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Old 06-05-2019, 12:00 AM
 
Location: West Los Angeles and Rancho Palos Verdes
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Not quite a good old boy, meanin' no harm...

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Oswald Pereira allegedly started Tuesday's blaze after an argument with his ex-wife, which escalated to leading deputies on a chase through Marion and Levy counties.
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Old 06-05-2019, 06:36 AM
 
Location: The South
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I suppose the more serious charge will be displaying the Confederate flag.
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Old 06-05-2019, 08:02 AM
 
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I suppose the more serious charge will be displaying the Confederate flag.
Which charge would that be? Please don't try to diminish the legitimate issues around the Confederate flag.
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Old 06-05-2019, 08:25 AM
 
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The confederate flag still flies high at many homes in Florida. If you’re in Coral Coral drive down Veteran’s Pkwy and just before you get to Santa Barbara look right. There will be a giant one flying above the stars and stripes and FL state flag.

I don’t know the people but it is a stand your ground state so I would suggest no approaching their domicile unwarranted.
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Old 06-05-2019, 08:37 AM
 
Location: San Ramon, Seattle, Anchorage, Reykjavik
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The confederate flag still flies high at many homes in Florida. If you’re in Coral Coral drive down Veteran’s Pkwy and just before you get to Santa Barbara look right. There will be a giant one flying above the stars and stripes and FL state flag.

I don’t know the people but it is a stand your ground state so I would suggest no approaching their domicile unwarranted.
Above the Stars and Stripes? America - where people are free to be idiots.
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Old 06-05-2019, 12:47 PM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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Other articles show the real car. It wasn't a '69 Charger with a Confederate flag on its roof, but a modern Challenger with 74 on the doors and black stripes (no rooftop flag). It doesn't have any resemblance to the General Lee other than it's an orange Dodge.

The "fake" media put a picture of a vintage '69 Charger to add to the story.
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Old 06-05-2019, 01:01 PM
 
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Other articles show the real car. It wasn't a '69 Charger with a Confederate flag on its roof, but a modern Challenger with 74 on the doors and black stripes (no rooftop flag). It doesn't have any resemblance to the General Lee other than it's an orange Dodge.

The "fake" media put a picture of a vintage '69 Charger to add to the story.
Did my own googling after reading your post. WTF?


It's just a modern orange Charger. This news clip shows a picture of it

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man...jockey-1426960
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Old 06-05-2019, 01:34 PM
 
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Fake news strikes again, at least the details anyway. Our media truly sucks.
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Old 06-05-2019, 02:36 PM
 
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Well.. Questions should have arisen when seeing a picture of the guy who was arrested..






Now.. There's a guy in Asheville.. Black feller.. Wears a full confederate uniform downtown every day.. So.. Not everyone takes offense at the same things... But.. Like seeing a black gentleman in full confederate uniform.. Questions come to mind when seeing a story that the above guy was in a General Lee replica.


And.. If you want my guess. The first story posted on this was from a radio station website. If you look at the byline on it, Jeff Zito wrote the story. You click on about and you see that Jeff Zito is the afternoon drive DJ.. And his bio states "Jeff is a swell dude."


More red flags than a drought zone there.


But.. Probably he wrote the story, fudging some details for his afternoon drive show.. Some wire service picked it up and ran with it without fact checking it whatsoever.
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Old 06-05-2019, 03:21 PM
 
Location: Floribama
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That Challenger doesn’t even look anything like the General Lee.
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