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Miami Filled With Whores

The entire city of Miami is reportedly filled with a type of amateur prostitute called “sugar babies.” It is how things are done, in Florida. Nobody has money and college is expensive, so young girls whore themselves out to gross old men with money. Rape happens, too.

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 25

Cool Dad Rents Whole Theater For Large-Screen Gaming On Son’s Birthday

A very awesome Florida dad rented out his local historic movie theater so his son could have a fantastic 13th birthday party: pizza and video games played on the big screen. Jonah has Type 1 diabetes and often volunteers with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Sploid Ken Layne Jun 20

Escaped Florida Llama Brought Down By Taser

Tallahassee police reported using a taser on a six-foot llama, Scooter, after it ran around a local neighborhood for hours yesterday and generally galavanted about. The llama was eventually subdued to avoid an accident and returned, and its owner will not face charges. Local residents called in complaints and Scooter sightings throughout the night. Deputy…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Jun 2

Giant Damage-Causing Snails Are Aggressively Invading Florida

Yeah, so giant African land snails are infesting southern Florida. They’re the kind that can eat through plaster and stucco and they get as big as rats. When the rainy season ends in a few weeks the population will explode. It’s a bad situation. The same snails invaded in 1966 when a kid brought three…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Apr 14

A Horrifying 100-Foot Sinkhole Swallowed a Florida Man in His Bed

Last night a Florida man awoke to a very real nightmare as the floor of his bedroom collapsed out from under him. The sinkhole that spawned beneath his home late Thursday simply enveloped the room—and its sole occupant—with no warning, leaving almost nothing behind. http://gawker.com/5987806/100+foot-sinkhole-opens-in-florida-bedroom-swallowing-and-killing-man The man’s brother, elsewhere in the house, rushed to the…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 1

A Florida Woman Was Shot by an Oven

Among items on the short list of “things that shouldn’t be stored in an oven,” live ammunition ranks near the top—just below live babies and gasoline. That’s because, as Myth Busters has taught us and one Florida woman learned this week, live ammo and high temperatures make for an explosive combination. Aalaya Walker just wanted…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 22

Someone Stole an Entire Driveway (In Florida, Obviously)

A grave crime has been committed and of course, it happened in Florida. A woman named Michelle Wright returned home Tuesday night and found her driveway missing. Apparently she pulled into her house and noticed the whole thing was gone when she felt a huge bump where a driveway should have been. Witnesses saw two…

Tech News Leslie Horn Dec 14

The mystery of Florida’s monster eyeball has been solved

Last week, a softball-sized eyeball washed ashore in Florida. At the time, researcher Charles Messing guessed the eye belonged to a swordfish. A day later, Deep Sea News’ Craig McClain got in touch with Sönke Johnsen, “an expert on everything visual in marine organisms” (awesome, right?). Johnsen told McClain the fleshy orb was “definitely a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 15

CVS unwittingly accepts return of used enemas, re-sells them to customers

Everyone has a hobby. For Florida resident Ronald Eugene Robinson, that hobby used to involve going to his local CVS, buying a six-pack of enemas, using those enemas, carefully re-sealing said enemas in their original packaging, and then returning them “unopen and unused” to the CVS from whence they came. Robinson is believed to have…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 12

An eye the size of a softball has washed ashore in Florida

Holy heck, people. Now that is an eyeball. Beach-walker Gino Covacci encountered the monstrosity yesterday while ambling about the Florida coast, and while scientists have yet to identify the creature from whence it came, the consensus seems to be that whatever it was, it was big. According to the Sun-Sentinal, the waters of Southern Florida…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 12

Nearly 300,000 Florida Students and Faculty Hacked and at Risk of Identity Theft

According to school officials, almost 300,000 students and faculty members have had their personal information compromised in a widespread hack around Florida colleges. Enough information was leaked to lead to identity theft, and there are at least 50 cases of that occurring already. The hack is centered around Northwest Florida State College, and affects about…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 11

Man wins live cockroach-eating contest, promptly dies

On Friday night, some thirty people participated in a live cockroach eating contest at a reptile shop in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Edward Archibold, who shop owner Ben Siegel described as “the life of the party,” reportedly “dominated” the competition, downing dozens of the live insects in a matter of minutes. Archibold claimed first place, and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 9

The Big Bad Wolf Ain’t Got Nothing on the World’s Only Category 5 Hurricane Simulator

When Hurricane Andrew rolled ashore in South Florida back in 1992, it destroyed $27 billion worth of property. The storm was the third most destructive to ever hit the US, an outcome due in part to the insufficient building codes of the time. Structures simply weren’t built to withstand the storm’s fury. These days, Florida…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 12

Kennedy Space Center’s Going to Host the Nerdiest Triathlon Ever

Have you ever thought about running a triathlon? And are you a big nerd? Well, you’re reading Gizmodo so chances are you’re at least half way there. Next year, for the first time ever, the Kennedy Space Center is going to open their gates for an awesome sporting event. The Rocketman Triathlon, which wins for…

Space & Spaceflight Brent Rose Aug 16

What Is Cocaine Psychosis?

