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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A man reported missing from a Florida hospital was found in North Carolina dressed like a doctor and driving a stolen ambulance with a dead deer wedged in the back, authorities said.

What the hell is it with people from Florida, anyway???

Sorry but the dressed like a doctor thing just cracked me up!

Comments

[TheAlamo]

Damn! He has all the credentials to get elected!

[Katz]

Actually Dan . . . I find no humor in it. That person obviously has a problem that I'm pretty confident he didn't ask for. Did you even think about walking 10 feet in his "shoes" before posting this? Where has your compassion gone? Or is it selective?

[Deb]

With all due respect to Katz, Florida is the nexus of all things strange in the universe...there's a whole subgenre of fiction devoted to "Florida Bizarre" which would include characters just like this story mentions. (read Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry to mention a few)

I have lived most of my life in FL (tho have been in CO for the last few years), and Florida absolutely IS that weird. Has to do with being a community of transients in a warm climate, where legislators have to do things like outlaw women selling hot dogs on the side of the road dressed in thong bathing suits because of the accidents caused by people turning to stare and losing track of traffic. A truly strange place to live!!!

[!]

What a wild story. I know there has to be a little more to this, like what kind of hospital he was in that he left from, how he stole the ambulance, where he got the DRS. clothes, and where he got the deer. Did he go hunting ? LOL
Was he gonna take the deer to the emergency room ?
Thanks for sharing. A really wild story.

[dadreamer]

I have compassion for the guy, but this made me laugh out loud.

[Dan]

Actually Dan . . . I find no humor in it. That person obviously has a problem that I'm pretty confident he didn't ask for. Did you even think about walking 10 feet in his "shoes" before posting this? Where has your compassion gone? Or is it selective?

Oh for heaven's sakes. That's a ridiculous statement. For my first few years out of college I worked with the emotionally disturbed - some very severe. I also volunteered on one of the most dangerous psych wards in America working with the criminally insane. Try playing pool with someone sometime when he startes tellng you he murdered his family and burned the house down to cover the crime as matter of factly as if he was discussing his last fishing trip with a smile on his face.

I eventually stopped working with a young disturbed population because I wasn't cut out to see taht kind of pain everyday for the rest of my life when I was 25. And tour a few back wards sometimes where there are people with paralytic schizophrenia who haven't been outside in over 20 years.

Don't lecture me about compassion and I won't lecture you on the need for a sense of humor to get through life without going bonkers yourself. How's that?

[Steel]

Hmmm ...

Hey Katz? Wouldn't it be more edifying if one were to drive 10 miles in his ambulance?

[Isanah]

Hey, I'm from Florida! There are crazy people in all the states! LMAO

[Isabell]

What the hell is it with people from Florida, anyway???

Sorry but the dressed like a doctor thing just cracked me up!

Posted by Dan in Humor | Permalink

Hey buddy, just because it seems like all the freaks, perverts, and weirdos come from Florida doesn't mean .... Ok so they do but I am not crazy, yet.

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[Isabell]

Actually Dan . . . I find no humor in it. That person obviously has a problem that I'm pretty confident he didn't ask for. Did you even think about walking 10 feet in his "shoes" before posting this? Where has your compassion gone? Or is it selective?

Posted by: Katz | Oct 5, 2005 12:58:14 AM

Actually Katz life is really to short to be so serious.

[Cindi in PA]

I understand PETA has filed a restraining order.

Wouldn't it be more edifying if one were to drive 10 miles in his ambulance?

Posted by: Steel | Oct 5, 2005 2:31:56 AM

LMAO, too funny!

[skyelit]

Hey, I'm from Florida! There are crazy people in all the states! LMAO

Posted by: Isanah | Oct 5, 2005 3:20:59 AM

Ditto! I agree and I'm from Florida to. lol How about pointing some fingers at those doozies out in California. lol And you kno wthey are out there. lol

[usmcmom]

LOL, maybe he thinks he's Chris Farly from Tommy Boy!!!

[Bella]

Well, Florida is known also as the Land of Fruit & Nuts!!

[justme]

First time I read it, I thought it said the GUY had a dead deer wedged in HIS back. Now THAT was funny...

[dadreamer]

I say lighten up! It's still just as funny today! LOL..again.

[Phoenix]

The guy had a deer wedged in his back.... ha ha ha ha... Now that IS funny. But wait.... was the deer tied down on the gurney? You know, like a patient? Maybe the guy was taking the deer to the hospital. It doesn't say that the deer was wedged in the back of the ambulance or kind of like, you know, glued to the back of the ambulance like maybe he ran over it in high-speed reverse or something. Were the legs sticking straight up? The idea of 'wedged' has me wondering what size deer it was. It could have been a moose. Or a caribou on vacation from the tundra. Wedged. Odd word to use. You know they had to wedge some of those people from New Orleans in ambulances, but a deer? I am very puzzled.

[Katz]

Wasn't lecturing you Dan; actually your post was way more wordy than mine. I find your unwarranted presumption that I've not a sense of humor pretty funny, considering you don't know me. So let me get this straight, if I don't find humor in the same things you do, then I'm jaded/too serious. I'll provide you with enough phone numbers to keep you busy on the phone, for at least three days, whom would refute your presumption.

Just stated my opinion . . . found no reason for you to get your knickers in a twist about it. Simple opinion, simple question. I do, however, admire your tenacity in working with the less mentally fortunate

BTW folks, I live in California and Florida measures up pretty mild to what goes on here.

Stay Safe

Katz

[Phoenix]

"....the less mentally fortunate..." ? Hmmm. Is that like the same thing as retarded?

You didn't have to tell us you were from California.... the Land of Political Correctness writ large and where the less mentally fortunate make fortunes.

I'm wondering if there is a 'Mentally Fortunate Scale'? Would that be like an I.Q. test/scale? Would the Mentally Fortunate Scale go from Total Misfortunate Mental Destitution to Fortunately With Massive Mental Fortune ?

Cool.