Meanwhile in Florida . . .

If you’ve ever spent time as a patient in the hospital, then you know how it can sometimes seem like medical personnel keep coming in to check your vitals when you don’t want them to . . . yet, no one seems to be around when you actually do (or want) something — well, sometimes.

For 75 year old John King of New Smyrna, Florida . . . he was in the hospital for respiratory failure over the weekend and he felt like he was being ignored and was NOT. HAVING. THAT!

So, in an effort to get the attention of some nurses, John set his bed on fire.

Let’s recap . . . Dude in the hospital for respiratory failure, set his bed on FIRE!

The effort worked as the guy did get the nurses’ attention, but it was more so the other patient in the shared hospital room, an 84 year old guy, who shouted out to hospital staff within earshot that, “The [expletive deleted] in here lit his bed on fire. I can’t breathe.”

No one was hurt, and one of the nurses put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, but John’s bed was totally destroyed.

Oh, but wait, there’s more . . .

Hospital staff caught John trying to escape on the elevator and held him until police arrived on the scene to arrest, quite possibly, one of the worst hospital patients that ever t’was.

Now, John is looking at charges for felony arson.

You know we’ve got his MUGSHOT, right . . .