On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:53:38 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:33:29 -0700, jps wrote:


But it is about Floriduh...

A Florida man was beaten, robbed, forced to strip naked and abandoned
on the side of a road Friday evening during a first date gone horribly
wrong, according to police.


What's your point? How ineffective the police are at preventing crime?

How stupid Floridians are? He should have been sprinting across the
cow pasture instead of peeing. He'd have had plenty of time to ****
in his pants later.

On Jun 17, 10:37*pm, wrote:

I don't suppose he knew he was going to get robbed.
Horrible situational awareness but that is not just a Florida trait.
I am sure if I trolled the Seattle police reports I would find
hundreds of people who made mistakes and became crime victims but I am
not that obsessed. Why are you?



But Greg, you have to understand that this thread is not 'Policital".

This is 'Policital"
http://students.case.edu/handbook/po...political.html

On 6/18/2013 6:44 AM, Tim wrote:
On Jun 17, 10:37 pm, wrote:

I don't suppose he knew he was going to get robbed.
Horrible situational awareness but that is not just a Florida trait.
I am sure if I trolled the Seattle police reports I would find
hundreds of people who made mistakes and became crime victims but I am
not that obsessed. Why are you?



But Greg, you have to understand that this thread is not 'Policital".

This is 'Policital"
http://students.case.edu/handbook/po...political.html

Greg is just toying with a brain damaged individual. Personally,I think
he's being cruel to the poor oaf.

On 6/18/13 6:44 AM, Tim wrote:
On Jun 17, 10:37 pm, wrote:

I don't suppose he knew he was going to get robbed.
Horrible situational awareness but that is not just a Florida trait.
I am sure if I trolled the Seattle police reports I would find
hundreds of people who made mistakes and became crime victims but I am
not that obsessed. Why are you?



But Greg, you have to understand that this thread is not 'Policital".

This is 'Policital"
http://students.case.edu/handbook/po...political.html



Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents and I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and the
swamps of Louisiana.

My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man comes out
and says "take me to your leader."

These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation. But I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the campus of
the University of Chicago.

On 6/18/2013 7:01 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 6/18/13 6:44 AM, Tim wrote:
On Jun 17, 10:37 pm, wrote:

I don't suppose he knew he was going to get robbed.
Horrible situational awareness but that is not just a Florida trait.
I am sure if I trolled the Seattle police reports I would find
hundreds of people who made mistakes and became crime victims but I am
not that obsessed. Why are you?



But Greg, you have to understand that this thread is not 'Policital".

This is 'Policital"
http://students.case.edu/handbook/po...political.html



Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents and I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and the
swamps of Louisiana.

My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man comes out
and says "take me to your leader."

These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation. But I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the campus of
the University of Chicago.



It's been reported that un-documented aliens are occupying the White House.

What is "referencing the Florida trait"? I couldn't find any reference
to it. Prolly just one of those illusions flitting about that fat hat
rack of yours.

On 6/18/13 12:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:01:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents and I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and the
swamps of Louisiana.

My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man comes out
and says "take me to your leader."

These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation. But I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the campus of
the University of Chicago.


Most Florida residents came from one of those northern states you hold
in such high regard.
I certainly see a lot of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut people here. (mostly on the east coast) On the west coast
we mostly get mid westerners.
That is basically a I-95 vs I-75 thing


That doesn't mean the relocated Yankees are the ones reporting the
sightings! My mom moved to the east coast of Florida after my dad
died. I don't recall her ever telling me she saw an alien or a flying
saucer in her retirement neighborhood.

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On 6/18/13 12:07 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:01:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents and I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and the
swamps of Louisiana.

My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man comes out
and says "take me to your leader."

These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation. But I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the campus of
the University of Chicago.


Most Florida residents came from one of those northern states you hold
in such high regard.
I certainly see a lot of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut people here. (mostly on the east coast) On the west coast
we mostly get mid westerners.
That is basically a I-95 vs I-75 thing


That doesn't mean the relocated Yankees are the ones reporting the
sightings! My mom moved to the east coast of Florida after my dad
died. I don't recall her ever telling me she saw an alien or a flying
saucer in her retirement neighborhood.

Guess you've never heard of Arizona, eh?

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:56:28 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:11:32 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



That doesn't mean the relocated Yankees are the ones reporting the
sightings! My mom moved to the east coast of Florida after my dad
died. I don't recall her ever telling me she saw an alien or a flying
saucer in her retirement neighborhood.

