Remind me to not move to Florida

[Lazyfaire]

S. Carolina - but close enough.

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Never seen these pictures in the Come To Florida magazine ads!!!

They sure use some pretty strange things as bait to catch alligators! New Yorkers must think the ponds have Koi in them

 

[OldBroad44]

Playing golf in Florida, where even the obstacles have obstacles.

 

[OldBroad44]

There's only one state generating outrageous headlines that start "Florida Man…"

In Florida police reports are public records. So reporters have full access, and it's become a Florida tradition to report all the outrageous stuff in full. Outrageousness happens other places, but the police just give whitewashed redacted PR statements, not the real events in all their glory.

In addition, weird events in other places are often not relatable to outsiders or are boring. For example, once at University of Minnesota a guest seminar speaker walked from a science building about 40 yards to the cafeteria without wearing a hood or balaclava in mid-winter. Outrageous! How could anyone be so dumb!? He frostbit his ears, of course. But there's nothing funny about that outrageous act. It woulda been much more generally entertaining if ya skipped the cold weather and added some some giant snakes or alligators. Most people in most of the country don't relate to -40 degree weather. Everyone relates to giant snakes and alligators.

 

[The Heretic]

Florida man caught on video allegedly injecting chemical agent under neighbor's door, making family with baby sick

A Florida man was arrested and charged with injecting a chemical agent with a syringe under the door of his neighbor's condo, police say, an act of battery allegedly caught on video that was released this week.

news.yahoo.com

 

[The Heretic]

She was wading in knee-deep water at this Florida beach. Then came a barbed sea creature

A GoFundMe page has been set up for her care

news.yahoo.com

 

[nammac]

She was wading in knee-deep water at this Florida beach. Then came a barbed sea creature

A GoFundMe page has been set up for her care

news.yahoo.com

Gotta be careful of those Stingray's. Figured she'd be more aware being an Apollo Beach resident and all…. Stingray's are pretty docile unless they feel threatened. Her leaning back to wet her hair, may have leaned back on the stingray, causing it to react defensively.

Be careful when in the water on the gulf coast.

 

[DunRanull]

Gotta be careful of those Stingray's. Figured she'd be more aware being an Apollo Beach resident and all…. Stingray's are pretty docile unless they feel threatened. Her leaning back to wet her hair, may have leaned back on the stingray, causing it to react defensively.

Be careful when in the water on the gulf coast.

Be careful ANYWHERE in Fla, I'd say... dang!

 

[Barefootdog]

Some of you guys....WTH?
Florida was great fun.

Take a vitamin or a testosterone shot...
Add a Viagra to your morning coffee...

Bulk up a little bit.
CHARLES ATLAS used to sell a manly man man up course to help you guys.

 

[The Heretic]

 

[Barefootdog]

We've had a lot of fun making jokes at Floridas' expense in this thread.
In fairness you have to say Floridas' response to catastrophic events is pretty much spot on.
From the top down, state to local level, there's first rate planning and execution.

Listen to and watch DeSantis and his department heads function.
Getting it done producing a record of successful results.
Not a word of politics or grievance.

Compare to POS Biden and the incompetents/perverts in his cabinet and appointments as department heads.

 

[Flopsweat]

We've had a lot of fun making jokes at Floridas' expense in this thread.
In fairness you have to say Floridas' response to catastrophic events is pretty much spot on.
From the top down, state to local level, there's first rate planning and execution.

Listen to and watch DeSantis and his department heads function.
Getting it done producing a record of successful results.
Not a word of politics or grievance.

Compare to POS Biden and the incompetents/perverts in his cabinet and appointments as department heads.

As long as you don't need homeowner's insurance.

 

[Barefootdog]

True.
Went through it with our home in Ormond.
The banking/lending/underwriting systems aren't the impediment to buying real property in Florida.
It's the insurance companies...forced replacement of perfectly good roof covers, forced replacement of perfectly good windows, forced replacement of perfectly good water heaters, forced upgrading to perfectly functional electrical and HVAC systems....and on and on.

But that's not DeSantis' fault.
You have private companies doing business.
You have a state backed insurer of last resort that has to lay off risk to international underwriters.

The problem is you have higher loses with increasing development into higher risk areas.

If you haven't noticed insurance companies aren't bashful about increasing auto and home rates in Oregon without the reality of significant losses comparable to Florida.

 

[trevi]

As long as you don't need homeowner's insurance.

Which does not often cover common "acts of God, " hurricanes, tornadoes, hail,.....

 

[The Heretic]

 

[Flopsweat]

Which does not often cover common "acts of God, " hurricanes, tornadoes, hail,.....

If you didn't specify it, you ain't got it.

 

[OldBroad44]

We've had a lot of fun making jokes at Floridas' expense in this thread.
In fairness you have to say Floridas' response to catastrophic events is pretty much spot on.
From the top down, state to local level, there's first rate planning and execution.

Listen to and watch DeSantis and his department heads function.
Getting it done producing a record of successful results.
Not a word of politics or grievance.

Compare to POS Biden and the incompetents/perverts in his cabinet and appointments as department heads.

