"It's about time for me to begin shooting you now, sir."
― David Svensson (deangulberry), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― a banana (alanbanana), Saturday, 9 April 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 9 April 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
i grew up on the coast between jacksonville and daytona beach. you can do worse that a slow pace sleepy beach town, yet i sort of understand on some levels.
gainesville is also a good town. very comparable to tallahassee, but without the state politics. (but the same annoying amount of college football insanity.)
florida's a love/hate for me. i miss it, but i'm not sure i'd go back and multiple parts of the state bring that out in me. east coast south florida. tampa/st pete/sarasota/ftmyers. gville. jacksonville to daytona. etc.
m.
― msp (mspa), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link
i was gonna say that everything that i've ever seen or read about jacksonville makes the place seem to be the worst -- the worst example of White People Jesusland gone amuck this side of colorado springs or branson MO.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 11 April 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
i wouldn't say jacksonville is the worst. if you're looking for gun toting intolerant christianity, you can do much worse than jacksonville. it's just a visible town in one of the largest states in the country.
most southerners agree: florida ain't the south. it's the thing dangling below the bible belt.m.
― msp (mspa), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 11 April 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 11 April 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Family feud erupts after teens date; 6 woundedCRESCENT CITY, Florida (AP) -- Members of neighboring families shot at each other, wounding six people, as part of a long-running feud that victims said peaked when a girl from one family began dating a boy from the other one.
Six people ages 14 to 22 were taken to hospitals Sunday for treatment of gunshot wounds. Two remained hospitalized Monday, one in serious condition...
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, it's your typical, small southern town.
there's this absolutely awesome marine statue on the big bridge there... he's holding this big grenade or mortar shell at crotch level. totally phallic.
incidentally, "palatka" still remains the name of one of my favorite gainesville hardcore/thrash bands.
― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I'M GONNA BOWL ME A PERFECT... GAAAAAME.I'M GONNA WRITE MY DUDU A LETTER, CHILD!I GONNA SHOOT JULIO IGLESIAS.. IN THE HEAD... NOW!*Rock rock rock rock*
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Seriously, WTF?
― django (django), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― django (django), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Jeb, I know where you live. You're unwittingly threatening my life, liberty, and pursuit of hot fucking happiness.
― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link
"Where are our priorities in life?" he asked.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 30 April 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 30 April 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
"They eat well, but they don't eat with me," Jones, 51, said of his border collie and black Labrador. "I've already made the decision that I won't go to any place that will allow them. I just don't think people should eat with dogs; that's disgusting."
Bush signed the bill holding Sen. Charlie Clary's dog, Dixie Cup, which provided a seconding paw print.
― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Saturday, 3 June 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
why does Florida seem like the new ground zero for America's descent into madness?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 26 November 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
David Faustino lives in florida now?
― kingfish, Monday, 26 November 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been living in Tallahassee for about a year and a half now.. it's the most fucked state ever. My favorite Florida news item:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/30/national/main2217850.shtml
― petey_carnum, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
where was that other story from 2 weeks ago where a (bank?) robber done got himself chomped during his escape, since he decided to swim across a suspect body of water?
― kingfish, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
One of my best friends lived in Tallahassee for a year, covering state politics – "The college students don't leave, they become lobbyists and pols."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't realize crack was such a problem among gators.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the pervasive sense of danger from knowing that you could be eaten at any moment contributes to the state's overall insanity.
Jacksonville has all the ambiance of Detroit, but none of the soul.
Alfred, I think that's only true of frattys. Everyone else leaves as soon as they can.
There was a pre-colonization Indian tribe from the Tallahassee area that simply vanished overnight. No archaeologists have determined exactly why they left, but I imagine around 1100 A.D. there was a tribal consensus of "Fuck Florida".
― petey_carnum, Monday, 26 November 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
ha!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 26 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Langbehn says she was informed that she was in an antigay city and state, and she could expect to receive no information or acknowledgment as family.
