April 26, 2024

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Florida's quote of the day

| 9/20/2021

"The guy in the room next to me, it sounded like he couldn’t take it anymore, because one day you could hear him start smashing things."

-- J.R. Krol

For his 50th birthday, Seminole County Tax Collector J.R. Kroll received a six-day vacation to Iceland as a gift from his wife, Holly.

“I thought: ‘Wow, this sounds like a great trip,’” Kroll said.

But the venture was far from pleasant thanks to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Kroll found himself alone for nearly 11 days quarantined inside a “cruddy” government-run hotel room and being served three cold meals a day.

“You were not allowed to open the door. And if I left, I would be arrested,” Kroll said Friday, a day after he arrived home from the north European country.

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