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Native Floridian. I spent my youth shoeless around these ponds, catching and releasing gators, snakes, and fish. I find those experiences growing up invaluable.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

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Inland coastal Alabama, same deal. It's great to know how to catch turtles, snakes and lizards with my bare hands. Doesn't come up much while developing software but it definitely balanced out the Super Nintendo time growing up.

Australian here. Catching a snake here has you limping home as fast as possible to get to the hospital before rigor mortis sets in.

I’ve done other things that almost got me killed but nothing gives me the heebeejeebees like thinking about the time I drunkenly peed into a river delta near daintree. I don’t even want to think about what was waiting for me to step closer to the water...

Native Floridian here as well. Same, but I would never swim down into a submerged car to investigate it. They're usually far too disgusting and too deep down. There was a submerged car in a canal where I grew up, I used to use it as a landmark for fishing all the time. It's probably still there, who knows, there could be a body.

The first time I heard of "Florida Man", I thought that shit was made up. Now I'm incredibly fascinated (and perhaps a bit scared) by it.

The "Florida Man" phenomenon is likely due more to reporting laws in Florida than it is to the culture in Florida:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_legisla...

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-g...

Is that why fark has a Florida tag?

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