Why Florida is an awsome place to live

[ed]

OK I get it. ed is having one of those interludes. Best to wait a while before dealing with him.

A less generous person might refer to it as a psychotic break.

[robinson]

It’s hanging on to nipple hair

[Witness]

https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/j27r5f

Edit: added the YT vid, if you want to see the whole dubious event in full.

[Rob Lister]

And they keep following!?

[Pyrrho]

[robinson]

That really is awesome

[Pyrrho]

And they keep following!?

Yeah uh...and shooting while letting the truck steer itself...okay...but the other driver did have a gun aimed at him so...

[Witness]

Florida deputy performs exorcism on child, instructs another to shoot anyone who enters demon-filled home

Christopher Dougherty was fired from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and arrested on child abuse charges

A now-former sheriff’s deputy in Florida was arrested Sunday after allegedly performing an exorcism on a child, and telling another there were demons in his home and to shoot anyone who entered.

Christopher Dougherty, 37, was arrested on child abuse allegations the same day he was fired from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office on an unrelated matter, according to the agency. He had worked with the sheriff’s office since 2006.

Deputies responded Thursday to a 911 call about a residential alarm and determined there was evidence of child abuse at the apartment occupied by Dougherty.

A girl, wearing body armor and a Kevlar helmet, was lying on the ground in a shooting position with a rifle. A boy was armed with a Taser, and Dougherty was in possession of a handgun, the Orlando Sentinel reported, citing the arrest affidavit.

The children told investigators Dougherty performed an exorcism on the boy before telling the girl that there were demons in the home and directing her to shoot anyone who entered.

Dougherty was detained and taken to a hospital where he was held under the Baker Act, a Florida law enabling those determined likely to inflict harm to themselves or others to receive emergency mental health services, the Orange County Sheriff's Office told Fox News. He was arrested Sunday after his release.

Dougherty was also terminated from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Sunday for “an unsatisfactory performance finding in a separate matter,” the agency said, without providing details.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-ex-d ... nge-county

[Witness]

Hey ed! How are your crawdads doing? No sightings? Thought so…

That's because you got the wrong beasties.

****** drumroll ******

Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery

Escaped self-cloning mutant crayfish created in experimental breeding programmes have invaded a Belgian cemetery.

Hundreds of the duplicating crustaceans, which can dig down to up to a metre and are always female, pose a deadly threat to local biodiversity after colonising a historic Antwerp graveyard.

"It's impossible to round up all of them. It's like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble," said Kevin Scheers, of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research.

Marbled crayfish, which travel across land and water at night and eat whatever they can, do not occur in nature and are banned by the European Union.

Instead, the freshwater beasts, which are about 10cm big and voracious, are thought to have been bred by unscrupulous German pet traders in the 1990s.

They are similar to the slough crayfish found in Florida but are parthenogenetic, which means they reproduce with themselves and all their children are genetically identical females.

The mutation, which occurred about 25 years ago, means populations can spring up rapidly from just a single Procambarus virginalis.

In 2018, scientists established the global marbled crayfish population was descended from a single female and didn't need males to reproduce.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/escape ... OELOTHGPA/

Now that's a title!

And "they reproduce with themselves", stupid journalists.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Zinnia Jones in her anime fanboy Halloween costume.



Zinnia Jones is a displaced Yankee resettled in the sunshine state. The culture suits her.

Not unlike ed, modulo her choice of gender.