Do We Have A "stupid Things Happening In Florida" Subforum?

[Wolf]

A paywhat?

New York City removes the last payphone from service

The city has been installing LinkNYC kiosks, which offer services like free phone calls, Wi-Fi and device charging.

www.cnbc.com

Where will Superman change his clothes now. With all the phone booths removed.

 

[Channel98]

Contrary to popular belief, Clark Kent changed his clothes in a phone booth only one time, never in the comic books and never on the 1952-58 Superman television series. It was in a 1942 Superman Sunday comic strip drawn by Wayne Boring and inked by Stan Kaye. Clark would have had to be extremely fast to avoid being seen, considering three sides of the phone booth are clear glass!

 

[Listener]

On the TV show he usually changed clothes in a storeroom at the Daily Planet. Then he would fly out a window.

 

[Channel98]

In all the episodes where Superman was shown flying out the window, the same piece of film was used. Actor George Reeves (real name: George Keefer Brewer) bounced off a springboard (which was unseen by viewers) and landed on a thick foam pad (which was unseen by viewers) outside the window. We now return you to your regularly scheduled "Stupid Things Happening In Florida" discussion.

 

[HecticArt]

Where will Superman change his clothes now. With all the phone booths removed.

In New York, those are called outhouses.

 

[sadchild]

Clark Kent changed his clothes in a phone booth only one time, never in the comic books

Yes, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (creators of Superman) used a phone booth for Clark Kent to change into Superman in a Sunday newspaper comic strip in late 1942. Clark, seeing that there is a job for Superman, excuses himself from Lois by arranging to be called away by a bogus phone call. While inside the phone booth he says to himself, "This definitely isn't the most comfortable place in the world to switch garments, but I've got to change identities - and in a hurry!" Yet this was not the very first time Superman found himself changing clothes inside a phone booth.

Bud Collyer, who voiced Superman in the 1940s radio series, would also sometimes state in an episode that he needed to duck into a nearby phonebooth for a quick change from his Clark Kent identity into the colorful garb of Superman.

Some of the earliest examples of Clark Kent using a phone booth to change in to Superman in the comic books are "Action Comics #119" (1948) in the story "Superman for a Day!" by Edmond Hamilton, "Superman #60" (1949) in the story "Superman Fights the Super-Brain" by Don Cameron, and in "Superman #69" (1951) in the story "The Prankster’s Apprentice" we see Clark removing his shirt in a phone booth.

(text stolen from Superman Homepage)

 

[Channel98]

Let the punishment fit the crime. Lock this Florida woman inside a hot car for 20 hours.

Pit bull dies after being locked in car for 20 hours

Police officers in Florida said the pit bull's owner had left the dog in her vehicle while she went to work a night shift.

www.newsweek.com

 

[scotchandcigar]

Jury awards family $800K in Chicken McNuggets burn case​

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/chicken-mcnuggets-jury-award/index.html

This is such a WTF story. I don't understand any of it. Your kid dropped a hot McNugget. Serves you right for feeding her that crap anyway. Just tell her everything will be fine and move on. But no. The kid just got a little skin blemish (which may go away). This is just insanity.

"McDonald’s and franchise owner Upchurch Foods were liable for failing to properly warn or provide reasonable instructions on the possible harm from the hot McNuggets dispensed at a Tamarac, Florida, drive-thru."

"The jury awarded the family a total of $800,000 for pain and suffering, disfigurement, mental anguish, inconvenience, and loss of capacity for enjoyment of life. That includes $400,000 for injuries sustained in the past and $400,000 for damages the jury determined will be sustained in the future."

 

[Wolf]

Florida woman steals fire truck after impersonating firefighter, deputies say

 

[scotchandcigar]

Florida woman steals fire truck after impersonating firefighter, deputies say

Wait, why did she spend the night at the station before she took the truck? I don't get it.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Florida family found guilty of selling bleach product as Covid-19 ‘cure-all’

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/florida-bleach-covid-cure/index.html

“Miracle Mineral Solution” was a “miracle cure-all,” which could not only treat, prevent and cure Covid-19, but also “a variety of serious diseases and disorders, including cancer, Alzheimer’s, autism, malaria, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and HIV/AIDS.”

 

[Channel98]

Yes, there really is a Rent-A-Hitman website. They sell mugs, shirts and tote bags – but they do not rent hit men. The site is a parody. This Florida woman thought it was legitimate.

18-Year-Old Allegedly Tried To Hire Hitman Online To Kill Her 3-Year-Old Son

In Florida, police said Jazmin Paez agreed to pay $3,000 for someone she believed was a hit man to take her child "far far far away" and kill him.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Channel98]

This idiot is outraged by a children's book that mentions spin-the-bottle. He probably also thinks the name "hopscotch" is demeaning to Scottish people.

‘Arthur’ Book Facing Ban in Florida Over This One Wacko Complaint

The children’s book is under review in one school district after a local conservative activist ranted that one aspect of it could “DAMAGE SOULS.”

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[sadchild]

Yaz Pistachio ends up with Weird Harold again...

 

[scotchandcigar]

This is one dumb (and disturbed) murderer

A Florida man is charged with murder in the death of his wife, whose remains were found in suitcases​

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/us/william-lowe-charged-murder-delray-beach-florida/index.html

 

[JHDK]

That is so incredibly gross. I mean I can't even imagine shooting someone but let's say it happens in the heat of the moment. Then you decide the best way to get rid of them is to dismember them?

And he's fucking 78 so it couldn't be easy. What did he do grab like a serrated knife from the kitchen? Ew and then you have to I guess saw through the joints because you can't saw through the bones if you're 78 right? I mean I doubt I could do that.

Delray is like 20 miles north of my town. I've been there a million times. The vast majority of Delray is upper middle class. They have a bad area but from looking at this guy I doubt he was from that part of town. So if he had some money why not just leave the old broad?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Much easier

 

[Channel98]

"Dude, I was in a hurry to get to Walt Disney World before it opens so I could be first in line to ride Test Track."

Teen caught going 132 mph on Florida interstate, deputy says

The Orange County sheriff's corporal then called the 16-year-old's father to come pick him up.

www.aol.com

 

[JHDK]

Cool cop for just having the parents come pick him up. He could have taken him in a juvie.

When you guys were teens didn't you do stupid shit like that? I never got it up to 132 but when I was a teen on straightaways on the highway my Pontiac had a max speed of like 140 and I definitely got it up to 105 a couple times but only for like 30 seconds at a time.

 

[JHDK]

That actually makes me think of another crazy story I did as a teen.

So when we were like 16 or 17 my buddy Adam and I lived close by and if one of us didn't have a car for any reason, we would drive the other one home from school and we would play this incredibly stupid game on the suburban streets.

One would be driving and the other would be in the passenger seat and the driver would take his seat and put it all the way back so he couldn't see anything and then the passenger would take control of the wheel and tell the guy controlling the pedals when to speed up or slow down.

My God that was dangerous and I'm lucky we never got arrested or never killed ourselves because we did that a lot. We thought it was so funny.

This was in Philly not FL so maybe it doesn't fit here but still...I guess we had a FL attitude back then.

Teenagers are fucking idiots.