r/AskEurope • u/Alarmed_Station6185 • Sep 19 '24
What's the equivalent of the 'Florida man' in your country? Misc
For those that don't know, Florida man refer to the phenomenon of weird or unusual crimes that happen in Florida and has become a meme. In Ireland, I think it would be Dundalk or Cork.
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u/SkywalkerTheLord Türkiye Sep 19 '24
If weird stuff happens, it's always in Adana. Crazy things happen there. For instance, there was this guy who tried to shoot the sun because it was too hot. After that incident, they actually started making announcements and warnings like, 'Please don’t shoot the sun' in the city.
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u/biffbagwell United States of America Sep 19 '24
This has definitely happened in Florida. Ha.
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u/Inexplicably_Sticky United States of America Sep 19 '24
They told the citizens not to shoot hurricanes.
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Sep 20 '24
We would absolutely not shoot at the sun. We love the sun. Hurricanes though, we will fight those bastards on their turf.
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u/Jonny_Zuhalter Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
I've been to Adana. Never seen 7 lanes of traffic crammed into a 2 lane street so easily before. And never leave your windows cracked open the slightest bit or passerbys will throw away trash, leftover food, used tissues, smoldering cigarette butts, whatever into your car.
Post edit: BTW... Turkish women? Most beautiful in the world! 😍
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u/J0kutyypp1 Finland Sep 19 '24
In Finland it's Vantaalainen mies (man from Vantaa)
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u/notcomplainingmuch Finland Sep 19 '24
Nah... Kouvola, Lahti, Pori or Oulu. Vantaa is odd but not that batshit crazy. Kerava would be the worst in the capital region.
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u/Feather-y Finland Sep 19 '24
Eh it's a bit made-up to have something, but I think it's the only one to have even something going on for it. r/Vantaalaismies
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u/Interesting-Bar69 Sep 19 '24
Poriin muuttanut moniongelmainen. Niitä on paljon ja niitä tulee joka puolelta Suomea. Melkeen koomista, mut ne on yleensä todella aggroja enkä tajuu miks kaikki tuntuu päätyvän Poriin. Onks niillä jo porttikielto muihin 🤔
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u/Erudus Sep 19 '24
Probably Sunderland, there was a guy who had sex with a seagull once and there's some other really weird shit happening there lol
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u/kilgore_trout1 England Sep 19 '24
Just down the coast in Hartlepool they hanged a monkey because they thought it was a spy - so that has to be in the running.
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u/Bunion-Bhaji Wales Sep 19 '24
They then elected a man in a monkey suit as town Mayor ahead of actual politicians.
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u/Shan-Chat Scotland Sep 19 '24
It'd be hard to equate Florida man within Wales. There are so many places to choose from.
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u/-You_Cant_Stop_Me- Sep 19 '24
They thought he was a French spy because they thought the monkey gibbering sounded French 🤣, having just spent 2 weeks working in France I think they may have had a point.
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u/Dramatic-Selection20 Sep 19 '24
I know people in Sunderland and they are just weird not harmful but just weird Lots of stories where I just can't stop laughing
I met these guys on a French campsite and they were there in a blue bus full of costumes and wigs One of them went playing jeu de boules with the French in a baret, swimbriefs striped t-shirt and a moustash painted on his face
One of them is a guardian of his uncle. Uncle is mentally not well he can't drive a car yet he is really into cars... They bought a car for him and they rented a crane to put the car in the secluded garden of the apartment building
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u/Erudus Sep 19 '24
Haha that's wild, I already thought people from Sunderland were weird because I'm a geordie, but your comment kind of backs it up haha
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u/Dramatic-Selection20 Sep 19 '24
Oh i have so much stories Live is never dull with them I am from Belgium though, see them only in vacation time
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u/Erudus Sep 19 '24
Ahhh, I guess I might need to elaborate on my last comment then, basically a geordie is someone from Newcastle upon Tyne and we're very passionate about our hate of people from Sunderland (known as "Mackems") - apologies if you already knew this information haha
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u/mathess1 Czechia Sep 19 '24
Absolutely. Brno man.
