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• #FLORIDA MAN JUNE 6 1994 ZIP#

The account referred to 'Florida Man' as the "World's Worst Superhero".

The meme originated in February 2013 with the Twitter account which quoted notably strange or bizarre news headlines containing the words "Florida man", such as "Florida man run over by van after dog pushes accelerator" or "Police arrest Florida man for drunken joy ride on motorized scooter at Wal-Mart". A CNN article on the meme also suggested that the breadth of reports of bizarre activities is due to a confluence of factors, including public records laws giving journalists fast and easy access to police reports, the relatively high and diverse population of the state, its highly variable weather, and gaps in mental health funding. The Miami New Times claimed that freedom of information laws in Florida make it easier for journalists to obtain information about arrests from the police than in other states and that this is responsible for the large number of news articles. The stories call attention to Florida's supposed notoriety for strange and unusual events. Internet users typically submit links to news stories and articles about unusual or strange crimes or events occurring in Florida, particularly those where "Florida Man" is mentioned in a headline. The vandalism caused more than $5,100 in damage, the arrest report said.Internet meme about unusual events in Floridaįlorida Man is an Internet meme, popularized in 2013, and then re-popularized in 2020, in which the phrase "Florida Man" is taken from various unrelated news articles concerning people who hail from or live in Florida. Placed under arrest, he was returned to the hospital for surgery to his foot and a possible broken ankle from jumping off a roof at the Alligator Farm, the report said.

Hatfield was taken to Flagler Hospital but tried to leave and was caught as he got into a retention pond surrounded with barbed wire, the report said. "He said the old man had a pool in his garage with all these alligators and the old man was feeding him to his alligators," the report said. Then he said he ran into an old man who had one on a leash, and he ended up "surrounded by all these baby alligators." When Hatfield was questioned by police, he first said he had been attacked by an alligator, the report said. He climbed out and leapt in again like he was having fun at somebody's swim park." "I have a hard time justifying in my mind what I see, this guy seemingly staggering down some of the boardwalks but nimble enough to go over a 10-foot tall fence with barbed wire," he said.

#FLORIDA MAN JUNE 6 1994 ZIP#

It shows him climbing part of the facility's zip line feature where they found "evidence of considerable bleeding." A statue valued at $3,000 also was knocked over.īrueggen said he and his staff are concerned about visitor safety and security, but "protection against the lunacy and erratic behavior of nighttime trespassers is nearly impossible," he said. "In the video you can see the defendant trying to fight off the crocodile and he managed to get away," the report said. But when he sits on the bank of the pool, the "crocodile locks onto his left foot." The arrest report said security cameras show a 9-foot-long crocodile lunging at the man, who escapes to the edge of the pool. "In our 125-year history, this is the first time anyone has tried to go swimming with the crocodiles." "He jumped off a 5- to 6-foot structure into about 2 feet of water, then climbed up on the 20-foot structure later, which we know from the blood trail," Brueggen said. Monday and damaged part of its snack bar, then went into the recently opened “Oasis on the Nile” exhibit, Alligator Farm Director John Brueggen said. The man, identified by police as Brandon Keith Hatfield, got into the park about 7:45 p.m. And when the vandalism call came in, we put two and two together." When they made contact with him, he claimed he had been bitten by an alligator. took a jump into a pond infested with big crocodiles," Aiple said.

Then came a call from the Alligator Farm reporting some serious vandalism, she said. The first came at 6:50 a.m., a neighbor saying a suspicious person was crawling in a Holly Lane backyard across Anastasia Boulevard from the 125-year-old park, clad only in underwear, said police spokeswoman Cecilia Aiple. Then came the calls to police that solved the mystery, and led to the arrest of a 23-year-old Green Cove Springs man charged with burglary and criminal mischief, according to the St. No victim was found among the scaly enclosure's inhabitants, just a bloody trail to the top of a nearby 20-foot-tall structure. Augustine's Alligator Farm Zoological Park. The evidence was scary - two rubber Croc shoes and shorts floating in the water Tuesday inside the Nile Crocodile enclosure at St.