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Florida business owner guilty of murdering man who urinated on his property
(www.the-independent.com)
I'm gonna go urinate onthis guys property
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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From the headline alone that sounds like a dangerous idea.
Yeah, but look at the username.
If they live in Florida, it tracks.
What's he gonna do, grumble loudly from prison? Really need to find a way to start a viral internet meme where people film themselves urinating on his property.
Careful, or you'll be next
Prosecutors said Hughes had been drinking and watching the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl at the bar that night, along with Brewer. After leaving the bar, Hughes urinated on the rear wall of the building.
Lloyd Preston Brewer III, who owns the building but not the bar, confronted Hughes and then shot him once in the torso, killing him. He later claimed that he had acted in self-defense, telling police he feared for his life when he saw a group of people gathering in the parking lot and noticed Hughes urinating on the wall.
“He came at me in a threatening manner and appeared he was reaching for something on his side,” Brewer told police, according to The Miami Herald. Brewer said he warned Hughes before drawing his weapon.
But prosecutors said security footage and eyewitness testimony directly contradicted that account.
“There is no justifiable claim to self-defense because the kid was never armed and never advanced on the shooter, the shooter advanced on him,” Assistant Monroe County State Attorney Joseph Mansfield said.
He tried the cop defense, right down to the contradicting video evidence. Guess it only works for them.
Honestly lying about a shooting should double the time in prison and qualify it as a murder. There is no world where the gamble murderers should be making is saying they were scared. Guns aren't stuffed animals and people shouldn't be owning them because they're scared. Anyone making that claim to shoot an unarmed person (including cops) should be barred from ever owning a gun because they are safety hazard.
It should be them saying "I was so angry I saw only red, I didn't mean to shoot him" to try and get manslaughter instead of murder.
Everything else aside: fearing for one's life is the single best reason to use a weapon I can come up with, pretty sure that's why it's such a common lie
In Florida, the Big Lebowski could have been a much shorter film...
Ver is de money, Lebowski?
gunshots
roll credits
Ok, but the thug needs to pee on the rug first. I envision it as a sort of rug-John-Wick short where the dude enlists Joey and Walter's Vietnam surplus store arsenal to lay siege to Lebowski's mansion. Joey dies in the battle, of course...
The more I think about it, instead of the credits, it should first be a bunch of slow mo views of Dude getting popped with the “oooo whatchya say” song à la O.C.
Cool. Now do ICE.
Is the dead guy just taking the piss?
No he's leaving the piss
That's always been a really weird phrase, 'I gotta go take a piss/shit' like my man why are you reaching around very confused people as they are sitting down defecating and stealing their waste?
I only take my own, thanks
urine trouble, mister.
Whom amongst us hasn't gone to a bar to get drunk with a loaded weapon?
Least psychotic small business owner.
The next time he will think twice before urinating in lucifer's property
Lucifer gets a bad rep. He was just doing what he was supposed to do.
This guy is no Lucifer.
Good