There's a fascinating video from LegalEagle as to why Florida Man is such a meme, the answer was not what I expected.

It comes down to the state having procedures for reporting everything to the press and being open with what the police are doing. More than other states things like this don't require a journalist to do any discovering, all the facts are just there.

https://youtu.be/VOxCU3wY3kA?si=LTwrL9mSX-5I_bVu

And a good story in the Columbia Journalism Review about the human damage, especially behind the less objectively newsworthy stories: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/florida-man-news.php

Am I the only one around here who is so bored of the Florida Man meme?