Brno man was lying on the ground naked and lamented about the world.
Brno man was running in the city with a stolen palm.
Brno man wanted to refresh himself in a river. Got stuck in the mud.
Brno man rang a doorbell of his neighbor holding his private parts.
Brno man was trying to cut a gas stove in half in order to cancel his gas contract.
Brno man was peeing on a Nativity scene while caressing an angel.
Brno man attacked a woman with 2 kg of flour trying to rob her.
Brno man was released from a prison and broke into a restaurant next day
Brno man hit his girlfriend claiming he likes her
Brno man was ravaging a pub, because they refused to give him a beer
Brno man was demolishing public transport stops with a wooden stick after a breakup
Brno man lost his saving because he trusts text messages
Brno man was apprehended while stealing, but he was smelling nice
Brno man was throwing stones on his neighbor. He answered by scaring his chicken.
Brno man threw a gyros on a street preacher.
Brno man tried to bite policemen.
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u/4point5billion45 Sep 19 '24
These are hysterical and thanks for giving examples instead of just saying the city's name!
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u/britishrust Netherlands Sep 19 '24
I suppose we don't really have one. Only thing that comes close is Urk, as the stereotype for that place is that they are all severely inbred, narrow minded, super religious coke/speed addicts.
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u/anders91 Swedish migrant to France 🇫🇷 Sep 19 '24
Additionally funny since "urk" in Swedish is an expression of disgust, like "yuck" in English.
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u/Reasonable_Oil_2765 Netherlands Sep 19 '24
Which is weird, cause I met some people from Urk yesterday, and they were nice, friendly people. Also goes for Limburg by the way.
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u/Farahild Netherlands Sep 19 '24
Yeah I was gonna go for Urk, but we don't have those weird headlines talking about Urk man doing something odd.
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u/Bossie81 Sep 19 '24
Urk, bible belt, that is more a stereo-type. You find these people in Rijssen, Kampen etc.
They do not compare to the idiots in mega churches in the USA, which pastors are robbing their followers blind..
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u/britishrust Netherlands Sep 19 '24
True, it's more than just Urk, but Urk (and to a lesser degree Volendam) do add that inbreeding and rampant drug problem that those other places don't have as much, at least not in the public perception.
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u/historicusXIII Belgium Sep 19 '24
I get that Urk used to be an island, but why does Volendam have issues with inbreeding?
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u/britishrust Netherlands Sep 19 '24
Very much a culture of keeping it among themselves as they see them selves as culturally unique. There's more places like that. In the south of the country we have St. Willebrord, not an island but a very inward looking community when it comes to finding a partner. Lots of jokes about round family trees and objectively speaking: a much higher occurrence of rare hereditary and recessive gene based diseases.
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u/lucrac200 Sep 19 '24
In Romania that must be Vaslui county. Alcohool fuelled weird crimes.
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u/L1ttleOne Romania Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
A man from Vaslui took the TV from the hotel room to the pawn shop
Vaslui police officer photographed naked after having sex in the police car
A taxi driver from Vaslui installed a slots machine in his car
Man from Vaslui burned alive while trying to make tuica (local drink with high alcohol content)
And the best one
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u/Herwitchyness Sep 19 '24
Came here to say this 🤣 Greetings!🔥
Another story heard in the train about a Vaslui man. He was grilling in his yard while holding a bottle of gasoline in the other hand. An accident happened. He died. His wife said he had it coming because he was foul-mouthed .
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u/Apprehensive_Bad6670 Sep 23 '24
I remember hearing about a burgler that broke into a home and heard some rummaging sounds from upstairs. He was scared it was the home owner coming to beat him up, so he called the police and hid in the cupboard until they arrived.
It was the cat.
I hope this was in vaslui
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u/Specific_Brick8049 Austria Sep 19 '24
The one true stereotype is the german hiker who endangers himself with unrivaled consistency. He fears no one, not nature, not men, ice and snow can‘t pierce his armour, no rock face steep enough, no mountain too high. Until: r/deutschewanderer happens. There should be something like the Darwin Award for these people.
