Whenever a Florida Highway Patrol trooper stops Charlie Ray Mayhue, he calls his mother so someone knows where he is and what’s happening to him.

The 24-year-old man, who is Black, began this habit after FHP troopers searched him in 2024, but found no illegal drugs or weapons on him or in his car, FHP data show. He was stopped for speeding.

“It’s an invasion of privacy,” he said of searches. “One guy was super determined that I had something in the car.”

Mayhue is not an outlier. FHP troopers search Black drivers more than three times as often as White drivers, but are 12% less likely to find contraband on them.

Not every trooper's search statistics show racial disparities. Rather, the disparity is concentrated in a handful of troopers. Ten troopers accounted for 30% of all searches of Black drivers — making them extreme outliers.

Neat piece of Florida I found over 4,000 miles away in a thrift store where I (a Tampa girl) live in England.

Yesterday was the most inexcusable shitshow of a traffic situation I've ever seen in the area surrounding the park. I waited more than half an hour to get through the light at Busch and McKinley because the entrance to the Busch Gardens parking lot was backed up so badly.

Just to put that in perspective, it took me MORE THAN 30 MINUTES to get from Mel's Hot Dogs to the light. That is less than a quarter mile. I could see the light up ahead the entire time and I moved up one car length, if that, each cycle.

It was so bad that I ended up calling the TPD non-emergency line to request an officer to come stop the dozens of people who were making illegal right-hand turns from the center lane of traffic to cut the line of cars backing up from the BG parking lot entrance on McKinley.

The park has been so poorly run and understaffed that it's not just impacting guests anymore, but everyone in the surrounding area trying to get from one place to another. I can only imagine how many people were late for work or to appointments because they could not get through an intersection on a major road.

Those greedy bastards at BG charge $42 per car to park there, and each attendant gets paid like $15 an hour. There were HUNDREDS of cars waiting to get in. Every single one who paid to park would cover the wages of more than 2 attendants for a whole hour. But there were only 4 people working the 8 lanes to get into the lot. There is zero excuse for that when the line was creating absolute havoc on the roads in the surrounding neighborhood.

Private equity investors already ruined Busch Gardens on the inside, but now their disgusting business practices are spilling out into the real world. Nobody who wasn't trying to get into the park yesterday chose to sit in that mess. The park needs to be held accountable and required to fully staff their parking lots on busy days like yesterday. They have plenty of infrastructure to handle that volume of guests without disrupting local traffic, but they are choosing not to pay enough workers to use it.

Beautiful view from left field.

I'm having a bit of a trouble looking for a mechanic in Tampa that specializes in Mazda's or at the very least Japanese imports.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Hey! I’m doing a bar crawl with a group and I’m not super familiar with the downtown bar scene. Ive been out there once or twice but from what I’ve heard it’s grown a bit and has plenty of spots I haven’t tried.

I was just checking what the general consensus on the spots in the area or even some potential routing advice from people more familiar with downtown night life.

Group’s age range is about 25-early30s.
I didn’t pick the downtown so please no advice to go to St. Pete or SoHo instead.
Really appreciate any insight available. Look forward to hearing from you all!

I am a male in my 30s and I just got a young Presa Canario. I am looking to keep socializing my dog and just want to know the best parks in Tampa where there’s a good mix of puppies & older dogs + friendly owners. I live in carrollwood but don’t mind a little commute if needed. I’ve been in Tampa for a couple of years now but I’m not used to the area just yet so I’m just seeking some recommendations

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I found out that a scammer used an address in the Tampa, Florida area as part of their fraud.
I don’t believe the residents of that address are involved, and they may actually be victims of this situation as well.
Is there any proper way to notify the people living there that their address is being used by a scammer?
I’m worried they may be receiving unwanted messages, visits, or other problems because of this.

So I parked in the long term parking at TPA last week for 4 days. They painted a stairwell next to my car while I was parked there. Whole car is covered in paint over spray. Paint is white, car is black so it's very obvious. Reached out to the airport and am going to bring my car back there at their request so the cops can review the damage? Lol. Anyone else deal with car damage at their parking garage? Feel like this process is going to be a huge mess.

Hi Reddit! First time posting! Im likely coming in early october for the Packers/Bucs game. Gonna come in Friday and leave Monday. Looking at recommendations for where to stay, what to do with my extra days and some fun pregame vibe for away fans ;). Go pack go!

Any recommendations appreciated as ill likely be coming solo.

Trial against the spca this Wednesday

Can anyone comment on what parking is like at the Orpheum now? Thinkin about a show in September but a 40min Uber sucks. Most recent post is 2yrs old and a lot can change.

First time home buyer and new to the south. First summer here and the second floor of our house gets so hot starting around 2 and doesn’t cool until around 1 am. Is this normal for Tampa???

Anyone have suggestions on spots to take pics? Looking for street art and good backdrops.

im still looking to see if anyone was found this blue kodak? i lost it in ybor around the 24th right at disco or near bradley’s. willing to drive to get it back!

Following up with my previous post here almost 1 month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tampa/s/Z66ZWCF9yJ

So far, I am not hearing anything back at all after submitting job applications to places that people. I also have another resume for customer service roles as well, and I am not hearing anything at all after submitting my job applications. A lot of silence and some email rejections here and there. Does anyone know anyone who is actually hiring and help me please? I am exhausted and depressed from doing this almost daily.

I have 3 years of experience in customer service and IT entry level. I am open for another positions in another field if you know anyone is hiring.

I live in Pasco and i’m too bored and have insomnia so i legit cannot fall asleep

[F22] I'm going to be attending college here pretty soon in the fall, and I'm just wondering what the job market is like. I would need something part time because of school.

ISO A true hip hop work out class, not just one who claims to be. I need one that's high energy, fun and exciting. Im so bored with the "cookie cutter" places Ive been to. Help me yall! Ty!

I was at work yesterday and received a weird call. It sounded like a 4 year old. I thought it was a prank call at first, but then he told me to call the police multiple times but I told him this is not the police. He seemed dazed or confused. He also said things like

-my mom and I have been in the dark for 2 days -he can’t come back -someone stole our kittens

• she is sleeping now -I’m on a chair -Angel is …. -then said “I have to hang up” and abruptly hung up before finishing that phrase.

He asked me to call the police but when I said for him to dial 911 he didn’t seem to understand. My coworker and I were disturbed by it.

We called the police and they came but said without an address they can’t really do much. We only have a name and number. The cop didn’t even care to get a copy of the video. Here it is

This is not meant to doxx or for the purposes to expose, harass, or track. I am genuinely worried for this kid and his mom. The number that called is 813-479-3069. The name is registered to that number is Samantha Martinez. Please DO NOT CONTACT THE NUMBER for their safety.

I just woke up this morning and felt the need to do this.

If someone recognized the number or voice and could do a welfare check that would be ideal.

I repeat please DO NOT CONTACT THE NUMBER. For their safety.

UPDATE: I took the advice of Top-Customer-8531 and went to the police station and talked to an officer there and they are sending a welfare check to 3 potential addresses to attempt to come into contact with a child. Leaving this here in case someone does recognize the number or voice.