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
ts dade county vs dubai
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Charleston, New Orleans and even Mobile I'm going to feel pretty bad about. This, on the other hand, I'm really looking forward to: http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/florida_14.jpg
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
just curious tom whats your vendetta against dade county?
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The only good thing about Florida are the thrift stores. Lots of excellent thrift store finds because EVERYONE COMES HERE TO DIE.
― petey_carnum, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a vendetta?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://superherouniverse.com/wallpaper/artists/tyler/images2/V_for_Vendetta.jpg
(pictured: tom, dade county)
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
jordan - maybe it has to do with something that happened in fall 2000? little bits of paper? a lot of people hate south florida for that.
― elan, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link
if they visited they'd know the real thing to hate is the weather
and no doubt, that hospital shit is fucked, but it was more a function of the biases of the staff members. it makes obvious the need to include sexual orientation in state discrimination laws. but at most hospitals, that would not have happened.
― elan, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
oh and I forgot I had to go to the Orange Bowl and watch the vols get creamed by the fucking cornhuskers in like 1998. It was way too fucking hot for walking around in a wool uniform and we stayed in a shithole and the airport sucked, the city sucked, the game sucked, the orange bowl sucks, fuck that experience, except I think new year's that year might have been sort of okay since we were basically all drinking open containers in parking lots
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ha dude, the airport does suck bigtime. it's just a cashcow for connected developers. the neighborhoods between the airport and the orange bowl (it's gone, if that gives you any comfort) suck balls, so that may have colored your experience more negatively. and wool? nobody wears wool here. ever.
― elan, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
unless it's their job. i'll have to ask my army peeps if they have to wear wool day-to-day when working at southcom. and laugh if they say yes.
― elan, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
actually i kind of hate it here, too. i don't know why i'm apologizing.
Tallahassee's probably the most sensible and progressive city in the state
craziest of all crazy talk
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Unconstitutional Stops on Florida Highways
(CN) - A federal class action claims Florida and a private contractor detain drivers on the Florida Turnpike if they pay a toll with a $50 or $100 bill, and won't let them go until they cough up personal information. The class claims the detentions are dangerous and unconstitutional, and that sometimes drivers and passengers are detained and interrogated for paying tolls with bills as small as $5.The class action in Tampa also names collections company Faneuil as a defendant. Florida hired Faneuil to provide toll collectors and supervisors on its toll roads.Lead plaintiff Joel Chandler claims the state and Faneuil violate the Constitution by authorizing toll collectors, at their discretion, to imprison motorists and their passengers and hold them until they divulge personal information, some of which is written up on "Bill Detection Reports."According to the complaint, Milissa Burger, deputy director of toll operations, for Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE), "directed implementation of bill detection procedures, the related unlawful detentions of motorists and passengers, and the use of Bill Detection Reports, including writing and receiving emails regarding those efforts. She informed recipients of such email correspondence specifically not to copy the legal department on their response to her emails."The class claims Florida and Faneuil have done the illegal stops for 4 years: "For approximately four years, FDOT and Faneuil have engaged in a practice of detaining motorists and their passengers on the Turnpike System until such motorists provided certain personal information in exchange for their release."The class calls it an unconstitutional search and seizure, and says Florida and Faneuil knew it was unconstitutional"Defendants had actual, constructive or imputed knowledge of the FDOT policy, practice or custom whereby motorists and their passengers were unlawfully detained on the Turnpike System and forced to provide personal information in exchange for their release," the complaint states."The personal information recorded by toll collectors includes, but is not limited to the vehicle make, model, color, tag number and state of issuance. Other information such as the vehicle occupants' race, gender, and relative age has also been recorded." The class adds: "Toll collectors have required motorists to provide additional personal information, including drivers license information in exchange for their release."Toll collectors trapped motorists at toll booths by holding the barrier down, even though the drivers had enough money to pay the toll."Plaintiffs knew they were not free to leave the toll plaza. Going forward was controlled and blocked by toll operators and supervisors, going backward was illegal as well as blocked by other vehicles, all other directions were blocked, leaving the vehicle was unsafe, and would have meant abandoning valuable property."The toll collectors threatened to call police if drivers or passengers resisted the "bill detection procedures" and the demands for personal information.The complaint adds: "The policy of detaining motorists without their consent and without legal justification extended throughout the Turnpike System and was so permanent and well settled that it constituted custom, practice or policy which has the force of law and rises to the level of deliberate indifference to plaintiff's and class members' constitutional rights."
