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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours ago

Florida man opens fire during argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay: police

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Florida man opens fire during argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay: police

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours ago
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Peter Riera, 44, opened fire in Port St. Lucie, Florida, during an argument over how many eggs a chicken can lay, according to witnesses.Master Sergeant Dominick Mesiti told WPBF that Riera fired four shots from a .45-caliber Glock at three people who he thought were trying to con him outside Harper...
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  • tal@lemmy.today
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    Harper’s Pub

    All of the parties involved in the argument were said to have been drinking.

    For God’s sake, the British developed technology to deal with this some time back. The Guinness Book of World Records was originally designed to resolve disputes between bar patrons. Just put one in the bar instead of resolving them via homicide.

    https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/70781-most-prolific-chicken

    Most prolific chicken

    White Leghorn (No. 2988)

    United States

    The highest authenticated rate of egg-laying is 371 in 364 days, laid by a White Leghorn (No. 2988) in an official test conducted by Prof. Harold V. Biellier ending on 29 August 1979 at the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri, USA.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records

    Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept in order to settle arguments debated in pubs, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in August 1955.[3]

    https://gwrstore.com/en-us/collections/guinness-world-records-books

    $21 per copy from their own store.

    https://www.amazon.com/Guinness-World-Records-2025/dp/1913484564

    $23 on Amazon.

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      British

      Guinness

      Oooooh, them’s fighting words!

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        well the guy whose idea it was and the MD of Guinness was South African so it gets worse

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      But then we’ll never get a new record for ‘number of dumb questions asked before somebody got shot’

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        Most or fewest?

    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      I think you’ll find the British invention to solve this was deportation to America.

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    I’m beyond frustrated that the article doesn’t mention either of their positions. Was he right?

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      I raised chickens for many years, and I was all ready to be able to weigh in on who was right. A darn shame they couldn’t give us more details

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    Guy looks like a GTA player RPing a hillbilly meth head.

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      At first I thought dude was cosplaying One Piece. With a piece.

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        The Florida version of the Straw Hat pirates. They all have guns, Chopper is an alligator, and Nami is inexplicably pregnant for some reason.

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    whatever amount of eggs this guy says is the right number

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      It’s one or less a day. You can measure the flocks mood by the amount of eggs being laid a week. On weeks with poor sunlight or chilly weather we’d have less than usual.

      Source: 0.45-Caliper Glock handgun.

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    You got to fight for your beliefs.

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    Jesus he’s a walking hillbilly stereotype

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Stereotypes happen for a reason.

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    he looks just like Crash Bandicoot in the thumbnail

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    Why didn’t he just argue about it for days on an Internet forum like a normal person?

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    Tom Sawyer is really into chickens.

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    “Two of the victims were arrested for resisting officers”. MURICA!

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    Is it always the same “Florida Man” or do they take turns?

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      That’s the joke, no? That they are obviously all different people, but we treat them as one person - with the superhero name Floridaman - who’s responsible for all the weird shit.

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        Floridaman - who’s responsible for all the weird shit.

        This is the worst movie in the Marvel universe…

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          can’t be worse than The Marvels. I went legally blind on that one.

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        Have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time?

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      Yes

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      We only hear about the Florida shenaningans because of a criminal transparency law unique to Florida.

      The entire country is a freak show.

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        That Sunshine law just states public meeting records must be publicly available not that every criminal case needs to be made public (as an example just look at any one of the thousands of cases involving police brutality where details aren’t released). This is just a myth that got repeated over and over on reddit for years to the point that everyone believes it.

        This type of shit is explicitly unique to Florida.

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          Thank you for clarifying. I was fairly confident that states were pretty uniform in criminal cases being public records with a few exceptions like underage perpetrators’ cases being sealed. Maybe this is even a federal law?

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      Have you seen Fallen with Denzel Washington? It’s kinda like that, but instead of Azazel it’s Beelzebubba.

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    Two of the victims were arrested for resisting officers.

    Typical Florida police state.

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    Florida back at it again

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    I’m not saying he was right to do what he did, but I guarantee he was correct.

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      I think it was justified

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    Two of the victims were arrested for resisting officers.

    I’m not even surprised at this point.

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