# I'm getting really sick of idiots from FL in the news. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947 "2002-07-08T19:09:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Pebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Johnny\_Pebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Pebs)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/1 "2002-07-08T19:09:48Z")
Found [this](http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/news_columnists/article/0,1406,KNS_359_1251484,00.html) on another message board. First and foremost, JEEZY FUCKIN’ PEETS!! Can’t you morons just once in a while LIE and tell everybody that you’re from someplace else fer chrissakes!!! Every time I turn around there’s some dipshit in the news and wouldn’t you know it… the suspect, victim, Darwin Award winner, etc. is Joe Needsabrain from FL! If they’re not making **1100** phony 911 calls or calling in [terrorist hoaxes](http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/03/TampaBay/Man_whose_calls_close.shtml) that shut down the entire Sunshine Fucking Skyway bridge for hours during rush hour, they’re attacking BEARS! And no, I’m not talking about big, burly gay men. Honest to God bears. “Oh No!! That wild animal is going to follow its genetic programming and eat BAMBI!!! It’s just not right! Let’s get 'im!” :wally Knock it the fuck off people! From now on tell them you’re from someplace else. ANYplace else. We’re getting sub[/sub] a bad rap down here. Really, Honestly. We’re not _all_ hopeless imbeciles! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/2 "2002-07-08T19:16:02Z")
Yeah, it’s embarrassing isn’t it? All the criminal and nutcases come from here or escape to here. It was months before I realized “America’s Most Wanted” wasn’t just a local show! Every one of the fuckers is “last seen in Florida…”. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/3 "2002-07-08T19:58:12Z")
Dad? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/4 "2002-07-08T20:19:10Z")
Since when do bear eat deer?? I thought they didn’t eat anything bigger than salmon. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Pebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Johnny\_Pebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Pebs)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/5 "2002-07-08T21:51:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\*Since when do bear eat deer?? I thought they didn’t eat anything bigger than salmon. \*\* Well, the article doesn’t say what kind of bear it was, but I can only assume -from the fact that this happened in the Great Smokey Mountains- that it was a black bear. [This](http://www.bears.org/animals/food.cgi?American) site lists the biggest thing in their diet as being carcasses. But the article did say that it was a young bear (just learning how to hunt/forage?) and the deer was actually a fawn. [Grizzlies](http://www.bears.org/animals/food.cgi?Brown) OTOH, tend to look for a bigger meal. A quote from [this](http://www.backpacker.com/article/0,2646,148,00.html) article. Bolding mine. > [@](#): > > There are still some wild places where you share the land with a free-ranging creature capable of **bringing down an elk or crushing the skull of a moose with a single blow**. Just knowing this can either bring the landscape alive or leave you quaking in fear. At the very least, it should inspire you to take a few precautions to avoid a chance run-in. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/6 "2002-07-08T23:58:22Z")
If Florida’s idiot supply dried up, Carl Hiassen would have no career. And that’d be a fuckin’ shame. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/7 "2002-07-09T00:01:25Z")
Not to mention Dave Barry. I know of what you speak, **JohhnyPebs** ; I live in Montana. Believe me, no shortage of high-profile wackos here, either (although it has been better lately)… ---
**Author:** ![benlormat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@benlormat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benlormat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/8 "2002-07-09T00:24:15Z")
I know what you mean. When my nephew (born in Brandon, FL) is asked where he’s from, he says “New Jersey”.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/9 "2002-07-09T00:34:13Z")
Gets even funnier. Ex-CEO of Tyco, who dragged it to the ground, lives in a very rich mansion. If he is sued, nad he is molst likely to, his multi-million dollar house is immune from equity of the suit due to Florida’s homesteader laws, even if he acquired the money to purchase it through foul means. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/10 "2002-07-09T00:39:59Z")
Florida! _Florida!_ You gotta be kidding! As a recovering Texan, I defy you to present a case of public and/or electoral idiocy that come anywhere near Texas standards! Florida. \*Feh[/], as they say in Lubbock. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/11 "2002-07-09T02:41:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elucidator \* > \*_Florida. Feh[/], as they say in Lubbock._ Dammit, why’d you have to go and do that? I’m going to have to strike feh from my lexicon if it’s a popular Buttock word. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/12 "2002-07-09T17:20:11Z")
I know this is a very unscientific means of survery, but on Fark we’ve noticed the same thing for quite a long time. It’s gotten so bad that people are continuously asking the admins for a “Florida” tag for the links to go along with the standard “Dumbass”, “Stupid”, “Asinine”, “Amusing”, etc. FYI, Wil Wheaton and Christopher Walken also have their own article tags. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Pebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Johnny\_Pebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Pebs)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/13 "2002-07-09T18:00:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capacitor \* > \*\*Gets even funnier. Ex-CEO of Tyco, who dragged it to the ground, lives in a very rich mansion. If he is sued, nad he is molst likely to, his multi-million dollar house is immune from equity of the suit due to Florida’s homesteader laws, even if he acquired the money to purchase it through foul means. \*\* Same thing with that schmuck ex-CFO from WorldCom. He’s having a large _compound_ built down around Boca I believe. That’ll be safe as well. > [@](#): > > It’s gotten so bad that people are continuously asking the admins for a “Florida” tag for the links to go along with the standard “Dumbass”, “Stupid”, “Asinine”, “Amusing”, etc :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/14 "2002-07-13T10:50:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JohhnyPebs \* > \*\* > Same thing with that schmuck ex-CFO from WorldCom. He’s having a large _compound_ built down around Boca I believe. That’ll be safe as well. > > :smack: \*\* Wow, they really go all out to protect those burgers, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/15 "2002-07-13T13:22:31Z")
Heh! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/16 "2002-07-13T22:37:41Z")
It’s just nice to see somebody else taking some of the heat off South Carolina. People from other countries were laughing at me when I told them where I was from. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/17 "2002-07-13T23:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\* > > Wow, they really go all out to protect those burgers, eh? \*\* Hey, I live in Boca Raton, and we have more that Boca Burgers here! We also have… uh… old people! Old people with money! And [anthrax](http://www.msnbc.com/news/639937.asp?cp1=1)! Don’t forget about the anthrax! ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/18 "2002-07-14T03:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\* > > Hey, I live in Boca Raton, and we have more that Boca Burgers here! We also have… uh… old people! Old people with money! And [anthrax](http://www.msnbc.com/news/639937.asp?cp1=1)! Don’t forget about the anthrax! \*\* Yeah, and people who couldn’t figure out how to vote, even if their very life depended on it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/19 "2002-07-14T14:13:33Z")
I think the group of people who couldn’t vote and the group “old people” had a LOT of intersection. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947/20 "2002-07-15T07:17:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wikkit \* > \*\*Dammit, why’d you have to go and do that? I’m going to have to strike feh from my lexicon if it’s a popular Buttock word. \*\* Nah. Sounded like a Molly Ivins reference to me; she’s always using some phrase in a foreign language (usually French) and following that with “as they say in Lubbock.” You know, as in “Au contraire, as they say in Lubbock.” I wouldn’t worry overmuch. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-really-sick-of-idiots-from-fl-in-the-news/117947.md?page=2)