Posted on 04/28/2026 6:27:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Greetings from America’s psych ward waiting room, aka The 27th State, aka Florida. In the midst of assassination attempts, war coverage, media distemper, and a general sense of national anxiety, it seems appropriate, nay, needed to deliver a dose of mirth to the mayhem.
Thus, serving as a diversion is this collection of news items from the country’s bastard stepchild, the one with a populace in a perpetual plight of pandemonium?! What better way to feel better about things than to see what it is we have to grapple with here in the heated tropics of sub-Dixie?
FLORIDA MANIC
Maybe AARP needs to offer a senior discount in anger management. Luis Aniceto Herrada, a Marathon Man (not a Dustin Hoffman stan, but a resident of the island in the Keys), was arrested after a physical confrontation. Monroe County sheriffs were called out to a marina in the Florida Keys at 10:30 at night, where the 66-year-old Herrada had attacked a man who had been staying on Herrada’s boat.
After going at his floating tenant with a machete, he ended up striking the man with another blunt object. Luis seems intent on spending his golden years in chrome handcuffs; he was previously picked up for striking a 78-year-old with a 2x4. Not only was he arrested for aggravated battery, but the sexagenarian was also charged with elderly abuse.
FLORIDA MARAUDER
The magic to many a Florida Man tale is in the layers. Anywhere else, a man arrested for starting a fire is sufficient for a news item. Morgan Lentz was picked up in Jensen Beach for just such an offense, but how we got there is the story. “Captain” Morgan had been at a local bar, and he apparently arrived with a milk jug filled with gasoline.
He dumped the fuel on a few cars and a motorcycle, but the patrons ran him off before any ignition took place. As they called in the incident to 911, Lentz trundled down the street and began starting fires in a nature preserve along a stretch of road. He was using a tiki torch.
The Martin County sheriffs were able to pin down Luntz, given that he fit the description of a guy with gasoline, dressed as a pirate.
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I don't know how people can bring themselves to visit that insane state......much less live there. SMH
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PING!
Does that make California America's psych ward ICU?
Too funny.
Moved to Florida from Washington State. The Florida Man stuff is fun, but you have to understand that down here, any time you get arrested the COPS put it on social media BEFORE it goes to trial. It’s not that we are crazier than any other state ... it’s that we put our crazies on display in an attempt to shame them into becoming better citizens. Florida is MUCH more sane than the Peoples Republic of Seattle.
California was lunacized by out of staters too. Too many Yankees moving to the west coast bringing their Northeastern “sensibilities” with them.
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Florida doesn’t have an exclusive on this type of craziness.
Some years ago, we had a genius walk into a big box store, buy lighter fluid and a lighter with his card, then walk around the back of the store. He then proceeded to douse the bales of cardboard and light it.
He got caught pretty quick!
Way back in the 90s I had a college professor explained that Florida gets a bad rap because of it’s open records law and centralized record keeping. Most crimes and arrests are all searchable online so are available to “urinalists” who want an easy story to mail in.
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