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| Another Reason to go Fishing |
| 2004-10-01 |
| A small Spanish fishing boat netted more than it bargained for this week when it hauled up 23 bales of hashish instead of the usual batch of anchovies. The catch off the Mediterranean port of Sant Carles de la Rapita Wednesday was worth more than 1 million euros ($1.2 million), Civil Guards said Thursday. Two other boats separately found two bundles each. The guards said the haul, weighing nearly a ton in total, could be part of a consignment thrown overboard by traffickers interrupted by a patrol boat earlier this month as they were preparing to land. |
| Posted by:Weird Al |
| #2 Just think. PETA should be pleased. They could smoke the dope. Unless there were any fish caught at the same time. Of course, they could smoke those too. (Sorry. I just couldn't resist). |
| Posted by: Weird Al 2004-10-01 11:33:06 AM |
| #1 When I lived in Miami several years ago, there were regular reports of catches of "square grouper"...ie the bales of pot and hash tossed over the side of the smugglers' boats when the feds came calling... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-10-01 10:59:40 AM |