A Letter to My Dog, Half Pint

This last year may have been the worst one of my life, but at least I've got the world's two greatest dogs by my side to help me stagger into 2018. Today's post features a letter to Half Pint. Benjamin will be getting a letter later this week--he'd never let me hear the end of it, otherwise. Also, this posts features a lot of short video clips of Half Pint being silly. Since I apparently can't do anything right these days, they are exclusively shot in vertical mode. Please accept my apologies (and cut me some friggin' slack).

Weird Crime: Shoot Me Once, Shame On Me




Port Charlotte, Florida

To say that Florida resident Peter James Bonfiglio has a checkered past would be a gross understatement.

- In 2005, Peter was arrested for making threats against the life of then President George W. Bush. Then in 2006, the 19-year-old was busted for manufacturing false secret service credentials...including one that bore the likeness of the very agent who arrested him.



- 2008 saw Peter losing the sideburns while gaining an arrest for larceny.


- In 2009, Peter went from making threats to actually carrying them out. After a three hour standoff with police, he threw a lit bottle at a police cruiser and pointed a gun at them. The standoff resulted in him getting shot and arrested.

- In 2011, Peter brings back the sideburns while getting in trouble with the feds again




...twice.



In 2013, he was busted for violating his parole while operating a comb over.



His most recent arrests, however, may actually be the most absurd of them all. In 2013, Peter called police to report that someone hiding in the woods had shot him. The shooter turned out to be him.

The on June 18, 2014, Peter decided to try his luck at deceiving the police again. This time, he claimed that a woman he knew and a man he didn't had robbed jewelry from him at gunpoint before shooting him in the foot.

When the police interviewed the woman, however, she was able to show them text messages proving that Peter had actually approached her about buying jewelry from her. They also found the cab driver who drove the woman over to Peter's home, who confirmed that she went there by herself (and should really be more careful about who she visits alone).

As if all that wasn't bad enough, the woman also said that Peter's foot was already shot/injured when she got there. Once again, the old "shoot yourself and call the police to blame it on someone else" trick had failed.

Peter Bonfiglio was arrested and charged with filing a false police report. There were probably some other things they could've/should've tacked on as well (probation violation, illegal possession of a firearm, etc), but the mugshot below might show why they didn't.


Holy hell...I'm not saying I've aged all that well, but the change from 19 to 27 for Peter is like something from a really bad (or particularly bad) episode of Cold Case.

Either the police just felt bad for him or they've given up charging him with stuff. But the fact that he somehow keeps getting access to guns is yet another reason that The Bugs Bunny plan for Florida looks like a better idea every day.





Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you'd like to sing my praises or tell me how terrible I am more personally, I can also be found on Twitter. 


To get updates on when new articles or podcasts are published (and occasional random musings) 'Like' the official RamblingBeachCat.com Facebook page. Every time someone does, Florida gets a little bit closer to breaking free of the southeastern United States.

Comments

Disqus Comments