to WFTV News.
Witnesses told police and the TV news crews that the woman allegedly grabbed a gasoline can, poured it over the vehicle before dropping a match and setting it on fire.
Witnesses tried to help douse the flames, but it soon became entirely engulfed. Maré said that the woman then disappeared.
And, once firefighters put the blaze out, so did the man and – even more bizarrely – the vehicle.
“It was one second here, one second there, gone. Later we saw the car parked on the side of Beach Boulevard,” Maré told the station.
The woman has since been named as Melanie Cross but she vehemently disagrees with Maré’s version of the events.
“This happened in the drive-thru,” Cross told WTEV, “I was alone and my car caught fire.”
“I left the scene because I was scared,” she said, “I will admit I do not have a license, I shouldn’t have been driving at all.”
There is another problem for Cross and her boyfriend. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has revealed that the license plate did not match the vehicle. An investigation into the incident is ongoing and Cross will soon have some serious explaining to do about the license plate discrepancy, driving without a valid license, allegedly torching a car and leaving the scene of a crime.
