Florida has a reputation for having a large number of news articles where a member of the public has done something both criminal and remarkably stupid (e.g. the fellow who took pictures of his children sitting on a beached dugong and posted them online), or where government officials of done something egregiously petty and/or stupid (e.g. this case).

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Florida Man, the world's worst superhero: https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

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