Cited: ABC News

Megan BarnesThe Internet is buzzing about Megan Barnes as “Public Enemy” in Florida.  Others are joking about her “razor sharp focus” and she drives her car.  However, the 37-year-old was thrust into the limelight for allegedly multitasking while driving.  This has earned her a place on hundreds of websites with her mug shot.

According to a startled Florida Highway Patrol trooper, Barnes was shaving her bikini area while driving south on the famed Overseas Highway when she crashed into the rear of an SUV March 2.

‘If I Wasn’t There, I Wouldn’t Have Believed It’

In the police report obtained by ABC News, the trim job was apparently essential because the arresting officer, trooper Gary Dunick, said the Indiana native told him she was heading to Key West to visit her boyfriend.

“She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit,” Dunick told the Key West Citizen.

It gets weirder. In order to pay full attention to her sensitive regions, police say Barnes enlisted her ex-husband, Charles Judy, who was riding shotgun, to hold the wheel.  Yes, her ex-husband.

Their tag-team driving went awry when an SUV driving in front of them slowed to turn. Barnes’ 1995 Thunderbird smashed into it. Two of the SUV’s passengers suffered minor injuries, police say. Barnes shouldn’t have been driving that Thunderbird, since she had been convicted the previous day for driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license.  According to the arrest report, it was the sixth time her license had been suspended.

After the accident, Barnes and Judy drove off, police say. The Thunderbird limped a few hundred yards before the couple switched seats. “She jumps in the back seat and he moves over,” Dunick told the Citizen. “It was like the old comedy bit, ‘Who’s on first?’”

But the attempt to claim that Judy, not Barnes, was driving was also doomed. Judy had visible burns on his chest he claimed came from the exploding airbag, but only the passenger side airbag deployed, according to the police report.

Patrol officers say they determined that in addition to this bit of “landscaping” behind the wheel, Barnes was already driving with a suspended license, just one day after she was convicted of driving under the influence.   So Dunick charged Barnes with driving with a revoked license, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and driving with no insurance. Judy was not charged.

According to the arrest affidavit, the trooper asked her afterward why she didn’t hit the brakes when she saw the SUV. She answered bluntly, “I told you, I was shaving.”

“If I wasn’t there, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Dunick told the Citizen.

“About 10 years ago, I stopped a guy in the exact same spot… who had three or four syringes sticking out of his arm. It was just surreal and I thought, ‘Nothing will ever beat this.’ Well, this takes it.”

Now, for her apparent adventure with blade in hand, throw in charges of reckless driving, driving with a revoked license, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, and driving without insurance. The good news, nobody was seriously hurt.

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My Take: Can this world get any weirder?  Well, how about Australian souvenirs from France?  Or what about yacht charters in Tahiti.  Yes, I know, I am being ridiculous.  But it just seems to me a little bit ridiculous to shave your bikini area while you are driving.  How stupid is this woman?  And saying she is blonde is no excuse!

And you will never get Australian boomerangs in France unless you get them from a specialty shop.  You also never get a Greece yacht charter in Tahiti; you might get a Tahiti yacht charter.  I just hope she uses organic or natural beauty products, because her mug shot does not look that great.  Maybe she should have just taken a nice long hot bath with natural aromatherapy and then her shaving before she left home.

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