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News & Current Events Apr 27, 2026 at 2:49 AM

2 Florida teens arrested after riding lawnmower through Target

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Video: Florida teens drove lawn mower through Target in viral prank; both arrested, police say
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Video: Florida teens drove lawn mower through Target in viral prank; both arrested, police say
2 Florida teens arrested after Target social media prank, officials

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Paladin_X1_ Apr 27, 2026 +1215
“Used a leaf blower in a Culver’s restaurant the night before” lol well on their way to being a “Florida man”.
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chef-nom-nom Apr 27, 2026 +192
They should get ordered to do a few hundred hours of community service lawn care.
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Even-Consideration-3 Apr 28, 2026 +11
Full offense meant to these individuals but I wouldn’t want either of them doing my lawn with seeing what they constitute as a good haircut.
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Warcraft_Fan Apr 27, 2026 +53
Nip them in the bud, try to do a lobotomy on those idiots before they become full blown Florida man such as naked humping of a construction barrel on a busy freeway or running around freeing fish from local aquarium by smashing the tanks.
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Urbandragondice Apr 27, 2026 +23
Sadly too late. They probably had to use the lawn mower because their parents had taken away their bloody golf cart.
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HauntedCemetery Apr 27, 2026 +10
I have to assume the golf cart is bloody for exactly the Florida reason you would think, roadkill polo
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Salt_Day4586 Apr 27, 2026 +13
Insane overreaction. They’re shithead teens, nothing about this warrants a lobotomy.
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Hell-Yea-Brother Apr 27, 2026 +2
...oddly specific.
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SunshineAlways Apr 28, 2026 +2
And of course there was immediately a pop up ad for Culver’s, blocking the story.
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zeddy303 Apr 27, 2026 +1326
Florida teens, soon to become Florida Man before they know it. Parents must be proud.
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jeffismybaby Apr 27, 2026 +258
The raccoon and gator that raised them could not be reached for comment.
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BoltMyBackToHappy Apr 27, 2026 +45
Gator ate the Raccoon, is crying about it though.
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mrebrightside Apr 27, 2026 +27
Those aren't crocodile tears.
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Saskatchewon Apr 27, 2026 +2
Who the hell would name their son and daughter Racoon and Gator?
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 27, 2026 +11
Raccoon or Gator Senior, probably
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The_Pirate_of_Oz Apr 27, 2026 +8
Uncle Daddy and Aunt Mommy would.
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InsomniaticWanderer Apr 27, 2026 +24
You gotta Florida walk before you can Florida run
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texachusetts Apr 27, 2026 +6
If there was a drug that caused people to do what social media algorithms get them to do we would be having a 1980s level drug war going on now.
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purpleplatapi Apr 27, 2026 +6
I mean my grandfather has stories about pranking his teachers back in the 60s. I guess a teacher drove a Volkswagen Bug and they flipped it on its roof and ran away. I think teenagers have maybe just always been like this. Because there certainly wasn't social media back then.
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CptVague Apr 27, 2026 +2
Poor impulse control and you're given enough freedom to do more silly shit. Tale as old as time.
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thederevolutions Apr 27, 2026 +52
This is sort of funny in a for research kind of way . As long as nobody gets hurt.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 27, 2026 +31
I feel like "lawnmower accessibility throughout our store" is more of a Walmart vibe than a Target vibe, TBH
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hera-fawcett Apr 27, 2026 +16
targets gone to shit since precovid. their prices are high, their products are just as shit as walmart, and they still expect u to want to go in and drop money. they aint shit, so ppl have begun treating them as such
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TheDrAlbrhect Apr 27, 2026 +14
And the self-checkout attendants will scan a three year old as if they suspect they're hardened train robbers, like they were told there’s a scout for secret service agents watching them or whatever and this could be their big chance.
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Sorry-Climate-7982 Apr 27, 2026 +14
They should run for governor. Or why stop there? One has funky looking orangish hair, no?
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ActuallyWorthless Apr 27, 2026 +10
*Parents must be Proud Boys.
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Hayabusa_Blacksmith Apr 27, 2026 +403
...streamers?
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Soft_Retriever Apr 27, 2026 +198
Maybe but also just Florida things
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jadewolf42 Apr 27, 2026 +131
In my day, Florida Men took stolen lawnmowers for joyrides just for the fun of it. Didn't need no social media to be proper dumbasses! (True story, a Florida ex of mine was arrested for stealing a lawnmower while on acid in the 90s.)
