Man Runs Over Car: Florida Police Arrest Norman Nowling For Criminal Mischief At Red Neck Yacht Club

Police in Florida arrested a 40-year-old man on Saturday after he allegedly destroyed a 16-year-old girl's car during a spontaneous monster truck rally.

Fort Meyers resident Norman Nowling was among the thousands of festival attendees who traveled to Punta Gorda over the weekend to celebrate the Red Neck Yacht Club's Swamp Cabbage Weekend. The annual gathering features live music, camping, ATV attractions and the "largest mud party in the state."

Around 5 a.m., authorities received a call from an unnamed teenage girl, claiming that someone crushed her car, according to a press release posted to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Facebook page. The girl told police that she and her 37-year-old step-father left the car in a field while they went "mudding" at the festival. The girl heard that a few drivers destroyed a small car by running it over and returned to the field to find her vehicle destroyed.

A security guard told police that a large crowd gathered and people were cheering for the victim's 1994 Toyota Corolla to be destroyed, at one point saying that "the owner doesn't care, you can do it," authorities said.

According to press release, "Security then said a large white camouflaged van with five-foot wheels showed up and the crowd again said it was okay to drive over the car. The van put the front tire on the front of the car, smashing the hood, backed off, went to the other side and put his other tire on the hood, smashing it and went to the center, driving over the entire car."

Authorities identified Nowling as the driver and promptly arrested him.

Nowling is charged with one felony count of criminal mischief.

Charlotte County Jail officials released him on $2,500 bond.

Comments

[hdgoose]

03:23 PM on 03/05/2012

Do they have a redneck car insurance rider that covers your car when its destroyed when someone yells out; " hey ya all; watch this"

[ChicagoBlackRainbowWomen]

10:34 PM on 03/02/2012

This is just to much redneckie for me...

[emmeaki]

09:35 PM on 02/29/2012

Sixteen-year-old girl, thirty-seven-year-old stepfather, and redneck in one story. The jokes are endless!

[RosieRetro]

03:13 PM on 02/29/2012

Why would anyone park their vehicle where there are no other vehicles parked? The next question that begs to be asked is: Why did no one even bother to check out the registration on the taps pior to destroying it?

[jondoe888]

02:23 PM on 02/29/2012

What? Florida P*ssies can't shoot up a car, like normal drunken rednecks? They have to get a truck, with 5' wheels, to do it???
Maybe he had a crush on her?

[yebor]

12:31 PM on 02/29/2012

sounds like a good place to be at 5am with your 37 year old stepfather . . . ?

[Ken Blackwell]

08:20 PM on 02/28/2012

the car is older than she is

[jondoe888]

02:24 PM on 02/29/2012

Wish I could say the same. I'd either become 16 again, or at least have a classic car that might be worth something!

[oberlinkay91]

07:54 PM on 02/28/2012

Drunk people do the dumbest sh*t...Somehow it doesn't suprise me. I've been to something similar to that and lots of stupid things happen at them. Don't ever take anything worth value and park as far away as you can, it's worth the walk lol. That crowd and the driver of the truck should get her a new (and better) car.

[Talltower]

07:00 PM on 02/28/2012

She'll get a nice car out of this. You people must be joking about her insurance company paying for it. The people running over it, and trying to run over it, will pay.

[-swift]

10:22 AM on 02/29/2012

If the guy doesn't have insurance that covers deliberately destroying stuff, he should pay. Of course, he will make excuses to get out of paying, and she'll probably have to sue. You know, personal responsibility.

[zbeast]

06:34 PM on 02/28/2012

Why is this guy cutting a check.?
this is what insurance is for. Worse yet he got clearance to crush the car.

Sorry don't bug me call you Allstate agent.

[Davedawg]

06:51 PM on 02/28/2012

Where does it say he is cutting a check? and the insurance company would not pay a deliberate act of smashing a car

[Hummingbird2012]

10:21 PM on 02/29/2012

Insurance is not responsible for the deliberate act of destroying someone else's car. Mr. Nowling is on the hook for this one. And, as for clearance to crush the car, I don't think a chanting crowd gives anyone the ok to crush someone else's car. Sheesh!!!

[gordo001]

06:30 PM on 02/28/2012

She shouldn't have gone "mudding".

[oberlinkay91]

08:20 PM on 02/28/2012

Have you ever done it? It's actually quite fun (and no it's not sexual, unless people decide to park the truck and fog up the windshield lol).

[up in the air]

06:00 PM on 02/28/2012

Wow, hope she had full coverage insurance, I guess she won't leave it the field again

[Chpach67]

04:38 PM on 02/28/2012

Hope she's covered. I had to add Spontaneous Monster Truck Rally to my insurance.

[-swift]

10:26 AM on 02/29/2012

It should be covered under the "act of God" clause. God made that guy stupid, so it's His fault.

[jcarey89]

02:31 PM on 02/28/2012

Nice hope they had full coverage, He might have gotten them a nicer car. Always look on the bright side lol well I at least try to most of the time.

But dan gum they done had some fun rite ther

[mjames5464]

02:07 PM on 02/28/2012

Pretty sure that yacht club is just up the road from the Good ole boys social club and sheepfking society.....