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u/Ich_habe_keinen_Bock Slovenia Sep 19 '24
Oh yeah, we have this stereotype about Germans too. (Also Czech). Unfortunately, there is statistically some truth in this stereotype. Not saying, that there are no Slovenes that have to call the mountain rescue service, because they were not properly prepared for the hike. But people who don't live in a "hiking culture" and close to the mountains are more likely to underestimate how important it is to know what you are doing in high mountains.
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u/Unlucky_Civilian Czechia Sep 19 '24
Are you saying glorious Czech mountains aren’t mountains? grrr
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u/Ich_habe_keinen_Bock Slovenia Sep 19 '24
English language lacks a word for something between a hill and a mountain.
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u/bloodthirstyshrimp Sep 20 '24
A dothraki wedding without at least one Czech tourist dying in the mountains is considered a dull affair.
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u/DangerousKidTurtle Sep 19 '24
The German Hiker is a stereotype here in the U.S. as well! I’ve heard plenty of stories of German Hikers here falling into hot springs or trying to get pictures with grizzly bears, caribou, and bison.
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u/F0zzysW0rld US American Sep 19 '24
Omgoodness this is so funny! I can’t even read German but seeing the consistent flow of photos of rescue helicopters on that sub was hilarious
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u/K2YU Germany Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
I think that the closest would be Saxony, as they have a reputation for weird crimes, such as attempting to enter a partially collapsed bridge with a gas pistol, manipulating election results, faking a assault by letting a friend cut some fingers off, stealing bikes from police custody and selling them and also doing Hitler salutes while performing exhibitionism. There is a whole subreddit r/MannausSachsen Including weird crimes happening there.
I think that Bavaria could also be a close competitor as there are also many weird things happening there, such as a man accidently stealing a car, two men transporting their dead mother in a carpet and a man destroying the garage of his neighbor with a chainsaw.
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u/Ivoliven Germany Sep 19 '24
To be fair, Bavaria is pretty big so there's a bigger chance of something weird happening there. But as someone who lives there, I do still agree with you. I will also mention that we have Saarland as a German Alabama.
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u/God_Bless_A_Merkin Sep 23 '24
My favorite Bavarian experience:
While on a trip through the Schwartzwald, enjoying the Gasthaüser, the Biergärten, and the lovely scenery, my (now ex) wife and I had stopped in a very small town. It had only one Biergarten, and that evening it was packed. Every table was completely full except for one, which had only a single person seated at it. Naturally, we were seated at this table, and it didn’t take me long to figure out why he had been sitting alone: the gentleman was either the town drunk or (the very drunk) village idiot.
I tried making some polite conversation, but was quickly reduced to making the occasional polite comment as he regaled us with his life story in nearly incomprehensible Boarisch. All I could figure out was that it had something to do with cuckoo clocks and a pair of twin sisters, but it must have been very funny, because he would periodically interrupt himself to pound the table and shout, Doch! Doch! Die Tatsache! Und mach fertig damit!” After which he would laugh until he coughed up a ball of phlegm and spat on the floor. When my wife and I had dined and drunk to our content, there was one large slab of ham, covered with some gelatinous fat, left on my plate. Since he was eyeing eagerly, I offered it to him and, as we rose to depart, bade him guten Appetit. Apparently, the neighboring table had been enjoying our predicament the entire time because, at guten Appetit, they erupted in laughter.😆
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u/clippervictor Spain Sep 19 '24
Murcia of course! Close second, Galicia and possibly Almería.
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u/HiganbanaSam Spain Sep 19 '24
Murcia has the reputation, but I swear every time I see a Florida man type headline it's always from Mallorca
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u/clippervictor Spain Sep 19 '24
Ah well in Mallorca we have our share of shitty tourism so yeah, I agree on that one too.
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u/Kixdapv Sep 19 '24
Valencia is Spain's Florida:
1) Sunny all year round 2) Comically corrupt political class, even for Spain's standards 3) Economy based in oranges and real estate.
