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Coverage dated December 13, 2022

Florida Deputy Dressed as Grinch Handing Out Onions Instead of Tickets to Speeding Drivers

Headline from NBC Los Angeles

Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch.

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  1. NBC Los Angeles

    Florida Deputy Dressed as Grinch Handing Out Onions Instead of Tickets to Speeding Drivers (opens NBC Los Angeles)

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    Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch.

  2. 10TV Columbus

    Florida deputy dressed as Grinch gives onions to speeding drivers (opens 10TV Columbus)

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    10TV Columbus's feed description

    The classic Christmas character can be seen year after year with a radar speed detector in hand next to deputies outside a local elementary school.

  3. WFMZ Allentown

    Deputy dressed as Grinch gives onions to speeding drivers (opens WFMZ Allentown)

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    WFMZ Allentown's feed description

    Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s

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