Many of us were were celebrating the uniqueness of Florida and expressing gratitude for what we got from it. Not making fun of it.

Florida honors military. My parents were legal residents of Florida because it made it easy for military to maintain residence there while they were moving to a different state every year or overseas. It had and has no state income tax. When I went to undergrad school at University of Florida, there was no tuition for instate students. Even today UF has a low tuition compared with other large state universities. The mascot of UF is the alligator. And students and alumni call ourselves "Gators." The alligator is a kind of Floridian reality check.

UF was not a nanny college. You were perfectly free to come there, screw around, and drop or flunk out. And 2/3 of every freshman class did exactly that.

Florida is not a nanny state. It does not prevent you from swimming in most waters with alligators in them. Or fishing from the edges of shores where alligators have paths that allow them to attack critters on banks. If you are so stupid or oblivious or ignorant as to get yourself, your kid, or your dog eaten by a gator, so it goes. When hurricanes come its usually up to you whether or not to evacuate. And even whether to take shelter. (Yes, you may be able to hang on to a telephone pole in a 100 mph wind, but not when the wind is full of cars and other people's roofs.) You are also free to swim in dangerous areas that frequently have rip tides. Or drive your boat out of sight of land without having taken the Coast Guard small craft navigation course. Or when there are storm warnings. One of my college friend's boy friends went sailing one day and never returned.

Florida honors 2A. And rule of law. And in true Floridian fashion after the last big hurricane De Santis both praised the citizenry for not looting and reminded would-be looters that most Floridians are armed, and if you go trying to loot someone's home you "might find something there a lot worse than an alligator" .

When people break the law and do crazy stuff, the sunshine laws allow reporters to report the stupidity in all its glory. The stories starting "Florida man" are about Floridians pointing out to each other how crazy or ignorant or stoned some people are, and that in Florida that doesn't usually work out so well. In Florida lawbreakers are not tolerated. They are arrested, tried, punished, and universally laughed at.

 

[Flopsweat]

Many of us were were celebrating the uniqueness of Florida and expressing gratitude for what we got from it. Not making fun of it.

Florida honors military. My parents were legal residents of Florida because it made it easy for military to maintain residence there while they were moving to a different state every year or overseas. It had and has no state income tax. When I went to undergrad school at University of Florida, there was no tuition for instate students. Even today UF has a low tuition compared with other large state universities. The mascot of UF is the alligator. And students and alumni call ourselves "Gators." The alligator is a kind of Floridian reality check.

UF was not a nanny college. You were perfectly free to come there, screw around, and drop or flunk out. And 2/3 of every freshman class did exactly that.

Florida is not a nanny state. It does not prevent you from swimming in most waters with alligators in them. Or fishing from the edges of shores where alligators have paths that allow them to attack critters on banks. If you are so stupid or oblivious or ignorant as to get yourself, your kid, or your dog eaten by a gator, so it goes. When hurricanes come its usually up to you whether or not to evacuate. And even whether to take shelter. (Yes, you may be able to hang on to a telephone pole in a 100 mph wind, but not when the wind is full of cars and other people's roofs.) You are also free to swim in dangerous areas that frequently have rip tides. Or drive your boat out of sight of land without having taken the Coast Guard small craft navigation course. Or when there are storm warnings. One of my college friend's boy friends went sailing one day and never returned.

Florida honors 2A. And rule of law. And in true Floridian fashion after the last big hurricane De Santis both praised the citizenry for not looting and reminded would-be looters that most Floridians are armed, and if you go trying to loot someone's home you "might find something there a lot worse than an alligator" .

When people break the law and do crazy stuff, the sunshine laws allow reporters to report the stupidity in all its glory. The stories starting "Florida man" are about Floridians pointing out to each other how crazy or ignorant or stoned some people are, and that in Florida that doesn't usually work out so well. In Florida lawbreakers are not tolerated. They are arrested, tried, punished, and universally laughed at.

Well put. As a child I remember a family vacation to Florida. I remember the beaches and the glades and great fish, grits and hushpuppies. I also remember a stock boy in a grocery store wearing a full-size revolver OWB in a nice leather holster. Not something I'd seen before at the time.

 

[nammac]

Many of us were were celebrating the uniqueness of Florida and expressing gratitude for what we got from it. Not making fun of it.

Florida honors military. My parents were legal residents of Florida because it made it easy for military to maintain residence there while they were moving to a different state every year or overseas. It had and has no state income tax. When I went to undergrad school at University of Florida, there was no tuition for instate students. Even today UF has a low tuition compared with other large state universities. The mascot of UF is the alligator. And students and alumni call ourselves "Gators." The alligator is a kind of Floridian reality check.

UF was not a nanny college. You were perfectly free to come there, screw around, and drop or flunk out. And 2/3 of every freshman class did exactly that.

