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Only in Florida does cocaine drop from the sky
Deseret News ^
| December 11, 1994
| Associated Press
Posted on 11/28/2022 12:36:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's a quiet Wednesday evening, and in a nice home in a nice residential area of northwest Homestead, Fla., a neighborhood Crime Watch group is holding its first meeting.
"So I look up," Ivy recalled later, "and this plane is coming, and it's low. It's VERY low. Then I see a package come sailing down."
And of course the package turns out to be a 75-pound bale of cocaine. Falling out of the sky. During a CRIME WATCH MEETING.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseret.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: airport; arrest; church; cocaine; crimewatch; customs; dadecounty; everglades; florida; homestead; police; southflorida
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An oldie but a goodie. For historical context, this one happened before Free Republic was even founded, if I remember correctly.
No indication, as far as I could tell, whether the traffickers were actually from Florida.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Not exactly Manna from Heaven, but...
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posted on
11/28/2022 12:37:51 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hunter Biden taking parachuting lessons again?
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posted on
11/28/2022 12:39:11 PM PST
by
blackdog
(The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
11/28/2022 12:40:35 PM PST
by
wrcase
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Back in the 80s it was not all that uncommon for bails of pot to wash up on the beach here (opposite end of the state than this story)
It was affectionately known as “seabo”
If you were johnny on the spot you could knick some of it before the authorities found out.
That’s what I heard anyway. π
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posted on
11/28/2022 12:44:05 PM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: Yo-Yo
FLORIDA MAN STRIKES AGAIN!
To: Yo-Yo
Not exactly Manna from Heaven, but then, you're not Hunter Biden.
To: V_TWIN
It was affectionately known as βseaboβOr Square Grouper - which just happens to be the name of a long-standing restaurant in the Lower Florida Keys.
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posted on
11/28/2022 12:53:19 PM PST
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
To: RoosterRedux
Hunter Biden would snort up 90% of it right there on the spot.
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posted on
11/28/2022 12:53:47 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sounds like something Barry Seal of Iran-Contra/Mena Arkansas infamy would have done.
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posted on
11/28/2022 12:58:29 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ββββ β ββββββ βββββββ βββ ββββββ ββ ββββββββ.)
To: NorthMountain
I can guarantee you that if Hunter heard this story, his first thought was “I’ve gotta get some toot tonite.”
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Myself and a bunch of other GIs were minding our own business, drinking at a bonfire outside of Homestead, back in the mid-80s. All of a sudden we got lit up from the other side of a canal, and cops are yelling at us not to move. I guess they’d interrupted a drop, and had people running on the ground. They were trying to figure out how to get on our side of the canal, so I told them. Theyβd have had to go drive about a mile, so I guess they figured it wasnβt worth it.
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:00:25 PM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I knew I shouldn’t have moved...
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:00:43 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If you believe Eugene Hasenfus, theyβd have just landed on HAFB.
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:02:15 PM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: gundog
I am unfamiliar with him, but I wouldn’t doubt it.
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:03:53 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ββββ β ββββββ βββββββ βββ ββββββ ββ ββββββββ.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The meeting lasted for days.
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:20:40 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( *> <*)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
He claimed to have brought a planeload of weed into HAFB. It might have been the weed that was later dragged out and put on display when President Reagan visited.
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:20:55 PM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Not so! It also drops in Mena, Arkansas.
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:26:49 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: gundog
In 1976, I was assigned to Company C, 2/12 Cavalry, and our unit was stationed at Wildflecken, Germany, on a Brigade-75 rotation. While there, that winter, we were on "wargames" with the West German Army and we were moved to the Ludwigshafen/Mannheim area to patrol the west bank of the Rhein to prevent "infiltrators" from crossing the river.
At the time, I carried the M60 machinegun. Late one cold night, we heard sounds from the river. The squad leader checked to see if there were any friendlies supposed to be on the river and, when he was told there was not, we set up an ambush. As the sounds drew closer, the squad leader popped a flare and we all opened fire. I had about a 200-round belt on my hog and was firing 10-round bursts ...
... under the flare, there was some fisherman frantically pulling on his oars for the other side of the Rhein as I was expending the last of my ammo ...
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:33:42 PM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
well, i’ve seen pot float up on the beach...
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posted on
11/28/2022 1:51:14 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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