Your Two Cents Required: Florida Man Loses Weight To Gain Freedom
Making the decision to downgrade his Team Chunk platinum membership to a more basic package 345-pound George McCovery not only improved his health but also reduced his time as a Booty Warrior thanks to a Lake County, Fla., judge’s “lose-a-pound, gain-a-day” deal, dropping 25 pounds in 20 days.
Donna Miller, whose courtroom proceedings are replayed in the TV show “Lake Courts,” is famous for her unusual sentence deals. In her 17 years as a judge, Miller has ordered defendants to start jogging, take a dance class, tutor math and write Christmas cards, according to the Sentinel.
“I do what I do to try to change the person in front of me,” she said, acknowledging that her self-improvement sentences won’t be doled out to everyone. “If the person needs jail, they get jail.”
Miller said she would check McCovery’s weight after 20 days. And to her surprise, he had already shed 25 pounds.
“It’s not easy to lose weight,” Miller told the Sentinel. “I thought he’d lose 5, maybe, 6 pounds — not 25.”
