Hutto (middle) flanked by Florida police.
Hutto (middle) flanked by Florida police.

Breaking: Founder of surf-adjacent Florida brand Salt Life arrested, charged with manslaughter, after 18-year-old found shot dead at Palm Beach resort.

No more fishing etc.

If you have been to Florida, or live there, you will certainly recognize Salt Life. Each and every truck, sedan (both Chevrolet and Ford), SUV on aftermarket tires in the northern part of the state is adorned with the company’s signature scrawl which looks like this.

Very cool.

Founded by Michael Troy Hutto and three friends in 2003 as a symbol of their “hardcore fishermen” attitudes who were “living the salt life,” the brand had an extremely loyal following.

Hutto and his pals sold the business in 2013 for 40 million dollars and lived the very luxury Himalayan pink sea salt life until this past Friday when he was arrested in scrubs and non-slip socks outside a Jacksonville, Florida hospital.

Police charged him with manslaughter and gun possession in the death of an 18-year-old woman found shot at a South Florida hotel.

Investigators had been looking for Lora Grace Duncan since Oct. 26 when her parents asked the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office to conduct for a welfare check. On Thursday, she was found dead from a gunshot wound at the Hilton Oceanfront resort on Singer Island near Palm Beach.

It is unknown what, if any, relationship Hutto had with the victim.

Salt Life released a statement reading, “Sadly we have learned one of Salt Life’s co-founders has been charged with a felony. Salt Life sends their utmost sympathies to the family and friends of the deceased.”

Hutto’s family could not be reached for comment, according to the Palm Beach Post, and remained held without bail Monday at the Duval County Jail, online records show.

More as the story develops.

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Lemon Next to the Pie

Referring, in the first place, to the USPS getting screwed to death by being the only federal institution that has to pre-fund retirement plans for future workers. Hence reducing their ability to return a profitable balance sheet. In the second place, it is shit for the delivery guys to deliver pill bottles because they take up a lot of space and don’t stack neatly in bundles. The amount of extra work for ‘posties’ getting meds to 100 million households is mind boggling. And all for “free”.

Lemon Next to the Pie

So it’s the USPS who get screwed again. Typical.

Lemon Next to the Pie

How much did it cost to pump him full of steroids? And how available is his treatment to the man on the streets?

nyc surfing golden boy

fuck this brand.. so many companies tried to copy this shit, live salty, fish hippie, salt this, salt that..

if you buy any of this shit, you are a dumb fucking redneck

Chief Hot stuff

So much money!!
I light my cigars with hundreds

Barrelled

So you’re saying everyone wants to be like the US, the new Mother in town?

f u

I think your problem is you live in a city. I only wear a mask when I enter a store so it’s no different than having to put on a shirt. We don’t have gyms and the restaurants are for tourists and no one is stopping families from going to the beach, so I am barely effected at all.
Accept that I’m totally broke…

The past 7 months were great!!
It was like going back 2o years.
A needed break.

I surf 3-5 hours a day

It’s 5-6ft 14 seconds NNW
Get off the computer and go surf !!

Astrophysicien

I give credit to all are working on this project, I was unsure how the US provides funding for such an endeavor if the executive had the ability or is strictly in the purview of the legislature. No judgement was meant.

Astrophysicien

The US Congress funded the project for 10bn USD In late March with the proviso if more funding is required it would be made available.

Once approval is granted I suspect the vaccine will be quickly distributed . The plan in the EU will provide vaccination to healthcare, police, fire and the elderly and at medical risk first, and I would imagine similar plans in place in the US. 12-18 months to get everyone vaccinated in industrialized countries. Then we find out if the vaccine is effective in providing immunity and preventing transmission and if the virus mutates and this requires an annual vaccination program.

France is doing as well as can be expected, but I suspect the economic and social issues will be profound in the upcoming months/years. It seems to me quite possible our lockdown may last through the holiday season.

I suppose a year or two from now we will be able to judge how we handled the pandemic and hopefully be better prepared for the next time.

I am optimistic that by this time next year things will be if not normal nearly so. Better times ahead!

Chief Hot stuff

You can have my dose.

Brutus

not sure you will get one , so you will probably sent to the re-education farms in the Gibson desert!

f u

You don’t really surf
Or live in Hawaii do you?

The surf had been pumping and we are free to do what we want.
Everything is open.

Why are you winging non stop about the mainland ?

Barrelled

I have no idea what happened to him, no idea if he ever had COVID and no idea what his doctors did. And neither do you. Difference is that I am not a cult follower such as you.

Chief Hot stuff

Follow the scientist.

Astrophysicien

Sorry but no, the President kick started nothing. Operation Warp Speed was announced early in March, pharma had been actively working on a vaccine since late January and early trials had already begun by late February.

Seven companies are currently in vaccine production with 30,000,000 doses ready for distribution . These vaccines provoke an immune response and may or may not provide immunity, no one as yet knows.

Chief Hot stuff

Trump could find a cure for depression and you’d still be unhappy.

Brutus

yeah maybe bleach cures depression….or Trump will become the chief medical officer of the USA…as he knows more than the scientists……and the doctors , he is God?

Astrophysicien

Facts matter Bex

Lemon Next to the Pie

The best cure he could provide is losing gracefully.

JohnsKnees

You’re right, all the pharma companies were twiddling their thumbs until Trump kickstarted the research. I can’t believe they didn’t think of researching vaccines before Trump said something.

Chief Hot stuff

CNN
Nothing works. Nothing works.
Hide hide.
Nothing works.
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Chief Hot stuff

He’s the coolest.
Like the Fonz X 10

Barrelled

Uhhh, did you make this up by yourself or did your 6 yr old help you? Pretty sure the consensus is that Remdesivir offers very little benefit if any. If you would listen to experts instead your fucktard president you might be surprised how interesting it is to live in the real world.

Chief Hot stuff

He’s had Covid and is now feeling 20 years younger.!!
He’s tha man!!!

Barrelled

You are such a fucking tripper Bexy

Chief Hot stuff

I really love him!!

Really?
Chief Hot stuff

You’d get shot for that in France and other Arab countries

Astrophysicien

Pharma and big science look at this as a goldmine, they require no encouragement from government.

Chief Hot stuff

Sacre Bleu!!
No more aspirin for you
Monsieur

Astrophysicien

Bonjour Bex comment vas-tu?

Chief Hot stuff

Mon dieu

Brutus

try ca va………

Jimmy the Saint

Well there is that, but neither Sleepy Joe nor the Orange One is going to change that anytime soon!

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins

Hope he has a very rough 35 yrs in prison. Fuck him.


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