When then-President Obama and other world leaders memorialized Nelson Mandela in 2013, the funeral was overshadowed by an embarrassing scandal: a phony sign language interpreter who was just gesturing at random. There was justifiable outrage around the world that should been a good lesson for the rest of time.

In Florida, Manatee County, immediately south of St. Petersburg, seems to have done better vetting, but only slightly. In a news conference the Friday before Hurricane Irma made landfall, county officials laid out the basics for evacuation guidelines, but hearing impaired viewers got slightly different instructions: "Pizza want you are need be bear monster." Or, if that's not clear, "toys for who Mexican.".

The county typically uses a sign language interpreter service, but AL.com reports that the company, VisCom, was never contacted for this briefing. According to The Daily Moth, a deaf news site, the interpreter was a county lifeguard who has a deaf sibling, which is probably the most Florida job qualifications ever. But it's painfully obvious that's not quite the same as being a professional interpreter.

This doesn't look like a spot-on repeat of the fake interpreter at Mandela's funeral. The interpreter in the Manatee County video clearly knows at least some sign language and repeats nonsense phrases like "bear monster," which makes it seem that he's attempting to say something and getting it wrong rather than just making up nonsense. But just getting the gist of one out of every five words doesn't really get across any useful information. There's not much a viewer can do with instructions like, "On that news test evacuate mix a pray." Even something as basic as "please stay safe" comes out "nice that offense monster."

At least no Floridians were accidentally told to try and shoot down the hurricane.

Watch the incredibly uncomfortable news briefing--with subtitled translation, including random numbers, misspellings, a toy stress pig, and "gesticulation"--below.