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Twitter’s New Anti-hero: ‘Florida Man’
WASHINGTON, February 13 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – What do spanking a police horse, robbing a pet store with a syringe, and forcing an engagement ring down your fiancé’s throat have in common?
They are all alleged crimes chronicled by a new anti-hero storming the Twittersphere: “Florida Man.”
Playing off Florida’s reputation as America’s craziest state, a Twitter feed launched this month at the handle @_FloridaMan collects some of the more bizarre, tragicomic and wince-inducing exploits of Y-chromosome bearers in the Sunshine State.
“Real-life headlines about the world’s worst superhero,” the account reads below a police mug shot of a white male with chaotically applied face paint.
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http://rianovosti.com/crime/20130214/179453427.html
