New survey breaks down the Top 10 wackiest ‘Florida Man’ news stories

What makes a Florida Man, ‘Florida Man’?

That's what Miami-based Injury Claim Coach set out to answer when they developed a quantitative scoring system to rank the Top 10 Florida Man news articles.

"Almost anyone in the know could anecdotally tell you what makes a Florida Man article achieve peak Florida-ness – it usually has a laugh-out-loud headline, involves petty (although occasionally serious) crime, and often includes tropes that are more prominent in Florida than elsewhere (such as its heavy population of alligators or the fact that almost one-third of adult Floridians own a gun and about one-tenth of them are convicted felons)."

They did this by analyzing the @_FloridaMan Twitter account.

The Injury Claim Coach team created the F.L.O.R.I. D.A. man Scoring System to “reliably quantify the Florida Man-ness of any news article appearing on the web.”

Every Florida Man story needs to have : Firearms (or other weapons), Locations, Objects, Reasons for Arrest, Injuries, Drugs and alcohol, and Animals.

Coming in at number one: 23-year-old Joshua James from Jupiter, FL who threw a live, 3-foot alligator through a Wendy's drive-through window of in Loxahatchee in October 2015.

The team says the Jupiter man made the top spot “for his pickup truck, mug shot, and appearance at a local courthouse, and the fact that he illegally possessed the alligator.”