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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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 Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: News of the weird from home: Dispatches from Miami |
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These are the top headlines in today's online Miami Herald:
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Gator that killed woman believed to be captured
The alligator that killed a woman near a canal in Sunrise has been captured, investigators believe. ''We captured a gator that had two arms in its belly,'' said Dani Moschella, spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. ``We believe that this is the alligator involved in the attack.''
Bouncer killed outside Miami Beach club - 5/13/2006 05:00 PM EDT
(stabbed to death while trying to stop a fight)
Miami woman charged with killing her infant daughter - 5/13/2006 04:04 PM EDT (and seriously injuring her other daughter- happy mother's day!)
Woman dies when SUV rolls over on I-95 in Pompano - 5/13/2006 03:28 PM EDT (not wearing a seatbelt)
50 marijuana plants dumped on U.S. 27 near I-75 - 5/13/2006 02:56 PM EDT
Gator that killed woman believed to be captured - 5/13/2006 12:43 PM EDT
Miramar police shoot armed suspect - 5/13/2006 12:41 PM EDT |
Just another day in paradise, as we like to say there. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Hey, my home is at just about the end of that photo. Nice shot of the Eden Rock and the Fountainbleu. I'll be there in about 6 weeks- in time for hurricane season.   |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| desultude wrote: |
| Just another day in paradise, as we like to say there. |
Do you really believe that these clippings represent everyday life in Miami? |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| desultude wrote: |
| Just another day in paradise, as we like to say there. |
Do you really believe that these clippings represent everyday life in Miami? |
Well they are all from one days worth of news, so... |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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Gator eats man smoking a blunt, gets the munchies, snacks on french poodles.
Now that's a headline Carl Hiaasen could get behind. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: |
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Having lived a good number of years in Miami I can attest to the fact that it's a dangerous place (they didn't name that punk rock group "Dead German Tourists" for nothing...) There was an extended period where you could witness crack deals being conducted right out in the open around downtown overpasses. They don't dare print what all goes down in "Liberty City" ... (And there were even some gory decapitations in the Coconut Grove ghetto during the last major race riots back in the good ol' '70s ...)
Of course, by now they've probably stuffed the Miami-Dade County stockades to maximum capacity... I'm admittedly going back a ways, but I think that I used to see more truly dangerous people on an average day in Miami than I've seen in four years around Korea. (And along with the increasingly aggressive gators there's the strip of coast from Miami to Daytona that's the "shark bite capital of the world"...) Then there are the killer hurricanes, trailer-park tornados, nasty sink holes - and Jeb Bush... |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| Miami has been a crime-infested hole for decades. Demographics has a lot to do with that. |
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KittyLover
Joined: 20 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| What exactly to you mean by 'demographics'? (Yes, I know what it means, but are you refering to the large number of immigrants?)[/quote] |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| desultude wrote: |
| Just another day in paradise, as we like to say there. |
Do you really believe that these clippings represent everyday life in Miami? |
That's just what made the headlines. Trust me, Miami is one kick-ass weird place.
I had a workshop I lived in for a while in Little Haiti. There was a "church" next door, on the sign it seemed like a little Christian fundy place. They would start "worship" at about 10 PM with a little "Just a Closer walk with" Thee sort of stuff, but by 2 AM it was other-worldly drums and dancing. I got quite used to sleeping to Voo Doo rhythms.
A week or so ago the headline news was about three construction workers who fell from a roof into three feet of fast drying cement and died, from being interred in cement. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Miami has been a crime-infested hole for decades. Demographics has a lot to do with that. |
Yeah, demographics such as the ratio of gators to people? 
That place was weird when I grew up there in a lily white working class segregated suburb. Everyone knew the neighbor kid, shot in the left temple though he was right handed, did not commit suicide but was killed by his white trash parents.
The local gentry would load up their trucks with weapons and patrol the streets in case anyone tried to "intergrate" the neighborhood.
Gators and snakes were a regular feature of our backyard during storm season, and we kept a little raft in case of floods. My ex-boyfriend, a gator wrestler, would come and get any wild critter what got loose.
That's not to mention Al Capone and friends.
Give me a break, there isn't a minority in every pile of problems, especially in the south. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
Gator eats man smoking a blunt, gets the munchies, snacks on french poodles.
Now that's a headline Carl Hiaasen could get behind. |
Asa! He's the man!
And he doesn't have to make up his stories, he just has to weave them together well! |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: |
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I doubt if its even all that relevant.. but I did a 'crime rate comparison' with Miami and Tampa.. they aren't all that different..
http://miamifl.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Miami&s1=FL&c2=Tampa&s2=FL
Only murder and robbery are higher.. but if you compare murder for Miami with New Orleans, Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, etc.. Miami is lower than those cities and who knows where else.
This could be made into a game.. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
I doubt if its even all that relevant.. but I did a 'crime rate comparison' with Miami and Tampa.. they aren't all that different..
http://miamifl.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Miami&s1=FL&c2=Tampa&s2=FL
Only murder and robbery are higher.. but if you compare murder for Miami with New Orleans, Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, etc.. Miami is lower than those cities and who knows where else.
This could be made into a game.. |
Yeah, Miami used to top the list in murders, but things are better, crime-wise, these days. Unemployment is at 2.5%! That dampens crime a lot.
I'm just saying it is eerily weird and sh!t happens there all of the time. I was once standing at the window of a condo on the beach that I managed, and a tornado swept through and tore off a side of the building- balconies and all- this was a 1937 concrete building.
And, you know what? I do miss it. Miami to Daegu? The things we do in life! |
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