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DeathGrip

DeathGrip

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I have to laugh.The local news just announced that a bundle of pot washed up on shore in Ft.Lauderdale.
The last of news quote......"Police are still trying to figure out exactly where that bundle came from and officials are doing lab test on the stash and it will be burnt."

How's that for journalism?

P.S.I went fishing a little south of there today and the seas were 8Ft. at times.An onshore wind and conditions were ripe for stirring things up......We didn't stick around to long.To small of a boat,22Ft.

Happy Easter Everybody.
 
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Wow, I didn't know they still had square grouper washing up down there. We used to det to NAS Key West several times a year during the early 80's. When we had time off we would go beachcombing in search of a beached square grouper.

bob
 
bob,You're right about that,It used to be common in the early '80s but this is really strange these days.

Did you appreciate the content of the news quote?
 
found one surfing on Isle of Palms one morning before school in the late 70s. My wifes grandfather was always calling DNR when the were dropped in the waterway. used to be pretty common.
 
We saw several out in the Gulf one fishing trip long ago. Now we just find rafts and stolen go fast boats .:rolleyes:

Many years ago there was a big drug smuggling operation. The druggies scattered suit cases and plastic bags (thousands of dollars) along a major road going to the beach. In a pretty major populated area.

It tied up LEO's from every agency while a big arse sailboat came down the river loaded to the waterline with drugs, off loaded, left the boat and where never found. Sacrifice a few thousand to make millions.
 
I kinda liked the reporter's use, not of the term "evidence", but stash ... raising the question as to whether it actually will be "burnt", or just smoked ...
 
I remember in '73 watching DEA off load 13 tons of unbailed pot from a trawler brought in by CGC Alert at Base Miami Beach.

They loaded it on open pickup trucks, and without any covering started driving back across McCarthur Causway toward Miami. Handfulls of pot were blowing out all down the Causway, and cars and pedestrains were picking it up as we stood on the docks laughing.

It wasn't unusual to see trawlers with dry roted nets and a half dozen Sears trash compactors in the hold!
 
As a Miami native and a Broward Co.transplant,I've seen many insane things from the beaches to the Everglades.
It wasn't Miami Vice or Scarface,Let me just say,They were some wild times and I stayed away from it but I knew what was going on.Lots of money was being made.
Call me chicken but I'm not in jail or worse.Most of them...........?
 
DeathGrip got me thinking: I had a friend/client who was an old Mob guy: he told me some very amazing stories about Miami in the '80s.
 
Geez, we never get any square catfish beaching themselves on the shores of the Mississippi....

Fishslayer: I quite enjoyed your heartfelt plea. :D

As for the erudite jounalist, I would hate to be the editor. Remedial English anyone?

Chris
 
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