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You, as an astute reader of this blog and rabid follower of its subsequent podcasts, know that Florida is where the human genome goes to die. It’s become the standing joke in this country and even funnier than the whole Texas secession plan. At some point it feels as though we’re piling on but there are some truths that we hold to be self evident and the fact that Florida is populated by very stupid people is one of them. For example, the nice man who blames the prison system for causing him to commit bigamy. Basically he claims he was too drugged for his many problems to remember he had a wife. No word on if his wife remembered that she had a husband. In fact, there’s no comment from the first wife at all since she’s invisible. Or, at least, hiding from this strange situation. One of our earlier heroes who mooned people for reasons that have never been disclosed bow has been arrested for flashing her breasts at people for reasons that defy description. Believe it or not, they did not let her shop in the local grocery with her boobs flopping in the breeze. I know, you’re as shocked as I am.

On the plus side, it turns out that Florida cops spend a lot of time on Facebook, and I’m talking epic amounts, to find a 17 year old boy who was going to bomb his school. On the plus side, nobody died.

Of course no article about Florida would be complete without a minister accused of sexual abuse being set free and given his job back.The problem is that the kids didn’t press charges in time. Because, as readers of this blog know so well, 8 year olds are so well versed in the legal system and happy to talk about being abused.

It may seem like piling on to mention to note that a convicted child molester was given access to a beach full of children and bad things happened.

Well, c’mon, who could’ve predicted that?

But, as the title for today’s blog implies, not all morons are from Florida.

In Virginia a nice group of people robbed a convenience store of lottery tickets, with the numbers registered, adn then tried to cash them in when they won.

No, I am not making this up. They were really that stupid.

A Virginia man and his alleged getaway driver were arrested Tuesday night after police say they participated in two armed robberies.

According to police, at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, 24-year-old Darien Pittman of Windsor robbed the J.B. Foodmart on Walters Highway in Carrsville. Pittman allegedly left the store with cash.

A few hours later, at 2 a.m. Friday, police say Pittman also robbed a 7-Eleven in Wakefield. The suspect got away with money, cigarettes and lottery tickets.

Diamond Tynes, 19, of Smithfield is accused of being the driver of the car used to flee the scene of both crimes.

“According to her, he didn’t tell her what he was doing,” Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s Deputy Detective J.P. Hopko told The Tidewater News. “But she saw him with a mask, gun and the lottery tickets.”

A sheriff’s office spokesperson said Pittman then tried to cash some of the lottery tickets in at a store in Windsor.
It’s not known how much the prizes were worth.

But, I would be a bad blogger if I didn’t finish this festival of feeble-mindedness with this gem from Florida. Did you know that babysitters shouldn’t toss your little darlings into the back of a pick up truck and go cruising?

A Volusia County baby sitter has been charged with child neglect after being accused of allowing an infant to ride in a baby stroller in the bed of a pickup truck.

Several people called 911 after seeing the baby in the rear of the truck.

Investigators with the Daytona Beach Police Department said Keyona Davis, 23, was baby-sitting for a friend and put the baby in the stroller in the bed of the pickup truck with her while someone else drove them.

Davis faced a judge Thursday and didn’t seem to understand that what she did was wrong. Terrance McClain, 8 months, was inside the stroller late Wednesday afternoon.

Stunned motorists called 911.

911 operator: What is the emergency?
Caller: There’s a truck going down Mason Avenue heading east with a baby stroller in the back of the truck with a baby in it.

911 operator: Where’s your emergency?
Caller: There’s a baby back in a pickup truck while it’s driving on Nova Road southbound.

One motorist stayed with the pickup as it headed south on Nova Road for several miles, finally turning onto Orange Avenue, where police picked the truck up.

“I got my first child when I was 16,” Davis said during a court appearance.

Davis explained to the court she has been baby-sitting without incident since she was a teenager and didn’t realize police would consider this endangering a child.

“It’s not like they give you a handbook or anything on how — what’s neglect and what’s not neglect,” Davis said.

The public defender argued that a charge of felony neglect was too harsh, saying the baby wasn’t harmed, but the prosecution and judge saw the incident as very disturbing.

The charge stood, but Davis was released on her own recognizance and ordered to stay away from the child involved in the incident.