There is a pretty active UFO group in the north east too.

I am not a "alien encounter" believer but if you stare at the sky very
long you will see something you can't identify.

I think there are more sightings and reports in rural areas, simply
because there are more military operations there and the people are
not as well informed.
Military aircraft in the crowded airspaces around metropolitan areas
act in a very orderly manner.
When you get out in the boonies, they do strange stuff.
Back when RSW first opened (the Ft Myers airport) they only had a few
dozen flights a day and there might be an hour or more without a plane
in the pattern.
We could get a free air show from the military pilots who used the
runway for practice "touch and goes" and other tricks.
They also did low passes at high speed over the beach areas. Sonic
booms were regular occurrences as they cranked it up to get back to
Pensacola, Eglin or Tyndall by dinner time.
Now that the RSW pattern is full most of the day, we don't see them
much anymore.

My dad was stationed at MacDill AFB in Tampa for two years when I was a kid. I later worked for two
years at Cape Canaveral. Even later, I got by BS at the University of Tampa. I've known a lot of
Floridians - home grown and imports. Even married one whose parents and grand-parents did their
growing up on Merritt Island. That is some heavy cracker country over there.

I don't know where jps and Harry get there ideas about Floridians. I'd much rather be around a bunch
of them then most of the Seattleites I've met. There are a great many folks in southern Maryland
still fighting the Civil War - as Confederates.

John H.
--

Hope you're having a great day!

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On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:11:32 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



That doesn't mean the relocated Yankees are the ones reporting the
sightings! My mom moved to the east coast of Florida after my dad
died. I don't recall her ever telling me she saw an alien or a flying
saucer in her retirement neighborhood.

There is a pretty active UFO group in the north east too.

I am not a "alien encounter" believer but if you stare at the sky very
long you will see something you can't identify.

I think there are more sightings and reports in rural areas, simply
because there are more military operations there and the people are
not as well informed.
Military aircraft in the crowded airspaces around metropolitan areas
act in a very orderly manner.
When you get out in the boonies, they do strange stuff.
Back when RSW first opened (the Ft Myers airport) they only had a few
dozen flights a day and there might be an hour or more without a plane
in the pattern.
We could get a free air show from the military pilots who used the
runway for practice "touch and goes" and other tricks.
They also did low passes at high speed over the beach areas. Sonic
booms were regular occurrences as they cranked it up to get back to
Pensacola, Eglin or Tyndall by dinner time.
Now that the RSW pattern is full most of the day, we don't see them
much anymore.


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Major metro areas in the Northeast could not see a UFO at night as they can
not see the stars either. Lots of light pollution.

On 6/18/2013 10:53 PM, Califbill wrote:
wrote in message ...

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:11:32 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



That doesn't mean the relocated Yankees are the ones reporting the
sightings! My mom moved to the east coast of Florida after my dad
died. I don't recall her ever telling me she saw an alien or a flying
saucer in her retirement neighborhood.

There is a pretty active UFO group in the north east too.

I am not a "alien encounter" believer but if you stare at the sky very
long you will see something you can't identify.

I think there are more sightings and reports in rural areas, simply
because there are more military operations there and the people are
not as well informed.
Military aircraft in the crowded airspaces around metropolitan areas
act in a very orderly manner.
When you get out in the boonies, they do strange stuff.
Back when RSW first opened (the Ft Myers airport) they only had a few
dozen flights a day and there might be an hour or more without a plane
in the pattern.
We could get a free air show from the military pilots who used the
runway for practice "touch and goes" and other tricks.
They also did low passes at high speed over the beach areas. Sonic
booms were regular occurrences as they cranked it up to get back to
Pensacola, Eglin or Tyndall by dinner time.
Now that the RSW pattern is full most of the day, we don't see them
much anymore.


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Major metro areas in the Northeast could not see a UFO at night as they
can not see the stars either. Lots of light pollution.


My dad was working with a group of guys about a half dozen I think back
in the early 60's when they had an "encounter". The first folks on the
scene were US Navy, they kept the group over night and really threatened
them if they ever said anything.. It was in a very industrial area of
East Hartford CT, just about two miles outside of the City, near Pratt
and Whitney Aircraft, but this encounter was at a rail dock a couple
miles from there. Active "saucer", 50 feet above the ground. I remember
the night (or day, it was night shift) he came home but he never really
said too much about it.