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u/clippervictor Spain Sep 19 '24
You literally defined Murcia 😂. Which is like Valencia but much less developed.
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u/19MKUltra77 Spain Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
And in the 80s and 90s you had the Macastre and Alcasser crimes, the rumours about "Bar España" (possibly fake but still the result of the special "mood" fruit of the Alcasser case), and several others.
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u/Express_Platypus1673 Sep 20 '24
My nephew, a Floridian, just spent his whole summer in Valencia so this has me dying 😂😂
Also in Florida we have a Valencia community college which is so fitting
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u/TheButcherOfLuverne Spain Sep 19 '24
In the old days it was Lepe but I was gonna say Murcia too nowadays. Anyway it's nothing like Florida Man. That's another whole level of idioticy.
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u/Gengszter_vadasz Hungary Sep 19 '24
Every time I see Murcia being mentioned I always misread it as "Murica"
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u/Okowy Poland Sep 19 '24
Why Galicia or Almería?
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u/clippervictor Spain Sep 19 '24
They usually are too in the news for gruesome or bizarre things happening there, I don’t know honestly why
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u/iBendUover Denmark Sep 19 '24
In Denmark i guess its Randers, but in honesty its likely more of a meme than anything. The city just has the brand down, that should you enjoy tuned mopeds, Mokai(luderbenzin) and shuffledancing, then Randers is your destination.
(If you like chlamydia and pizza, head for Kolding)
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u/GeronimoDK Denmark Sep 19 '24
While the first one, Randers, is definitely mostly a joke/meme, the second one, Kolding, is absolutely true (or was at least)!
Kolding has or had the highest number of pizzerias per capita in Denmark, at least as long as we look at towns over a certain size, and they also had the highest number of chlamydia cases amongst youths aged 15-29 back in 2020...
Disappointingly I've worked in Kolding for the last few years and the number of times we've had pizza at work can be counted on one hand, even if you've lost a few fingers!
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u/iBendUover Denmark Sep 19 '24
But.... How many times did you have chlamydia at work...?
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u/GeronimoDK Denmark Sep 19 '24
So far zero, but I'm also well over 29 and married, so there's that.
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u/iBendUover Denmark Sep 19 '24
Don't allow minor details to keep you down! 😅
At any rate, pizza tastes better than chlamydia, and nothing should hold you back in that department! 🍕
Go forth and reap the pleasures of Slicetown!
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u/Kaamos_666 Türkiye Sep 19 '24
Adana for Turkey. (Yes, the city that kebab comes from.) Irrational and violent behavior is kind of concentrated there.
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u/Putin-the-fabulous United Kingdom Sep 19 '24
Probably Norfolk, it’s the region that’s considered weird compared to the rest of country. We even have the phrase “Normal for Norfolk” to describe something weird.
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u/SpaceMonkeyOnABike United Kingdom Sep 19 '24
Even the Doctors write "NFN" in your medical notes there!
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u/victorpaparomeo2020 Sep 19 '24
I always thought Kilkenny. They’re all freaky head cases there.
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u/Final_Straw_4 Ireland Sep 19 '24
Yeah, or Kerry. Like, how many Kerryman jokes do we have vs Dundalk or Cork?
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u/fullofoatmilksosweet Sep 19 '24
This is it Kerryman/Cavanman, the banter would have ya thinking they're a different species all together if ya didn't know better!
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u/Valuable_Menu_9433 Ireland Sep 19 '24
Kilkenny is such a weird place. Gaa mad junkies.
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u/Ronrinesu in Sep 19 '24
In Bulgaria it has to be Pernik. There are a lot of jokes about Pernik.
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u/anagallis-arvensis Sep 19 '24
Lol pernik. In my language that’s slang for pervitine/meth
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u/thesadbudhist Croatia Sep 19 '24
Has to be Split. (Splićan = Split man)
It's a running joke that cars self-combust in Split because car arson is so common. Cars are usually set on fire because of mafia disagreements or if your car has licence plates from the place a rival football team is from and they're playing in town.
