It would seem that the good people who populate the internet are never out of ideas – not great ideas, but ideas nevertheless. We’ve had challenges ranging from the dangerous to the stupid to the actually useful. We now have the Florida Man Challenge and everyone is jumping on that bandwagon.
The Florida Man Challenge requires a person to type ‘Florida Man’ followed by their birth date into the Google Search box and see what news story they come up with. Apparently, some exceedingly strange things happen to Florida men.
It is not much of a challenge, truth be told. So I typed in my name and birthdate and got this headline (among others that told us about the challenge) “Man, 85, attacked by an alligator at Florida retirement community.” The ‘challenge’ is only to see what bizarre results Google returns for your query.
If someone’s date of birth is 14 August and they did the Florida Man challenge, this is the headline they would get: “Police: Florida man wrecks liquor shop, blames "caterpillar"”. An actual headline from 2017; wherein the man accused told the police that “he was Alice in Wonderland and that a "hookah-smoking caterpillar" ordered him to attack the site.” Fun!
The residents of Florida apparently had to be warned not to shoot at a hurricane and had to have this explained to them in September 2017: 'You won't make it turn around'. Really makes you wonder about the people of Florida.
This is what you get if your birthday is on the 10th of January. In this case, kindness has a very different meaning; a potentially lethal weapon bears the name.
In a Sheldon-eque incident, an 82 year old man did not take kindly to someone else being in this seat. He proceeded to slash the car tyres of the miscreant who dared take his seat at a bingo event.
The fact that a man threw a cookie at his girlfriend, the fact that she reported it, that the police made an arrest and the fact that this made the headlines!
Clearly they like throwing food in Florida. I think this is just a terrible waste of peperoni.
… Nice to be reunited with a pet after 14 years. Apparently, the pet owner had implanted a chip in the cat in 2002 – now I don’t know whether this is heartwarming or weird.
Apparently dogs get accused of shootings in the ‘Sunshine State’. According to one news report, a dog named Diesel shot the sleeping girlfriend in the leg. And Americans still don’t think they need gun control laws.
Some of us do idly have such thoughts. Few of us decide to actually put them into practice.
“Why is my home state sooooooo weird?” This resident of Florida asks. It would seem that Florida has an inordinate number of strange things happening and being reported.
I wonder what we’d get if we Googled ‘Uttar Pradesh man’ or ‘Haryana man’ followed by our birthdates?
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