Authorities were called and Limongelli was arrested soon after. Flickr Ronit Bhattacharjee. Flickr lancearoundorlando. Aguilera claims she was visited by an alien ship when she was young and still communicates with them telepathically. The aliens had apparently dropped some truth bombs during their visit, including the fact that Coral Castle in Miami is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
Flickr Matt Harvey. No explanation was offered—yet the family was set for their next family barbecue. Florida In Your Inbox spinner. Thank you! You will receive your first email soon. Love Florida? Get more stories delivered right to your email. Your e-mail: Sign Up. Share on Facebook Pin it on Pinterest. Florida's strong public records laws, which let journalists easily report on wild crime stories The state's large and varied demographic.
But beneath it all, there's sometimes a deeper element at play in many of these "Florida man" stories -- one, that's no laughing matter. Easy access to public records. Thanks to Florida's strong public records laws -- also known as Sunshine Laws -- it's easy for journalists to get their hands on police incident reports and churn out attention-grabbing stories.
You can access basic crime information almost in real time, Petersen added. A huge, diverse population. The wacky headlines also might have to do with a huge, diverse population interacting under sometimes suffocating humidity. The number of people per square mile is highly compacted," says Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, in St. Petersburg, Florida. While she was on duty. Our tenacious foliage: The Land of Flowers produces some pretty tough flora, which means machetes are a popular yard-care implement.
So they tend to be handy when you need a weapon — say, when a burglar is breaking into your house. The greed: Everything in Florida seems to be for sale, even beards. That mindset leads to people who overreach as they grab for the gold ring, like the woman who made millions working a phony refund scam and then boasted on Facebook she had become the "queen of IRS tax fraud" she got 21 years in prison. We lead the nation in mortgage fraud and identity theft and, yes, tax fraud.
We're also the only place in the world where a polo magnate tried to adopt his girlfriend so the couple could dip into his children's trust fund.
The open records: Florida has long enjoyed a tradition of open government records, which means a lot of the weird stuff that the cops see winds up available to reporters looking for something to make their readers' jaws drop. So when a retired Tarzan actor got arrested because his pet tigers kept escaping, it made the papers. When a woman claiming to be a vampire attacked a man outside a vacant Hooters, it made the papers. When Vanilla Ice's kangaroo and goat got loose, it made the papers.
I for one say, "Hallelujah. You want peace and quiet, go to Nebraska or Wyoming or one of those boring states. You want to greet every day's news with a raised eyebrow, widening eyes and a gasp of astonishment? We're waiting for you. Y ou can r ead the rest of Pittman's Slate blogs about Florida at tampabay.
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