Florida Man News This Week: Golf Cart Beer Math & Magic Cacti

Another week, another masterclass in living life without a rulebook. Florida Man and Florida Woman showed up, clocked in, and delivered — so grab a cold one, kick off the flip-flops, and enjoy this week's finest.

🍺 Seven or Eight Beers, Officer… Give or Take Three

In Leesburg, a 67-year-old Florida Man cruised his red golf cart right down State Road 44 — where golf carts aren't allowed — and turned without signaling, police say. When the officer asked about the little cooler on the floorboard, he said it held "seven or eight" Busch beers. The cooler was opened. It held five. The math did not math, he refused a breath test, and a loaded revolver in the glovebox turned a golf cart ride into a felony. Nobody got hurt — except his beer count credibility.

Source: Leesburg-News.com

🌵 Facebook Marketplace, But Make It Psychedelic

Most people use Facebook Marketplace to sell a used couch. Hillsborough deputies say a Riverview man used it to advertise his very own magic mushroom and cactus business. When they searched his home, they reportedly found 131 live plants, about 50 pounds of mescaline-containing cacti and a pound and a half of mushrooms. The world's most suspicious garden center is now closed for business.

Source: WFLA

🦎 Boca Raton's Great Iguana Snack Debate

Only in Florida does city government spend weeks arguing about feeding iguanas. Boca Raton passed a 3-2 ban in August — with a $100 fine for anyone filling the bellies of iguanas, pigeons, rats and mice — and now the city is thinking about undoing it after one council member had a change of heart. The iguanas, meanwhile, are just sitting in a tree waiting for lunch.

Source: The Palm Beach Post

🏋️ Miami Coach Hip-Thrusts 639 Pounds Into the Record Books

Miami fitness coach Lilian Zamora Alonso now holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest weighted hip thrust by a woman — 639 pounds, held for the required six seconds. The old record was 605. Her secret? "You gotta love it." Florida Woman energy, but make it glutes of steel.

Source: WLRN

🐄 Cullen the Manatee Goes Home

Cullen was just a baby when he and his mom were rescued after a boat strike in Islamorada in May 2025. Seventeen months later — after care at SeaWorld Orlando and the Jacksonville Zoo — the Dolphin Research Center, Zoo Miami and FWC released him in Tavernier on Oct. 20. Swim free, buddy. 💙

Source: Florida Keys Free Press

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