Eddie Cocaine gets busted for drugs....

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After years on a South Florida bond court bench, Judge John "Jay" Hurley thought he had seen it all -- but even his jaw dropped Wednesday when reading the name of a man appearing on drug possession charges.

"Edward Cocaine," the judge read, before pausing, then blurting out, "What?!?!"

"My last name is Cocaine," the defendant acknowledged, as other arrestees behind him dissolved into giggles. A court official confirmed: "It is on his driver's license."

"How many times have the police told you to step out of the car, sir, during your life?" asked Hurley, in video published by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

"Just about every time I get pulled over," Cocaine replied. He told the judge his great-grandparents "came over here from Greece and they changed it... That was back in like the 1920s."

Unfortunately for the present-day Cocaine, he was charged with illegally possessing Xanax but released on his own recognizance, the Sun Sentinel reports.

Naturally, Cocaine isn't the weirdest name to pass through the halls of justice in Fort Lauderdale. In 2012, a man astonishingly named Jackmeoff Mudd was arrested on a litany of charges including assault, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, possession of alcohol in an open container, and violation of probation.
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Florida is the place to be. I wouldn't leave here if I hd to. I love the beach, love the heat, love so much about it. I'm from St Louis, and lived in MN for one miserable year. Florida is my home and the place where my soul belongs. I don't even like to visit up north anymore as it's usually at least one or 2 cold (to me) days no matter what month I visit. I'll take the overcrowdedness and all the crazies to live in PARADISE! I am 3 blocks from the water and love seeing the beach an all that goes along with it every day!!
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If that's how you describe heat and humitidy where people run from air conditioned houses to air conditioned cars to air conditioned offices/malls/anything else.

It's all good. If you like it, that's awesome. One day when my body can't produce heat, I might move there too.
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Edit: And I must admit, I've always liked the gulf side better...
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Florida woman calls 911 to report the sun


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Maybe you're one of the crazies and you just don't know it. Have you ever done any of the things reported in this thread?
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Squatters take over house, Owner can't get them out

Soldier in battle to rid home of squatters, Florida sheriff’s office says it can’t do anything

Soldier Michael Sharkey was deployed to Afghanistan two years ago and asked a friend to watch over his house in New Port Richey, Florida. Sharkey never thought that he would have to fight a battle to save his home from ex-convict squatters.

As reported by WFLA News Channel 8, strangers broke into the home Sharkey shared with his wife Danielle, changed the locks, then moved in. The squatters, Julio Ortiz and his girlfriend Fatima Cardoso, then refused to leave. Ortiz claims that there was a verbal ‘contract’ made with Sharkey’s friend who was watching the home. Mr. Ortiz said the agreement was that he would live there rent-free while he renovated the house, then later a rental agreement would be worked out. However, Sharkey and Lisa Pettus, Sharkey’s friend, say there was no such agreement.

Pettus said she met Ortiz through a friend and the only agreement was that he would fix up the house while the Sharkeys were away. When Pettus drove by the house two months after the renovation was completed, she found the squatters living in the home.

"I want the people out. They're criminals living in my house," Michael Sharkey told WFLA. “I have never spoke to these people in my life.” Specialist Sharkey called the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office from Afghanistan to deal with the situation and his wife flew to Florida from Hawaii, where Sharkey is currently stationed. Ms. Sharkey went to the house and had a sheriff’s deputy with her but was unsuccessful in removing the two squatters. Instead, after Ortiz told the deputy that there was a verbal agreement, the deputy told Danielle that it was a civil matter and he could do nothing.

Ken Doll, Pasco County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson told the station that the squatters have established residency in the home. The sheriff’s office could not force the couple to leave without a court ordered formal eviction. That wasn’t satisfactory to Mr. Sharkey who questioned, “Basically what you’re telling me is just because they’re in the house and they took up residence, they can live there. Okay, so I can go down the street and find an empty house and just kick in the door and start living there and that’s my residence. I don’t think that would work.” He added, "I don't think I should have to pay hundreds of dollars and go through that aggravation…I work hard, long hours, and these people never had permission to live in my home. They should be thrown out." The Sharkeys are also concerned that if they do get the formal eviction, the squatters will damage their home.

The two have both spent time in prison. Ortiz was released in 2011 after serving time for robbery, car jacking and selling drugs on school property. Cardoso was released in 2006 after serving more than two years for drug charges. Both have since been arrested in Pasco County on drug charges.

The squatters know that the family wants them out of the house, but say they won’t leave until they want to. That may be sooner than Ortiz lets on because the two have been using buckets for water, unable to get the utility company to turn it on without a lease.

Support has streamed in for the Sharkeys since the station originally aired their story. Many have offered the military family help and agree with Sharkey’s outrage. "They are criminals,” said the soldier. “I am serving my country, and they have more rights to my home than I do."
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Squatters should have ZERO rights. What the hell happened to this country????
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It would be a shame if some unfortunate accident befell those people. :-)
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You think that's bad?
We rented a house where the people lived out of the country/with military. They had a friend who considered herself a property manager but in reality all she had to do is collect the rent and put it in the landlords acct monthly, and advise them of any issues. We signed a 2 year lease and were in the 2nd year of it when without any heads up from the homeowners (who we found out hang paid the mortgage in years) lost the house to the bank. They came out and tried to tell us to leave as they took the house. We refused because we had a lease and no money to think about security/rent etc. Then found out that 2 year lease is not legal in Florida so they considered us squatting even though we were current on our rent. They the. Had the power shut off. Our hands were tied as I hadn't been working a lot at that point because it was slow. We had to live in that house with no power and no way to have it turned back on because the bank wanted us out. We went 10 weeks with no power with my 2 daughters myself an my wife. We had no power for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years. Talk about feeling like a crappy parent going through the holidays with no power was pretty close to rock bottom. But in Jan we got a house and were able to get back on our feet. Tha t was over 2 years ago now. Was a bad situation, but luckily we were able to rise above it and move on. Probably one of the many things that has shaped the inner strength of our family and my daughters. Everybody hits rock bottom at some point, it what you do after that that defines you. Bless up!! Onelove!
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I live in Florida. I've def done some crazy stuff down here an seen it happen right in front of me. Was pretty lucky with it when I was younger and now I'm lots less crazy than I was then. Just trying to keep a low profile and do the right thing now! But you'd be amazed what you can get into late night/early morning without even trying!!
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Sounds like you had some tough times but got through them. Glad to hear you are doing better man.
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Get your motor runnin'


Florida man arrested for driving down Interstate 95 while masturbating

ST. LUCIE WEST, Fla., April 24 (UPI) -- Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a man who was allegedly driving down Interstate 95 while masturbating in the nude after a semi-truck driver called 911 to report him.
Cory Evans was pulled over after the driver reported that he “slowed when the semi-truck slowed and sped up when the semi-truck accelerated” while masturbating. The driver continued talking to dispatchers while he followed Evans, TC Palm reported.

"The victim stated that the driver seemed to be enticing him and harassing him," the arrest report states. "The victim stated that the suspect continued masturbating with the interior dome light on so he could be easily seen.”

When troopers stopped Evans, he was clothed but his zipper was down. The 22-year-old was on his way back to school in Boca Raton.

He denied masturbating but was arrested on an indecent exposure charge.
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The heat/humidity really sucks.

But, you know what sucks a lot more?

Snow, ice and single-digit Temps. FUCK WINTER.
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This.


I will take 100 degrees over 10 any fucking day.
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