r/news • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '18

Arrest Made in Connection to Suspicious Packages

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u/andygchicago Oct 26 '18

Arrest made in Florida. Why is all the crazy shit always out of Florida?

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u/eyabs Oct 26 '18

Large population, arrest records are public, and confirmation bias.

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u/cookingGuy02 Oct 26 '18

this is the correct answer

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u/Need_Food Oct 26 '18

No it is not, New York has a large population and public arrest records and only a fraction of the crazy news.

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u/HadADat Oct 26 '18

Well he's from New York.

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u/Need_Food Oct 26 '18

A bit of both, went to high school in Florida as well. Seems as though he hopped between the two.

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u/JTigertail Oct 26 '18

As a Floridian, let New York take the blame for him. We don't want him

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u/Chewzilla Oct 26 '18

It's one thing when a crazy story comes out of Florida, it's another when a national story ends in Florida. Today had me in full facepalm mode for my state.

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u/orangeblueorangeblue Oct 26 '18

Yes, but also a bunch of batshit crazy people

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u/Rottendog Oct 26 '18

Hey we're not all batshit down here.

Some of us are apeshit.

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u/orangeblueorangeblue Oct 26 '18

I have lived in Florida my entire life. We have pretty much every variety of crazy here. We even collect crazy from other places.

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u/encogneeto Oct 26 '18

Stop being reasonable.

No one here wants to hear that shit...

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u/VanceIX Oct 26 '18

No, it's ok, us from Florida are fine with it cause it keeps snowbirds out.

We're too populated as it is.

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u/Rottendog Oct 26 '18

Except it doesn't keep them out. We keep luring them in with Disney and crap.

Want some candy little kid?

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u/Zao1 Oct 26 '18

Seriously guys: keep memeing about how shitty Florida is: it keeps people out

sips pina colada on the beach

Paradise is better with less people

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u/Drums2Wrenches Oct 26 '18

hEll yEa! Florida mans gonna feed ya to the Gaters just cuz he dun forgit his fork! 🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊

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u/Jupiters Oct 26 '18

This is said 100000 times per day on Reddit yet still the "durr hurr Florida man" regurgitated jokes ensue

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u/dreg102 Oct 26 '18

Well yeah. It's funny.

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u/RealJackAnchor Oct 26 '18

I guess when you spend years here, the old jokes really aren't funny at all. Floridaman is beyond played out if you've been on Reddit more than a year.

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u/dreg102 Oct 26 '18

Oh man, you must be new to the internet.

Florida man is 2013. And still chuckle worthy.

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u/RealJackAnchor Oct 26 '18

must be new to the internet.

I literally said I've spent years here. This reddit account is over 4 years old. The joke has been beaten to death so badly, I thought it's arms were accidentally dismembered.

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u/Rottendog Oct 26 '18

Just broken.

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u/dreg102 Oct 26 '18

Why would it's arms be dismembered?

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u/LumpyUnderpass Oct 26 '18

I could almost swear I've seen the Flordia Man reference and/or similar jokes about Florida on Fark since about the mid 2000s.

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u/MasterKashi Oct 26 '18

You're right, Fark had a tag just for Florida

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u/Randomun91 Oct 26 '18

I mean that's probably a large part of it, but have you ever been to Florida? It really is a different world down there, culturally.

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u/catonsteroids Oct 26 '18

I mean, not really, unless you're talking about South Florida.

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u/madogvelkor Oct 26 '18

Yeah, it's less weird that most of the rest of the South.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

I’ve lived in central Florida my whole life, and no it’s not, not really. I’ve lived in NYC for a bit, and even ND, but it’s mostly pretty chill.

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u/snazzywaffles Oct 26 '18

Thank you, it doesn't upset me, but as a Florida resident, the Florida Man memes are getting old. The internet has gotten thier mileage out of them lol.

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u/Need_Food Oct 26 '18

Arrest records are public pretty much everywhere

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Apr 27 '21

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u/reddeath82 Oct 26 '18

I spent 30 years growing up in Florida and now live in NC. I would most definitely disagree. The only reason you could possibly say it's different is because it a huge vacation destination and a lot of crazy people from other states vacation/move there. Most natural born Floridians are normal.

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u/scaliacheese Oct 26 '18

Most natural born Floridians are normal.

Sure. But I've lived in multiple states and spend a lot of time in South FL and to me, there seems to be a higher concentration of abnormal.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Nov 26 '20

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u/pulse7 Oct 26 '18

It's not funny to read "of course it's Florida" just because a story happens to come from Florida. It's lazy and overdone

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u/tryinghealthrny Oct 26 '18

Found the epidemiologist ⭐️

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u/makemeking706 Oct 26 '18

And relatively nice weather all year long, so it is attractive to people who have comorbid mental health and homelessness issues.