Posted on 03/04/2004 6:01:53 PM PST by cateizgr8
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:39:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Back during prohibition one of our patrol boats busted a rum runner. While taking them back two of the runners grabbed a .45 and killed two of the Coasties but were subdued. The ring leader was convicted of murder in the Miami federal court but no prison would accept him because of the unpopularity of prohitibtion. So the Coast Guard took the convicted murder back to Base Miami and ran him up the flag pole themselves.
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