This just in: Florida LOVES guns. Last month came the figures that showed Florida was on its way to breaking an all-time record in statewide gun sales. And with gun sales come background checks. Sometimes, anyway. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, a record 1 million background checks…

Just two days after SeaWorld took out a full-page ad in several prominent U.S. newspapers to try to quell the damage being done over the Blackfish backlash, a string of activists showed up to the park in Orlando to protest outside its gates. Guests driving into the park were met…

Since Christmas falls in the middle of the week next week, you’re likely going to be hitting up the majority of your holiday parties this weekend, starting tonight. And that means gifts, friends, family, co-workers, egg nog, fruit cake, Secret Santas, and getting totally SLOSHED. So, there’s a DUI checkpoint…

After calling the several petitions launched through Change.org “digital harassment” following the controversy of the documentary Blackfish, SeaWorld is now putting the full-court press on its critics. The Orlando-based theme park has placed a full-page ad in several newspapers across the country, including the Friday editions of the Orlando Sentinel,…

Hollywood Beach is the best place on Earth. It’s not even close. When you’re walking around Hollywood Beach, you’re walking on sunshine. Sure, there are other places in Broward and all parts in between. By why the hell even bother? If hitting up the beach to lie out, take in…

On Wednesday, we told you about how Olivia Sprauer (AKA Victoria James), the Martin County High English teacher that was fired for moonlighting as an “eyecandy model,” had landed on the cover of Hustler magazine. Sprauer is slated to be on the March 2014 cover, and have her own 14-page…

Al Goldstein, onetime Pompano Beach resident and publisher of Screw magazine, died Thursday at a nursing home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. He was 77. Goldstein was a pioneer of smut mags when he introduced Screw in 1968 to a world in which porno magazines had to be sold under the…

And now, for a special Floriderp: Holiday Edition story. Three Grinches almost ruined Christmas for one family when they robbed gifts from under their tree. Of course, they could have gotten away with it if they had just heeded simple traffic rules. Like, obeying a stop sign or two or…

The Satanic Temple of Florida is inexplicably getting the shaft from the state’s Department of Management Services, keeping the group from putting up its holiday display in the Florida Capitol rotunda. The DMS claims to be open to any group or person who sends in an application and follows its…

Classic rock artists and country music acts have been bailing on SeaWorld’s Bands, Brew & Barbecue music fest left and right ever since several Change.org petitions were launched in response to the documentary, Blackfish. And now, the park has finally issued a statement about the petitions and cancellations, calling the…

The Florida Department of Education released its annual public high school grades for the state on Wednesday, and it was mostly good news for Broward and Palm Beach schools. Most schools in Broward received an A or B grade, while the three that didn’t didn’t get anything lower than a…

In pretty much the worst headline you’ll read all day: a man punched a puppy. He also threw it against the wall. And, according to an examination on the animal, it would appear that this wasn’t the first time this happened. Juan Camilo Florez, 26, of Coral Springs, was apparently…

Olivia Sprauer (AKA Victoria James), the 26-year-old English teacher at Martin County High School who was fired by the school for moonlighting as an “eyecandy model,” has landed on the cover of Hustler magazine, the publication has announced. Sprauer had said she wasn’t going to do porn, but obviously things…

A Deerfield Wal-Mart employee did the most Wal-Mart employee thing ever when a co-worker was chosen as Employee of the Month over him. He shot up his co-worker’s car. The two worked at the Deerfield Beach Wal-Mart store on South Military Trail, and when the Employee of the Month was…

Cocaine Megayacht Captain, Jonathon Costenbader, plead guilty to conspiring to import cocaine in federal court in West Palm Beach on Friday. Back in October, we told you about the 34-year-old Costenbader, who captained a 132-foot luxury megayacht called the Secret Spot. He was also apparently captaining around a literal boatload…

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate army that people who still think this is 1861 will tell you was a pretty awesome dude. His nickname was the Wizard of the Saddle. He was also apparently more than a wizard of the saddle, however. He was a…

All these times George Zimmerman has been arrested and then freed is hurting him financially, what with legal fees and all. According to some reports, George is about $2.5 million in the hole. So, Zimmerman has decided to sell an original work of art that he did on eBay. And,…

You know by now that commuting in Florida is about the worst thing you can do, next to having someone punching you in the crotch or slamming your hand into a plugged-in waffle iron. But now our driving horribleness as been documented and ranked. And the findings show that Florida…

Former Chicago Bull, children’s book author, and sometimes SoFla resident Dennis Rodman is reportedly headed back to North Korea on Thursday for a third time. Rodman, who has somehow nudged his way into the good graces of Kim Jong Un as the Unofficial Ambassador of WTF! to the United States,…