By now you’ve likely heard the horrifying tale of the naked Florida man who was shot by police while eating another man’s face. What possessed Rudy Eugene to consume 75-percent of a homeless man’s face? Drugs, obviously. It’s not totally clear which drugs Eugene was on, but police have speculated that the attack was prompted…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 29

How the zombie apocalypse starts: Naked attacker found eating man’s face

A scary bit of news is coming out of Miami this weekend after the city police shot a naked man found eating another man’s face. And several circumstances of the story have some people crying zombie. The police were called in yesterday after the attacker was spotted on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp. When the…

io9 Lauren Davis May 27

Man in Underwear Stabs His Computer with a Samurai Sword When Police Search for Child Porn

Florida doesn’t get weirder than this: Kamil Mezalka, a 21-year-old man, stabbed his hard drive with a two-handed Samurai sword after the police stormed his house looking for evidence of child pornography. He apparently did all this in his underwear while the police were present. According to The Daytona Beach News Journal: After agents made…

Tech News Casey Chan May 10

Apparently, Copyright Trolls Don’t Need to Tell the Band When Suing Its Fans

Unless your band’s name ends with “etallica,” suing your fans for copyright infringement is very bad for publicity (and even if it does, that’s still a dick move Lars). So, imagine All Shall Perish’s surprise when they learned that a Panamanian copyright troll, which no one remembers hiring, recently filed suit against 80 of their…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 30

This Could Be the Unconscious Pilot Who Crashed Into the Gulf of Mexico (Update: Confirmed By His Daughter On Facebook?)

According to reports, the unconscious pilot who crashed into the the Gulf of Mexico earlier today was Dr. Peter Hertzak, 65, an OB-GYN and plastic surgeon from Slidell, Louisiana. The Coast Guard watched the plane sink, so it’s all but certain that the pilot died. https://gizmodo.com/plane-with-unconscious-pilot-is-circling-out-of-control-5903438 See “Update 3” below for possible confirmation Dr. Hertzak…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 19

Plane With Unconscious Pilot Is Circling Out of Control Off the Gulf Coast (Update: It’s Down)

The FAA lost contact with a Cessna 421 shortly before 9AM this morning. The pilot, it turns out, was unconscious, and the plane ultimately slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 135 miles off the coast of Florida. The pilot has been identified as Dr. Peter Hertzak. https://gizmodo.com/this-could-be-the-unconscious-pilot-who-crashed-into-th-5903527 The plane departed, as planned, at 6:43 AM…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 19

Miami Filled With Whores

Cool Dad Rents Whole Theater For Large-Screen Gaming On Son’s Birthday

Escaped Florida Llama Brought Down By Taser

Giant Damage-Causing Snails Are Aggressively Invading Florida

A Horrifying 100-Foot Sinkhole Swallowed a Florida Man in His Bed

A Florida Woman Was Shot by an Oven

Someone Stole an Entire Driveway (In Florida, Obviously)

The mystery of Florida’s monster eyeball has been solved

CVS unwittingly accepts return of used enemas, re-sells them to customers

An eye the size of a softball has washed ashore in Florida

Nearly 300,000 Florida Students and Faculty Hacked and at Risk of Identity Theft

Man wins live cockroach-eating contest, promptly dies

The Big Bad Wolf Ain’t Got Nothing on the World’s Only Category 5 Hurricane Simulator

Kennedy Space Center’s Going to Host the Nerdiest Triathlon Ever

What Is Cocaine Psychosis?

How the zombie apocalypse starts: Naked attacker found eating man’s face

Man in Underwear Stabs His Computer with a Samurai Sword When Police Search for Child Porn

Apparently, Copyright Trolls Don’t Need to Tell the Band When Suing Its Fans

This Could Be the Unconscious Pilot Who Crashed Into the Gulf of Mexico (Update: Confirmed By His Daughter On Facebook?)

Plane With Unconscious Pilot Is Circling Out of Control Off the Gulf Coast (Update: It’s Down)

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