Entries from LAist tagged with 'centralflorida'
April 20, 2007
#162 Florida Marlins has the lowest value of any major league baseball team at just $244 million, Dodgers are worth $632 million - AP #163 A panther in Central Florida was killed by vehicle this week, the seventh in Florida this year. 11 were killed last year. Wait, panthers are just cruising around out there? - AP #164 The University of Florida is being accused of stealing Gatorade from Florida State - Fanblogs #165......
Continue Reading "1001 Reasons LA is Better than Florida "March 2, 2007
#132 Largo city manger's plans to become a woman got found out by the local paper. So instead of letting the paper announce it, he announced to the people of Largo to be understanding of his upcoming procedure. Nearly 500 people squeezed into City Hall and most asked for his head. At the end of the meeting the council decided to fire their city manager of 14 years. [Post-Trib] #133 That teenage hiccuping girl......
Continue Reading "1001 Reasons LA is Better than Florida "February 3, 2007
#87 Woman fakes her own death but gets discovered AT HER OWN WAKE - St. Pete Times #88 Eighteen endangered young whooping cranes found no safe haven in Florida. They were led there by a man in an ultralight plane, and were killed in the recent storms - AP #89 Technical school student in Coconut Creek, angered that his school wasn't teaching anything about Black History this month, stabbed three school officials with a......
Continue Reading "1001 Reasons LA is Better than Florida "February 2, 2007
#81 Tallahassee hunter kills a Hermaphrodite Deer - WRAL #82 "A survey of 1,600 Central Floridians found that two-thirds of them could not name either of the state's U.S. senators (both of whom reside in Central Florida). [Also,] 40 percent of Floridians could not identify the three branches of American government. - TC Palm #83 Central Florida parents are upset about free porn on cell phones - Local 6 #84 With a SWAT team......
Continue Reading "1001 Reasons LA is Better than Florida "January 16, 2007
#49 - Central Florida man thought it would be a good idea to tie up a woman, hang her from a tree, rape her, torture her, and videotape the whole thing for a porno he planned on making. Cop says, "We charged him with just about every charge we could charge him with: False imprisonment, kidnapping and sexually (sic) battery. The sexually (sic) battery was done with a deadly weapon so there will be......
Continue Reading "1001 Reasons LA is Better than Florida - We Make Better Porn"January 6, 2007
#18 Handcuffed man in the back of a police car dies after being tasered by cops - Palm Beach Post #19 The director of the Central Florida Police Benevolent Association, a law enforcement union that represents sheriffs, police, corrections, probation and public employees, is accused of molesting two girls when they were 8 and 12 - AP #20 Quasi hog-tie of an autistic teen by Miami police leads to coma and then death -......
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