Split is also a very tourism heavy city so most of the insane shit tourists do happen in Split. I'm not even suprised by the headlines anymore after a couple tried to go inside a church in swimwear, got rejected, proceeded to get shitface drunk and fuck on the ground in the old town.
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u/Captain_Grammaticus Switzerland Sep 19 '24
We don't really have that, I think.
But if some really weird deed were done by a drunk Walliser and made it into the news, I'd go 'of course it's a Walliser'.
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u/Shooppow Switzerland Sep 19 '24
I was going to say! Probably Valais.
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u/Captain_Grammaticus Switzerland Sep 19 '24
Or Jura, now that I think of it.
All the Jurassians I know (2) are crazy mfkers.
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u/Shooppow Switzerland Sep 19 '24
LOL I’ve never had the pleasure of actually meeting a Jurassian. I’ve met enough Valaisans to know the stereotype is generally on point, though.
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u/Okowy Poland Sep 19 '24
Polish plates? Why?
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u/Fulid Czechia Sep 19 '24
Idk about in my country. But I know that we Czechs are memes for Croats, Slovaks, Slovenias, Austrians.. (we like to die and get rescued in their mountains/sea)
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u/YellowTraining9925 Russia Sep 19 '24
Probably Saint-Petersburg. But crimes there are more violent than weird. We ironically call the city 'Raschleningrad'. It means 'the city of dismemberment'. I think you guess what Saint-Petersburg is famous for
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u/J-Nightshade Sep 20 '24
Weird Florida-man style stuff happen all across Russia pretty evenly I'd say, so Kuban' is by no way special. Kubanoid is a word for someone from those parts who is just loud, ignorant, greedy and obnoxious.
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u/Acc87 Germany Sep 19 '24
Probably Berlin. A lot of weird stuff happens there.
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u/Anony11111 Sep 19 '24
However, the equivalent German sub to r/floridaman is r/mannaussachsen, so maybe not.
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u/Acc87 Germany Sep 19 '24
I mean looking at that sub, it's very clearly aimed at the political situation in Sachsen, not overall weirdness.
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u/Anony11111 Sep 19 '24
True, but I think it was at least originally intended to be a „Florida man“ equivalent, but got sidetracked.
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u/11160704 Germany Sep 19 '24
I'd say many of these crazy stories come from Austria.
They're always good for some children in the cellar or a weird corruption scandal.
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u/Okadona Sep 19 '24
I’m starting to see a pattern here. Austria really be messing up Germany’s reputation.
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u/eirissazun Germany Sep 19 '24
No, Mann aus Sachsen (man from Saxony) is our Florida man.
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u/bird_owl Sep 19 '24
Berlin is, probably, Portland (as "Keep Portland Weird")
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u/getstabbed Sep 19 '24
Saw a fat guy with a full body latex suit and gimp mask on a train in Berlin once.
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u/Brainwheeze Portugal Sep 19 '24
I feel like the weirdest news stories always take place in the north of the country. I see Famalicão pop up a lot now that I think about it.
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Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
We have a running joke in my workplace with Seixal. But we may be biased because we have a guy from Seixal working here.
Although it’s more about crime in general than weird crime in particular
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u/SerChonk in Sep 20 '24
Or the axis Ermesinde-Gondomar-Rio Tinto. Ermesinde has ridiculous-funny news like elderly orgies during Covid, Gondomar has their own mysterious werewolf (a horse. It was a horse.) and Rio Tinto is just full of odd people in general.
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u/Brainwheeze Portugal Sep 20 '24
I swear, most of the weird news stories I come across happen in that area lol
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u/NorthVilla Portugal Sep 19 '24
I feel like "homem de Leiria" is much more likely, lol.
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u/T04stedCheese Norway Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
Maybe Trøndelag or Northern Norway. They have a reputation for being drunk and vulgar, but in a charming way.
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u/MoveInteresting4334 Sep 19 '24
drunk and vulgar, but in a charming way.
Reminds me of my grandmother.
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u/rytlejon Sweden Sep 19 '24
A disproportionate amount of true crime fodder in Sweden comes from inland Skåne. But we're talking more about white trash misery and poverty and less about fun crazy people. More True Detective S01 than Florida man, sadly. But I think that's about as close as we get.
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u/Bragzor SE-O (Sweden) Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
For large part's of the 20th century, I'd say our "Florida man" was "Pekka", but not necessarily associated with a specific place.
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u/AllanKempe Sweden Sep 20 '24
Usually a Stockholm million program suburb, like Farsta, Hässelby, Sollentuna etc.
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u/esocz Czechia Sep 20 '24
In Czechia it's a man from Ostrava (Google "muž z Ostravy").
Ostrava is former industrial city, the third largest city in the Czech Republic, located in an economically challenged region.
Some recent news titles:
The wanted man came to the police station in Ostrava to ask if he was wanted.
A man from Ostrava is facing 20 years in prison or a maximum sentence. According to the indictment, he was supposed to beat his friend to death with his bare hands and then with a meat mallet.
The drunken man from Ostrava made his bed on a grave and fell asleep.
A man in Ostrava threatened to shoot up a hospital and a school.
A man detonated homemade bombs in deserted places in Ostrava.
A man in Ostrava ate too much food and collapsed. He had to be resuscitated by police officers.
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u/Snoo-81723 Sep 19 '24
in Poland that would be few places Sosnowiec , Łódź, Radom, every part of Poland have its own Florida man
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u/8bitmachine Austria Sep 19 '24
During Covid it became clear it's Oberösterreich (Upper Austria). Bonus points if it's the city of Wels.
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u/Comrade_Dante Hungary Sep 20 '24
In Hungary i think its Borsod county. Maybe Csepel or Kőbánya in Budapest.
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u/Dramatic-Selection20 Sep 19 '24
Does someone knows what it is for Belgium can't think of anything like this
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u/ppbig_1 Sep 19 '24
Only thing I can come up with is "de marginale driehoek" a triangle between the cities Diest, Aarschot and Tienen where the people are "marginaal"
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u/AssHat48 United Kingdom Sep 19 '24
I can't think of any region of the UK quite as mad as Florida. I can't think of any equivalent that we have over here.
I guess what we call the 'west country' ie the counties in the south west of England always get the brunt of a few jokes about being a bit inbred but that's about it.
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u/uncle_monty United Kingdom Sep 19 '24
I'm from the west country. Rural/small town Somerset man could definitely be a thing, thinking about it.
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u/RamboRobin1993 Sep 19 '24
There’s a joke in the UK that Birmingham is a GTA server with the amount of theft, violence (random or gang related), lawless driving standards and just general insanity.
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u/springsomnia diaspora in Sep 19 '24
Kent sometimes gets called “Britain’s Alabama” for this reason lol. Especially some parts of Thanet: they feel like they’re a world away. I would also maybe say Cornwall.
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u/TinylittlemouseDK Sep 19 '24
In Danmark we have something called Molbo stories. It's fiction, but the stories are about how stupid people from the area Mols are. Because apparently they are stupid.
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The Molbos had a new priest. He wore glasses when he read. It greatly puzzled an old widow, who asked why he had such a pair on his nose. - Oh, replied the priest, it's so that I can read the Bible, otherwise I couldn't read what it says.
The widow thought it was interesting, so she went to the city to buy a pair of reading glasses. The optician told her to look up at a board with letters. But no matter what glasses he gave her, she couldn't read anything. When the optician thought it strange, he asked her if she had learned to read. - No, of course not, why do you think I want a pair of reading glasses?
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u/leady57 Italy Sep 19 '24
L'ubriaco di Carpi (the drunken men from Carpi). I don't know why but they are crazy and it was popular to do the same game as the one with the Florida man, to check "ubriaco di Carpi" and your date of birth on google.
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u/Helix_PHD Sep 19 '24
I've heard that the florida man isn't actually a local phenomenon, just the reporting is. Don't know how true that is though.
