Posted on 01/31/2017 4:44:09 PM PST by ForYourChildren
Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A Florida man was arrested after deputies discovered he was smuggling 24 gallons of moonshine whiskey disguised as water.
The Alachua County Sheriff's Office said the Domestic Highway Enforcement Task Force pulled over Joe Edwards II, 44, a Miami resident with a Georgia driver's license, on southbound Interstate 75, near Micanopy.
Police said they discovered 24 gallon bottles of moonshine in the in the front seat and trunk of the car that had been labeled as water.
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A whiskey tax almost started a civil war in 1794.
Quite a fascinating story.
Now referred to as the Whiskey Rebellion.
This is where Alexander Hamilton went off the deep end.
They had to call up 13,000 militia to put down the rebellion. All because of a stupid whiskey tax imposed by Alexander Hamilton.
Yes that is the point. Government knows that people will try to distill denatured alcohol into liquor and as you say they try to discourage it by poisoning the only alcohols people can readily buy. But the sick things is that they know some people will die from this policy and yet they enforce it vigorously.
But I thought the ban on pure grain alcohol sales was lifted a few years ago. I could be mistaken.
Florida Man strikes again!
#FloridaMan
Should have studied the game films —
Robert Mitchum
The Ballad of Thunder Road
Let me tell the story, I can tell it all
About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey, son he drove the load
When his engine roared, they called the highway Thunder Road
Sometimes into Asheville, sometimes Memphis town
The revenuers chased him, but they couldn’t run him down
Each time they thought they had him, his engine would explode
He’d go by like they were standing still on Thunder Road
And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road
Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load
And there was moonshine, moonshine, to quench the devil’s thirst
The law they swore they’d get him, but the devil got him first
On the First of April, nineteen fifty-four
A Federal man sent word he’d better make his run no more
He said 200 agents were coverin’ the state
Which ever road he’d tried to take, they did ensure his fate
Son, his daddy told him, Make this run your last
The Tank is filled with hundred proof
You’re all tuned up and gassed
Now don’t take any chances if you can’t get through
I’d rather have you back again, than all that mountain dew
And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road
Thunder was his engine and white lightning was his load
And there was moonshine, moonshine, to quench the devil’s thirst
The law they swore they’d get him, but the devil got him first
Roaring out of Harlan, revvin’ up his mill
He shot the gap at Cumberland and screamed by Maynardville
With G-men on his taillight, roadblocks up ahead
The mountain boy took roads that even angels fear to thread
Blazin’ right through Knoxville out on Kingston Pike
Then right outside of Bearden, where they made that fatal strike
He left the road at ninety that’s all there is to say
The devil got the moonshine and the Mountain boy that day
And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road
Thunder was his engine white, lightning was his load
And there was moonshine, moonshine, to quench the devil’s thirst
The Law, they never got him, ‘cause the devil got him first
Law, they never got him, ‘cause the devil got him first
(thunder thunder thunder road)
Domestic Highway Enforcement Task Force?
They were looking for this guy. Probably waited for him to cross state lines.
It’s comforting to know that some Americans still hold to good old fashioned criminal enterprise.
I'm taking bets that his middle name was Bob.
Why is the distillation, transportation and sale of grain products illegal?
I would be curious how the police determined it was not water without consent to search. Having boxes marked water is not probable cause.
It’s a good thread, but I can’t understand busting people who ferment, brew, distill small amounts of booze illicitly.
When my dad was a young man (in his teens) he played music in the old speak easys.
(truth of the matter he didn't like to but it was very good money he said)
Anyway he did talk about moonshine. IF that stuff isn't made the right way it can be a deadly poison.
He said that he knew of several people who went blind from drinking bad moonshine and a couple guys who died drinking the stuff.
His experience with moonshine in the days of prohibition was such that he would never drink alcohol at all.
Was his name Jesse Duke?
Was he driving an orange Charger with the stars & bars on top?
The reason ‘moonshine’ was deadly or made you blind was that the real stuff was cut with solvents or methanol. Jake leg was a result of the same thing. Properly distilled moonshine is nothing but a white rum (made from sugar) and will have no other ill effects than any ‘legal’ booze.
Michigan black cherries.
Or apple slices with a little cinnamon- that one’s called “apple pie”.
Watch the worlds horizontal hold go slightly fuzzy.
CC
If it was made from corn mash it’s more like raw un aged bourbon whiskey.
CC
Hooch, carelessly distilled, already contains methanol. To make it worse, feds would need to get hold of it before it is distributed, and how likely is that?
Tickle moved to Florida?
But was it in the trunk of his 67 LTD hardtop with a big V8?
Brings back memory’s of Burt Reynolds and “Gator”.
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