As global warming continues to fuel the profits of companies who make sunblock, the dangers of tanning still fail to dissuade people from soaking up the sun on Floridian beaches. Trying to get get beautiful tanned girls in bikinis to leave the seashores is not only difficult but unpopular with 50% of the world's population.
Enter one of Jacksonville's finest, Officer Lewis Keller, and bathing beauty Anne Marie Griffin. While innocently idling on Jacksonville Beach in sunny Florida, Griffin was hit by Officer Keller's SUV. And for "hit" read "run over at speed.
Apparently, Officer Keller was tooling down the beach in his police patrol SUV (as you do) and he did a U-turn - right over the hapless tanner. Keller and a volunteer had to lift the SUV off of her while others pulled her out.
Griffin ended up with head and spinal injuries, along with a broken pelvis and crushed ribs. The SUV was unharmed.
After an internal investigation found him "negligent" and "not driving safely," Keller was given 70 hours of suspension, which is equal to seven days because officers at the Jacksonville Beach Police Department work 10-hour shifts. He was suspended without pay two days last week and will forfeit 50 hours of vacation time.
And why was the officer driving on the beach? Chasing a murderer? Hunting down an armed gang member? Nope, apparently, "Keller was making a U-turn on the shoreline near 14th Avenue South to return to a case of unopened bottled beer."
As if Florida bathers didn't have enough to worry about with sunburn, skin cancer, and sharks - now they have to keep an eye open for rogue trucks!
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