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In Florida, is an extremely serious crime to even touch a manatee.
I once saw a park ranger just screaming at a group of guys and threatening them with $5000 fines just for getting near one.
I told a friend of mine who surfs, and he didn't realize they were so protected. He said there's an old girl who comes to visit them when they surf, and she rolls over on her back so they can scritch her belly. I told him it was a $5000 fine, and he was bummed. He liked scritching his manatee friend.
Listen, I get it, Manatees have no business wearing a bikini.
You take that back! Leave them damn sexy manatees alone.
Who was in the bikini?
Manatees are struggling with climate change along the florida coast line where waters in the summer have been measured to up to 100 degree F in the ocean. It has devastated manatee floral diet. And they are dying off from it.
Do not torment the gentle wildlife that you are killing off.
Why was the manatee in a park and why was it wearing a bikini. Lastly, was it a licensed wrestling match or unsanctioned?
Her hips don't lie! That's shakira! You guys arrested shakira while she was doing her wrestling routine!

You might have noticed she's not blonde.
Confirmed! You guys got shakira while she was having personal arguments with her favorite animal kingdom friend.

Just leave them alone. Its all about past manatee songs that never made it.
Manatees can't wear bikinis, their nipples are in entirely the wrong place
One is left wandering what a manatee in a bikini was doing in a public park...
I feel there's more to this story we're missing here. ..but damn, I'd wrestle her any day...
In the criminal justice system, harassment of marine mammals is considered a Florida-tier offense. In Miami-Dade, the detectives who investigate these bizarre aquatic crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Meth-Adjacent Intervention Unit. These are their stories.
You mean the Meth-Induced Abnormal Mannerism Investigators?
Oh no here comes the manatee from the top rope with a steel chair! Oof! As god as my witness she is broken in half!
Florida Man(atee).
What’s the crime?
Musk is responsible for this. Remember a few weeks ago when he made Grok put everyone in bikinis? Of course, Florida is now copying it IRL. And as usual, it's the poor bloody matinee ... mantit ... blobbly wobblies that suffer!
I've never seen a manatee in a parrk, if I did I would also wrestle it in a bikini.
Just let me get my manatee costume...
This is AI slop
edit: to people who downvote me because she's cute : Just look at the logo
and then search online for "WFor 4 News", it doen't exist
Well, it kiiiinda exists, but yeah, fake logo, headline, and picture for sure.
Dunno. When it comes to Florida folks, sometimes it is hard to tell AI slop from reality.
No it's not. I mean, maybe if you're dumb and can't recognize fake shit, which, from the looks of this comment thread, it appears Lemmy has started down that path.
It's the "in a bikini" part that's a dead giveaway. That's not a detail that would be included in a real headline. That's extra added to make the situation seem more ridiculous and silly. It's crazy I even have to point this out, its painfully obvious to me.
Tbf, we live in the Clickbait Era of journalism, so that's not your best argument. It's definitely fake, but the poorly written headline is no longer good proof, it's actually the standard even for articles written by real people.




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