Florida is not a nanny state. It does not prevent you from swimming in most waters with alligators in them. Or fishing from the edges of shores where alligators have paths that allow them to attack critters on banks. If you are so stupid or oblivious or ignorant as to get yourself, your kid, or your dog eaten by a gator, so it goes. When hurricanes come its usually up to you whether or not to evacuate. And even whether to take shelter. (Yes, you may be able to hang on to a telephone pole in a 100 mph wind, but not when the wind is full of cars and other people's roofs.) You are also free to swim in dangerous areas that frequently have rip tides. Or drive your boat out of sight of land without having taken the Coast Guard small craft navigation course. Or when there are storm warnings. One of my college friend's boy friends went sailing one day and never returned.

Florida honors 2A. And rule of law. And in true Floridian fashion after the last big hurricane De Santis both praised the citizenry for not looting and reminded would-be looters that most Floridians are armed, and if you go trying to loot someone's home you "might find something there a lot worse than an alligator" .

When people break the law and do crazy stuff, the sunshine laws allow reporters to report the stupidity in all its glory. The stories starting "Florida man" are about Floridians pointing out to each other how crazy or ignorant or stoned some people are, and that in Florida that doesn't usually work out so well. In Florida lawbreakers are not tolerated. They are arrested, tried, punished, and universally laughed at.

Ya making me miss Florida…

 

[trevi]

Many of us were were celebrating the uniqueness of Florida and expressing gratitude for what we got from it. Not making fun of it.

Florida honors military. My parents were legal residents of Florida because it made it easy for military to maintain residence there while they were moving to a different state every year or overseas. It had and has no state income tax. When I went to undergrad school at University of Florida, there was no tuition for instate students. Even today UF has a low tuition compared with other large state universities. The mascot of UF is the alligator. And students and alumni call ourselves "Gators." The alligator is a kind of Floridian reality check.

UF was not a nanny college. You were perfectly free to come there, screw around, and drop or flunk out. And 2/3 of every freshman class did exactly that.

Florida is not a nanny state. It does not prevent you from swimming in most waters with alligators in them. Or fishing from the edges of shores where alligators have paths that allow them to attack critters on banks. If you are so stupid or oblivious or ignorant as to get yourself, your kid, or your dog eaten by a gator, so it goes. When hurricanes come its usually up to you whether or not to evacuate. And even whether to take shelter. (Yes, you may be able to hang on to a telephone pole in a 100 mph wind, but not when the wind is full of cars and other people's roofs.) You are also free to swim in dangerous areas that frequently have rip tides. Or drive your boat out of sight of land without having taken the Coast Guard small craft navigation course. Or when there are storm warnings. One of my college friend's boy friends went sailing one day and never returned.

Florida honors 2A. And rule of law. And in true Floridian fashion after the last big hurricane De Santis both praised the citizenry for not looting and reminded would-be looters that most Floridians are armed, and if you go trying to loot someone's home you "might find something there a lot worse than an alligator" .

When people break the law and do crazy stuff, the sunshine laws allow reporters to report the stupidity in all its glory. The stories starting "Florida man" are about Floridians pointing out to each other how crazy or ignorant or stoned some people are, and that in Florida that doesn't usually work out so well. In Florida lawbreakers are not tolerated. They are arrested, tried, punished, and universally laughed at.

This folks is a true and well written statement describing life in Florida. The only thing I did not know was that UF had no in-state tuition.

Great read!

 

[The Heretic]

Many of us were were celebrating the uniqueness of Florida and expressing gratitude for what we got from it. Not making fun of it.

Florida honors military. My parents were legal residents of Florida because it made it easy for military to maintain residence there while they were moving to a different state every year or overseas. It had and has no state income tax. When I went to undergrad school at University of Florida, there was no tuition for instate students. Even today UF has a low tuition compared with other large state universities. The mascot of UF is the alligator. And students and alumni call ourselves "Gators." The alligator is a kind of Floridian reality check.

UF was not a nanny college. You were perfectly free to come there, screw around, and drop or flunk out. And 2/3 of every freshman class did exactly that.

Florida is not a nanny state. It does not prevent you from swimming in most waters with alligators in them. Or fishing from the edges of shores where alligators have paths that allow them to attack critters on banks. If you are so stupid or oblivious or ignorant as to get yourself, your kid, or your dog eaten by a gator, so it goes. When hurricanes come its usually up to you whether or not to evacuate. And even whether to take shelter. (Yes, you may be able to hang on to a telephone pole in a 100 mph wind, but not when the wind is full of cars and other people's roofs.) You are also free to swim in dangerous areas that frequently have rip tides. Or drive your boat out of sight of land without having taken the Coast Guard small craft navigation course. Or when there are storm warnings. One of my college friend's boy friends went sailing one day and never returned.

Florida honors 2A. And rule of law. And in true Floridian fashion after the last big hurricane De Santis both praised the citizenry for not looting and reminded would-be looters that most Floridians are armed, and if you go trying to loot someone's home you "might find something there a lot worse than an alligator" .

When people break the law and do crazy stuff, the sunshine laws allow reporters to report the stupidity in all its glory. The stories starting "Florida man" are about Floridians pointing out to each other how crazy or ignorant or stoned some people are, and that in Florida that doesn't usually work out so well. In Florida lawbreakers are not tolerated. They are arrested, tried, punished, and universally laughed at.

Just the same, I prefer to be as far away as possible from snakes and other dangerous reptiles.