Quiz: Ernest Hemingway or “Florida Man”?
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Tied a weather balloon to his gun to make his suicide look like a homicide.
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Died from jumped off a pier into his fishing net.
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Wrote a Farewell to Arms while sitting in a salty shack bar in Key West.
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Read a Farewell to Arms will sitting in a salty shack bar in Key West.
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Uses a lighthouse to find his way home after a night of drinking.
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Disguised himself in bull costume as he tried to burn down his former lover’s house.
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Frequents the bar Sloppy Joes.
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Has all-male expeditions to the Dry Tortugas where they sit around getting mad at their mothers.
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Burned himself while dancing naked in a fire pit for a solstice ritual.
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Obsessed with big-game sport fishing.
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Uses a urinal as a water fountain for his yard.
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Was apprehended by the authorities while also having a monkey cling to him.
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Began the now infamous bath-salt craze that drove some homeless men to cannibalism.
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Made the acquaintance of a sea captain who owned an unusual six-toed tomcat.
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Tried to blow up his neighbor’s chickens with a home-made whiskey bomb during a dispute over a gun.
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Sets up local boxing matches in a home-made ring in his backyard.
3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16: Ernest Hemingway
1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15 : Florida Man (must give credit to @_FloridaMan for many of these news gems)
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