The class action in Tampa also names collections company Faneuil as a defendant. Florida hired Faneuil to provide toll collectors and supervisors on its toll roads.
Lead plaintiff Joel Chandler claims the state and Faneuil violate the Constitution by authorizing toll collectors, at their discretion, to imprison motorists and their passengers and hold them until they divulge personal information, some of which is written up on "Bill Detection Reports."
According to the complaint, Milissa Burger, deputy director of toll operations, for Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE), "directed implementation of bill detection procedures, the related unlawful detentions of motorists and passengers, and the use of Bill Detection Reports, including writing and receiving emails regarding those efforts. She informed recipients of such email correspondence specifically not to copy the legal department on their response to her emails."
The class claims Florida and Faneuil have done the illegal stops for 4 years: "For approximately four years, FDOT and Faneuil have engaged in a practice of detaining motorists and their passengers on the Turnpike System until such motorists provided certain personal information in exchange for their release."
The class calls it an unconstitutional search and seizure, and says Florida and Faneuil knew it was unconstitutional
"Defendants had actual, constructive or imputed knowledge of the FDOT policy, practice or custom whereby motorists and their passengers were unlawfully detained on the Turnpike System and forced to provide personal information in exchange for their release," the complaint states.
"The personal information recorded by toll collectors includes, but is not limited to the vehicle make, model, color, tag number and state of issuance. Other information such as the vehicle occupants' race, gender, and relative age has also been recorded." The class adds: "Toll collectors have required motorists to provide additional personal information, including drivers license information in exchange for their release."
Toll collectors trapped motorists at toll booths by holding the barrier down, even though the drivers had enough money to pay the toll.
"Plaintiffs knew they were not free to leave the toll plaza. Going forward was controlled and blocked by toll operators and supervisors, going backward was illegal as well as blocked by other vehicles, all other directions were blocked, leaving the vehicle was unsafe, and would have meant abandoning valuable property."
The toll collectors threatened to call police if drivers or passengers resisted the "bill detection procedures" and the demands for personal information.
The complaint adds: "The policy of detaining motorists without their consent and without legal justification extended throughout the Turnpike System and was so permanent and well settled that it constituted custom, practice or policy which has the force of law and rises to the level of deliberate indifference to plaintiff's and class members' constitutional rights."
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
weird. in completely unrelated news, i am flying out to naples, fl to visit the in-laws tomorrow. may god have mercy on my soul.
― tylerw, Monday, 7 March 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Naples has some great restaurants in its hotels though -- I spent a weekend with my parents there last June.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i was in miami beach/miami over the weekend. it is a very strange place.
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
You should have let me know!
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, no, i like stuff about naples. it's just got kind of an unpleasant populace, i've found.
― tylerw, Monday, 7 March 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Tenured, surly snowbirds.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, you live in miami? i had no idea.
went to little havana on saturday and ended up at this place that had amazing peruvian food and cumbia karaoke.
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 7 March 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I am I think justly proud of this thread.
Even most Cubans are moderate on so-called social issues.
Yeah, one of the things I liked over the last week was the Cubans going "Dudes! We care about things other than immigration!""
