We need a sub-forum: Stupid Stories about Stupid People in Florida

[jgibson2[$]]

Yes, but you got one of the funniest epinions I've ever read out of the deal.

[hadassahchana[$]]

Man buys a space heater for his pig. Predictably, the pig kicks over the space heater and burns his house down. The entire state ought to come with a warning label!

[emeleel]

Barbeque!

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

I smell BACON!!!!

[hadassahchana[$]]

[hadassahchana[$]]

"They do not so much fly as...plummet..."

[pippadaisy[$]]

It's raining iguanas! Someone shold tell Florida it's supposed to be frogs. And locusts.

[brian_igo]

Career changes, Floriduh style:

With five employees and a help-wanted ad for an administrative assistant, one worker figured she was getting the boot.

So when the owner of Steven E. Hutchins Architects arrived to his Jacksonville business Monday on Philips Highway, he found the computers had been tampered with and seven years’ worth of electronic architectural drawings deleted, according to a Sheriff’s Office report. They were valued at $2.5 million.

Steven Hutchins called his alarm company, which told him someone had entered the business about 11 p.m. Sunday, disarmed the alarm and remained there about four hours. There were no signs of forced entry and the alarm was reset about 3 a.m.

Hutchins told police he suspected his administrative assistant of sabotage because she had become paranoid that a job vacancy ad was meant to replace her.

On Friday, the day the ad was published, she called in sick. On Saturday she contacted Hutchins’ wife, who placed the ad seeking an assistant for her business, the police report said. But Hutchins’ business e-mail was on the bottom of the ad. His wife attempted to persuade her that the job listing was not for her position.

Police went to the assistant’s home and arrested her after questioning. Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, was charged with damage in excess of $1,000 to computers, equipment, supplies and the network. She was still in jail this morning.

[pippadaisy[$]]

OMG, Brian, I saw that and totally didn't clue in it was in Florida. Der. I should have known.

In other Floriduh news, however, you'd better know EVERY link on EVERY friend's profile on EVERY social networking site:

School Cop Investigated for Porn Link on Friend's MySpace Profile | Threat Level from Wired.com

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

brian_igo said

Career changes, Floriduh style:

I don't know if the bigger "duh" is the woman who didn't believe she was being replaced or the business owner who had "several thousand dollars worth of architectural drawings" and didn't have a back-up copy in a secure, remote place.

Edited to add: my bad, it was "seven years" of architectural drawings.

[pippadaisy[$]]

MJ, I'm sure that they do, at least probably hard-copy. Still a felony, though.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Never said it wasn't.

[pippadaisy[$]]

Sorry, what I meant was they never said there wasn't a back-up in the article... only that she destroyed the local copy.

[theworm[$]]

if there were back up tapes, would the loss be in the multi-millions?

[pippadaisy[$]]

It's still considered destruction of property, and even properly backed up, you'd have to restore the current file structure, etc. The article may have just given the value of the destruction.

[theworm[$]]

I hope for their sakes they had proper backup.
She shouldn't have done what she did, but thats a lot of work to not protect.

Holy crap - there is a GIANT bird out there. I can't see it's head, but it's got to be a falcon or an eagle. Are there Eagles in Indiana?

[pippadaisy[$]]

Probably a hawk.

[theworm[$]]

I think it was a falcon. It looked HUGE in the tree but not nearly as huge when it flew off.
But this is supposed to be about stupid Flori-duh - where there are lots of stupid people and lots of really gorgeous big birds (but not beautiful red Cardinals like we have here).

[brian_igo]

Darwin Awards - Trust Fund Division

5 Killed Speeding on Private Runway

Car Went Airborne Off End of Runway Before Hitting Tree

By CHRISTINE BROUWER

Jan. 28, 2008 —

The 18-year-old behind the wheel of a BMW that crashed this weekend, killing five Florida teens was reportedly online hours earlier seeking advice on a BMW chat room on problems he was having with the transmission when he hit 140 mph in the $80,000 car.

The grisly accident took place around 3:45 a.m. Saturday at the Jumbolair Aviation Estates, an exclusive gated enclave for private jet owners in Ocala, Fla., where actor John Travolta is a resident.

Residents also complained to police about the lack of security at the airstrip, saying teens had been caught sneaking cars onto the runway.

Authorities say Joshua Ammirato, 18, of Fairfield, Fla., snuck his his father's gray 2008 BMW M-5 onto the main runway, with four friends onboard. Police say after racing down the strip, the car flew off an approximately 85-foot-high embankment at the end of the runway. They say the car was going so fast it went airborne for about 200 feet before slamming into a tree.

The car was split in two upon impact, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, ejecting three passengers and partially ejecting the other two.
All five victims were pronounced dead at the scene.

Ammirato likely "braked and turned," said the patrol's Lt. Mike Burroughs, after he either "saw a hazard coming or realized that he was nearing the end of the runway," flipping the car sideways before sending it over the edge.

Burroughs told ABC News he could not speculate on the exact speed of the car at the time of the accident.

All five victims had recently graduated from high schools in the area. James Devon Hime and Dustin Dawe, both 19, had been co-captains of the wrestling team at North Marion High, Kathy Quelland, the school's principal, told ABC News. Ammirato had also been on the wrestling team; 20-year-old Isaac Rubin played football at a nearby high school.

Quelland said the community was "devastated" upon hearing of the accident.

None of the victims was a resident of the exclusive community.

Authorities said it appears Ammirato and his friends entered the compound through a back entrance that gives access to the 1.5-mile-long runway used by residents to land their private planes, according to Burroughs.

"Several community residents told us that it was common knowledge that yes, there is a back way to this airstrip," Burroughs said. "We know that troopers accessed the scene through that roadway without being challenged. There was no restrictive access."

[theworm[$]]

thats sad