Posted on 03/24/2026 3:59:23 AM PDT by Libloather
Coastal Florida towns are playing hot potato with spring breakers who use social media to organize “takeovers” of gatherings by drunken flash mobs, leading to violence and mass arrests.
Cops locked down Daytona Beach this week after a string of shootings and a beach “takeover” that ended in a mass stampede of high-school and college students fleeing for their lives.
That single “takeover” resulted in 133 arrests and prompted authorities to turn the entire beach into a party quarantine zone, with doubled fines for citations and strict limits on gathering sizes, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
Daytona had realized its mistake too late — it welcomed the huddled, thirsty masses that had already been turned away by other local beach towns.
“It’s really these communities that start welcoming spring breakers that have things get out of control,” explained Tommy Ford, sheriff of Bay County, which includes the onetime party mecca of Panama City Beach.
Such towns in the Florida panhandle used to be ground-zero for beach keg stands and wet T-shirt contests — until years of violence, underage drinking and sexual assaults finally pushed them to employ beach alcohol bans, strict curfews and legions of law enforcement officers to keep things family-friendly.
But even with crackdowns, revelers still try to push the limit — including in Panama City Beach on Saturday night at an out-of-control popular beach bar.
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It's only one root of the dying tree. Also, white liberals. They're the worst as they enable all corruption. Legal weed is another. Etc.
Satan has been having a good time in America for the past 50 years.
Amen. 100% correct
There was a time, many years ago when I was young, when Spring Break in Florida was wild and out of control. Florida cracked down on it and for a long time, you didn’t read about many incidents. It seems like in recent years, cities have eased up on controls and it has gotten wild and out of control again. That’s surprising in DeSantis’s Florida.
“....the problem is that the excessive partying has taken a DARK turn.”
The governor doesn’t run the cities.
Not true. They can ace ghetto math.
1) Marquesha has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Demarious for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?
2) Boomsheeka pimps 3 hos. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Boomsheeka’s $800 per day crack habit?
3) X’aquita wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought for $40,000 to make 20% profit. How many ounces will he need?
I don’t know what they look like but their age is “teen.”
I was watching some documentary and the media crew that made it scoured every old video to show only white people. But they couldn’t find any mass violence incidents. It pained them so much to show the new videos of riots and shootings that they just showed pixelated videos from cell phones. They were very dark pixels.
Those “spring breakers” sure riot funny. Like they don’t even know how!
You don’t need a dance to...ahem, get behind.
My list grows daily. ;-D
Wow, lots of lard in that pic. At least the less-melanated person will be able to keep up with the melanated in the chase.
“Dark turn” being the operative phrase. 😏
Part three of my tagline confirms that opinion.
Florida should issue a 2 year hiatus on spring breakers. Set up checkpoints on all the roads coming into the state, airports and docks, turn away unaccompanied youths and strictly enforce curfews and break up large gatherings.
Did the braking news slow down?
i read that there were no actual shootings in the daytona beach stampeded lat week, but that some plastic pop bottles or something got stomped and made “bang” noises ...
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