BWAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! That was great! Thanks!
Maybe it made more noise up in Canada. Down here it’s probably just another statistic. I do remember German/British tourist being killed down in Miami because the bad guys could track them by their rental tags. Seems they’ve since changed the license plate system. Also, I didn’t live in Florida in the nineties so it may not have been news wherever I was.
And today I’m reading that a south Florida woman who shot a gator which had entered her home and tried to eat her dog was cited by Fish & Game for hunting without a license. WTF? If a giant reptile comes into my house bent on canine murder, you can bet I’m going to shoot its ass.
It was three feet long. Half of that is tail. If a golden retriever can’t take it 2 out of 3 falls then it gets what it deserves.
Also, according to that article the citation was a warning. Probably more that she shouldn’t be using a firearm when she’s “running on so much adrenaline she just freaked out…”
Um, you forgot:
Year-round heavy infestations of fleas, if you have a pet;
Gigantic spiders the size of your hand, which you can - I-Kid-You-Not! - hear running on drywall (it’s ok, though - they eat the gigantic cockroaches);
Every kind of venomous snake in North America, including the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake - far and away the largest species of rattlesnake on the continent, if not in the world;
Humidity higher than the average American Idol viewer’s IQ most of the year;
and of course, it’s by far the Official Weirdest State in America[TM] (source: MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann).
No wonder tourism drives the Florida economy! 
Teela Brown
I agree with the cops. Though, I would have charged her with ‘discharging a fire arm within city limits’. LiveOnAPlane is not exaggerating. In much of Florida, it is a simple fact that if you leave a dog in the yard, it will be eaten by a gator. Making sure your dog or cat does not get eaten by a gator is as basic as checking them for ticks, and making sure they don’t run into traffic. The gator got into the woman’s house due entirely to her negligence. After it was out of the house, she responded by firing four shots. She could have seriously hurt somebody. While the majority of gun owners in Florida would never do something this stupid, the cops want to make it very clear that they won’t put up with it.
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Canada has a much worse problem. It is filled with Canadians.
Well, it was a list of things I know about Florida. Now I know more! (And none of them making me want to visit any sooner.)
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