smh @ Florida

I like imagining what rhondaing is, please don't tell me

RHONDA

A Florida man says a medical center is violating his father's First Amendment rights by not allowing him to bring a life-sized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump to his treatments.

Nelson Gibson of Port St. Lucie kept bringing increasingly larger images of the president to Fresenius Kidney Care for his dialysis treatments, WESH-Channel 2 reports.

He started with an 8 x 10 photo of Trump "to comfort him," the TV station reported. Then he brought a miniature cardboard cutout of Trump.

Both of those were tolerated.

Fresenius Kidney Care drew the line at the life-sized cutout, however.

Gibson's son, Eric Gibson, said his father's cutout — which the TV station described as an "emotional support" item — is no bigger than a "garbage can" and therefore shouldn't be an issue.

“What I would really like to happen is for them not to infringe upon my father’s freedom of expression and speech and allow him to bring in the life-sized cardboard cutout that takes up less service area than a garbage can?” Eric Gibson told WESH.

hilarious thing is this dumbshit bragged about his stupid news coverage in a public FB post (because these idiots never know how to work FB security settings) so I just dropped him a heartfelt greeting in the comments.

excellent transition into the babby thread.

Trump/Pence 2020: “Make America great again, no bigger than a garbage can.”

Far be it from me to encroach on Florida's God-given sovereignty by posting itt, but…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/25/florida-six-year-old-arrested-school-tantrum

a good start imho

https://weather.com/news/news/2020-04-04-florida-brush-fire-destroys-cars-at-airport

Wow!

the guv called the state "God's waiting room"

that's an old joke tho

Good morning!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/us/grim-reaper-florida-beaches-trnd/index.html

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From our Orange County Economic Task Force meeting

https://i.ibb.co/wwSPRYV/FB-IMG-1590090283634.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBqY-4oDWAQ

I'm not clicking that, but holy shit, that's what happens when you pass out so hard that you don't even wake up when your giggling asshole friends are tattooing your face.

You're missing out. For real.

I have lived with people like that, but they were crustpunks, not juggalo types.

Story time?

For a brief period of about four months or so in 2013, I lived in a squat in West Oakland named Skeletor. It was mostly dudes, travelling crust punk types who were drunks or junkies or both, along with some more regular punk types down on their luck and needing a free room to crash in.

Every day of the week had a different theme, so I'd come home from my part-time job and it would be third-eye Thursday and everyone would be getting blind drunk while hallucinating on mushrooms, setting fire to each other's shit in the courtyard, throwing dog shit and beer cans at each other and calling one another nerd while listening to Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Dropdead and whatever. I bonded mostly with the quiet drunks who would get really amped when Godflesh came on and spent their days flying signs and playing chess.

One good story was the night someone brought home a bunch of condoms from a health clinic and some of the dudes, who all hated condoms, blew them into balloons and used them to play keepaway with the dogs until each condom was burst. Then they threw all the busted condoms on the street and alley in front of the house.

There was also a time when these dudes had been huffing paint all day and then one of their lady friends came over and they had sex in the only common room while all of us were just watching in the courtyard. Eventually, those two had a child, he disappeared into the crack scene in SF, came back and impregnated her again, then disappeared again.

Three of about eleven people I lived with there are dead, one is addicted to crack and living on the streets, and one was in a motorcycle accident that left him permanently disabled. The rest are doing reasonably well, given the circumstances of living a rough life.

I should say, I also spent time riding freights and doing all that shit, but I'm definitely more a Vollmann type than a type to be nicknamed Horse Shit, shooting up in an alley in Sparks.

Three of about eleven people I lived with there are dead, one is addicted to crack and living on the streets, and one was in a motorcycle accident that left him permanently disabled. The rest are doing reasonably well, given the circumstances of living a rough life.

I assume 'the rest' includes you, so I'm glad you're ok.

Thanks! The past decade has been a doozy, but I'm doing reasonably well.

Thx for video, mashup of Mandy and Gummo was unexpected but inspired

He makes good videos.

Health officials in Florida have sounded the alarm over the discovery of a rare, brain-eating amoeba in the county that encompasses Tampa and several other cities.

