Enjoy an exhilerating and furious race up the Cortez with some of the boyz....
Feel the wind in your hair! ...the spray on your cheeks!...smell the cordite powder of .50 caliber machine guns! Enjoy the comfort of staying below
the Coast Gaurd radar...
Then kick back and take a break with some trippy blow...
Total cost: unknown amount of lives.
Ah...don't you just love the changes to Baja?
[Edited on 4-9-2006 by Pompano]
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Cypress - 4-9-2006 at 10:55 AM
Whose boat? Looks odd. Four outboards? Must be some sort of Govt. rig? Ought to be named "Nightmare".JZ - 4-9-2006 at 11:08 AM
Pompano: give us more details about the photo. Where and when.
Is that really
neilm - 4-9-2006 at 11:14 AM
FOUR outboards.... and 8 fuel drums?
NeilPhil C - 4-9-2006 at 11:26 AM
And what are all those bundles?Pompano - 4-9-2006 at 11:42 AM
Yes...you counted right, neilm...8 drums. 4 outboards. But not operated by a goverment, Cypress, but by the lowest form of life...drug smugglers.
JZ..I took liberties with the location of this photo, as it was taken by a US Coast Gaurd chopper off the southeast coast. A second photo shows
holes and smoke in the engines. Too bad they didn't show the holes in the druggers in the boat. Makes you wish they all would fight back a bit,
huh...just one little shot at a Coastie helicopter is all it takes. Adios, pendejos.
It is typical of things that have been happening for many years in our own Cortez. While fishing far offshore, I have come upon dozens of these type
boats and was chased once...where is that M-60 when you need it?
Every now and then some of the Cortez fast pangas are caught. They used to use 26' pangas with big triple motors...saw 3 of those impounded at Sta.
Rosalia. Another time a Mexican Army helicopter machine-gunned 3 druggers in their panga coming onto the beach at San Sabastian.
I hate druggers, but one particular smuggling instance gone wrong was cause for laughter. Just a year or so ago we had a drug bust in Bay of
Conception that included a high-speed spotter plane, 3 boatloads of marines, army and police cars on the highway, and quite a few marines asking to
use our bathroom during the festivities and camping in our backyard. This turned out to be a fun thing...quite hilarious actually. Maybe someday I
will write an account of it. I still chuckle when I think of it. Felipa treated them like her own sons and made brownies, cookies, iced tea, and
gave out rolls of toilet paper. Here is a photo of them loading up to give chase. This time the smugglers lost...big time.
[Edited on 4-9-2006 by Pompano]JZ - 4-9-2006 at 11:50 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Pompano
JZ..I took liberties with the location of this photo, as it was taken by a US Coast Gaurd chopper off the southeast coast.
Southeast coast of Baja? When?Pompano - 4-9-2006 at 11:57 AM
No...JZ. I meant the southeastern coast of the US...Florida area.Cypress - 4-9-2006 at 12:06 PM
A one trip wonder! Sorta what you call a disposable boat. One trip pays for the whole shebang with lots left over for the next run.Pompano - 4-9-2006 at 12:11 PM
Cypress..pretty grim conclusion. Don't think I would care to, thanks.
and on the lighter side of the news....
Pompano - 4-9-2006 at 12:20 PM
These drug-runners from an old Blackbeard the Pirate movie-set picked the wrong craft to outrun the authorities.....PabloS - 4-9-2006 at 12:31 PM
If you camp on the coast north of LA Bay High speed boats at night are common. Last time we camped there it creeped us out so bad we left after 3
nights of a 10 day stay
