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Florida man opens fire during argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay: police (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Is it always the same "Florida Man" or do they take turns?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    That's the joke, no? That they are obviously all different people, but we treat them as one person - with the superhero name Floridaman - who's responsible for all the weird shit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We only hear about the Florida shenaningans because of a criminal transparency law unique to Florida.

    The entire country is a freak show.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    That Sunshine law just states public meeting records must be publicly available not that every criminal case needs to be made public (as an example just look at any one of the thousands of cases involving police brutality where details aren't released). This is just a myth that got repeated over and over on reddit for years to the point that everyone believes it.

    This type of shit is explicitly unique to Florida.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thank you for clarifying. I was fairly confident that states were pretty uniform in criminal cases being public records with a few exceptions like underage perpetrators' cases being sealed. Maybe this is even a federal law?

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