Joe Malinowski of Tampa Bay (the physique of water not the geographic area) has been named the 2024 recipient of the celebrated Viral Mistake award, offered yearly to the well-known individual least deserving to be well-known.
Malinowski made headlines for deciding to journey out Hurricane Milton on an unregistered sailboat docked in Tampa Bay. His defiance had some observers celebrating him as an underdog people hero and survivor they affectionately known as “Lieutenant Dan.” A GoFundMe marketing campaign on his behalf raised almost $45 thousand {dollars} in contributions from morons. He was arrested on October 18 and charged with two excellent warrants for failing to look in court docket, and one cost of trespassing in a metropolis park after warning.
His earlier arrests embrace aggravated battery with a lethal weapon by the Palm Seaside County Sheriff’s Workplace stemming from an argument he had with a girl sitting on a bench, then setting that bench on hearth utilizing gasoline and splashing a few of it on her. Different previous costs included an tried breaking and getting into, battery in opposition to a police officer, and drug possession, in addition to “failure to switch possession of a vessel inside 30 days.” His authorized possession of the boat is in query.
The win was one thing of a shock as a result of Hailey “Hawk Tuah” Welsh was thought-about a heavy favourite to take this yr’s prize. Nevertheless, she completed as a distant runner-up as soon as it was decided that Malinowski is a significantly extra irredeemably nugatory piece of shit who contributes completely nothing of worth to society, not less than so far as deserving any stage of recognition or acclaim, and that individuals who celebrated him are silly.
He joins the checklist of earlier winners which incorporates William Hung, Danielle “Bhad Bhabie” Peskowitz Bregoli and Andrew Tate amongst others.
