Polk County Commissioner Melony Bell was shocked when she woke up Wednesday morning to find offensive, inexplicable status updates on her Facebook account.

Bay News 9 noticed two uncharacteristically forward posts on Bell's personal account and reached out to her for comment late Tuesday night.

When she woke up Wednesday morning, she contacted us and began investigating for herself what happened to her account.

It turns out, she was hacked.

"I was just appalled, because that is not me to ever think of something like that and post something like that," Bell said after deleting the statuses and posting an update assuring her followers the statuses did not come from her.

The District 2 commissioner has more than 3,000 Facebook friends, and several of them first took offense to this status update:

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime."

A second long post ranted about supposed failures of the Obama administration.

"I can't imagine why somebody would go on my Facebook and post that, unless it could be a political deal -- political sabotage," she said.

Bell has tried to figure out how her account could have been compromised.

Only one incident came to mind.

On a recent flight from Washington, DC back to Florida, Bell sat next to a man who she said showed particular interest in setting up a Facebook account on the plane.

"I was on my Facebook and he said, 'I've been wanting to get on Facebook,' " she said. "So, he pulled out his laptop, and I was showing him how to get on it, and I had to log on, but I didn't think he saw me."

Bell is not sure how many of her friends and constituents saw the post, but the shocking incident has her reconsidering the use of Facebook.

"I'm thinking about maybe taking it down (in) two to three days, but I'd hate to, because I get messages on there from my constituents," she said.

The questionable postings were seen on Bell's Facebook account she created on her personal computer. She has not noticed problems on her work computer.