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Bestiality: Now Illegal In Florida
Adrian Chen · 05/06/11 09:46AMCharlie Crist Now Just Another Ambulance Chaser
Jim Newell · 05/04/11 04:38PMFormer 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]
Homeless Bank Robber Passes Out Stolen Money on Bus
Hamilton Nolan · 04/29/11 12:39PMTeenage Boy Told to Leave Class for Wearing High Heels
Richard Lawson · 04/26/11 01:19PMMan Caught Peeing on Cough Drops in Walgreens
Max Read · 04/25/11 08:39PMAttention, 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:
World's Healthiest Thieves Pull Off Huge Vegetable Heist
Adrian Chen · 04/15/11 12:21PMWelcome 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.
Why Congressmen Should Not Edit Their Own Wikipedia Pages: A Case Study
Maureen O'Connor · 04/07/11 01:15PMWatch Thousands of Worms Have a Disgusting Worm Orgy
Maureen O'Connor · 04/06/11 01:40PMQuestion: 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?
Felony Charge for Burger King Bikini Brawler
Jeff Neumann · 03/28/11 06:36AMA 30-year-old Alabama woman who sparked one of the greatest food fights of all time inside a Panama City Beach, Florida Burger King has been charged with a laundry list of crimes: felony criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and two counts of misdemeanor battery. Shit, that's rough. An official statement on the accused, Kimesa Smith, via the The News Herald:
Jessi Slaughter's Dad Arrested for Punching Her in the Mouth
Adrian Chen · 03/25/11 04:32PMAnyone hoping the harrowing saga of Florida 11-year-old Jessi Slaughter might have a happy ending will be sorely disappointed.
Beauty Queen Killer Poses in Panties with Gun: 'I Want to Make Some Money'
Maureen O'Connor · 03/24/11 02:45PMTwo weeks after shooting a home invader dead with a pink .38-caliber gun, Florida beauty queen Meghan Brown is ready to cash in. The Daily reports that, in the days immediately after the shooting, Meghan "modeled thigh-high stockings and a black corset laced up with a hot pink ribbon—all while aiming a shiny pistol." Why, you ask?
92-Year-Old Woman Shoots Up Her Neighbor's House Over a Kiss
Brian Moylan · 03/23/11 03:02PMMiami Police Have a Loving-to-Shoot-People Problem
Hamilton Nolan · 03/23/11 08:31AMHorny Granny Shoots at Not Horny Neighbor
Jeff Neumann · 03/23/11 07:19AMMan Arrested for Stealing Bag of Dildos from His Boss
Brian Moylan · 03/14/11 03:27PMMan 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."