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
We have a few rabid "pro-lifers" but Cubans are coy about bedroom politics for the most part.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
gf was searching for some people she knew from elementary school and their mugshots came up on google
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/mugshots/
The State of Florida is unapologetic about the market its mug-shot posts have enabled. “We are very public-record–friendly. We are one of the most transparent states out there,” Kristi Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said. “As soon as a photo is taken at a booking facility, it becomes a public record.”
what a state
― iatee, Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
Fish in a barrel, but:
Stand Your Ground covers shooting a 17-year-old after an argument about music
But not a warning shot while your husband's beating the shit out of you
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
The question seems too ludicrous to even pose, but sadly a 17-year-old boy was recently killed in Florida after an argument that took place over his music being too loud.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/man-kills-17-year-old-boy-for-listening-to-music-too-loudly.html#ixzz2VNmjC9Rn
what are the details of the argument?
― posters who have figured how how to priv (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
FLORIDA MAN STRIKES AGAIN
Florida man stabbed brother in fight over mac and cheese, beer, Volusia deputies say
http://m.clickorlando.com/news/man-stabbed-brother-in-fight-over-mac-and-cheese-beer-volusia-deputies-say/-/16721250/20540308/-/14q7p2s/-/index.html
― polyphonic, Thursday, 27 June 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
The state with the prettiest name!
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
I dated a girl in Volusia and had another friend that lived there...and as a result of this, nothing in that story surprises me in the least.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 27 June 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link
always on the edge
Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials have been ordered not to use the term “climate change” or “global warming” in any official communications, emails, or reports, according to former DEP employees, consultants, volunteers and records obtained by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article12983720.html
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
This is beyond horrific (the URL is bad enough - the details are worse).
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-wont-charge-prison-guards-who-boiled-schizophrenic-black-man-darren-rainey-to-death-9213190
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Yeah.
This was the 11th Circuit, so it's not just Florida (11th also covers Alabama and Georgia - so you know, quality) but this is of a piece
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/17/appeals_court_rules_officer_who_killed_man_in_his_own_home_cannot_be_sued.html
law enforcement in the south is unimpeachable. shoot a man, shoot an innocent man, shoot an innocent man in his own home for the crime of opening the door while armed, or just boil him to death for being mentally ill, you're golden with a badge.
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Thursday, 23 March 2017 04:10 (seven years ago) link
An associate medical examiner testified Thursday in the murder trial of a South Florida man accused of killing his girlfriend that he’s never before seen an example of someone choking to death from oral sex. But that’s what defense attorney Ken Padowitz intends to present to the jury in the murder trial of Richard Patterson. Patterson, 65, of Margate, is charged with second-degree murder in the choking death of his girlfriend, Francisca Marquinez, 60, in 2015.
Iouri Boiko, Broward County’s associate medical examiner, testified for the prosecution that a penis would have to be lodged far enough down a person’s throat to prevent someone from breathing. Boiko said it would take two to three minutes for someone to die that way, so a sign of struggle would be obvious. “If she cannot breathe, she usually start to kicking, biting or to do something to prevent this blocking of the airway, try to open this airway,” Boiko testified. “It’s (a) normal reaction of any person.”
https://www.local10.com/news/crime/associate-medical-examiner-testifies-in-margate-mans-penis-defense-murder-trial
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
uh
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Friday, 19 May 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
broke: military paradeswoke: staged military assaults on major cities with their mayor shooting a mounted gun off a fucking boat pic.twitter.com/y3m799Ww7y— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) February 8, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
The exercise is put on each year as a part of the Special Forces Industry Conference, a 12,000-strong, three-day meeting of Special Operations personnel and companies showcasing the latest technologies available to both U.S. troops and their international allies.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is captured by pirates and held ashore near the convention center here. Soon after, as thousands of spectators watched from nearby rooftops, party boats and bar patios, Black Hawk helicopters supported by smaller gunships and fast-moving riverine craft descended on the area.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/05/26/special-operations-troops-assaulted-downtown-tampa-all-to-thunderous-applause/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
(just when I thought the trope was dead...)
"Knife-Wielding Florida Man Arrested in Homemade Hamster Wheel"https://explorersweb.com/hamster-wheel-man-arrested/
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 10 September 2023 07:40 (six months ago) link