The Florida Department of Health announced the news Friday that a person in Hillsborough County had suffered a confirmed infection of naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living amoeba that can lead to a dangerous infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadly-brain-eating-amoeba-confirmed-in-florida?ref=home

This bacteria pops up every few years; it's why I don't get swimming in lakes (ours are warmer, of course, and have gators).

yeah, everybody panicked about it a few years ago when it happened then. I was taught about amoeba in 7th grade and I was terrified of swimming in a lake even though I'd never done it before anyway

everybody on my timeline is wigging out saying "omg this is so 2020" when it's like, we had a case of it in 2016, we had multiple in 2013, and NOBODY I know that lives here in Orlando that is freaked out regularly swims in warm freshwater and gets it up their nose, sooooooo

Four prison guards threw a man in a shower, turned up the water to 180 degrees, and left him there for 2 hours, until he died with burns covering 90 percent of his body.

Fernandez Rundle didn't charge any of them with a crime. https://t.co/RuFbgR0oJY

But experience, amiright? https://t.co/9IGUmVNHcj

— Taniel (@Taniel) August 9, 2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/12/901756223/florida-sheriff-orders-deputies-and-staff-not-to-wear-face-masks

I've done my best to spread the story on social media to force the sheriff to take a syringeful of bleach.

Good man.

Is this even legal?

Florida prosecutors at their finest

https://reason.com/2020/09/25/florida-drops-prostitution-case-against-robert-kraft-still-pursues-charges-against-the-women-he-paid/

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2020/11/17/florida-man-with-sovereign-citizen-views-shot-to-death-by-woman-police-say/

xp :(

Linked at the bottom of that^ Tampa Bay News page:

Up next: Man arrested after I-4 power pole is found strapped to his car roof

is "power pole" a euphemism

this is Orange County, defined:

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/04/28/oops-misspelled-word-painted-in-orange-county-school-zone/?

so Florida is *mostly* unaffected by the pipeline hack, other than the Panhandle. however, idiot rumormongers started a rumor that gas shortages would occur here, so now pumps in unaffected TAMPA and other cities are empty. fucking idiots

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/florida-gov-ron-desantis-declares-state-emergency-sunshine-state-doesnt-need-panic

Two stories counts as trend, right?

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/485132-john-kuczwanski-killed-in-road-rage-incident/
https://wgntv.com/news/pregnant-hit-and-run-driver-fatally-shot-after-instigating-road-rage-incident-police-say/

1.) Florida state Republican official ends up dead after a.) causing a traffic accident and then b.) trying to shoot the person he hit — who turns out to be carrying too (yes, even the Prius drivers are armed). "He was a quiet fellow," a coworker says — a quiet fellow with a previous conviction for threatening someone with a gun during a road rage incident.

2.) Pregnant Florida woman hits a motorcyclist and speeds off. Motorcyclist follows her to her house, she comes out armed and shooting, motorcyclist (also armed, of course) shoots and kills her.

In both cases, I wonder what would have happened if the road rager had been successful in killing the other motorist. My guess is they would have gotten off on "stand your ground" or similar defense.

The second article doesn’t say she fired?

Ah, you're right. I guess brandishing was sufficient cause for the other guy to shoot her.

It really does seem like we're coming to a point where whoever survives a gunfight gets to claim self-defense. At least in "stand your ground" states.

Further feeding my working assumption that every driver on the road is armed and ready to shoot, so I never so much as even honk aggressively at shitty and dangerous drivers.

I have cut way back on honking for the same reason. We had a road rage shooting death in our neighborhood last year. I honked at a guy the other week who zoomed across two lanes of traffic to get on an interstate ramp. My wife yelled, "Don't honk, he'll shoot you!"

This is our great 2A society.

Not to worry, I'm sure they're all good guys with guns.

we are just going to go back to dueling to solve disputes aren't we?

An armed society is a polite society.

Florida is breeding grounds for road rage. I completely abstain from antagonism now (save for a dude I flipped off for holding up the line at my apt complex entrance, then telling him to get the fuck back in his car when he got out - I was in a mood that day).

have had too many friends be the victim of road rage. there was a colleague that worked for my company once who was a perpetrator of it here - like ten years ago or so. he I guess got in a road rage incident with a dude and they must have hit each other so he got out of his car and punched the guy in the car in the face, and that guy was packing and shot him. he didn't die, but he was in bad shape for a while.

i am thankful I live in a much bluer area of Florida, just sayin'.