What’s your opinion on Florida Man?

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1. He Was Edmond Dantes. And He Was My Father, And My Mother, My Brother, My Friend. He Was You, And Me. He Was All Of Us.

2. It’s not a real thing. It’s only a thing because of Florida’s very broad freedom of information laws that allow the details of every arrest to be publicized to the press.

3. It’s a dumb meme.

4. Like a bunch of states, arrest records are super easy to get.

   Florida is a big state, with lots and lots of transplants — and 2nd and 3rd generation transplants.

   Back in the 1980s a bunch of people moved there to get super cheap houses. Moving your whole life for cheaper houses (there were barely any decent paying jobs back then) probably attracted some interesting people.

5. Floridians do stupid things every day.

6. It’s a dumb but funny meme.

7. Generally gets into trouble, but isn’t beating his wife like Alabama Man.

8. I still can’t find what he did on my birthday

9. There are just as many FUCKING WILD “Michigan Man” headlines, I GUARANTEE YOU. Florida just is what went viral once or twice and they’re a *thing* now.

10. I think it’s a lot better than this Ohio thing the internet has been trying to push lately

    Probably the best state meme so far

11. Not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve.

12. I like to imagine it’s all just one fucking guy.

13. I’m sure florida man = every human being

14. It’s a running meme. If other states had as open access to criminal records and the news ran with such wording, you would see such cases everywhere.

15. I live here and the things that go on in daily life don’t resemble “Florida man” situations.

16. He is a LEGEND!!!!

17. He can strike at any time hahah

18. As a Florida native, I approve of this stereotype.

19. [Darius represents my feelings on Florida Man.](https://youtu.be/3vGgUoIexVE)

20. Florida man is a result of Sunshine Law. You better believe if Michigan or Oregon adopted the public records laws of Florida you’d see much more from those states.

21. Half my family are Florida men. The good kind who like hotrods, ratty trucks, moonshine, strong labor unions and protecting Florida’s ecosystem. They’re good people

22. I think the climate is a contributing factor- there are just more fair days and warm evenings to go *do* things, and some of those things are bonkers.

    If it wasn’t for the cold, I imagine we’d see as many New Hampshire Man articles, tbh.

23. An endangered species that must be preserved

24. I used to live in Las Vegas, NV. Most Las Vegans will vociferously insist that 99.9% of Las Vegans are boring and normal. They are exaggerating pretty hard. It’s true that *most* Las Vegans are boring and normal, but then there’s the ones who aren’t. The city is a magnet for such folks. I’m not just talking about artist performer subcultural types, either, although there’s plenty of those. Basically, think Florida Man but with rattlesnakes instead of alligators.

    I suspect that Florida has a similar draw. Marginal individuals gravitating there for questionable reasons, and things don’t work out quite like they hoped they would. And so they go a little crazy….

25. America’s other rodeo clowns so to speak

26. Don’t cross homie or you’ll end up with a raccoon possum hybrid in your house

27. I think of him as the alt right Johnny Appleseed.