Actually Skippy, there is a handbook and it’s printed in English.

So there you have it. The majority of morons live in Florida, but not all of them. As my grandpappy used to say, there is one person out of four who’s a moron. If you’re sitting at at table with three other people and can’t find it, leave. You’re it.

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We’ve had a couple of downer posts lately so I thought I’d provide a chuckle for the masses. Well, okay, the Space Beer one was kind of fun, but it has seemed that things have been a little down around here. Which, believe it or not, isn’t true. Things have actually been kind of fun here in the land of Hippo. The ladies in the office have joined a continuing education class that really seems to have perked up office morale. The guys in the office have come up with communal activities that have really helped us bond and be more sensitive to the needs of others. Our lord and master has loosened our chains enough that we can now use the bathroom. Of course the ruckus caused by the cleaning crew might have had something to do with that.

One never really knows.

Nevertheless, today seems like a good day for some schadenfreude. And where is misery the most fun? Florida.

Let’s start with how Florida bank robbers differ from thinking humans. WPBF-TV tells the hysterical story of the guy who robbed a bank and used a taxi as his getaway vehicle.

The FBI has arrested a man accused of putting on a suit and tie, robbing a South Florida bank and then leaving in a taxi.

Jeffrey Harrington, 27, of North Miami, is accused of robbing the Bank of America branch in Hallandale Beach on Tuesday morning. He was arrested Wednesday.

According to the FBI, Harrington handed the teller a note demanding the teller fill envelopes with money and warning the teller not to set off the alarm because it would trigger an explosive device.

The note also read: “Remember the money is insured. Don’t be a hero.”

Authorities said Harrington left the bank and got into a parked taxicab that had picked him up from his home earlier that morning.

After the robbery, the taxi dropped Harrington off at the barbershop where he works, authorities said.
A co-worker told the FBI he saw Harrington at the barbershop putting a large amount of money in his pocket.

“No, really, officers, I get great tips doing fades and weaves.”

Yeah, they didn’t buy it either.

Of course at least he didn’t involve his mom, which is a common theme in Florida. John P. Wise tells the fun story of the guy who texted his mom to dump his meth.

A Florida man texted his mother asking her to hide his drug evidence, police in Bay County said.

Anthony Paul Burdeshaw, 33, is being held on drug charges in Bayou George.

Investigators said they were talking to Burdeshaw’s mother about an abandoned barn next to the family’s home that contained methamphetamine-manufacturing chemicals when she received a text from her son. According to a story in TheNewsHerald.com, the message read: “Hey Mom can u go to my bedroom and get the glass bowl under the bed and wash it with water really good and don’t give the cops permission to search.”

The mother eventually brought out to police a glass bowl that tested positive for meth.

Actually, for a meth head, he has excellent spelling and grammar skills.

On the other hand, Floridians do make it easy for criminals to commit crimes. In Boynton Beach you can use any credit card you happen to find without being asked to show any ID. Store owners are stunned, STUNNED I TELL YOU, that some folks used this oversight to steal thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of stuff.

In comparison, yesterday I got carded when I was buying $30 worth of groceries by a lady who spoke zero English.

So, maybe I should do all my shopping in Florida.

“Mr. Hippo? Your cherry red Ferrari is ready. Just sign here.”

Yeah, I can see it now.

Of course, people in Florida also celebrate life’s defining moments differently. In New Port Richey simple events like going to rehab will involve the police.

A Florida couple was arrested for engaging in a sex act on a scooter in a strip mall parking lot, police said.

Investigators were called Tuesday night to a shopping center in New Port Richey after a family witnessed the sex act, according to a report on TampaBay.com.

Dawn Strait and Franklin Rowland were charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, TampaBay.com reported.
Strait, 49, told the arresting officer that she performed the act because she was sad that Franklin was going to detox soon, according to the report.

Now I know why our fellow Hippo, Scott, bought a scooter.

How does that work?

“Honey, I’m going to be gone for a couple of days, so let’s take the scooter to the most public place possible so you can ….”

I never said they were smart.

Of course, they do seem to have a training program for young criminals in Florida, so maybe this topic can be brought up. On the other hand, North Miami Beach cops recently arrested an 11 year old kid for his second major robbery. So that course can’t be very thorough.

