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of a woman with a disgusted expression. They didn’t use Nevins’ name, but she said there were enough details — her age, location and time of the incident — for reporters and curious citizens to figure out who she was by searching public records.

“I didn’t want any of this,” she told the Tampa Bay Times.

It started Wednesday after Nevins, 26, called the sheriff's nonemergency line because she forgot to remove the thermos’ rubber Oring, meaning it could’ve exploded.

She said a deputy and firefighters arrived, took the thermos away and safely opened it. She said they were kind and didn’t tell her nosy neighbors what happened.

“The officer told them it was a private matter,” Nevins said, “and he treated it as a private matter.”

After the sheriff's office Facebook post, a TV news crew turned up on her doorstep with a camera. She spoke to them, but declined to identify herself. She said she spoke to the Tampa Bay Times on the record Friday because her name is “already out there.”

The sheriff’s office has said it’s part of its social media strategy.

“We attempt to show every day what our officers see in calls and we are a very open agency about the types of calls we see each day,” Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco said in a statement. “This was a very unique call faced by our officers as well as Pasco fire fighters make no mistake, this was a potentially dangerous situation; we are grateful that no damage was done.” The Sheriff's Office later defended their actions in a statement, saying they never publicly release names or identifying information.