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Cubans Try to Reach Fla. in Floating '51 Chevy...
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| Feb 4
Posted on 02/04/2004 10:21:55 AM PST by PaulaB
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To: PaulaB
I wish the USCG would quit sinking these gems. I am sure that they would sell well in the US and give the immigrants some significant revenue if we let them in the US. We let illegals from Mexico, Guatemala, and God knows where else, why not Cubans that want our freedom and not just our money (like the wetbacks from Mexico)?
To: PaulaB
Supercaaaaaaarrrrr.
Suupercaaaaaarrrr
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:37:31 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny - Shakespeare)
To: Rebelbase
That looks more like a '59-60 Chevy than a '51 IMHO.
To: PaulaB
Let 'em in. At least they're creative.
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:38:16 AM PST
by
petercooper
(We did not have to prove Saddam had WMD, he had to prove he didn't.)
To: PaulaB
If they would have just kept the volume down on truck's stero they would never have gotten caught.
To: PaulaB
"They are very brave," Valentina Gras told the Herald. "When you are so sure of what you have to do you cannot be afraid."
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:42:32 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
To: SGCOS
These guys are illegal too.
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:46:12 AM PST
by
Blzbba
To: PaulaB
Pardoname, el Presidente. Por que no amnestia para los Cubanos?
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:49:23 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Regime change in the courts. Impeach activist judges!)
To: PaulaB
Ok. Maybe I didn't read the article well enough, but.....
the first time, these guys stuck the pickup on a raft, so they could use its engine to power a rudimentary propeller, I think, if memory serves. BUT, HOW did they get just this CAR to float? I don't see any obvious signs of a raft?
Am I missing something?
To: OXENinFLA
Yup. That's 2. The first was a Chevy. This is one is a Buick. Don't know where to start, their ingenuity, thirst for freedom or perseverance. The Cubans, that is (not the autos).
To: FourtySeven
55 gallon drums, under the car.
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:52:32 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
To: PaulaB
This is nothing; once they get there, they will sublet the basement to some poor people.
To: FourtySeven
4,000 ping-pomg balls and a really big hairnet.
To: Old Professer
I'm going to have to glue a toothpick between my n and m keys.
To: PaulaB
They need a faster car - ah - boat - er - sea going vehicle.
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posted on
02/04/2004 11:05:24 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: William Creel
Comes the Revolution, and El Cigarro is gone, I fearlessly predict a regular circuit of Straits-Runners slicing the waves in '50s-era conversions. It'll be on cable.
I'd watch that!
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posted on
02/04/2004 11:06:49 AM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: FourtySeven
filling the voids with expanding foam would work really well.
To: PaulaB
![](http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040204/s/r3014003690.jpg)
Eduardo Perez Grass (R), nephew of Luis Grass, talks to Reuters about his uncle's latest attempt to leave Cuba as Andres Lester looks on in Havana, February 4, 2004. Luis Grass, along with nine other men and their wives and children, left Havana on February 2 trying to reach Florida in a 1959 Buick converted into an amphibious craft, after their first attempt to flee Cuba in a Chevrolet truck failed in July, 2003. Perez Grass and Lester were among those who tried to flee the island in the first occasion but stayed back this time due to lack of space in the Buick. REUTERS/Rafael Perez
Lack of space???
To: humboldtconservative
Kinda tells you how great Cuba is, eh?
Why people would want to leave such a Workers Paradise, with 99% literacy and Free Health Care is beyond me...
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posted on
02/04/2004 11:50:32 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
To: Guillermo
If ever an illegal immigrant deserved to stay....
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posted on
02/04/2004 11:57:23 AM PST
by
moonhawk
(Let the beatings begin...)
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