“But, Uncle Big Bad,” you whine, “there must be some good people in Florida.”

Well, yes and no. As Angela Rozier reports, there’s a South Florida woman trying to raise awareness for recovering addicts by walking all the way to Washington D.C. Which is a good thing because, you see, if she was trying to raise cash, she’d be doomed. No one has donated a dime to her cause.

Not a pair of shoes, not a sandwich, nothing.

Of course, the reason for that is obvious. Florida’s state motto is “Rehab’s for Quitters!”

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I like finding the obvious. It makes my job easier. I can concentrate on feeding my fish and my cats, though not to each other, and perusing the latest sports scores before I type one letter here at Nude Hippo.

Today I’ve discovered that there’s something in the water in Florida, and I’m not just talking about the brackish waters in swamps. I’m serious. These people must be infected by some sort of stupidity virus. Sure, there are stupid people everywhere. I bet you’ve even run into a few at work or at Little League games. But they are the exception, not the rule. In Florida, the family values state where homosexuality is on its way to being illegal while bestiality is still legal (well, that explains Orlando’s mouse fetish), it seems this is the home of the incredibly dense. How bad is it? When you look up the word “obtuse” in your dictionary, there’s nothing but a map of Florida.

Nuff said.

For example, on the family values front, Brian Hamacher tells the heartwarming tale of a nice young lady who tried to buy her 80 year old dad a hooker for Easter.

Because nothing signifies rising from the dead like … oh, never mind.

A woman in Tampa may have figured she’d found a better Easter gift for her elderly father than a basket of candy: a tryst with a prostitute.

Pia Kirchberg, 51, and father Maurice Kirchberg, 80, were both arrested over the holiday weekend after the daughter allegedly tried to buy dear old dad a hooker, according to abcactionnews.com.

Cops were conducting a sting in an area of Tampa known for prostitution when the younger Kirchberg went looking for a pretty woman.

But police say the father-daughter pair, whose hometown is Dubuque, Iowa, wasn’t looking to spend big. Pia Kirchberg allegedly offered an undercover officer just $20 to have sex with her father, according to the report.

Both were charged with soliciting prostitution and released on $250 bond. They were two of eight people busted in the sting.

“Prostitution is illegal. It doesn’t matter how old you are,” police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. “If we catch you trying to solicit a prostitute, you’re going to jail.”

You go there Mrs. Barney Fife.

Actually, I’m kind of split on this one. If, at 80, your pappy wants a little carnal carnival for the day, it sure beats giving him flowers or candy. But, c’mon, call an escort service and get a real pro. It’s your dad for cry-yi.

Not that I’d know the difference or anything.

Nevertheless, do you need a reason to party? Todd Wright says the best reason in Florida is being the first person ever to be bitten by an American crocodile.

No, I can’t make this stuff up and nor do I have to.

A Florida Keys couple is poised to make the history books, although today they are simply celebrating the fact that they are alive.

Mike Gregory and Leigha Poulson may soon hold the dubious distinction of being the first people in the state to ever be attacked by the elusive American crocodile.

“I think it’s cool. Kind of made history a little bit,” Gregory said. “We’re lucky to be alive.”

While state officials are trying to confirm the alleged attack, which happened Thursday morning in the Upper Keys, the couple says they have the bite and scratch marks to prove it.

Gregory, 23, and 20-year-old Poulson were kayaking at around 3:30 a.m. after a night of partying when they’re vessel was flipped, they said.

As they scrambled to get back to the kayak, each was bitten on the leg. Poulson also suffered scratch marks on her side.
“I was saying how pretty it was out there and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else because I am from Ohio and then the boat just flipped,” said Poulson, who moved to the Keys to study marine biology at Florida Keys Community College. “I was screaming ‘Oh my God!'”

Pictures of the attack were sent to the “Croc Doc,” Frank Mazzotti, a biologist at the University of Florida Research and Education Center in Davie. He said no other animal could have caused such damage.

“That area is almost all crocodiles. On very rare occasions an alligator may stray into there,” Mazzotti said. “Nine out of 10 times it would be a croc in that area. It’s possible that it may have been an alligator, but that’s going out on a limb to say that.”

