the Sunshine State, but in truth, Florida is far  more popular for the insanity of its inhabitants  

than for its warm sunlit beaches. Odds are even  if you aren't from the United States, you've heard  

your fair share of insane Florida Man stories,  and we've done our best to round up some of the  

truly craziest examples of why Florida should  maybe be turned into a giant alligator preserve.

Florida Man Doesn't Get Straw,  Attacks McDonald's Employee

In 2018 most of the world woke up to the humongous  waste of plastic that is drinking straws,  

and decided that enough sea turtles had been  murdered in their name. Plastic drinking straw  

bans went into effect across the United States,  with various levels of enforcement. In Florida,  

the law required individuals to ask for a  straw, but when Daniel Taylor went to reach  

for a straw in the condiment bar, he flew into a  rage upon discovering there were none to be had.

An employee explained that customers now had  to ask for straws, only for Taylor to respond  

by grabbing the employee by the shirt  and dragging her onto the counter.  

After getting punched in the face, Taylor  left the restaurant, only to return later  

and make his displeasure over the new straw law  known by kicking an employee in the stomach.

Taylor would go on to get arrested and  charged with two counts of battery.

Florida Man Wears F The Cops  Shirt To Court, Wins Case

In 2014 a Florida man was pulled over by a  State Trooper and ticketed for a sticker that  

the trooper claims was obstructing  view of the license plate. The man  

claimed that he was simply being harassed  for recording cops forcing people to move  

their parked cars at a popular pullover  spot by Highway 27 for no good reason.

The man fought his ticket as he had  promised the issuing officer that he'd do,  

but turned heads when he showed  up to court with a t-shirt reading  

F The Police- with the entire F word spelled out.  Incredibly the judge ruled in favor of the man,  

stating that the cops had not met the  burden of proof required to ticket the man.

Florida Man Uses Private Plane  To Draw Giant Penis On Radar

This next story is pretty self-explanatory.  Aviation fans checking the website FlightRadar24,  

where civilians can track the flight  paths of airplanes all over the world,  

were shocked to discover a pilot in a private  plane flying a track that on radar looked like  

a giant penis. Some speculated that it  all might have been a giant coincidence,  

but the track is far too perfectly a  penis for it to be anything but purposeful

Florida Man Charged With Assault  With Deadly Weapon After Throwing  

Alligator Through Wendy's Drive-Thru Window

Ok, here's another one that's pretty  self-explanatory. In 2016 Joshua  

James found an alligator on the side of the road,  

because Florida is basically the Australia  of the United States only less dangerous.  

Apparently unhappy with his drive-thru  experience at a local Wendy's, James made his  

displeasure known by throwing the live alligator  through the window and into the restaurant.

After being arrested, James was charged with  aggravated assault with a deadly weapon-  

the weapon being of course the  airborne alligator. He also picked  

up lesser charges for illegally killing,  possessing, or capturing an alligator,  

as well as second-degree larceny petit  theft for the soft drink he didn't pay for.

After a court appearance, James was told to limit  his contact with animals to his mother's dog,  

undergo a mental health evaluation,  and avoid possessing any weapons.  

To include other throwable  reptiles we're assuming.

Floridians Warned Not To  Shoot Guns At Hurricane Irma

It started as a joke on Facebook, a public event  

asking people to shoot their guns at hurricane  Irma in order to stop the storm in its tracks.  

The event drew so much attention from all  across the state however that authorities  

felt a desperate need to step in and beg  people to act sane for a change. The Pasco  

County Sheriff's office was forced to tweet  the following: “To clarify, DO NOT shoot  

weapons at Irma. You won't make it turn around  and it will have very dangerous side effects.”

We get that the whole thing  had become a viral joke,  

but just how bad is Florida's science  education that a Sheriff's department  

felt the need to explain that bullets  don't make hurricanes turn around?

Florida Man Wears Clear Plastic  Bag As Disguise To Rob Gamestop

Ok, this next one proves that even if you  don't live in Florida, you're not safe from  

Florida Man. In 2018 Kerry Hammond crossed the  Georgia border and attempted to rob a Gamestop.  

How did he disguise his identity in order to  pull off the crime of the century? Hammond  

decided to throw a plastic water bottle wrapper  over his head and call it a day. The best part:  

he wore it so that his face was looking out  through the clear sides of the packaging,  

giving security cameras a  perfect shot of his face.

Needless to say Hammond was  arrested shortly after his theft. (

Florida Man Arrested For Breaking  Into Jail To Hangout With Friends

Friends are a great thing, we here at  the infographics consider all of you  

our friends. If you get thrown in jail and expect  us to miss you bad enough to come break you out,  

you can forget about it though.

Perhaps feeling the spirit of the  season, 24 year old Patrick Rempe  

just wanted to visit with his friends for the  holidays- forget trying to break them out,  

Rempe just wanted to hang out. When he was  refused entry at the main door, Rempe rammed  

his car into it repeatedly, and failing that,  decided to climb one of two exterior fences. 

Upon reaching the top of the fence though,  Rempe became entangled in the barbed wire,  

and as officers dragged him down- very painfully  we might add- Rempe decided to thank them by  

getting into a fistfight. Rempe ultimately would  get his wish as he was charged with aggravated  

assault and battery on a law enforcement officer,  three counts of felony criminal mischief, leaving  

the scene of a crash with property damage, and  surprise surprise, driving under the influence.

