@_FloridaMan Beguiles With the Hapless and Harebrained

[steve2470]

@_FloridaMan Beguiles With the Hapless and Harebrained

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/us/both-hapless-and-harebrained-florida-man-enlivens-internet.html?_r=0

MIAMI — Dangling into the sea like America’s last-ditch lifeline, the state of Florida beckons. Hustlers and fugitives, million-dollar hucksters and harebrained thieves, Armani-wearing drug traffickers and hapless dope dealers all congregate, scheme and revel in the Sunshine State. It’s easy to get in, get out or get lost.

For decades, this cast of characters provided a diffuse, luckless counternarrative to the salt-and-sun-kissed Florida that tourists spy from their beach towels. But recently there arrived a digital-era prototype, @_FloridaMan, a composite of Florida’s nuttiness unspooled, tweet by tweet, to the world at large. With pithy headlines and links to real news stories, @_FloridaMan offers up the “real-life stories of the world’s worst super hero,” as his Twitter bio proclaims.

His more than 1,600 tweets — equal parts ode and derision — are a favorite for weird-news aficionados. Yet, two years since his 2013 debut, the man behind the Twitter feed remains beguilingly anonymous, a Wizard of LOLZ. (The one false note is his zombielike avatar: The mug shot belongs to an Indiana Man.)

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Florida Woman Covers Husband in Barbecue Sauce, Threatens to Carve Him Up Like Roast Chicken

https://twitter.com/_Flor1daWoman/status/586598965954666496


BWAHAHAHA! This sank like a stone in GD, which completely amazed me.

[kentauros]

1. Because GD is for "OUTRAGE!!1!"

and The Lounge is for mirthful outbursts

[steve2470]

2. good explanation!