Crocodiles usually roam in the brackish, salt water in the Keys, while alligators set up territory further inland in the fresh water.

Poulson and Gregory thought they might have stumbled on another marine animal that night.

“We thought we might have hit a manatee and gotten bruised up,” Gregory told the Florida Keynoter.

“We made it back to the house and we got into the light,” he said. “We looked at each other and we’re bleeding like crazy.”

American crocodiles were once on the verge of extinction and are still classified as a threatened species.

Unlike people’s usually view of the croc based off the prehistoric-looking, aggressive saltwater crocodiles of Africa, American crocs are fairly shy and prefer flight over a fight, Mazzotti said.

He said Thursday’s incident wasn’t by a man-eating predator, but a scared reptile who was minding its own business.

“I wouldn’t describe it as an attack. It was an escape attempt by the crocodile,” Mazzotti said. “They are not grabbing you
to eat you. They are giving a warning, ‘Don’t mess with me.'”

Well, I guess it’s nice to know that after all those folks were looking for an American croc, someone was nice enough to find one. But I think a Kodak moment would have sufficed.

Then again, I don’t live in Florida.

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We all love our pets. Some more than others, but usually within limits. After all, our little critters are more akin to children than anything else. We care for them, nurture them, train them and promise to care for them.

Those are all good things.

Yet, we also know that laws are written for a reason. Well, most of them. For example, it’s illegal to have sex with someone in the pre-natal delivery room in the hospital. Why? Because some idiot and their significant other decided that the best use for that semi-private room, after the water broke, was to entertain the staff and random passersby.

Some people just have to ruin it for the rest of us.

Nevertheless, not even when I wrote how weird Florida is did I realize how much I had woefully underestimated the, voting eligible, citizens of the Sunshine State. Ben Muessig tells us that the same state which is demanding Americans defend the sanctity of marriage is also the only state where beastiality is legal.

Oh, go ahead and click the link. It’s actually a cute music video you can sing along with your kids just before you spend years explaining it.

It’s the state of butterfly ballots, gator farms and oversized mice.

It’s the retirement hub discovered by a Spaniard rumored to have lost his life hunting for the legendary Fountain of Youth.

It’s the only place in America where the farther north you go, the farther south you get.

Florida is undeniably a quirky place. But among many journalists and news junkies, the Sunshine State has developed a reputation for being the state that generates the most weird news and the weirdest weird news.

How did a state once famous for its oranges and seniors turn into a hub for all things strange?

According to Florida resident and weird news legend Chuck Shepherd, Florida emerged as a weird news capital a little more than a decade ago.

Shepherd — credited with inventing weird news reporting in his widely syndicated “News of the Weird” column — said he knew Florida had come into its own in the late 1990s, when the San Francisco alternative newspaper SF Weekly featured a story on men who surgically remove their sexual organs; two of the paper’s three sources were Floridians.

Sylvia Mythen, AP
Welcome to Florida — the weirdest state in the nation. This odd photograph, taken Jan. 5 in Venice, shows an alligator that was somehow covered in orange paint or an orange substance, according to state wildlife officials. No, alligators can’t turn orange naturally. And yes, this is the kind of story journalists have come to expect from the Sunshine State.

“When a San Fran writer on sexual aberrations has to buy a ticket to the ‘F’ state to fill out his story, we have a winner,” he told AOL News.

Florida historian Gary Mormino agrees that the Sunshine State overtook California as “the new capital of weirdness” in the 1990s or 2000s.

“The rationale used to be that America tilted toward the west and all the nuts rolled to California,” said Mormino, a history professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. “Now, perhaps, there’s been a tectonic shift and America tilts toward the southeast.”

For many Americans, that shift first became noticeable in 2000, when Florida bizarrely hurled itself onto the national stage in the aftermath of the contested presidential election.

In the years since, analysis of Associated Press stories has identified Florida as the nation’s strangest state, while popular websites like Gawker.com have turned the Sunshine State into a punchline.

Readers of Fark.com categorize news stories with descriptive tags, including “asinine,” “obvious,” “weird” and “interesting.” The only state honored with its own tag is Florida, a keyword on the site since 2001.

