By james art A Miami-Dade County resident bought a barbeque in Hialeah and brought it home in flamboyant fashion, demonstrating great ingenuity… and even greater ignorance of traffic laws.
A video shared on the news site Only in Dade captured the moment the happy owner of the newly purchased grill takes it home, loaded onto a shopping cart, which in turn is dragged through the streets, removed from the moving car.
With a hand out the window, the driver’s passenger held the shopping cart (probably from Walmart) next to the moving vehicle, the barbecue sticking out of the makeshift trailer.
There is no reason to be surprised; Florida drivers are known for their outlandish antics, sometimes hilarious and almost always dangerous to traffic.
In September 2023, a driver of a car traveling on a highway in Miami was recorded with two poorly secured mattresses on the roof of the car.
The connection was so precarious that video shared by the news site Only in Dade showed the mattresses begin to sway from the speed and wind, snap the ropes and fly into the middle of the highway.
Although dangerous, the actions of this driver did not surpass the recklessness of the one who in early July of that year was driving down a street in Miami-Dade County with two women lying on a mattress placed on the roof of a car.
Days before, another similar scene went viral on social media when images were shared of a man carrying a mattress on a scooter along 42nd Avenue, or Le Jeune Road.
The image provoked hundreds of comments on social media, where one user concluded that such an act represented “Cubanism at its fullest”.
The state of Florida recently changed some laws related to traffic and road safety for drivers and pedestrians.
On October 1, a law came into force introducing changes to the procedures for registration and personalization of vehicles, including special license plates.