Is it just me or does Florida seem to have a disproportionate number of stories like this?
Weird Mother and Daughter

I've told you, I see shit on the news in Florida that you just don't see anywhere else. Like the news story about the beating death in the convenience store, and nobody called 911. I thought it was about the clerk getting beaten during a robbery. Nope, the clerk went outside the store and beat a customer to DEATH, while not only did the other customers not call for help, but they calmly continued shopping. I mean, God forbid we run out of beer and Slim Jims!

Lilo, Florida is a strange mix of back-ass hillbillies and transplants from the North.

OMG!! Mother/daughter bonding, how sweet.

You are NOT alone Lilo, but it wasn't til recent years that I concluded FL is a tad "weird/odd/different"???? Take your pick.

Are they not the only state to have the "stand your ground" rule? Anyway, even their Governor is weird. Or, let me put it this way, he gives me the creeps. I expect his head to start spinning, if you now what I mean.


TIS

Edit. Of course California has absolutely NO weirdos or oddities whatsoever.

Florida is great, but yes, very strange.

There are a lot of transients there, and a ton of people "starting over." Not to mention the fugitives .

There's also a growing homeless population because the homeless in the north are figuring out that it's easier to be homeless where there's no snow (I shouldn't laugh, because homelessness in't funny).

But it's a gorgeous state with great weather, so it's it's going to attract people till the end of time. I've mentioned this before, but if you really want to laugh pick up a Dave Barry or a Carl Hiaasen column. Those guys will make you pee even when they're writing seriously.

My daughter, who's lived in South Florida for 14 years, says that there's a volatile mixture of wealth and poverty (breeding fear and resentment); overcrowding; and a high percentage of recent or fairly recent immigrants from totalitarian regimes who are used to having to grab and push for everything in life.

And that's just in Boca .

I also watched a show which said the Everglades were full of released pythons........

Thats a trip there knocked off the old Bucket List

Your English, Yogi. The Florida sun would vaporize you .

Been to the Everglades and done the airboat tour a couple of times. I've never seen a python, Yogi, so c'mon down! You'll be safe, if the 'gators don't get you! LOL

Florida is at the bottom; everything drains into it.

Florida's just a weird mix of everything in my opinion. You can't put a single label on it.

My father-in-law lived there and he loved it. Perfect reason for me not to go there.

They should cut Florida off at the Georgia border and let it float out to the Caribbean.

I have the opposite. My mother-in-law went on vacation there, hated it, and that's why I love it.

My Dad (RIP) lived near Daytona Beach. I love it there.

Those must be some "interesting" family reunions.
What's that joke? If you go to a family reunion to pick up chicks, you might be in Florida?

Thats okay Babe, i don't have a pathological fear of gators like i do with serpents

I heard on the radio today that State Conservation people are encouraging the killing of the Burmese python. They are not native species and they are upsetting the natural eco-system. They have no natural enemies. So, here comes man.

About 20 years ago, I was at a business meeting (read: junket) at a Marriott resort in the Jacksonville area. I went for a run to the beach from the resort. The run took me across some open land near a creek. While stopping to, uh, relieve myself,I spotted fresh 'gator tracks right alongside the path. I think I broke the world's broken-field running record for the 200-yard dash to get out of there.

We have friends who moved to Vero Beach. They have a "lake" (a man-made pond by any other standards) in their development adjacent to their house. They regularly have to call Animal Control because of the gators that make their home there.

I swear, I could NEVER get use to gators. I'd be screaming and running in the house, calling animal control, all the time.


TIS

Then look away, Tis. You scaredy cat .

I posted this once before. Here's a pic from April 2010 of a gator that got on our condo grounds in Delray Beach, Florida. What's weird is, we're east of the Intracoastal, where gator sightings are supposed to be less frequent because they usually run away from the salt water. But tell that to this little guy:

He is a fine specimen PB, a bit like myself

If he had a Guinness in his teeth, I bet you could take him, Yogs.

Aw, you bet PB. I would take him down just for the fun of it. We be crazy us limeys

It's funny, Yogi. In our little town in Florida, there's a great English pub called the Blue Anchor. I think I sent you a link once before. Anway, when we're down there we eat there at least once a week. The pub grub is great (liver and onions, shepherd's pie, etc.). I also sneak there a few days a week by myself .

http://www.theblueanchor.com/

Yes you have sent me the link before, It looks like a really great place, i would certainly visit!

I swear, even in America, the stout tastes different in an English pub. Maybe I'm nuts.

I do like the occasional stout.

Or a frequent stout even