What influence though? Well, turns out  Rempe was motivated less by holiday  

spirit and more by the synthetic and  extremely dangerous drug, Flakka.

Florida Man Denies Drinking While  Driving, Says Only Drank At Stop Signs

By now we've established that Florida is basically  

the United State's alcoholic uncle  with an undiagnosed mental disorder.  

At least when America's drunk uncle  imbibes, he does so responsibly though.

After hitting the bumper of the lady in front  of him at a McDonald's drive-thru several times,  

police pulled over Earle Gustavas Stevens  on suspicion of drunk driving. Police found  

Stevens marinating in liquor, with a bottle of Jim  Beam sitting next to him on the passenger's seat.  

As he was being arrested for drunk driving,  Stevens protested that he had in fact  

not been drinking and driving, as he had only  drunk his Jim Beam at red lights and stop signs.

Despite Steven's obvious concern  for the letter of the law,  

he was inevitably arrested and charged with a DUI.

Florida Man Arrested After Assaulting  Girlfriend With Cooked Chicken

In 2018 23 year old Juwan Brown got into a fight  with his live-in girlfriend. In the heat of the  

moment, Brown stepped on his girlfriend's foot  on purpose, prompting her to push him away. In  

retaliation, Brown turned to the only weapon  within reach- a piece of cooked chicken. The  

thrown piece of chicken hit the girlfriend on  the face, and shortly after police were called.

Brown would be freed on bond and ordered  to have no contact with the defendant,  

but our favorite part of this  story- other than, you know,  

assault with chicken- is the statement  that police released after the incident:  

“We do not have information on the way  the piece of chicken was prepared.”

Oh Florida, never stop being you.

Florida Man With No Arms Stabs Tourist

In 2018 Jonathan Crenshaw, a homeless man with  no arms known for his artwork that he creates  

with his feet, was approached by 22-year  old Cesar Coronado. Details are sketchy,  

with both Coronado and his girlfriend claiming  that upon stopping to ask Crenshaw for directions,  

Coronado was immediately stabbed with a  pair of scissors held in Crenshaw's feet.

For his part, Crenshaw denies  that he instigated the incident,  

instead claiming that Coronado  had attacked him first. Crenshaw,  

who has a violent history with police, was later  arrested and charged with aggravated battery.

Florida Man Arrested For  Practicing Karate On Swans

At 9:30 AM on April 26th, 2018, Rocco Joseph  Mantella was spotted by witnesses engaging  

in an early morning workout. As an avid karate  fan, Mantella began his morning workout routine  

by chasing swans and then kicking them in the  face. A witness would claim that he spotted  

Mantella practicing karate by kicking one swan  in the head, and then another on the butt.

It seems that when he ran out of swans to  spar with, Mantella turned his attention onto  

a sleeping duck, which he also karate kicked.  Police were promptly called and perhaps most  

surprisingly of all, Mantella was arrested and  found to not be under the influence of any drugs,  

though he was charged with cruelty to animals.

Florida Man Attacks Homeless  Man, Tries To Eat His Face

It was the zombie-like attack that  kicked off the bath salts global scare,  

and where else would it have happened but  Florida? No, seriously, this is the only  

place where this level of insanity could  have possibly manifested and warned the  

world of a new drug craze that threatened  to turn its users into cannibal zombies.

On the morning of May 26th, 2012, 31 year old Rudy  Eugene was driving into Miami Beach for the Urban  

Beach Week festival when his car broke down. After  spending a half hour by his disabled vehicle,  

Eugene ditched the car and walked along  the highway on foot. Apparently high on  

numerous unidentified substances- the only  positive identification being marijuana-  

Eugene began to remove his clothing as  he walked, eventually ending up naked  

save for his shoes and a bible. The bible  and shoes however would quickly be discarded,  

and shortly afterwards Eugene ran into  65 year old homeless man Ronald Poppo.

According to Poppo, Eugene was friendly at first,  

knowing Poppo from the work that he had done  with the homeless community earlier that year.  

However, the now naked Eugene suddenly  accused Poppo of having stolen his bible  

and launched a vicious attack against him.  In the course of the attack Eugene would tear  

off Poppos pants and then proceed to gouge out  his eyes and bite off 75-80% of Poppo's face.

Upon being warned by police to stop his attack,  Eugene simply growled at the responding officer  

and began to bite at Poppo again, continuing his  attack even after being shot. Eventually after  

being shot four more times the police were  able to pull Eugene off the mangled Poppo.

A toxicology report revealed very little  other than marijuana in Eugene's system,  

though a prominent toxicologist warned that  the test administered wasn't looking for very  

many potential drugs that Eugene could have  been imbibing. With the zombie-like psychotic  

behavior reminiscent of individuals high  on bath salts, it's thought that this may  

have been behind Eugene's psychotic  break and subsequent cannibal attack.

Either way if it was going to happen anywhere,  it was definitely going to be in Florida.

And there you have it, a definite list of  all the reasons that Florida is America's  

mentally deranged alcoholic uncle-  super fun to hear stories about,  

but an absolute nightmare at family  gatherings. And presidential elections.

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