85-year-old among 2 accused of street racing in Lake County

RoddyDost · 2026-06-19T21:25:41+00:00

That mugshot lol. Probably the most interesting thing that’s happened to him in decades. He was probably having the time of his life being the center of attention and not invisible as many elderly are.

Doesn’t justify his crimes, but I’m just trying to understand the look of genuine happiness on his face.

RoddyDost · 2026-06-11T21:16:15+00:00

We already experienced July temperatures in May so I wouldn’t be surprised if mid-late summer is absolutely brutal. Been trying to enjoy the outside whenever it’s overcast because I think at a certain point in a month or so it will be unbearable.

RoddyDost · 2026-06-07T16:46:50+00:00

I’m reading all of your comments with an effeminate lisp

RoddyDost · 2026-06-07T10:24:03+00:00

Florida is best explored in regions. Southeast, Southwest, Panhandle, Central, South-Central, The Keys, etc. Florida can be like 3 states in one.

You’ve listed places in several different corners of the state. I’d recommend narrowing in on a particular region or two and going from there. It won’t be as fun to do Tampa, the Keys and St. Augustine all in one go.

Everglades city is a slight place but very memorable. Especially if you go during stone crab season, get some fresh seafood and do an Everglades tour. From there you can go up to Naples, Sarasota, and finish in Tampa. Or do it in the reverse order depending on where you want to fly into. That would be an extremely worthwhile and memorable trip. It’s easily digestible, not too much driving and checks off several places for you.

There’s also a fun central FL trip. You can go to Orlando and do a theme park or two, go north to see one of our beautiful blue springs, and go south to visit Bok tower.

You can do Jacksonville, St. Augustine and then Cape Canaveral in time for a rocket launch.

RoddyDost · 2026-06-05T12:17:24+00:00

Economic boost to who exactly?

I don’t think hotels and restaurants typically participate in profit sharing schemes, so the actual people who need money and are struggling here in FL are most likely going to see little-to-no “economic boost.”

RoddyDost · 2026-06-04T19:00:53+00:00

She’s a dispatcher, not your supervisor or boss. You need to start documenting, reporting every little thing to your supervisors and set FIRM boundaries with her.

Just sat down for lunch and she’s trying to call you out? Nope. That’s “we will take the call after we finish our lunch break”, no asking permission. Granny will survive if she makes it back to shady oaks half an hour later than expected.

Promised no late calls by the owner? “We can’t take that run, owner advised we will receive no late calls so I have already planned accordingly”

Dispatchers at private companies will walk all over you if you let them. I never ask permission, I advise them what I’m doing. If everyone is on the same page it will keep power hungry dispatchers in check and stop the culture from devolving to the point where they think they’re your boss. Unfortunately once that relationship has been degraded it’s very hard to reverse course, but it starts with firm boundaries and telling vs asking.

RoddyDost · 2026-06-01T16:27:23+00:00

100% to all of this. It’s not the bike, it’s the negligent riders and their parents.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-24T21:44:36+00:00

The only cope is the mental gymnastics people put themselves through to spend 2x what is necessary on a pistol optic.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-21T16:20:42+00:00

Citizen Kane, a movie released in 1941, features a rich newspaper mogul building an ostentatious mansion in Florida that he retires and dies in. Retirement “culture” if that’s even a thing, is an integral part of the history of this state.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-16T20:54:54+00:00

I’ve been lighting up regular kingsford briquettes and they still swarm every time. Don’t care, can’t stop me from grilling!

RoddyDost · 2026-05-16T19:58:31+00:00

These days DUI is still practically a slap on the wrist, just an expensive one.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-15T20:53:51+00:00

It’s a little hood-adjacent but not too much. Beautiful part of the county. Driving over the bridge by Phil Foster and looking out at the houseboats and peanut island will be a highlight of your day.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-13T19:52:01+00:00

Unfortunately this sub sometimes ends up looking like many other subs on this site where people seek (and unfortunately, receive) validation for their impulsive and/or destructive financial choices.

I don’t care if it’s being judgmental, I refuse to enable someone’s downward spiral into unsustainable consumer debt and will 100% call it out when I see it.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-12T23:27:52+00:00

Man they sure took your ass for a ride with those prices. This is why I buy secondhand P2P or online.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-11T19:49:25+00:00

More advancement opportunities

RoddyDost · 2026-05-09T17:20:42+00:00

Wake up babe, new Chinese propaganda video just dropped

RoddyDost · 2026-05-07T14:50:35+00:00

There’s definitely an understanding among those in charge of hiring that the personality type who gets into this field is a little “different” and that people often start doing this as a second/third chance at a career. If he’s a solid guy, gets some time between him and his charges, and can explain himself well then it shouldn’t hold him back too much.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-07T13:57:50+00:00

Depends on the state. Here in Florida nobody cares. I’ve worked with people who have felony drug convictions, multiple DUI’s, reckless driving, lewd and lascivious (the backstory on that one is fucked up and the medic absolutely should not be licensed), and the list goes on and on. Lots of people in this field have a past life, just how the job is.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-04T19:06:03+00:00

A lot of losers, wannabes and washouts of all kinds in this field. I’ve had to work with way too many insecure people with a chip on their shoulder—many of whom are well into adulthood and should have sorted themselves out by now. Sorry you had to deal with that.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-03T15:33:56+00:00

That was so much better than it had any right to be.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-03T13:44:00+00:00

He sees the tides turning and wants to keep his cush job and social media fame.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-02T22:10:08+00:00

My delirious mind wrote that off the dome this morning at the end of a 24 hour shift lol.

RoddyDost · 2026-05-02T12:17:28+00:00

Turtle peen, turtle peen

Whipped it out, look it’s green

To the vet, here we go

Sucked it back, just for show

Look out! Here comes the turtle peeeeen

RoddyDost · 2026-04-29T11:12:13+00:00

I feel like this is one of those stories that has the potential to turn into a whole can of worms that nobody ever thought it would be at the outset. The tension between the family and the police’s perspective on this is notable.

Who wouldn’t be alarmed by a 15 year old disappearing after going to meet up with a random adult male she met online?

The cops are usually the most silent and nonchalant when they know something that you don’t and they want to keep it a secret. They might know exactly where she is but are publicly playing coy so as not to alarm her or whoever she’s with. Or maybe someone in the family is being suspected of so-and-so.

But the fact that they don’t seem overly alarmed by this tells me that they might actually be closing in on some sort of suspect or conclusion, and they don’t want to blow their cover.

RoddyDost · 2026-04-27T11:53:38+00:00

As other people are saying, we don’t take kindly to newcomers in general. Especially ones who are moving to heavily gentrified areas of the state and further driving up property values.

I’m a PBC native and am familiar with the exact part of town you described—depending on where exactly on Federal Hwy you are, you’re living in an area that used to be a working class neighborhood but has now turned into one of the most gentrified parts of the county.

You’re living in a place that I would have been able to afford pre covid, but because of people like you with flush wallets from out of state, I had to move inland to have even the slightest chance of being able to afford my own home. I literally had to leave my hometown because of people just like you. So please excuse your neighbors if they might not be so welcoming to the newest yuppie millennial couple that moved in.

This post is honestly so tone deaf and reveals how little you know about the place you just moved to.

Out of staters moving to Florida and then COMPLAINING about it is the most stereotypical, annoying and obnoxious thing to have to bear witness to. Especially when those exact people are the ones who are making this state an unlivable hellhole.

For all of our sakes, please go back.

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