Someone Please Explain This to Me?!

Monday, June 6, 2005: When did FL become the Freak Show State? A 20-year old woman was arrested over the weekend for supplying alchohol to the kids she babysat for, plus, and please sit down for this...having an 11-year old boy use a sex toy on her, multiple times! So, I'm just wondering, did this all start happening when Floridians didn't know how to properly fill out the election ballots, and there were hanging chads? (In my defense, I didn't live here then, I only got to witness this spectical via the television.) Since I moved here in 2001, there have been more things that have happened, then I can remember ever happening in Wisconsin in thirty-two years.

I fear letting my 8-year old play outside because of all of the kidnappings/murders of children that have happened. Now, I look at the people who take care of the children, while I'm at work, a little differently. You just can't be too sure what they're doing behind closed doors. I am not a prude, I don't care if you're into porn, do the occasional drug, drink, gamble, etc. Except, when children are involved.

Two weeks ago, two men were arrested who police believe tortured and killed gay men. They would meet them in bars, take them home, drug, rape and kill them. They allegedly killed one man, dismembered his body and placed it in several dumpsters throughout the city of Tampa. The police aren't even certain how many men they have killed. They did find hundreds of photos of men who were bound. The lawyer for one of the men said his client had no idea where the pictures came from. Of course not! I can't count how many photos I have of people tied up, handcuffed, etc., clearly taken in my house, that I have no idea how they got there. The police in Fort Lauderdale, and a city in IL are going through their missing persons cases, to see if the men could be suspects.

I live in Florida for one reason: the weather. Coming from Milwaukee, WI where the weather sucks for pretty much 10 months out of the year, to FL, where the weather is nice 99% of the time, I could never go back. Crap, I haven't even been back to visit in four years. Yeah, FL has hurricanes, but last year was hopefully, a bizzare season for storms hitting here. Honestly, I'll take high winds and rain over blizzard conditions, below zero temps and being stuck inside, with only a white landscape to look at.

I'm just curious, when did it become the Freak Show State?

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