After leading a police chase that went on at 115 miles per hour and tossing beer cans out his window, William Joseph Galloway wrecked his pickup truck. After he wrecked his truck the man took another swig of beer and gave the deputies who’d been chasing him the middle finger.

According to the authorities Galloway told them he was going to die fighting and swinging, however the use of a taser put that threat to an end.

Galloway of Winter Park is now being held on $8,000 bail in the St. Johns County jail. He’s been charged with driving under the influence, driving with a suspended or revoked license, aggravated fleeing, attempting to elude and resisting arrest without violence. No one was hurt.

The chase began about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper began following a pickup truck with no headlights heading north on Interstate 95 in Flagler County. Troopers and deputies watched the driver throw beer cans from his truck as he weaved through traffic at high speeds in heavy rain. The truck eventually spun off the road and crashed into a tree.

“The suspect rolled down his window and drank from a beer can while displaying his middle finger in defiance,” the report said.

When Galloway would not get out of the truck and started to reach for his glove box, a deputy fired a 15-second Taser stun gun burst, the report said.

Galloway told deputies he would have fought them all if he had not been jolted with the Taser, the report said.

Galloway passed out several times after telling officers he had been taking methamphetamine and drinking alcohol all day, the report said.

Why do a lot of these type of stories happen in Florida?

Now here’s a story with a complicated twist!

This past July in Orlando, Brittany Ossenfort complained that it was not she who had been jailed recently on a prostitution charge, that the arrestee claiming to be her was Richard Phillips, who had befriended Ossenfort last year (while pretending to be a woman) and had become her roommate, but who with the passage of time began dressing and acting like her until Ossenfort finally discovered “she” was a man.

This was of course after which Phillips allegedly stole Ossenfort’s financial identity.

Ossenfort admitted to being completely fooled by Phillips: “He acted like a girl, talked like a girl, looks like a girl. He doesn’t even have an Adam’s apple.”

I certainly wouldn’t want to share my name with a famous movie character. Lately I’ve heard the tale of not just the movie Harry Potter, but two real life Harry Potter’s.

Two weeks ago I heard that a Brantford, Ontario Harry Potter was besieged with calls about the new Harry Potter book and movie and now I’ve just read about a 78 year old Florida man who’s name happens to be Harry Potter. He too has been getting calls from children every time a new book in the wildly popular series comes out.

“The kids want to know if I’m Harry Potter,” he said. “I tell them I’ve been Harry Potter for darn near 80 years!”

I’m sure you’ve heard stories about fake police officers? Some are down right scary and others are funny. Here’s a funny one.

In Boca Raton Florida in March a man was flagged down by an imitation off-duty sheriff. He was apparently riding in his car with his girlfriend when he decided to stop an impolite driver.

When a real cop later showed up the first deputy was revealed to not be a police officer nor even a he! Rachel Otto, 21, appeared to be a man with short hair on top and shaved at the sides. Even his/her girl friend didn’t know that Rachel Otto was a woman and she’d been living with Otto for a week!

Otto has a rap sheet that includes 9 previous arrests for impersonating a police officer.