Man, this is weird, even for Florida…

Dismembered Again

Seems that back in the 1960′s a bunch of the men in town blew off hands and feet for the insurance money. You simply HAVE to read this story at tampabay.com!

Here’s a couple teasers for you:

Once upon a time, the Panhandle city of Vernon was a national laughingstock. Its people were ridiculed as bumpkins and cranks, freaks willing to shoot off their own hands. Then things changed. Time and hard work helped bury the past, and now Vernon has reclaimed some of its dignity. If only that were the end of the story.

Hmmm… tell me more…

The characters are not heroes. They are not even villains. They are merely conniving mercenaries with a tolerance for gore.

No shee-ite, y’all ain’t gonna believe this…

How does a town become known as Nub City? Why did more than two-thirds of all loss-of-limb accident claims in the United States in the late ’50s and early ’60s come from the Florida Panhandle? What was the first event in the bloody chain that led a national insurance investigator to Main Street in Vernon, to sit in a parked car on a hot summer night, watching the maimed walk by in a shuddersome parade?

Ok, I’m not going to steal this guy’s thunder, it’s a great story and you gotta go over there to read about the amputees of Vernon, FL. However, here’s a list of things you can find in Vernon, FL that you can’t find anyplace else:

1. A REAL second-hand store.
2. More one-legged women named “Eileen” per capita than anyplace else.
3. The original IHOP.
4. Every parking spot in town is a handicapped spot.
5. Wheelchairs with mud tires and lift kits and gun racks… up on blocks…