Studious Gator, Musical Sarah Palin, Disney Magic: Weird Florida

Patch operates 23 daily news sites in Florida. The following are some of the more unusual, wacky and weird stories from the past couple weeks:

Watch: Massive Gator Crashes School’s Dismissal

Students at Geneva Classical Academy got a lesson Thursday that they’re not likely to forget. Instead of lining up for dismissal, they got to watch from afar as a trapper captured a near 10-foot alligator that crashed the campus.

$2 Million In Cocaine Washes Up On Florida Beach

Somewhere in Florida, there’s a smuggler trying to explain the loss of $2 million in cocaine to what is very likely an angry drug dealer.

Disney Magic Doesn’t Turn Grumpy Woman’s Frown Upside Down

Walt Disney World is supposed to be the “most magical place on earth,” but that just wasn’t enough to turn a recent visitor’s frown upside down.

Oops! Stolen Car Crashing Into Cops’ Truck

Eight people were injured, including two police officers, when a stolen car crashed into an undercover Dodge Ram 1500 pickup early Monday morning.

Watch: Sarah Palin’s ‘Thuggery’ Speech Set To Music

Whether former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin managed to inspire voters to cast their ballots for Donald Trump in the Florida Presidential Preference Primary during her recent Tampa visit remains unclear. She did, however, manage to become a muse, of sorts, for a Memphis musician.

Watch: Florida Man Uses Blacktip Shark for Selfie Prop

Just days after a similar stunt involving a dolphin caused outrage in Argentina, a Florida man was captured on video pulling a creature out of the water to pose for a selfie. In the Florida case, however, the sea creature used as a photo prop was a blacktip shark and not a rare dolphin.

Burglar’s Crash Through Ceiling Caught On Video

Jacksonville burglary suspect found out the hard way recently that what goes up must inevitably come down.

Photo courtesy of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission