Dive into this episode where we unravel the bizarre tale of a Florida man and his late-night lawn mowing excursion gone awry, leading to a tragic collision. Join us as we explore the curious case of a woman pouring acid on her sleeping partner, alongside a heated debate over a mother’s responsibility in consuming raw milk. From outrageous crimes to health rights, this episode challenges perspectives and societal norms.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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All right. So, guys, there’s a reason why you don’t drive your lawnmower, your riding mower on a busy road, and you don’t do it when you’re drunk. Big, big reason why this is in Sumter County, Florida. Florida Highway Patrol said a man was riding his lawnmower down the road and he got hit by a pickup truck Saturday night. Now, also at night. I feel like I didn’t add that in there. So don’t drive your riding lawnmower on a busy road. Don’t drive your riding lawnmower on a busy road at night. And don’t drive your lawnmower on a busy road at night while you’re drunk. It happened at almost 9 p.m. 71-year-old man riding his lawnmower. He had no lights on. In the dark, riding his mower, no lights. A Dodge Dakota truck traveling east tried to overtake the mower and hit it instead. And the man was transported to the hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries. The 36-year-old driving the pickup, now this gets even crazier, that man had a DUI. What? So I’m just one thing after the other. So just stop it. Stop it. I got to tell you, those are some pretty big beans that feller had to be driving a lawnmower at night with no lights on a busy road. Like… He was apparently inebriated. The other guy’s inebriated. Everybody’s inebriated. So let’s see. Oh, let’s… Oh, let’s do this. We have the lawnmower in here a couple times. Let’s do a Florida man. Ooh. She looks crazy. A woman poured acid on this Florida man, and she has since been charged with his murder. He was asleep. This is Newport Ritchie. This Florida man was asleep. The lady poured acid on him as he slept at his home. She’s now charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery, causing serious bodily injury. She poured acid while he was in bed, then barricaded the bedroom door, and then called 911. Her mugshot is don’t care. Look at that. She don’t care about that at all. They found the man in the home. He had severe chemical burns. They had to airlift him to Tampa General, and he succumbed to his injuries in just days. So, yeah, I’m not actually ever going to do this, but when I hear stories of this, I’m like, where the hell do people get an acid that does this? Where do you get that? Now, I don’t want to get it, but I’m like…
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How does it get poured on you and then you can’t possibly survive that? That’s some powerful acid.
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I got to talk about this story. Juan, I’m really sorry because I wasn’t going to have it in this hour, but I’m doing it. It’s the, what do they call her? Blade? I think they call her Boutica Jr., honestly. But it’s a blade threat girl, 14 years old. So let me set this up. I don’t know if you’ve seen this video or not, but it was in Dundee. And the cops were called to St. Anne Lane, Kane. It’s the Locky area of Dundee. And it was on a Saturday evening, 7.30, right? Somebody called the police and they said, oh my gosh, there’s a girl who’s got a bladed weapon. And they said it was a 14-year-old. She was charged in connection. Now, here’s where we got a lot of questions. I’m like, wait a minute. Someone was recording her. And the area that she was in is where a guy was murdered in a knife attack just like a few months back, like literally the street right behind her. And some people were like, oh, well, you know, she should have had a knife, etc. I want to know who the foreigner was who was recording her. So an adult male was recording her and wouldn’t leave them alone. And she it didn’t I mean, we don’t have anything in the lead up to this. It didn’t seem like she was bothering anybody. I am less concerned. I mean, I if she was my daughter, hell, I’d give her a gun at this point. Proud of her because she stood up for herself. She has these adults, this adult man, a strange man following her in a park and filming her in an area where there have been attacks from illegal immigrants on younger people. Okay. And I don’t think she’s brand. I mean, in the video, it just looks like she was carrying it. I necessarily don’t think that that’s brandishing because she had them in her pants. And I apparently some people were saying that they were they were carrying them because they were protecting themselves. And everything that I’ve seen, I just can’t believe she was charged. And I want to know why there was this grown man filming her. So the thought, and I was looking at a lot of the press about this, they… They were saying that she was trying to protect herself because she felt that this guy was trying to harm her, is what the story was. I mean, the Scottish Sun wrote about it, etc. The problem is that she was being harassed on the street by what sounds like an adult foreign male, and she did not produce the blade, according to their account, until he started unrelentingly harassing her. Now, That’s that’s the story. And so she gets charged in the adult male harassing the minor doesn’t. This is how you get conquered. I mean, why is it that a 14 year old girl has to do more than a lot of the men in that damn country to stand up for the women and girls pushing back? That’s my question. I’m gonna tell you what, this is my country. And I had people I mean, you see it in in Rotherham and in parts of Britain, Telfer, there are different areas in the UK, where young females have been systematically targeted, exploited and trafficked. I mean, this has been going on for 20 years and we’re not talking about like five or 10. You’re talking, you’re getting into the thousands. That’s how bad this is. This is not a joke. It’s not an exaggeration. This is literally what, this is what is happening. And now it’s, it’s a, it’s imperiled. A lot of these, the Roth, the Rotherham abuse, the background to it. It’s the whole child sexploitation scandal. Uh, and, uh, I mean, there’s they had over the Guardian said it was over 1400 young girls. But other news entities say it’s higher than that. The trafficking and the sexploitation. And it’s all Pakistani grooming gangs. I mean, without exception. I think that the lawmakers, the British lawmakers and politicians who didn’t do anything because they were more terrified of being called racist than they were protecting the girls. I think they’re culpable in all of this. But they said that it had ever. I mean, it was taxi drivers. It was everyone. One girl who was telling her story to the Telegraph. She was 11 years old. And she was stalked and harassed by Pakistani grooming gang. They said her story is not unique. She is one of over 1400 children who were sexually exploited by gangs. And this is the Telegraph. I want to point out the Telegraph is a very left leaning paper. They were exploited by gangs of predominantly Pakistani origin men in Rotherham from 1997 to 2013 until a report finally revealed the scale of abuse. They had the National Crime Agency investigation. They identified over 300 suspects. Taxi drivers who were really involved in trafficking the victims have come under scrutiny. They had over 25 taxi drivers who had their licenses pulled because of it. There were hundreds of other taxi drivers, many of them Pakistani, that were going to protest because they didn’t want to have to install CCTV into their cabs to keep kids safe, to keep women safe. This has been happening so bad. The people didn’t do anything. The school failed her. The law enforcement failed her. All of this. And they get these girls. They get them in compromising situations, use it against them. And then they get them addicted to cocaine and amphetamines. And then they rape them. And then they sell them off to get raped by all these other men. And this one woman’s story is apparently the story of thousands of girls, over a thousand girls. So now you understand why it’s not unusual for a young female in the UK to be very uneasy with the fact that a grown foreign male is following her and harassing her and recording her to the point where she feels the need to present a small hatchet. And I’m going to tell you something, if this had been in the United States and someone was aggravating my daughter, that person would be going back in a body bag to their family. The UK allowed itself to be raped into submission. It is the rape of the UK. It is the rape of Europe. It is a conquering. Absolutely. Absolutely. And people were outraged, not even making this up. We’ve told you these stories that there would be at all any punishment of the people who were doing this. Do you know that one of the defenses was, oh, they just didn’t know. Their customs are different. I kid you not. Nobody said anything because everybody is so afraid to be called bigoted or racist. Even if you’re saying, look, the gangs of people doing this are literally 99% this origin. It’s bigoted to what they are doing to young girls. That’s bigoted. It’s not bigoted to accurately observe and call out this group’s crimes. But people didn’t want to speak up because they were more terrified at being accused of the moral failing that is bigotry or racism than they were protecting their innocent daughters. And this girl had more balls than any of them to stand up to it. So I say she’s a little Boudicca. Lorraine reminds me of when Tommy Robinson was thrown in a British jail because he exposed this. They were trying to tell him that he couldn’t talk about the grooming gangs in Rotherham. And it extended beyond Rotherham, just so you know. It extended far beyond that and affected many different areas. It is it’s incredibly sad. It’s so incredibly sad. And so I’m looking at this, you know, this 14 year old girl. We saw the video. Do we have the video? I don’t know if we can play some of it because there’s cussing, but maybe we can just show it without the volume. Did he? OK, yeah. So she’s her friends with her and she’s yelled. They’re yelling at this grown foreign man to leave them alone, to stop following them. And he won’t. And he keeps trying to get near her. And it isn’t until he won’t leave her alone that she shows him, okay, I’ve got a knife and a hatchet. Leave me alone. She’s the one who gets cited. If I was that mother, I’d beat that cop’s ass. I would. Oh my gosh. It just enrages me. No one’s protecting them. Where’s anybody protecting these girls? Where are the men over there? Good heavens. Have some self-respect. Of course, you know, I got to tell you, doesn’t help the third and fourth wave feminism. You know, a lot of people don’t want to step up and help because y’all remember what happened to Daniel Penny here in the United States. He stepped up and look what happened. New York went after him. Nobody wants to be the hero because heroes are in trouble. So they get in trouble. They’re looked at as, oh, you’re being a hero. You’re probably a vigilante or something. And the other girl that was with the 14-year-old that was targeted, she was 12. The 14-year-old was the one that was cited. The 12-year-old wasn’t cited. And now there’s a lot of protests over this, understandably so. People are protesting what happened. Why were they not out there protecting the streets? I read, I saw on X that now men in Scotland, in and around Dundee, are organizing to patrol the streets to keep it safe. I mean, it’s gotten so bad in the UK that they can’t even put up St. George’s Cross. They can put up Gazan flags, but they can’t put up the St. George’s Cross. I’m telling you, it’s a conquering. There are more than one ways to conquer a nation. You don’t have to use arms. You don’t even have to use violence. You can use manipulation and extortion. And that’s what this is. It’s a conquering. pistols that they have out is the PR57. It’s a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 5.7, 40% lighter than the competition, making it easier for concealed carry. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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I have to tell you, yes, we did see the Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey engagement thing. No way. I am not going to. It’s so annoying. It’s not going to be one of those things that we talk about. It’s all over. If you can go and look at one of the gossip sites, they’re engaged. You kind of knew it was coming, did you not? I don’t mean to sound like a killjoy, but it’s just like, okay, we got it. Come on. It doesn’t need to be in the news all the time. Gosh, can you imagine the coverage of the Chiefs? I know. All right. So let’s see. This, ooh, Texas A&M is going to have a Buc-ee’s. Mm-hmm. I don’t think the European mind can comprehend Bucky’s… Really don’t. I mean, they’ve got like a jerky station. They have a banana pudding wall. I was telling a friend of mine who was not born in the United States, is a citizen now. And she was just like, I just can’t believe they have all these things here. We go in and they have as old as smoked meats. It’s hysterical. It is hysterical when European people go into Buc-ee’s. It is one of my favorite things ever. But they’ve got… They’re going to have three campus stores that have Bucky’s stuff. And then then they have like a location outside where people can get. I was literally out of Bucky’s just a couple of days ago. Went in and what did I get there? I had to get the Bucky’s Nuggies. Got me some jerky. You know, I refrained from the banana pudding wall because that’s, you know, a lot.
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You said Bucky’s Nuggies, but it’s Beaver Nuggets.
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No, we’re calling it Bucky’s Nuggies. That’s what we’re calling it, Kane. We’re not calling it that with your Robert Evans glasses right now. I’m not even dealing with you. Stop it. Let’s see. We also a New Jersey man continues. He takes a foldable rowboat down the Hudson River to go to his job in New York. I mean, OK, there are some places in Sweden where they do this stuff. He works in New York City, but he lives in New Jersey and he commutes 12 miles down the Hudson in a foldable rowboat that he built with his son. And he has a foldable bicycle. He got tired of the commute and wanted something different. That’s going to be a real bummer when it’s cold. I’m just going to say that’s going to be a real bummer for him when it’s cold. Let’s see. A homeowner shot and killed two men in ski masks in a home invasion who pretended to be officers, so he saved everybody some money and time. Guns save lives. Stick with us. All right, I got to tell you. I know we got other serious stuff to get into, but… So you guys know I’m going to be going on a boat for the MRC thing, so I’m going to be out next week. It’s a large boat, and I don’t do boats. I don’t do cruises because it’s… Oh, yeah. And for the audio listeners, that was Trump’s building behind him. I don’t do cruises because it’s weird and I just don’t. And so it’s because you’re I barely tolerate being on a plane and going on a cruise. You’re you know, we’re going up into a very Nordic area. So hopefully everybody’s going to be too cold to be ill behaved. But it’s for the MRC, Media Research Center, which is a great organization. And happy to support them. They do amazing stuff. They do newsbusters, all of this. But I got to tell you, so I had to get, don’t laugh at me. You know, I work out and I’m, you know, I like being outdoors, but I don’t hike. I’m not a hiker, right? Everyone’s like, you got to have hiking boots. If you’re going to Norway, you got to have hiking boots because we’re going to be up in the fjords. It’s like Monty Python. He’s pining for the fjords. Oh, he’s pining for the fjords, Izzy. Can’t even pronounce half of where we’re going. Very excited about the smoked salmon, though. Anyway, so I had to get, like, hiking shoes. Now, Dana’s pretty easygoing, but there’s certain things that I get real bougie about, okay? Like skincare and, like, shoes. I’m very bougie. I want to be comfortable and… So we go into one of those like outdoor stores. I don’t want to give anybody free advertising. They can pay. We go into one of those outdoor stores. You know, it’s where they have like the camping and the climbing stuff and the biking stuff. There was a guy there, bless his heart, fell over on a bike right in the middle of the store right as we walked in. Anyway, everybody in that store looked like they were just literally getting ready to run out and go climb a mountain or mountain bike somewhere. Is there a rule where you go into one of these outdoor stores where you have to be wearing all the stuff that they have in there already? Is that a rule? I don’t think so. Do you remember when we went to Seattle? and we went up there for a market visit, and we get off the plane, and it was as if everyone was about to leave the airport and go into the mountains and hike with Sasquatch, right?
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No, without a doubt. I think it was Portland, but yes, you are absolutely right. You’re absolutely right.
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It was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. We felt out of place. We were telling each other, like, everybody here is like they’re getting ready to go into the mountains. It’s very weird.
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And then the hotel. Remember that hotel?
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Oh, yeah. The hotel was. Was that that hotel?
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That was the one where it had. It was like Twin Peaks.
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Yeah, exactly. I was digging it because it was like Twin Peaks. And that was totally my jam. So I’m in this outdoor store. Can I kid you not? Every, every, every body in the store. It was as if they were about ready to go and hike up some mountain that we don’t have because we’re in Dallas. It was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And, you know, there was a couple of things that I had to get, including some hiking boots, because I don’t hike. If you hike, I love that for you. I love that journey for you. It’s not my jam. Just not my thing. It’s glorified walking. I’m totally, you know, there’s certain things. I like going out and harvesting for nature. I like going out and shopping in nature. Like, that’s meat for my fridge and that’s my Christmas sausage and that’s my rug and this is this. And, you know, and then I go back to my hotel with electricity. Totally fine. And I don’t care about getting dirty or none of that. But I just, you know, we invented the house and running water and I like to go back to these things. So because we’re humans and I appreciate all the things our ancestors have done for us. So I’m in here and I’m, you know, looking at these hiking boots. They’re all hideous. Go for the love. But, you know, you got to get the ones that are most comfortable. I have no idea what I’m going to be doing. We might be on a glacier. I have no clue. I might be. I don’t know. I’m going to. I was like, look, I want to see some stave churches, creepy blonde kids and a troll. That’s what I want to see when I’m up here in Norway and have some of that delicious salmon. I’m all about that. Beautiful country. And so. Everybody in there. I can’t. I felt so out of place because I went in and my TV wear and I was dressed real nice yesterday. Y’all didn’t see the whole outfit, but it was it was nice. It was brown, which is weird for me because, you know, everything I have 5000 of these black T-shirts. So I was the only person who is not like all kitted out in class. Where do you there was somebody with a backpack on that they brought in the store that had the rock climbing stuff all over it already. And I’m like, are you? It’s flat where we are for a while.
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Were they returning?
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No, it’s like they legit came in and they had on the sports sandals. And I’m not going to go into that because I have some family members that wear those and I don’t want to have the drama of dealing with it after the show. All I will say is that it legit looked like they were just dropped out of an airplane coming from Mount Kilimanjaro. And they were in this outdoor store. I was the only person who was dressed like a person that just did not come off a mountain. Is that a thing? I’m not joking, you guys. Everybody in there, although there was one person who looked like a prospector. But… I felt like I’m like, nobody comes in here. Do you have to show that you are outdoors? You go home first and change into all your outdoor stuff and then bring it in? Like, yeah, I’m just here to add on to my stuff. I don’t know. It was very interesting.
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I like to go fishing and camping on occasion, but I don’t bring my fishing pole when I’m shopping for more fishing stuff. You know what I mean?
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I’ve seen people with lures on their hats.
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Yeah, that’s not too unusual.
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Like in the store, like on a weekday. I’m like, what are you doing? I don’t know. It’s like a whole culture. And then they had a bulletin board where it’s like, this is how you pack a backpack. And I’m like, what? I mean, I can help you with that. What’s the struggle here? They had all this other, you know, like how to eat, you know, wildfire and all this. And that’s great if people… I have friends who… Are they actually do survivalist stuff on the weekends and that’s great and I love that for them but this felt so corporate you know what I mean it felt so corporate and so try hard like it wasn’t the real thing it was just a corporatized version of what people really do. It was just weird to me. It might be too judgmental. I might be. I don’t know. It was just really weird. It was, you know, very different culture shock for me. So, you know, everyone’s like, well, when you’re out in the day and you’re not because we have sessions and, you know, I’ll be speaking and doing some stuff on this trip. And then a couple of times, you know, in the week during the day, you get to just basically go run out into the fjords, I guess. I don’t know. I’m going to fall off a mountain or something. Who knows? I’m going to come back with a troll. I’m going to capture a troll, bring it back. It will be a studio troll. So, It’ll be interesting. I’ll give you guys updates. Free subscribers over at Chapter and Verse. The subscribers are going to be able to follow along a little bit with some of it. I’ve never been that far north before either. Guys, it was 76 this morning in Texas, and I about built a fire. If it wasn’t my husband yelling at me, like, stop it. It’s 76 degrees. It’s going to be 80-something today. I’m like, that’s cold. It’s cold here, sir. It’s cold. It’s going to be cold up there, and then the days last a lot longer. So it’s going to be very canine. It’ll be very different. Very different. I’m going to be freezing to death, wrapped up in sweaters and mittens, and I’m going to look like Ralphie’s little brother from A Christmas Story perpetually on every outing. That’s what it’s going to look like. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I’m looking at the hiking pants, and all the hiking pants, they make your butt look huge. I don’t know why they’re tapered like that. They make women look like they’re tomatoes on toothpicks. I don’t get it. I’ve got a lot of questions about some of this stuff.
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Thanks for tuning in to today’s edition of Dana Lash’s Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven’t already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
