[Rabflmom]

Article in the Orlando paper caught my eye this morning and brought back memories of writing home 36 years ago telling my mom.....ya need 3 hands to live down here.....1 for the sun tan lotion, 1 for the bug spray, 1 for the hoe to kill the rattle snakes.

Bizarre causes of death are common in Florida - Orlando Sentinel

[NowSoFlorida]

Like the article says at the end you are more likely to be killed driving to the beach than have one of these freaky deaths.

I chose Florida because I love it here.

[Not_liking_FL]

Bizarre deaths in a bizarre state, but I'm sure it happens everywhere.

[runswithscissors]

Here we go again. Denying the history and uniqueness of Florida. Trying to make it something "else".

[Eresh]

ha! I love this state.

[Rabflmom]

Originally Posted by runswithscissors

Here we go again. Denying the history and uniqueness of Florida. Trying to make it something "else".

Whoa was that directed at me? I just thought it was interesting that people always come on here asking about our creatures etc, and there it was in the paper this morning. I thought it was a pretty good article sort of playing with the fear, but stating things can happen anywhere you live. I personally pretty much - love everything there is in Florida but I do have to wonder why I live here sometimes and actually almost moved in 2004.

I mean I don't think many of my family or friends up North have ever had hurricane damage(4 times now). I doubt many have had an arsonist setting fires in their neighborhood that literally caught the town on fire.
( It was very scary especially when a police officer told us " do what you can to save things; but be ready to run cause there ain't no fire trucks coming!" Most of the trucks were fighting fires at Bayside high area and trying to get the kids to safety.) We've had flood damage, had a friend almost lose a foot from a brown recluse bite, a friend almost lose his arm from a rattle snake bite, had a friend's child die from the amoeba in the lake water before most people ever heard of it(1980)s, I don't think anyone else in my family has had a mass murder at their grocery store or had one of their students be arrested and convicted for murder. I doubt whether any of them ever saw an elephant go wild in a parking lot and have to be shot while people were riding it when they took their kids to the circus in town. They probably haven't had a friend total a mercedes the week he bought it because they hit a gator crossing the interstate or seen a rocket explode and be warned to stay inside until the cloud disipates for your own protection knowing their son was surfing closer to KSC than you were. I could mention the lightning damage, the huge black snake on the fence that sprang off it towards me, the shark that bit the kid going out next to my son, the big frog that came up through the toilet and was hopping around the house with my husband chasing it with a broom one night till it jumped back in and swam down again. And if I sat here thinking back over the years, I could probably think of more things to wonder about why I still love it here.

Of course I know they have other perils up North, but just doesn't seem like as many. Besides for 28 years I lived with a few of those perils helping me decide it was time to come down to my paradise.

[miamihurricane555]

Originally Posted by Rabflmom

Whoa was that directed at me? I just thought it was interesting that people always come on here asking about our creatures etc, and there it was in the paper this morning. I thought it was a pretty good article sort of playing with the fear, but stating things can happen anywhere you live. I personally pretty much - love everything there is in Florida but I do have to wonder why I live here sometimes and actually almost moved in 2004.

I mean I don't think many of my family or friends up North have ever had hurricane damage(4 times now). I doubt many have had an arsonist setting fires in their neighborhood that literally caught the town on fire.
( It was very scary especially when a police officer told us " do what you can to save things; but be ready to run cause there ain't no fire trucks coming!" Most of the trucks were fighting fires at Bayside high area and trying to get the kids to safety.) We've had flood damage, had a friend almost lose a foot from a brown recluse bite, a friend almost lose his arm from a rattle snake bite, had a friend's child die from the amoeba in the lake water before most people ever heard of it(1980)s, I don't think anyone else in my family has had a mass murder at their grocery store or had one of their students be arrested and convicted for murder. I doubt whether any of them ever saw an elephant go wild in a parking lot and have to be shot while people were riding it when they took their kids to the circus in town. They probably haven't had a friend total a mercedes the week he bought it because they hit a gator crossing the interstate or seen a rocket explode and be warned to stay inside until the cloud disipates for your own protection knowing their son was surfing closer to KSC than you were. I could mention the lightning damage, the huge black snake on the fence that sprang off it towards me, the shark that bit the kid going out next to my son, the big frog that came up through the toilet and was hopping around the house with my husband chasing it with a broom one night till it jumped back in and swam down again. And if I sat here thinking back over the years, I could probably think of more things to wonder about why I still love it here.

Of course I know they have other perils up North, but just doesn't seem like as many. Besides for 28 years I lived with a few of those perils helping me decide it was time to come down to my paradise.

did all those things really happen to you? if so your really unlucky.

[Rabflmom]

Originally Posted by miamihurricane555

did all those things really happen to you? if so your really unlucky.

Yep over the 36 years I have lived in Florida. But this is still home and we are happy here. Lots of good things happen too.

[allenk893]

Originally Posted by runswithscissors

Here we go again. Denying the history and uniqueness of Florida. Trying to make it something "else".

Having bizarre deaths and a huge proportion of mentally unstable individuals running around the state is not something we should be proud of.

[Rabflmom]

Originally Posted by allenk893

Having bizarre deaths and a huge proportion of mentally unstable individuals running around the state is not something we should be proud of.

Probably not a whole lot different than most states....you just don't hear about them in the national news as much.