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jeffismybaby Apr 27, 2026 +7
Gross did you have him dewormed before dating at least
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jadewolf42 Apr 27, 2026 +6
Deworming AND delousing!
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voyuristicvoyager Apr 27, 2026 +7
The show It's Florida, Man jumped to the front of my brain so fast reading that lmao.
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glauck006 Apr 27, 2026 +2
They took stolen lawnmowers for rides to the (liquor) store let's be honest now. It was "for the fun of it" because they weren't on the way back from the store.
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Mobile-Bar7732 Apr 27, 2026 +3
Should be spelled Flori-duh
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SparkyXI Apr 27, 2026 +38
Has to be.
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bedrooms-ds Apr 27, 2026 +20
Maybe this one is, but far before this web influencer thing, dumb people have done dumb things. I saw a young adult (speed-)skateboarding inside a train, from the front cargo to the last.
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jethroguardian Apr 27, 2026 +11
It's literally the first sentence of the article.
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coondingee Apr 27, 2026 +3
My first thought too so I read the article. Reading is fun for mentals.
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Burggs_ Apr 27, 2026 +4
Nah this seems like some good ol fashioned tom foolery
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the_colonelclink Apr 27, 2026 +30
Nope. It was social media related.
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Small-Palpitation310 Apr 27, 2026 +17
Social media rewards antisocial behavior. It’s insane.
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plan_with_stan Apr 27, 2026 +238
Of all the “Florida” things riding a lawnmower through target sounds incredibly tame
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ChaoticSenior Apr 27, 2026 +50
Ride an alligator through Target or get the hell out of Florida!
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Dramatic-Tell- Apr 27, 2026 +3
If you're not taking a gator to Wendy's then what are you doing as a Florida man. Excuse me, Ralph the alligator is in need of a frosty.
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Urbandragondice Apr 27, 2026 +5
Probably because their parents had taken away the golf cart for their own reasons. If you live here in Florida especially in certain communities you can grow to hate teenagers running around on these souped up golf carts.
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thiseye Apr 27, 2026 +3
oh I'm sorry. I thought this was America.
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senorpoop Apr 27, 2026 +6
We used to do stupid stuff like this all the time when we were teenagers and streaming wasn't a thing lol. We never damaged anything though.
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Big_Lab_Jagr Apr 27, 2026 +5
You misspelled lame
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Thorking Apr 27, 2026 +260
Modern day Beavis and Butthead
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SemicolonMIA Apr 27, 2026 +31
Scrolled too far for this
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Stiklikegiant Apr 27, 2026 +11
One gallon of gas, please.
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ph33randloathing Apr 27, 2026 +17
Uhhhh, we forgot the lawnmower. Ooooohhhh yeah!
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JaronJervis Apr 27, 2026 +3
They do have the same hair colors !
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steroboros Apr 27, 2026 +87
I'm sorry, I thought this was America.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 27, 2026 +15
I didn't hear no bell 
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fredl0bster Apr 27, 2026 +27
It’s the circle of life
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Plantron1 Apr 27, 2026 +48
This is the least heinous crime committed in Florida today. I saw a billboard that said something along the lines of ‘Remember she is your daughter not your date even if you are drunk’ when driving through Florida. It’s a scary place
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chris_redz Apr 27, 2026 +5
What? For real? As a European I’m having trouble to understand. So men abusing their daughters when drunk?
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Balloon_Lady Apr 27, 2026 +10
googled it: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/07/10/anti-incest-billboard-irks-taylor-county-edc-officials/86613322/#
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opaz Apr 27, 2026 +6
No freaking way 💀💀
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Plantron1 Apr 27, 2026 +4
I’m from North America and it surprises me too. I don’t know any details on the situation. I was in Florida for work related reasons, and happened to drive by the billboard.
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snakeayez Apr 27, 2026 +6
I spent 3 years in south Georgia (military so not by choice) and nothing about Florida surprises me
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Junior_Builder_4340 Apr 27, 2026 +3
That's worse than the bondsman sign I saw advertising a "Father's Day Special" for bail, on the side of the downtown Memphis jail.
