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Diamond_Dog

(31,964 posts)
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 10:56 AM Oct 2021

Florida Man Explains Why Florida Is Bat**** Insane

This is hilarious!

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Back around 1990, some friends and I had a habit of strolling over to the Red Lion pool hall to watch America’s Most Wanted and count how often our state came up. If the number was ever zero, I don’t recall it.

Yes, my native state is famous for producing headlines like these:

Man, 76, Cops Plea For Home Castration: Perp once did surgery in room at La Quinta Inn

Florida couple “trapped” in unlocked closet for two days

Boyd Corbin, Once Arrested for Fighting a Drag Queen With a Tiki Torch, Runs for Wilton Manors Mayor

Florida man arrested for tossing alligator into Wendy’s drive-thru window

Now look, I know crazy happens everywhere. But crazy is to Florida what snow is to Alaska — we get a damn sight more of it than most states. And like all forces of nature, the Floridian strain of insanity is an amalgam of smaller forces intersecting to deliver an undefeatable wallop.

Forces #1 & #2: Coastline and highways ……

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https://medium.com/thinkpiece-magazine/florida-man-explains-why-florida-is-insane-f466d6bc589

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Florida Man Explains Why Florida Is Bat**** Insane (Original Post) Diamond_Dog Oct 2021 OP
My parents lived in FL for years. LakeArenal Oct 2021 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Anon-C Oct 2021 #2
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Oh wow. A Florida man post. Tommy Carcetti Oct 2021 #4

LakeArenal

(28,813 posts)
1. My parents lived in FL for years.
Sun Oct 10, 2021, 11:02 AM
Oct 2021

Even they moved back to cold WI.

Florida is truly the wang of the nation.

Edit to add: WI has it nutz too.

Usually headline: Man arrested naked on his sixth DUI...then the rest of the article.

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