
In 2019, a woman in Lecanto, Florida, was arrested after she attempted to construct a bomb using items she found on the shelves at Walmart. Yes, you read that right—she walked into a Walmart, gathered ingredients from various aisles, and began putting together a device in the middle of the store. Security footage showed her walking through the aisles, picking up items she believed were bomb ingredients, and assembling them on the spot.
Walmart employees and other customers, alarmed by her strange behavior, called the police. When officers arrived, they managed to disarm the “device,” which thankfully wasn’t even close to functioning. It turned out her “recipe” was more fiction than fact, but her enthusiasm for a DIY project certainly stood out.
Though it wasn’t clear why she’d chosen Walmart as her “lab,” the story quickly spread as a bizarre example of Florida Woman’s creative approach to a (completely misguided) project. In the end, she faced charges for attempting to make a destructive device and earned a unique place in Florida’s unusual history.
