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New Law Stops Pediatricians from Asking About Guns

Max Read · 05/08/11 08:46AM

Is your pediatrician trying to take away your gun? (Probably!) You should move to Florida, where a new law would prevent pediatricians from asking about guns in the home. Thanks, NRA, for telling doctors what they can, and can't, do.

Bestiality: Now Illegal In Florida

Adrian Chen · 05/06/11 09:46AM

Florida's state legislature passed a bill this week outlawing bestiality. The bill was introduced in 2008 after a notorious case involving a pet goat. Today in Florida every person with a bestiality fetish is going: Wait, it was legal!?

Charlie Crist Now Just Another Ambulance Chaser

Jim Newell · 05/04/11 04:38PM

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist always wanted to be president, and was in the hunt to be John McCain's vice presidential candidate in 2008. Then the Tea Party emerged and threw his 2010 moderate-Republican campaign for Senate off the tracks. Now he's just another liberal plaintiffs' attorney plugging personal injury services, in Florida. Watch his TV ad and cry! [via RealClearPolitics]

Teenage Boy Told to Leave Class for Wearing High Heels

Richard Lawson · 04/26/11 01:19PM

Here's another story of high school gender confusion, this one coming from America's great pulsating phallus, Florida. It seems a Tampa-area teen wore high heels to school, causing an uproar. The uproar? This teen was a boy. In high heels! What is this, Crazy Town?

Man Caught Peeing on Cough Drops in Walgreens

Max Read · 04/25/11 08:39PM

Attention, Florida! Do you recognize the man in the video above? The police would like a word with him, regarding how he peed on the cough drops at the Walgreens in Sanford. And, Florida, while we have your attention:

Welcome to the Nightmarish World of Bumfight Porn

Seth Abramovitch · 04/12/11 11:45PM

The homeless of St. Petersburg, Fla. have become the unlikely stars of a series of fetish videos in which they were treated like human "punching bags" by scantily clad women. In exchange for the filmed maulings—some so severe they put the recipients in the hospital—they were given $50 by Jeffrey S. Williams, the 58-year-old website manager of shefights.net. Now two of the men are suing.

Watch Thousands of Worms Have a Disgusting Worm Orgy

Maureen O'Connor · 04/06/11 01:40PM

Question: Is there anything grosser than a worm-strewn sidewalk after an afternoon downpour in the suburbs? When every concrete surface is slathered with waterlogged nightcrawlers, lying in heaps like flesh-colored boogers?

92-Year-Old Woman Shoots Up Her Neighbor's House Over a Kiss

Brian Moylan · 03/23/11 03:02PM

92-year-old Helen Staudinger went to her neighbor's house and said she wouldn't leave without a kiss. When the man refused, she went home, got her gun, and fired at his house. That is one grandma you don't want to mess with!

Man Arrested for Stealing Bag of Dildos from His Boss

Brian Moylan · 03/14/11 03:27PM

Mitchell Tice, a resident of Florida (of course), was arrested for breaking into his boss' storage locker and stealing two laptops, a wig, and a bag full of dildos. Tice kept the sex toys under his bed, which is how the police identified him as the criminal.

Man Sues Medic Who Stole His Disembodied Foot to Train Her Dog

Maureen O'Connor · 03/08/11 05:59PM

Two years ago, Florida firefighter and paramedic Cindy Economou served six months of probation for second-degree petty theft for stealing a disembodied foot from the scene of a car crash with the ulterior motive of using it to train her cadaver-sniffing dog. Economou's excuse: "It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh. It wasn't a clean cut. You couldn't even recognize it as a foot… If I had thought it was somehow reattachable and usable, I would have gone to my commander." Well, in that case—hmm, no, still horrifying.

Disney World Is Extra Rapey Lately

Hamilton Nolan · 02/28/11 09:18AM

Are you caught up on the most recent sex crimes somehow connected to Disney World? Well, you should be. First there was Disney reservations clerk Wilbert Brookins, arrested last week for trying to rape a woman in her Disney hotel room after he'd gotten her an "employee discount" and escorted her through the park. Although she was very specific: "she said at the time she would not exchange sex for this."

Woman Attacks Roommate Over Thin Mints

Max Read · 02/21/11 10:48PM

Like so many of us, Naples, Fla. resident Hersha Howard is guilty of loving Girl Scouts Thin Mints cookies. She is also, according to Naples deputies, guilty of attacking her roommate, for taking her Thin Mints.