Scary White People and their Subjective Reality

Christmas Arrested in Florida

So apparently, in Florida it's possible to actually arrest Christmas.

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and note the second defendant's name.

I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. :)

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Invisible Diarrhea

Here's another wacky Florida story. About a week ago, 42 year old David Napodano was arrested in North Naples FL, for exhibiting himself nude while in his truck at a WalMart parking lot. When two passing women chose to be alarmed rather than stimulated, they called police. Now, being stupid enough to get caught by the police while allegedly exposing yourself indecently is one thing, even if you do happen to have some kind of rational explanation for being unclothed in public, but the best Napodano could come up with was to claim that he had to remove all his clothes due to "explosive diarrhea" ...which could almost classify as a viable excuse, except for the fact that diarrhea always produces ...um, shall we say... rather conclusive evidence... of which, none was present.

http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?s=11443802&

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Floridian Vampires

Having lived in Florida for just over a year now, frequently enjoying it as a place that is warm, active and occasionally fun, I sometimes forget how weird certain residents here can be. To be honest, I'm kind of surprised that yesterday was the first time a Floridian was mentioned in this blog, but now I guess there might be some catching up going on or something.

Recently, I came across the following Halloween news story about a growing subculture of dentally-aided, self-described "vampires living and periodically gathering in Southern Florida.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/v-fullstory/story/1309218.html

These "vampires" are an all too sad/common an example of strange people taking something that is very interesting in fantasy and remaking it into something lame by trying to incorporate it into their real lives and personal psychology. As much as I'd like to be open-minded enough to simply say "to each their own" as I do with many philosophies and subcultural behaviors, I simply can't help but to snicker a little at the thought of these people in action. It all reminds me of a certain South Park episode, per se... http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/210813

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Orlando Gunman

Well, it seems that my current home town has made international news this week. If you haven't happened to catch the story on CNN or any number of other news channels or shows in the past day, a disgruntled gunman in Orlando Florida was taken into police custody yesterday after shooting six people at his former place of employment in a downtown office tower. Police say that 40 year old Jason Rodriguez (so weird, I used to know a guy with that name) will be charged with first-degree murder and other crimes.

Personally, after reading and viewing different reported accounts of this story, I have to wonder what levels of pain and frustration brings someone to engage in such intense behavior. Part of me almost wants to feel bad for the guy. However, based on what I know of the story, none of Rodriguez's personal problems were life-or-death and it all just seems to boil down to an example of a sadly irresponsible person taking his own problems out on others at immense cost... and in a state with the death penalty... good job there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_orlando_office_shooting
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/orlando.shootings/index.html