Posts tagged with ‘florida’

Vice takes a look at Spring Break partying in Panama City Beach, Florida

An overview of the 8 week period of Spring Break in Panama City Beach, Florida, when hundreds of thousands of students take over the usually sleepy beach town. We talk to the mayor, the chief of police, the owner of the largest club in the United States, and an evangelical street preacher who protests spring breakers with a bullhorn at the beach and says that “Spring Break is just another excuse for people to sin.”

Romney’s giant face crashes into a field in Florida

The Romney campaign hired a pilot to fly a large blimp-like airship across Florida with Romney’s face on it. All was going well until the pilot had to crash Mitt’s face into a field. Alternate headlines: “Romney campaign falls flat in Florida”

Welcome to the future: Florida politician runs attack ad against self-driving robot cars that want to murder your grandparents

As a number of states move forward with plans to get self-driving vehicles on the road, in Florida the issue is being used for political attack ads. A new ad from the Committee to Protect Florida takes issue with Representative Jeff Brandes’ support for autonomous vehicle testing in Florida, not-so-subtly implying that said vehicles are dangerous to pedestrians. Brandes is an advocate of autonomous cars in the state, supporting House Bill 1207, which would allow for the operation of driverless vehicles on public roads.

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