What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

While perusing the Web for current news stories ....

Should Vigilantes Guard Churches?

... I came across this disturbing little quote from Don Gaetz, a Florida state senator. 

Ah ... The Sniff Of Florida

Florida is the state that just keeps giving .....

The Man, The Bus And The Deer

... even when its residents are not actually in the state.

Florida Man - Family Gatherings

Now I don't know about your family, but before I removed myself entirely from contact with any of the clan (from my mothers side .... for reasons that I won't go in to, we never ever met any of my Dads family) ....

Donnie Adams Being Treated

..... family gatherings could be fraught with simmering resentment and grudges, often long held and never resolved. So there was always a frisson of danger in the air.

Florida Man Part?? (Lost Count)

I am forced this week to acknowledge the efforts of 44 year old Florida Man, Reza Baluchi ....

Reza Baluchi And An Earlier 'Bubble' Vessel

... to enter the Florida Man hall of fame by way of sheer persistence.

Drugs And Guns And Alligators

As we have noted on numerous occasions .....

A Big Alligator Needs Big Bucket

..... Florida is undoubtedly a strange place, and home of many dysfunctional people. 

Death Imitates TV

The popular TV show CSI Las Vegas in which crime scene investigators / scientists solve crimes that would take many weeks or months .... inside an hour (TV time 24 hours ... max!) .... 

A Suspicious Death In Florida
 ... CSI On The Case

.... is believed to have inspired at least two real life crimes. 

Florida Man Makes Announcement

"Florida Man Makes Announcement" has to be the funniest newspaper headline this week ....

Donald Trump 2024?

.... and no, its not one of my usual Florida man stories, that usually delight me so much.

A Handy Scam?

 Julija Adlesic is a woman who really needed a hand ....

Self Mutilating For Money

.... she certainly needs some common sense!

A Never Ending Crime Wave

In 2018, 37-year-old Levi Gulwell from the Newport area of South Wales went on a one man petty crime spree.....

Levi Gulwell Is Six Feet Two Inches Tall ... Not Easy To Miss In A Line Up
(Although Sometimes There Could Be Some Confusion).

.... When reports of assault, criminal damage and burglary came in to Gwent Police in South Wales.

Blowing In The Wind

Ex-Detective Constable Claire Fitzpatrick was a police officer on the Gwent Police force in South Wales (yes our UK rival to the Florida man or woman news tag!!)

German Peasants Meeting Pope Paul III's Papal Bull With Their Farts .....

..... I say was because she has been sacked, after being accused of 25 counts of inappropriate behaviour.

Loneliness Of The Short Distance Runner

Another 'Florida Man' story emerged recently ....

Naked Florida Man

.... when a naked man, crashed his car into a fence before fleeing on foot with the police in hot pursuit in Seminole County, Florida in March 2019.

Florida Woman

Amie Nicole Carter, a 31 year old hairdresser is an example of why people really shouldn't do drugs, especially the hard drugs ....

Amie Carter - Proud Hairdresser.

One Sunday in February 2015, the police were called to the intersection of East Par Street and Formosa Avenue in Orlando, Florida, after drivers reported seeing a woman walking down Formosa Avenue with no clothes on.

Florida Man

In Florida, the news departments have a news item that they define as a 'Florida Man' story.

Florida Man Neme ...

It even developed its own meme and typically this item includes many of the following elements: firearms, locations such as bodies of water, theme parks, Walmart's, fast food joints, alligators, weird reasons for arrest, injuries, drugs and alcohol, could all be part of it, and always animals (especially reptiles).