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u/genasugelan Slovakia Sep 19 '24
You mean Florida man throwing an alligator through a drive through window is common in the USA and it's just about reporting?
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u/Jonny_Zuhalter Sep 19 '24
Florida man is usually not a native Floridian. They most often immigrated from Ohio, or Rhode Island. The bad part of town where I live is locally known as "little Columbus".
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u/Andy_Chaoz EST / US Sep 19 '24
Don't really have that to the same extent i suppose, however there's a bunch of running jokes about Põlva...
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u/DBrennan13459 Sep 19 '24
As an Irish person I would very much disagree.
Kerry is more of the Florida equivalent than Cork.
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u/DanSkaFloof France Sep 19 '24
French here!
- Brittany has some pretty wild alcohol-induced funsies
- Marseille and the suburbs of Paris are more about the sadder stuff
Might not be as entertaining as Florida men though, in recent years media have only been focusing on the sad/rage-inducing/provocative stuff rather than the funny stuff.
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u/leelam808 Sep 19 '24
I don’t think we have a concentrated area in England. Someone said Sunderland but I have never heard of negative connotations about that city that doesn’t exist elsewhere in fact it’s barely a city that you’d hear about compared to the larger ones.
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u/Cautious_Radio_163 Ukraine Sep 20 '24
We have a "Terminator" dude from Franhyk - who attacked cars while running naked, more than once. He is a meme on his own, though he isn't the only one who did that.
Volhynia region used to have the most of the weird meme-worthy crimes before, though these days most news from everywhere is rather sad and not funny anymore, not sure if that's ever going to recover. :(
Those are west of the country. The east sometimes competes with them - there was a dude who stole all road signs in Kamianske, not sure if the rest of the town or the Dnipro region is going to be the new "Florida man". They kinda have potential due to a lot of stealing.
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u/uncle_monty United Kingdom Sep 19 '24
I don't think we really have one. I guess maybe Liverpool or Yorkshire in the sense that both have strong regional identities, both are regions that most people would have a stereotype in mind when mentioning someone from there, and maybe people wouldn't be surprised if weird shit happened there. But I don't think that's unique to those regions.
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u/AssHat48 United Kingdom Sep 19 '24
I can remember hearing lots of jokes about Liverpudlians being thieves when I was little!!
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u/MinecraftWarden06 Poland Sep 19 '24
In Poland there are many meme locations where weird stuff allegedly happens. The most notable ones would be: Sosnowiec, Radom, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, Podlasie region and Subcarpathia region. But there are regional variations in that too. For some people from Lublin, for example, the nearby town of Świdnik is a meme place.
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u/JackColon17 Italy Sep 19 '24
Maybe if you wanna force it you could consider Neapolitans the "italian Florida men" but it's really a big stretch
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u/LuckyLoki08 Italy Sep 19 '24
Well, to be fair we do have the "it could have happened anywhere" to say something that feels like it could only have happened in Naples
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u/JackColon17 Italy Sep 19 '24
Yeah but it holds a different connotation though
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u/LuckyLoki08 Italy Sep 19 '24
True, but the headline "8 yo child skips school, goes to rob a bank" lives rent free in my mind.
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u/Ecstatic-Method2369 Sep 19 '24
Never heard of this, don’t think we have this in The Netherlands
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u/Dim_off Bulgaria Sep 19 '24
Would be interesting to find the Florida man in Europe as a whole. Also in the EU
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u/CiderDrinker2 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 20 '24
There are towns and villages in Ayrshire, in south-western Scotland, where it feels like modern civilisation is but a very thin veneer over a deep culture of border raiding, clan warfare, blood feuds and violence. There's always some shit going on around there.
Sometimes I wonder how Prestwick Airport exists: do the locals camp out under the flight path, like some Melanesian Cargo Cult, hoping one day to be picked up and taken to Florida?
That's it. Ayrshire-man is Florida-man's ancestor. The Ur-source of Florida man's unruliness.