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Best line of the story: Police were unable to tell if Haynes was under the influence at the time....

I mean, really?! They couldn't tell?

 

I'm in! My very first time in Florida was with my brother when he was hauling watermelons. He started telling me about love bugs, and about half way through his story, we ran through a cloud of them. The windshield was completely covered, and all the washer and wipers did was to make bug-gut streaks!

 

I'm in, great pif!
When I was about a year old my parents took a vacation down to Florida to visit relatives, they were all of 19 at the time. We were spending time on a beach just the three of us, they were taking turns, 1 going into the ocean and the other watching me then they'd switch. This older lady saw this and said she'd watch me so they could swim together, they did not know her. They said ok and headed off to swim in water well above their heads so they were pretty far out there. Now at this point there was nothing stopping this lady from taking me but she didn't. The next day they left to drive back to Ohio. The crazy part is when they finally made it back to Ohio there was a news paper article from my father's relatives waiting for them. The day they left on the same beach where they swam the day before there was a shark attack on a swimmer.

 

Im in
Man gets bitten by an alligator while playing a round of golf.

 

I'm starting to sense that you guys think Florida is Darwin's playground.

Fun Fact. The distance from Key West to Pensacola, FL is approximately the same distance as from Pensacola, FL to Chicago, IL.

 

I'm in....
I do not live in Florida, but my sister does and she sent me this, does this count? lol
"'I was helping a friend out and someone decided they wanted to take a chunk out of my ear,' said John Ott, the man who says he was bitten. 'This all started because I wouldn't give him a cigarette. He comes up puts me in a bear hug and next thing I know he's biting my ear.' Ott tells CBS 12 News his 'biting' neighbor yells threats across the street continuously. Ott plans to file for a restraining order."

Edit: My sister just sent me this link where the story above was posed...there are a lot more to read

 

I'll give it a shot, I'm in.

 

I'd be in, but no crazy stories. If I go someplace too hot all I smell is BACON. Well there was that time I was in Jacksonville FL or was that Jackson MS ... I'm so confused.

 

I'm in.

It isn't too crazy, but on a family trip many years ago, my dad took the entire family to the original Hooters location in Clearwater. How he got my mom to agree, I'll never know.

 

I have found much respect for your father. Good clean family entertainment that also enhanced his vacation.

 

Not in, but loving the stories.

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I'm in! Soap and AS in a matching set? What luxury!

In the 1970's while growing up in the 'Burbs of Chicago, my parents decided Christmas vacations ought to be good ones. We'd leave a week before the schools gave official holiday days off. Dad's family, farmers in Ohio, had winter homes near and around Stuart, Florida. We would arrive with the pop-up canvas topped camper, Coleman stove, and fishing poles at our home for two weeks - Sandsprit Park. It's changed since then. Used to have (cold water only) showers & camping sites for a fee. Because we arrived before the rush the place would be nearly empty. The squirrels were curious, unafraid, and got into any food left out. I coaxed one to climb my leg for a bit of bread. Glad it went on the outside of my pants, and not up my jeans. Florida squirrels must be different from the Mississippi variety.

 

Our VP of Sales & Distribution literally lives a few blocks from there.

 

I'm in.

While we were at Cape Canaveral, we visited the Apollo 1 site where the astronauts passed. They told us to avoid the bench over by the treeline surrounding the old launch pad. They said gators were known to wait there to grab anyone looking for a place to rest a spell.

 

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My family has had many fun adventures in Florida when I was younger. I remember once thinking that crabs were big spiders. He picked one up and set it down behind me when I wasn't looking and said, "Chris watch out! There's one behind you!" Long story short, I should've been in the news for running the 100 meter dash faster than anyone in the world .
If that doesn't count I read a story about a guy who was driving who's truck got rammed by a zebra?? Not sure where the zebra came from, but that was an interesting story haha


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Great PIF! Our whole family was down swimming at CoCo beach and my elderly father in law got hung up in the rip tide, which drug him under the pier. He hung on to the pilinga for dear lif until I could help him back to shore. The barnacles tore him up badly. We spent the rest of the day on the er. 20 years later, my kids still bring it up...

 

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Back in 2012 the wife and I decided to go to DisneyWorld after my tour to Afghanistan (neither of us had been). We drove from Gulfport Ms (I was stationed with the Seabees) taking the casual route using as many "off the beaten" paths as possible. About a hour after we made the turn south from the pan handle wife looks at me and says "it's like one big retirement community". I spite coffee all over the windshield laughing so hard.

 

I'm in! When I was in college we took a trip down to Ft. Lauderdale. Along the way we decided to do a tour on an airboat. While our attention was focused on some large birds of some sort, an alligator started climbing into our boat from the opposite side. Our guide whacked it between the eyes with a long pole, kicked it back into the water, and took off. We paid a lot better attention to our surroundings after that.

Last year we vacationed on Amelia Island. While we were driving down to the beach my wife mentioned that she would love to see a sea turtle one day. We get down there and park next to a large truck. A truck belonging to a sea turtle rescue group, which happened to be releasing two large sea turtles. We got front row seats to the whole event. My daughter is a dolphin lover. As the sea turtles reached the breakers, two dolphins started leaping as if to welcome them home. Whole family was happy, and I got to be the hero for the day.

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Winner based on story #1 !

 

Not in, but on spring break in the nineties...somewhere along Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, a story about the guy who grew up to be me.

Ticketed while driving a friend's car, for having eight clearly intoxicated and scantily dressed female passengers in a 1974 powder blue Mercedes convertible. At noon. The breakfast menu that day was select fungi from an Alabama cattle farm, and shall we say, enhanced the event to epic levels of surreal that S FL is known for...the day got better from there, but fines were paid and memories made! I still marvel that I wasn't arrested, and can only figure it's because I didn't smell like booze.