“Newest Florida bumper sticker: My honor student pistol-whipped me,” read one snarky headline assigned a Florida tag last month.

“Fark put it up, thinking it would be a temporary thing, but we quickly discovered that there were more than enough strange things happening in Florida to warrant the tag,” said Tony Deconinck, a Fark admin and AOL Weird News contributor. “Other states have odd stories come out of them, but no state can challenge Florida. It’s the heavyweight champion of weirdness.”

Here at AOL Weird News, journalists have written more weird news stories about Florida than any other state — and with pieces about a mom accused of driving her son’s getaway car, an orthodontist who repairs turtle shells, bags of stolen dildos, and a bikini brawl at a Burger King — it’s safe to say we’re doing it for good reason.

Though Florida only recently achieved recognition for producing so much weird news, the state has an odd history dating back centuries.

From Spanish colonization through American statehood, Florida played host to a variety of eccentric characters and strange happenings, like the “wreckers” who turned Key West into one of the continent’s wealthiest communities by legally plundering sinking ships and auctioning their cargo.

But according to Mormino, the Florida we know today — a “fast-paced and over-the-top” place that is, in many ways, the least southern state in the South — only emerged in the 1920s.

“You had the wealthy building homes in Miami Beach,” Mormino said. “There were the ‘Tin Can Tourists’ — the respectable middle class and the working poor — coming to Florida for the first time in automobiles. That was the beginning of the alligator farms, ostrich farms; the start of the crazy tourist destinations.”

That’s also when a speculative real estate bubble inflated and burst, setting the bar, in many ways, for a culture of lax regulation that continues in Florida even today.

With a history of lenient divorce laws, it’s no surprise that Panama City, among other Florida communities, tops national charts as a divorce capital.

Meanwhile, Florida’s “homestead exemption” has long protected private property from creditors, making Florida a place where the bankrupt and highly indebted — including celebs like O.J. Simpson — have shielded their assets.

Florida has even advertised its bizarre legal loopholes with the iconic 1980s tourism slogan “Florida: The Rules Are Different Here.”

Indeed they are. (This is the state where lawmakers are still struggling to pass a bill that would make bestiality illegal.)

Thankfully for readers of weird news, the rules are also different when it comes to public records laws.

Will Greenlee, the reporter who maintains the Treasure Coast Newspapers’ “Off The Beat” blog, said it’s unclear whether Florida actually generates more weird news than other states — or if more weird news stories just happen to find their way into Florida newspapers.

“You may be hearing about it more (than in other states) because the open records laws are very liberal in Florida,” Greenlee said. “It’s easier to get access to police reports and things that might not be as accessible in other places.”

And that may be the only liberal thing in the entire state.

But, seriously, are you as amazed as I am that there’s opposition to this law? What the heck is happening down there? Cross dressing alligators? Swamp people needing that anaconda boogie?

Trust me people, you have many wonderful options that do not involve four legs. And if you can’t handle that, there’s still the furry option.

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I don’t really like making fun of crime since the victim often gets forgotten in the insanity. But Florida seems to be bound and determined to make heinous crimes a new comedy show on Fox. They just do things differently down there. In Chicago, or any place else, when someone robs a store, they run in, point a gun or whatever, rob the place and leave. They are usually disguised with the ever popular hoody and gloves. In Florida some guy runs in topless with a rifle, while his mom waits to drive the getaway car, so that everyone can more easily ID him later and so that any video in the store can be used against him conclusively at trial. In the civilized world, if you have a complaint about your burger, you complain to the manager. In Florida, you show up in a bikini and trash the place. I bet your beginning to see the difference. It’s not just that their criminals are different from humanity’s, it’s just that their’s are clearly insane.

Today provides no exceptions to that rule.

WESH.com kicks off our blog today with the touching story of a man who attacked a tattoo parlor with a samurai sword and a guitar.

Police followed a blood trail to find the man they said used a sword and a guitar to attack a tattoo artist and his customer in Orlando.

Officers caught up with Jason Lynn Gay on East Harding Street at the end of a blood trail he left behind after one of the tattoo parlor’s customers smashed a glass tabletop over his head, they said.

