Florida Man Fridays — via Fort Myers
According to the Lee County Sheriff police report, Ricky James Hollowell, 33, was found barefoot, severely sunburned, and wearing only swim trunks after deputies responded a motorist reported a man standing on the shoulder of the Sanibel Causeway "soaking wet and drawing blueprints in the sand." He told deputies he had been "taken against his will by a pod of dolphins 3 days ago" and forced to work on what he called "an underwater construction project."
According to Hollowell and the police report:
Hollowell claimed the dolphins approached him while he was swimming off Fort Myers Beach and "escorted him to a site approximately 40 feet below the surface" where they needed help building structures
He told officers the dolphins communicated through "a series of clicks that he eventually learned to interpret" and that the project foreman was a dolphin he referred to as "Gerald.”
When asked how he breathed underwater for 3 days he said "Gerald handled that. I didn't ask questions. You don't question Gerald.”
He had drawn an elaborate blueprint in the sand that deputies described as "detailed enough to be concerning" including what appeared to be condos, a town square, and a recreation center. (Borrowed from several places on the world wide web.)
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