5. Now I heard from a guy who told his girl about this one dude who's mother...

It's one thing to know what bothers you, but entirely different is the pulse on what's going on in our community and how we can help tackle those problems. Here are some issues I've come across that could be interesting given the uniqueness of Florida.

1. Police: Manager stole lottery tickets

https://bit.ly/2RgeHgY

What's the sitch? (shoutout kim possible)

Florida Lottery offices were concerned because of discrepancies over the orders of a convenience store's lottery ticket sales. The manager in charge was brought in for attempt to defraud and grand theft. The main reason he was caught was due to an audit that found he was constantly ordering but the convenience store numbers didn't match up with the amount of product he was ordering.

Who's issue is this/Who is hurt by it?

considering this story is being recorded now, when the police stated the fraud situation had started back in 2016, the Florida Lottery offices may need more help with keeping track of purchases and making sure these types of fraud don't occur again. The fear of fraud may cause a pause in handling of lottery tickets which can slow sales down for stores that may rely on them for parts of their income.

2. Tips for selling houses to millennials

https://bit.ly/2WgME4O

What's the 411 on the problem? (Urban Dictionary can explain)

The housing market has multiple factors, one big one being new market shares are being taken up by a younger crowd from a different generation that baby boomers can't shake from heckling. Like come on, I get we have busy schedules but don't smack us for not wanting to spend significant portions of our budget remodeling when we definitely have decoration on point. But any-who, many sellers fear different consumer tastes may turn off potential young buyers of new homes.

Who's issue is this/Who is hurt by this?

First it's an image thing but we can set aside the baby boomer millennial conversation aside for demographics. In this case sellers who are not completely in touch with millennial consumer habits may not be able to sell homes that they wish to fill, while millennials will have difficulties finding help with either finding homes that are well taken care of that don't require entire percentages of their budget to fix. I get that some things are quick fixer-uppers but you can't complain about having a door that isn't fully functioning isn't a turn off. Fix your door landlord!

3. Want to see the future of travel? Head to Overtown

https://bit.ly/2TePNAh

I can't find a funny Ice T question from Law and Order but you get the idea: what's up?

Startups will be getting together and working on pitches and presentations focused on what the future may look like for companies in the travel and leisure industry. Includes things from Google specifically for all things travel related, B2B rental securing for vacation planning, and a whole bunch of other wacky takes.

Well now who really is being hurt here?

I couldn't tell you since I'm not the biggest fan of big business, but any company with outdated knowledge of code and data collection and privacy concerns will need massive employee overhaul to make sure no tech leads to the situations other companies that deal with people's sensitive information have faced. Fiji sounds nice but if Trivago goes on and posts about how wonderfully low they sold me a vacation package my house might be next for America's Next Top Robbery.

4. Mail carrier robbed of master key to access apartment mailboxes in Little Haiti

https://bit.ly/2sPlrsx

-. . .-- / -- .- .. .-.. / .-- .... --- / -.. .. ... ..--.. (Morse code translation, because telegrams. I'm not funny don't flatter me)

An armed robber held a mail carrier at gun point and stole the postal key which acts as a skeleton key for almost all mailboxes from the US Postal Service. With it, the robber can commit all types of fraud and theft with the tampering of someone's mail. both the armed robbery and theft of postal key are federal offenses, while the chance of tampering with mail is also a federal offense that is repeatable with every attempt.

What do we do?

Well in the case of this type of crime, letter carriers are in the most way of harm. the other people who's mail is not under threat of fraud will also be damaged by this. The main issue I see come out of this is the conflict of standardization with the physical keys and security concerns over how those things will be handled should safety measures fall short.

5. You must now be 21 to buy tobacco in this Florida college town, joining a national trend

https://bit.ly/2AYENQr

I was originally thinking of smoke signals as a joke but fat chance there's a keyboard for that

The Gainesville City Commission voted 5-1 on raising the age for the sale of tobacco to 21. This would seem crazy but given that this is a national movement that is slowly trying to gain traction it makes sense that Gainesville would want to tamper down on young adult and teen smoking as it is getting more rampant.

Who's to bear the weight of this undue burden brought upon by the State™?

first off calm down libertarians this is a city thing so you can just hop the city limits and get your Juul pods. The real hurt will be local businesses who provide tobacco products as a major portion of the population will no longer be allowed to buy any tobacco products.

What have y'all seen that can be a hinderance to our local community? These range across some south Florida cities and Gainesville so don't feel limited by your geographic location.