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I Wanna Go Home

“I knew you were coming after me,” Giovanny Brady told a deputy from the Seminole County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office. “I just didn’t want to go to jail.” And why would being pulled over for speeding lead to jail? Brady was 25 mph over the limit, a deputy said, but that was just the start, a department spokesman says. There was also his driver’s license — expired by nearly a decade. Then there was the fact that he was already facing charges and had been released on bond. Then there was the smell of marijuana, which Brady tried to defend by saying it was his girlfriend’s, and citing another state’s medical-marijuana program, but the packaging deputies found didn’t look medical — and a non-Florida medical-pot card isn’t good in Florida anyway. And if all that wasn’t enough, Brady picked a bad way to get out of trouble: allegedly offering the deputies $500, then $1,000 (for “a ride home”) — and when told a deputy could not take cash, suggesting gift certificates or Super Bowl tickets instead. (AC/WKMG Orlando) ...Deputies didn’t take the tickets, but they did get to see a world-champion fail.