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This was the ORIGINAL intent of flashmobs. This one took place in South Florida. Sunrise to be exact. In the middle of Ikea. With plenty of Ikea employees participating. I like how they walked off at the end and went on about their business.
See if folks were just doing THIS, nobody would be out here complaining about kids doing and stuff. Alas, we ALL KNOW THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS.
Even the reporter said she wouldn't ride around Miami-Dade unless she was two guns deep...Damm.....
An ENTIRE CLASS OF POLICE OFFICERS were either dead or suspended from duty? Welp....That's how bad they needed cops on the streets. Most of what I am speaking on is in the second video but the first one is dope too.
Here is the beginning of that Time Magazine article....
November. The days grow short, the nights cold. Time to reach for that travel brochure for, where else, South Florida, America's favorite winter playground. Hmmm, let's see now. Here is a picture of palm trees swaying gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned senior citizens of Miami Beach, he in a Hawaiian shirt and she in purple culottes, waiting their turn on the shuffleboard court.
Those snapshots of life in South Florida are as accurate today as they were a generation ago. But they are being crowded out by some altogether different scenes, a collection of photos not found in any Chamber of Commerce travel brochure. Here is a picture of a policeman leaning over the body of a Miamian whose throat has been slit and wallet emptied. There is a sleek V-planed speedboat, stripped of galleys and bunks and loaded with a half-ton of marijuana, skimming across the waters of Biscayne Bay. Here are a handful of ragged Cuban refugees, living in a tent pitched beneath a highway overpass.
South Florida—that postcard corner of the Sunshine State, that lush strip of hibiscus and condominiums stretching roughly from Palm Beach south to Key West—is a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Those three forces, and a number of lesser ills, threaten to turn one of the nation's most prosperous, congenial and naturally gorgeous regions into a paradise lost.
Consider what South Florida is up against:
> When the FBI issued its annual list of the ten most crime-ridden cities in the nation last September, three of them were in South Florida: Miami (pop. 347,000) was in first place, West Palm Beach (pop. 63,000) was fifth and Fort Lauderdale (pop. 153,000) was eighth. Miami last year had the nation's highest murder rate, 70 per 100,000 residents, and this year's pace has been even higher.
> An estimated 70% of all marijuana and cocaine imported into the U.S. passes through South Florida. Drug smuggling could be the region's major industry, worth anywhere from $7 billion to $12 billion a year (vs. $12 billion for real estate and $9 billion for tourism, the area's two biggest legitimate businesses). Miami's Federal Reserve branch has a currency surplus of $5 billion, mostly in drug-generated $50 and $100 bills, or more than the nation's twelve Federal Reserve banks combined. Drug money has corrupted banking, real estate, law enforcement and even the fishing industry, whose practitioners are abandoning the pursuit of snapper and grouper for the transport of bales of marijuana ("square grouper," as fishermen call it) from freighters at sea to the mainland. About one-third of the region's murders are drug-related.
> Since the spring of 1980, when Cuban President Fidel Castro opened the port of Mariel to those who wanted to leave, about
She is down in Miami...Clothes on...STILL A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE..From the balcony over looking the beach...Anyone care to gather a guess as to what 'street' she is on? @ all my Miami connoisseurs. I know that is ALL the people that view my blog in barbershops will be debating. Where she is at. What hotel it is. Etc, etc, etc....So let me know. I have my own guesses as well.
I mean, I could bore ya'll with other stuff. Normally, I am not a fan of 'blonde'. She is one of the exceptions for me though. I think I dig it..IF THIS IS HER.
My middle child when she was 2ish down at the beach in (Lets check YOUR FLORIDA KNOWLEDGE) Hollywood Beach or South Beach? Which one? There are clues in the back that should tell you which beach she is at. Something you won't normally see on one but pretty much always see on the other.
If you have been here (the blog) or you KNOW me, this will not be of any shock to you. If neither of the two previous things mentioned apply to you let me help you out a bit. I kinda have a thing for the Greater Miami area. Like most people who have spent any amount of time there. So yes, a post or twelve may get done just about the place. Deal with it.
Bear with me. In no way am I trying to:
Tell you where you should be going when you are down there. I am sure you have WAY COOLER FRIENDS/acquaintances/sources/whatever than me.
Suggest that I live there. I have visited there before plenty and I want to live there. It isn't a secret.
Post up places that I haven't been while spending time there.
Trying to convince you to go. Either you want to go or you don't. Makes me no never mind..I am not working for the Greater Miami Tourism center so if you say you HATE IT THERE, good for you.
Anyway. Here are some pictures. Just enjoy 'em. Or not. Some (most) of these pictures are older. I did that on purpose. Some of these places are not in existence anymore. If you are one of the people who have either been to South Florida (or live there), I am sure you can point out what is and what isn't in existence anymore..
Let me be clear. I said the Greater Miami Area...Not just South Beach. I will put up pics of South Beach of course, 'cause it IS SOUTH BEACH! The pictures will not just be of there though. There is more to the area than just that little strip of land and the three major airports within 30 miles of it. In case you don't KNOW what that area may entail of, this is what it looks like.
Lets start up in the North in Broward County. Where I am USUALLY at when I go. Let me get real specific for you so you will know I know what I am talking about a bit...When I am there, this is the general area that I am in....
If I move there, THAT IS WHERE I will be. In that area. @ picture above. It is 'pretty normal' for the area. Have had many good times on that road. Especially at that Dave & Busters right off of that particular exit. @ Sheridan St.
These areas are so close together that I won't lie. I don't realize I am crossing over into a whole other city 'till I see stuff like this...
..... the beach in Hollywood Florida.
An African-American History museum in Hollywood Florida.
This is MIGHT be my favorite PUBLIC park, probably in the World. I haven't been to every park but I have been to a few. From the mountains in NC to the ones in the area where I live (North East Coast), this is one of my favorites for sure. I didn't go there hearing about it. I just wanted to play some ball. So I found a park. It is very well kept up.
.....this one is a close second...Westlake Recreation Area Hollywood
We can move further down now...I actually don't really like getting on 95 down in South Florida. I usually head down 1A. So I can see stuff like this...
Or hit up places like this....
I told you I would put some pics up South Beach. I mean I love it there too. Just wanted to give the other areas a little bit of shine too.
I did want to include someplace (common) that I have not been to yet that I would like to go. You see, I am a pretty regular person (From what I have been told, no matter what happens, I will stay that way..) so I like to see the 'regular' stuff of a place. I have not been here to see this yet. I can only imagine what it must look like inside. The outside is a damm thing of beauty though. (Waits for you to 'get the damm joke')
Let me be clear. I need you to SUPPORT the artist whose music you see/hear in the music player here. Some of them are my FRIENDS!! I want them to make money. So while I may put up a link here or there that they didn't 'endorse', it is only out of the love for their music and the fact that I want you to SUPPORT THEM. So please do. Seek out their music. Some of them are VASTLY UNDERRATED and your FAVORITE MUSICIAN loves them. So it isn't 'talent'. It is exposure. Which is all I am trying to give them here..
SO SUPPORT THEM!!!