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smokeyfantastico Apr 27, 2026 +101
Thats just a Florida boy's right of passage
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Persistent_Parkie Apr 27, 2026 +8
I'm pretty sure it's a high school graduation requirement there.
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DifferentSquirrel551 Apr 27, 2026 +52
The controversy is that they're from Georgia. They're being charged with cultural appropriation. 
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joeyguse Apr 27, 2026 +72
I mean, is that even news in Florida? Unless they were also on bath salts and bit an old lady's face off, this is hardly newsworthy.
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dominion1080 Apr 27, 2026 +27
I mean, they didn’t even throw any alligators at anyone.
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Kinasen Apr 27, 2026 +7
"People throw alligators all the time, I'll get lost in the shuffle."
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knit3purl3 Apr 27, 2026 +5
I dunno, my mind immediately conjured up that scene from MadMen with them riding the lawnmower in the office.
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snakeayez Apr 27, 2026 +10
You could've left Florida off the headline and still known where it happened. I need more info on the Culvers incident.
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Steamysauna Apr 27, 2026 +18
Aka, pulling a Ludgate
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damndammit Apr 27, 2026 +6
Pawnee IS the Florida of Indiana.
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eastcoastseahag Apr 27, 2026 +3
Was looking for this reference
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garyadams_cnla Apr 27, 2026 +19
*Mad Men* did it [first.](https://youtu.be/iI2A8bQv2xA?t=65)
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Ornery_Flounder3142 Apr 27, 2026 +10
“He had just gotten his foot in the door” classic Roger Sterling.
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ToNoMoCo Apr 27, 2026 +5
This was my first thought and why I'm not on the "harmless prank" side. This was attempted foot-a-cide. TV made me this way.
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c_girl_108 Apr 27, 2026 +2
It could have ended someone’s career — what if they never played golf again?!
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OldAdministration735 Apr 27, 2026 +3
Came here for this!
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BuddhistInTheory Apr 27, 2026 +8
Rookie mistake. Everyone knows you go to Walmart for that.
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lanathebitch Apr 27, 2026 +12
The level of upset I am at this depends entirely if they removed the blade
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snakeayez Apr 27, 2026 +3
Can't tell from the video. The front door is the biggest victim
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Karutsu Apr 27, 2026 +7
Rockstar, can we get this incident in a day 1 update for GTA 6?
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iansmash Apr 27, 2026 +6
Need a David Attenborough style documentary about the life cycle of a Florida man starting from florida baby
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shakeyshake1 Apr 27, 2026 +21
My first reaction was “I’m glad to see some teens are getting out of the house.”
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ZenAdm1n Apr 27, 2026 +8
You jest but I've noticed in my city, wherever teens congregate is immediately considered a nuisance. People demand it must stop. Then the business establishes rules to stop it. Movie theaters, mini golf, malls... All the places I used to go as a teen now ban unaccompanied minors. Where can they go have fun anymore?
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shakeyshake1 Apr 27, 2026 +3
That actually was my initial reaction. News about teen mischief used to be much more commonplace.   I don’t have any solutions.
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WankSocrates Apr 27, 2026 +2
Mine was a mix of this and "I don't think people should go to jail for objectively funny crimes"
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TeslaProphet Apr 27, 2026 +4
Clicks. Views. Jail. The new American Journey.
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ozairh18 Apr 27, 2026 +5
I couldn’t help but laugh imagining the title
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2HDFloppyDisk Apr 27, 2026 +4
"We thought it would be funny"
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pantstickle Apr 27, 2026 +6
Social media makes the worst people you know even worse.
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james-HIMself Apr 27, 2026 +19
The next generation of kids only know the world of social media. They’re doomed
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FrankSamples Apr 27, 2026 +4
They really need to also introduce social media bans for these kinds of offenses
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henryauron Apr 27, 2026 +4
All for the social media I bet. Losers
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xHAcoreRDx Apr 27, 2026 +5
Is that Beavis and Butthead?
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CobblestoneBoulevard Apr 28, 2026 +5
You don’t do this in a Target. You do this in a Kmart (RIP).
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SpecterLeGhost Apr 27, 2026 +9
I mean… it’s Florida, fork found in kitchen
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PhotojournalistWild9 Apr 27, 2026 +6
We need video evidence mainly for entertainment but to prove it's real
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snakeayez Apr 27, 2026 +3
I found it, Google Luke's name.
