I just can?t.....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.orl...story,amp.html
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I just can?t.....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.orl...story,amp.html
O...k...
Drugs are bad...
You ask that question, but you answered yourself in a way, this is Florida home of the "Face eater" and other strange and bizarre tales.
Your link and title of the story had me also ????? but when you read the article the spaghetti sauce was to cover up the fire he was trying to set. So in a way, very forward thinking there on the fire-starters part..................
No sure if the fire inspector would have said, "Well the fire was started by negligence in cooking spaghetti to eat even though the home owner was at work. Move along nothing to see here." that was a hindsight on fire-starters part.
Stealing a Heater in Florida?
If it wasn't for the hurricanes and the war with the space aliens, I would be there right now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8sh9P3X33w
I recently listened to a podcast where some documentary writer, that lives there, was shitting all over Florida (Miami specifically) and explaining that there isn't any real economy there except retirement, drugs, and fraud. I need to get some Florida natives to listen to see what is true and what is over blown.
But then you get stories like this in my old neighborhood. Guy thinks he can rob store with gun, gets tackled by spring breakers from Indiana...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/27/us/sp...rnd/index.html
I'll bet he wears cartoon flannels.
I lived in Florida for 17 years before coming out to Colorado. We would have called that 'Tuesday'.
When I was a Florida-based gun store flunky, there was once a lull in range fire that occurred right at the time a customer finished up a conversation with his friend with the line "...And that's why I want to f@#k a manatee."
It's just Florida.
Ahahahahaha
Have you ever seen a manatee mate? I saw a lady arrested once by FMP for interfering with their mating.
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyEgo
Was only a Florida resident for 3 years but I'll take Florida -- even with the resident kooks and Demoncrats of Dade and West Palm Beach Counties -- over California, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... I think you get the picture.
What is the industry in Florida? If you aren't retired, a real estate agent, or running coke, what can you do for money out there? Are there any large scale industry things like manufacturing?
There is a lot of ag in Central Florida. Not just food, but industrial forestry in support of the paper industry. Lots of fast growing scrub pine. North Florida's centered around Jacksonville, which has a heavy shipping industry. The I-4 corridor is all about the rat (Disney). Tampa has, well, strip clubs and Ybor city, I suppose. Big universities anchoring each section. Lots of medical; doctors, device suppliers, etc... We did such a good job of extracting income from tourists that there is no income tax.
Florida's a corrupt place where money makes all the difference. We would probably let you build a small housing community on a foundation of manatee carcasses if you gave the city enough money and agreed to name it after whatever ecology it destroyed, like "Mangrove Village" or "Coral Cove". Weird happens because all the ingredients are there; it's hot, the days are long, you're surrounded by water on 3 sides, everywhere is full of primordial creatures that could eat you and live in your community retention pond, feels like you've reached the dead end of the country everywhere you go. Nearly everyone there was trying to escape someone else, be it the Seminoles, the escaped slaves, the Florida Crackers, the mob, investment bankers trying to hide with the money they stole from their hedge funds, etc. The rich and the poor live in close proximity to one another, with the poor usually having the better built homes, while the rich have giant mansions made of paper mache and styrofoam. Rich and poor alike know that many of the cops are corrupt, so they just don't get called in until after the guy trying to rob you with the alligator gets shot by the old guy who's mad you tried to park in the handicap space and is coming for you next.
Stay there long enough, and the weird just becomes a part of you, like the crab grass perpetually destroying your yard. And I say this all with love, because I truly loved the place and would not have left it for most places other than Colorado of a decade ago.
I forgot about the paper industry. I heard a lot about the local mill when I was down there for the hurricane. Florida is a unique place for sure.
What is sad is that I am pretty sure this is an April Fools article, but because Florida is Florida, something both real and weirder will happen tomorrow.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-m...jouySQOJRwJRhY
No shit?Quote:
A former college student accused of fatally attacking a husband and wife in their Florida home and gnawing on the man's face believed he was “half-dog, half-man,” a forensic psychologist said in a mental health report.
Austin Harrouff, 22, has been charged with killing John Stevens III, 59, and his wife Michelle Mishcon, 53, at their home in Martin County on Aug. 15, 2016. Investigators said that during the attacks, he bit Stevens' face while making growling sounds. The couple was beaten and stabbed during the bizarre attack in their garage.
"The fact that Mr. Harrouff persisted in biting the male victim in the presence of police officers, in spite of being shot, being tased and receiving multiple kicks to the head, suggests that Mr. Harrouff was actively psychotic," Dr. Phillip Resnick of the University Hospitals of Cleveland wrote in the report, released this week by the Martin County State Attorney’s Office.
It's not an April fools article. Happened last month.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyEgo
There are only three industries that really matter to me.
https://www.ecklerscorvette.com/about-us
https://www.knightarmco.com/
https://www.spacex.com/
I seem to spend a fair amount of time in Florida for work. Just watching the news is interesting.
If you're not familiar with this website, it's kind of amusing.
https://floridaman.com/
It's the heat!
Can happen anywhere it is hot.
Was caught behind two old-timers on a main street in Phoenix, temperature about 100 degrees.
They exchanged gestures, yells, car horn honkings, then stumbled out of their cars.
They started swinging wildly at each other. Middle of two lanes of traffic.
Everyone driving by just looked and yelled to quit blocking traffic.
Yep, it's the heat!
[blaster]
That is classic!Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyEgo
I had a student once bragging about serving time for committing assault with intent to commit serious bodily harm.
I told him where I come from (Detroit) that's a typical Friday night.....
I guess you guys are right about Florida...[facepalm]
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nude-flor...-on-wild-chase
Johnnyego. Dude , I about pissed my pants reading your posts. I just spent a week there on vacation lol.
Guy killed by big bird in Florida.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ida-owner.html
I?m sure there?s a Sesame Street joke in there somewhere.
Ray, I was thinking more like real life Jurassic Park story...............Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
NINJA DEVIL BIRD!
They can attack and gut you!!!!!!!
https://youtu.be/6Vqs2ZOOirk
It's just in the top 10 deadliest? What other kind of BIRDS make up the top ten???
What would Jimmy Buffet do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU
The venomous ones?Quote:
Originally Posted by hollohas
10. Red-Tailed Hawk
9. Falcon
8. Snowy Owl
7. Lammergeier
6. The Barred Owl
5. The Mute Swan
4. Great Northern Loon
3. European Herring Gull
2. African Ostrich
1. Southern Cassowary
Who knew?
My brother has a funny story about having to defend himself from a Bald Eagle.
Fabio says Geese are #1.
From the comments...Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Quote:
florida
that says it all
Florida is definitely real.
https://media.giphy.com/media/leWR6wEhj4hfG/giphy.gif
So I'm gonna be "that guy" for a minute.
Florida doesn't have more nutters than anywhere else, it only appears that way because Florida has some of the most liberal open record laws in the country. Almost any government generated piece of paper (like arrest records) and their attending photos, video, etc are required to be made easily available to the public. So the reason why you don't see this kind of nuttery from other states is only because the local authorities aren't releasing it all to the press. Otherwise I guarantee you that New Jersey Man and California Man and Illinois Man would be just as notorious.
Add to that the fact that FLA is the 4th most populous state in the union AND its warm there (so people are outside their homes more of the time) and its no wonder the place looks insane.