Allen West Says Tax on Tanning Salons Is Racist

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via Way2Tan.com
Victims of racism.
Congressman Allen West deserves some credit for holding an event at West Palm Beach's Century Village senior community Wednesday -- there aren't many indications he has too much support there, which was emphasized when the 1,200-seat auditorium had about 75 people in it, according to the Palm Beach Post.

But in addition to his usual talking points, the Post reports West also rehashed a complaint made on messageboards and comments sections more than two years ago:

"You want to talk about something that's really racist? They have a tanning tax," said West, who is African American. "I'm not tanning."
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Mark Oxner Releases New Ad; Alan Grayson Calls It "a Heaping Helping of Bonkers"; It Is

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Hint: It doesn't mean anything.
Last time we saw Florida Republican congressional candidate Mark Oxner, he was on the U.S.S. Obamaboat turning Democratic opponent Alan Grayson into a parrot and Barack Obama into the captain of a slave ship. He promised to make more ads, and he delivered, this time with one that he claims will be airing on Spanish-language channels.

Oxner, running in Florida's District 9, has seized upon a statement Grayson once made that he was proud that Democracy for America named him a "progressive hero." If you ask the dictionary what "progressive" means, it'll tell you "making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities." If you ask Teddy Roosevelt, it's people "who, with fervor and broad sympathy and imagination, stand for the forward movement."

If you ask Oxner, he'll tell you something like, "You know who was a progressive? Hitler."
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PBSO Would Really Like to Catch the Guy Robbing Burger Kings in a Barack Obama Mask

Categories: Crime, WTF
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PBSO
DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
Somewhere in Palm Beach County, there is a man with red gloves, a Barack Obama mask, a silver handgun, and a pile of money that smells like French fries.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office sent out another news release yesterday about the string of four fast-food robberies that started in December. The most recent was last Tuesday, when a man got away with about $400 he'd stolen from a Lake Park Burger King.
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Jonatha Carr, FAU Student Who Threatened to Kill Teacher, Got Tasered Three Times, Hit a Cop, and Said Really Racist Stuff, Police Say

Categories: Crime, WTF
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Update, 3/30: Carr's family has commented about her history of mental illness. 

The Pulp just got hold of the police report in the case of Jonatha Carr, a 24-year-old Florida Atlantic University student who inexplicably started screaming during a biology class Tuesday. Her tirade, in which she threatened to kill the teacher and hit another man in the forehead, was captured on video. In it, you can see her stomping around the classroom yelling things like "I will kill the fuck out of you" before she's eventually carted out of the room.

After that, according to the report, it got way, way worse.
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UPDATED: FAU Student Threatens to Kill Teacher in Class; Students Respond by Filming the Whole Thing (VIDEO)

Categories: Education, WTF
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UPDATE, 3/30: Carr's family has commented about her history of mental illness.

UPDATE, 3/22, 4:50 p.m.: We got the police report in this case, and it's a doozy.

UPDATE, 12:11 p.m.: The student has been identified as Jonatha Carr. The University Press, FAU's student paper, has the full story.

Original post:

​An unnamed Florida Atlantic University student was forcibly removed from class yesterday after screaming, among other things, "I will kill the fuck out of you" in a biology class.

Sitting in the front row of the classroom, she screams at a person who appears to be the teacher, "I hate this shit" and then "You better shut the fuck up before I fucking kill you." The class, rather than running away or moving to protect the teacher or anything, responds by going "oooooohhhhh" like a bunch of second-graders who just heard Suzie call Billy a fart-smeller. In one video, several students are filming on cell-phone cameras.
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Oneal Morris, Miami's Alleged Fix-a-Flat Butt Enhancement "Nurse," Arrested on Broward Charges

Categories: Crime, WTF
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via Miami New Times
Oneal Morris
Oneal Morris was arrested in Miami last November on charges that she gave back-room plastic surgery to several people using mixtures of super glue, cement, mineral oil, and Fix-a-Flat tire fluid. She told Entertainment Tonight that "I really am innocent or whatever," and Miami court records indicate she had a hearing on those charges scheduled for April 5.

But police say she's been doing the same butt-enhancement surgeries here in Broward, and a ridiculously worded
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Riviera Beach Strip Club Advertising to Hire High Schoolers

Categories: WTF
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Attention, high schoolers: Your days of toiling away for minimum wage are over. Emperors Gentlemen's Club (& Steak House) is looking to give you a much higher-paying gig. So throw away that ice cream scooper and pick up some clear, platform heels, because a strip club wants you.

The Riviera Beach strip club on Resource Road (former site of Goldfinger's, which closed after a drive-by) has a recruiting sign out front -- "NOW HIRING CLASS OF 2012."
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Fort Lauderdale Guy in Plaid Shorts Accused of Beating Man He Thought Was Australian

Categories: Crime, WTF
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"Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? / You better run, you better take cover..."
​Fort Lauderdale Police are looking for a suspect in connection with a beating that happened at an Andrews Avenue gas station last month.

Police say the charming, American-Eagle-bedecked gentleman at right was standing in line at the Shell Station at 1144 S. Andrews Ave. on February 19 when he spontaneously turned around and told another man to "back up six inches." The victim, 50-year-old Michael Stocker, says the agitated man then called him a "limey fuck." When asked for clarification, Mr. Plaid Shorts clarified that he suspected Stocker was Australian.
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More Weird Details Emerge in Deerfield Park RV Park Murder-Suicide

Categories: Crime, WTF
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Broward Sheriff's Office
William De Jesus
There weren't many details available Friday about the Deerfield Park RV-park standoff that left three dead and two critically injured, but as police discover more, the story gets stranger and stranger.

The incident appears to have started Thursday evening, when 41-year-old Volusia County man William De Jesus drove his wife and two young sons to the Highland Woods RV Park. He drove straight to a specific motor home; when the 76-year-old Canadian man living there came outside, De Jesus started yelling, and after the man shoved him away, De Jesus pulled out a revolver and shot him in the chest. When the man fell to the ground, De Jesus walked up and shot him again, in the head.

He then pushed his family into the Canadian man's motor home, where they discovered the man's 70-something girlfriend.
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"Bizarre" Nightlong Standoff Ends With Three Dead, Two Critically Injured

Categories: Crime, WTF
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Details are slowly emerging about a Deerfield Park hostage situation in which a man killed another person in an R.V. park, then took his own family hostage and killed himself and his 9-year-old son.

Someone reported a shooting to police at 6:20 p.m. Thursday, and by the time deputies arrived, a man was lying on the ground not moving. Inside a nearby R.V., the suspect "said he was holding a woman hostage and that he would kill her if they approached," according to
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