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Spirited_Childhood34 Apr 27, 2026 +3
Local teen wanted to ride his e-bike inside Walmart.
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MabelPines_ Apr 27, 2026 +3
April Ludgate rode a lawnmower through a Nordstrom.
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drunkandy Apr 27, 2026 +3
Is this like a tiktok challenge? I was at Target this afternoon and 4 teens were wearing full BMX gear and riding the display bikes around. I left before it escalated.
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JK_NC Apr 27, 2026 +3
Sooner or later, local governments should consider adding “social media enhancements” to criminal charges. Similar to gun enhancement laws that bring harsher penalties if guns are used in the commission of a crime, if a crime is committed for the sake of social media, it would add additional penalties in an effort to disincentivize these reckless stunts.
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McortezLSU Apr 27, 2026 +3
Checks mugs. "Yup, the Broccoli brigades latest act of cringeass terrorism"
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Equivalent-Battle973 Apr 27, 2026 +3
Influencers will forever be the biggest cancer on society..
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Niceguy955 Apr 27, 2026 +3
They start them young in Florida. Can't have "Florida man..." titles in a couple of years if you don't have "Florida teens..." titles now.
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mattyparanoid Apr 27, 2026 +3
“So funny dude”. Said idiots everywhere.
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N8orious234 Apr 27, 2026 +3
Most regular day in Florida
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DisingenuousWizard Apr 27, 2026 +25
It’s always the broccoli heads.
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CharlesDingus_ah_um Apr 27, 2026 +19
They don’t have that haircut
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dapala1 Apr 27, 2026 +7
Yeah not broccoli at all. Its d***** mop style.
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Which-Decision Apr 27, 2026 +2
They don't even have curly hair. 
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WoolooOfWallStreet Apr 27, 2026 +5
I got cousins who were kicked out of Walmart a long time ago for riding the bikes and jousting with the pool noodles
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browneyedgirlpie Apr 27, 2026 +6
You'd think Target would have been happy with the traffic
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Flashy_Narwhal9362 Apr 27, 2026 +5
I’ve never seen a law that says you can’t drive a lawnmower in a target store. It’s almost like one of those electric scooters, but with more horsepower and a little louder.
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 27, 2026 +4
Ain't no rule says a lawnmower can't play basketball
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riedmae Apr 27, 2026 +11
These two arrested for a stupid (but awesome) joyride, yet just ONE F****** person arrested for Epstein files crimes, and there's rumor of a pardon for that one even. This country is f****** dumb.
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jayhawkeye2 Apr 27, 2026 +2
They wouldn’t get off the poor mowers back even after he repeatedly asked them
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lordaddament Apr 27, 2026 +2
Are these the dudes that force fed each other in Arby’s?
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awildboop Apr 27, 2026 +2
lmao i just saw this clip, they broke the glass trying to get inside
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Fallouttgrrl Apr 27, 2026 +2
This sounds like a Jason Mendoza backstory 
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OcoBri Apr 27, 2026 +2
Fun fact: this Target was built on the site of Ocala's original airport when it had commercial service.
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political_memer69 Apr 27, 2026 +2
you can't make this up.
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418_I_am_a_teapot_ Apr 27, 2026 +2
I see rockstar started the GTA6 marketing campaign
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LlamaRS Apr 27, 2026 +2
Shenanigans intensity
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drugswontchangeyou Apr 27, 2026 +2
Woah. Did the irl beavis and butthead forget to listen to the warning jingle before the show? "Some of the things they do would cause a person to get hurt, expelled, arrested, possibly deported. To put it another way, DON'T try this at home". Yet, they still copied the Anderson lawnmower episode.
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Impure_guava Apr 27, 2026 +2
That was Butthole and Joe. I believe they were Oriental.
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xensiz Apr 27, 2026 +2
Probably making 20k a video on tik tok
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ItsUselessToArgue Apr 27, 2026 +2
Mean while the sheriff is being investigated for corruption
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vandon Apr 27, 2026 +2
They probably hope their tiktok bucks will buy them a lawyer
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Evvydayyy Apr 27, 2026 +2
Watched too much jackass I think
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Accomplished_Star_30 Apr 27, 2026 +2
The new popular kids are on some weird shit
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catmath_2020 Apr 27, 2026 +2
My friends and would have totally tried this.
