Florida Man, the worst superhero ever

A genuinely tragic story when you read the details, but OMG!

A Facebook meme awhile back had everyone look up Florida Man and their birthdate and post the headline.

I still remember mine, “Florida Man Drunk on a Alligator tells cops he’s not going to get arrested, get’s arrested.”

That isn’t even a title, it’s a 3 act play.

A YT video about “swampfest” showed up as a suggested. It’s a long video and I skipped around but it is 100% filled with Florida Men. The comments are great. The video is horrifying. If you search, you should find it and it has over a million views in the short time it’s been out.

Some people come to Florida because they are already Florida Man and are responding to the call of their natural habitat. Some folks become Florida Man after living here a while. When you are surrounded by crazies, it affects your view of normality.

I have been living under the impression all this time Florida’s reporting laws make Florida Man a reality, but THIS REVIEW says otherwise.


Even coupled with the characteristics of Florida and its residents that many people claim are unique, the open records law-based theory for Florida Man’s existence falls short of explaining the phenomenon.

This Article posits that the primary reasons for Florida Man’s popularity are pre-existing popular culture trends and the venue in which Florida Man rose to fame: the internet. Internet platforms allow a wide audience-which may already have been receptive to jokes about Florida due to its reputation for being a newsworthy state to easily consume, share, and reshare Florida Man content, inspiring journalists to continue to write Florida Man stories. This cycle of generation and consumption of Florida Man stories has allowed Florida Man to become one of the longest-living memes in internet history. While the Florida Public Records Law and characteristics of Florida and its people work together to provide raw material for Florida Man articles, the heretofore unmentioned popular culture and internet trend factors of the phenomenon complete the story behind Florida Man’s existence.

I got “Naked Florida Man with Crossbow who claimed aliens were after him shot by deputy”.

It’s like Pokémon; “Florida Man has evolved into Naked Florida Man!”

I got “Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel.”

Because of course he would.

Birth day or birth date?

I can’t find anything for my birthdate, sadly.

I think I found something. There is what appears to be a human being holding a crude mug being carried off by a crocodilian-like creature.

You had to make me check (day, not date).

Florida man denies syringes found inside rectum are his

A couple from my birthday (not birth date):

Florida Man arrested for pulling off $100000 frozen bacon heist

Central Florida Man arrested after pouring bleach in co-worker’s soda

My birthday twofer.

South Florida man accused of biting off head of pet python during domestic dispute.

And because I’m a girl so equal opportunity Floridianing

Florida woman drops pants, licks man, dances naked in Waffle House parking lot.

sigh Birth DAY, I am sure. But both are fun, we can then see Florida Man’s evolution over generations.

Oh, then I’m sure I can find that, I’ll check what drunken mishaps occurred on that day.

:smiley:

Drunk Florida man drops his pants, yells ‘where’s my weapon’ while exposing self to deputies, officials say

Because, why not?

Damn, mine is dark.

June execution is scheduled for a Florida man convicted of raping and killing a woman

That execution is scheduled for my birthday.

Of course I don’t get the fun stuff everyone else does. Story of my life.

Had a few good choices; picked this one:

Note in the headline above that “Man” is capitalized, but no other words are. It’s like it really is his superhero name!

Also, what a fuckin’ choad.

Oh.

So this is not about a MAGA attempt to promote redneck values through an addition to their already dreck literature in the form of a lame superhero character? :rofl:

Drunken Florida man arrested after shoveling spaghetti into his mouth, yelling outside Olive Garden

Kind of boring day…