“One minute we were sitting here and I was focused on my tattooing; the next we were fighting for our lives. Thank God it ended up the way it did,” said Patrick Walker, the tattoo artist who said he was attacked.

Walker said he never thought the samurai sword he had on display and his beloved guitar would be used against him.

“It was like the Joker on Batman — he said, ‘You guys are gonna die.’ It was kind of like I said, ‘I’m not dying.’ And my buddy said, ‘I’m not dying.’ The next thing you know we just went at it,” Walker said.

Gay is being held in the Orange County Jail on two counts of attempted second-degree murder as well as two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Gay has a criminal history. He was just released from prison in August after a 10-year sentence.

Memo to tattoo parlors; fasten your samurai swords and other paraphernalia securely to help prevent these types of atrocities.

I wonder, after all that, if the customer got a break on the price of his tat? Oh well, I guess we’ll never know.

One thing we do know is that this was just the warm up act. MSNBC is reporting that a naked man with an AK 47 attacked a robot.

A Brevard County man blasted away with an assault rifle at a SWAT robot while wearing nothing but his birthday suit.

The suspect’s dog was the only onlooker as the robot approached the door at the West Melbourne home on Del Mar Circle.

Authorities said a man with several guns was suicidal and threatening authorities.

“He said he’d shoot anyone he could,” said Lt. Bruce Barnett with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.

Instead of risking any lives, deputies sent the $65,000 robot into the home. The robot has cameras, which record all of its actions.

The video shows the robot searching each room, its electronic eye roving from side to side while officers watch safely from a command post.

As the robot slowly pushes the man’s bedroom door open, the man comes out, stark naked, with an AK-47 in hand. The man then starts shooting at the robot.

The camera goes out at first, and then comes back on.

The robot came away with bullet holes, frayed wires and broken cables, but no one was hurt.

“It saved a life,” said Barnett.

The man was charged with criminal mischief. The robot will be out of commission for a while. It’s being sent back to its manufacturer for repairs.

“But, Uncle Big Bad,” you whimper uneasily, “you’re just talking about the bottom segment of society. Surely the rest of Florida is sane.”

“Do you mean like activists and politicians?”

“Well, yes,” you say, “they should be a shining example of all that’s right an holy.”

You would be wrong.

Brian Hamacher reports on the activist who got busted for soliciting prostitutes and then tried to bribe the cop.

A former South Florida activist may soon find himself on basic cable after he was busted for prostitution and the whole thing was captured by “Police Women of Broward County” cameras.

Vicente Thrower, 31, was arrested March 31 in Pompano Beach after he allegedly approached two BSO deputies posing as prostitutes in the 1400 block of Northwest 31st Avenue, according to a police report.

Thrower had proposed an oral sex competition and offered the undercovers $50, police said. When the fake hookers met him at his hotel room at the nearby Relax Inn, Thrower was arrested on one count of soliciting another for lewdness.

According to the police report, once Thrower was arrested, he hinted at offering a bribe to one of the officers.

“If you let me go I’ll owe you,” Thrower allegedly told a cop, before bragging that he was going places. “One of those days when you’re a major and you need your budget approved, you’ll have to come to me.”

If the arrest weren’t embarrassing enough, one of the prostitute/cops was Deputy Erika Huerta, one of the stars of the TLC reality cop show.

Investigators are reportedly trying to get the TLC footage, and a spokesperson for Pompano Beach said TLC isn’t allowed to be filming in the city.

“We never signed off on a film permit for “Police Women of Broward County,” spokesperson Sandra King told the Sun-Sentinel.

Thrower, who once worked as a strip club security guard, is already facing a trial on unlawful compensation and bribery charges.

A former member of the Pompano Beach Northwest Community Redevelopment Agency and city’s Parks and Recreation Board, Thrower was arrested in April 2010 on allegations he accepted and didn’t disclose more than $50,000 in consulting fees for supporting business deals involving the city and CRA.

A hearing is set for April 13 to revoke his bond following the prostitution arrest.

You know, and I know, that that footage is going to see the light of day one way or the other. And, besides, it’s clear that picking up hookers and bribing cops are the least of this guy’s problems.

I guess we should all just be grateful that he wasn’t carrying a samurai sword.

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