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Thin_Ad_1846 Apr 27, 2026 +2
OMG, it’s the real-life reincarnation of Beavis and Butthead. Heh heh.
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Infra-Man777 Apr 27, 2026 +2
That’s not how you graduate high school there?
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standarddeviated_joe Apr 27, 2026 +2
Trying to get the latest viral video. This is what its come to.
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thefanciestcat Apr 27, 2026 +2
A country where kids see viral fame as their most realistic option for upward financial mobility needs to be real with itself about how much trouble it's in, but we won't.
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Dairy_Ashford Apr 27, 2026 +2
the city is a barnyard
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Beginning_Ad_6616 Apr 27, 2026 +2
This is one of those moments where your parents yell at you…while simultaneously trying to not laugh because riding a lawnmower through target is kind of ridiculous.
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lucasjatreides Apr 28, 2026 +2
Why is something this dumb, also done by a couple of idiot teens, such big news??
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bgreenstone Apr 28, 2026 +2
Based on how pale they are I guess they’ve never ridden that mower outside.
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lexm Apr 27, 2026 +3
Big bravos and butthead vibes on the mugshots.
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Professional-Tap300 Apr 27, 2026 +4
That typo killed me, lolol
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RecognitionOne395 Apr 27, 2026 +3
Of course it’s Florida …
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Jumpstart_411 Apr 27, 2026 +3
And….not surprising. Fits the stereotypes.
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Tortograph Apr 27, 2026 +5
We used to be a proper country smh. Can't even do a few lawnmower laps in the ol' Target no more.
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YogurtclosetFar7737 Apr 27, 2026 +2
Haha this made me chuckle 🙊 
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Time_Possibility_370 Apr 27, 2026 +5
I’m with them. Fuk target
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The_Roshallock Apr 27, 2026 +3
Maybe we're missing a bit more detail but was arrest really necessary? Were they actively destroying property or threatening to harm people? I mean, sure, call the cops to have them kicked out and maybe have them banned from the store, but something about this strikes me as being something of a waste of the time of the court system. To have them arraigned, receive bond and stand before a judge for something this stupid just doesn't sit right with me.
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snakeayez Apr 27, 2026 +3
After seeing the video, I agree. It was daytime and they did kinda ram the doors a bit but didn't really endanger anyone
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BRUNO358 Apr 27, 2026 +2
I wonder what their home lives are like.
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PigFarmer1 Apr 27, 2026 +4
Unsupervised?
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NotObviouslyARobot Apr 27, 2026 +2
Good wholesome fun is what this is.
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adaytoocala Apr 27, 2026 +2
Florida gonna Florida.
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martala Apr 27, 2026 +2
That may fly at Walmart, but Target?
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MinistryOfCoup-th Apr 27, 2026 +4
I'd never disrespect Target like that. They have the smoothest shopping carts. The conspiracy part of me thinks they have the best shopping carts because you are less likely to be looking down at a wonky wheel and it's easier to capture your face on camera for their facial recognition technology.
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ToNoMoCo Apr 27, 2026 +3
I get a little thrill when I get a really smooth and straight rolling cart that is only equaled to my frustration when I have to settle for a shitty rolling one. What I'm saying is target has a lot of pictures of me looking smug
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Captain_Futile Apr 27, 2026 +2
And you blame teens of just staring at their screens.
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ImperfectRegulator Apr 27, 2026 +2
good! places like Korea and Vietnam, have done a great job of punishing douchebags like this for being a f****** nuisance, more states should crack down on nuisance streamers like this
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dickchops81 Apr 27, 2026 +1
Enjoy your time on Kimmel.
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lauraerie Apr 27, 2026 +1
Things like this should never happen in Target. You go to Walmart and it is ok.
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Sweaty_Marzipan4274 Apr 27, 2026 +2
Bring back hard labor punishment
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Blarghedy Apr 27, 2026 +3
Haha, yeah! Those teenagers should be punished by years of hard labor! Haha, justice!
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Bluefeelings Apr 27, 2026 +1
Dumb and dumber
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three-sense Apr 27, 2026 +1
I will be very surprised if GTA6 doesn’t lampoon this now
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vashthestampede121 Apr 27, 2026 +1
Shout out to dude on the left trying his damndest to look hard for the mugshot
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Ftrumpforever Apr 27, 2026 +1
Idiots. Should have chosen Walmart. Amateurs…
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