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Maybe it's weirder than your local news, because your local news never finds out about those weird police calls like they do in Florida?

It's my opinion that Florida is weirder, because driving around, the weird signs of weird people (roadside, or on their vehicles for instance) are weirder and more common than up north. Not an airtight proof, but an independent datum not biased for the same reasons as the news.

This is a demonstration of selection bias.

That's still downstream of Florida's sunshine laws. If that happens in your state, there's a chance the media doesn't hear about it, or hears about it too late.

In Florida, the media hears about anything that involves an arrest because it's all published for public inspection. It's not just mugshots but other records too.

The smallest community newspapers in Florida will have a section about who got arrested.

> That seems more weird than my local news, by a bit.

Come to Oregon and we can talk weird.