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Post by jstubby2 on Aug 9, 2024 9:09:12 GMT -5
It was hard growing up in the 70's in South Florida not to get involved in the drug trade, everybody was doing it. There was money to be made hand over fist! A good time was had by all. Then the Po Po showed up.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 9, 2024 9:33:59 GMT -5
Could never rationalize money over my freedom. Stayed away from anything illegal. Had plenty of opportunities.
Had a mafia guy that I knew try to “enlist” me once. Told him I didn’t like your retirement plan. He said “what retirement plan?” I said dead or prison. This was in February, he laughed. He was assassinated in July of that year. RIP
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 9, 2024 11:50:08 GMT -5
When you're 18 - 25, you're bullet proof. Just back from Vietnam helped. That said, best advice I ever received about drug dealing was, "When you stop being paranoid, get you a job in the real world." And I did. I remember all my "friends" getting busted back in '73 I said f it and reupped for three years
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Post by jstubby2 on Aug 9, 2024 12:18:43 GMT -5
I always figured I'd I had 1 free ride coming after that I quite!
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Post by gardawg on Aug 9, 2024 15:23:02 GMT -5
not everyone got caught
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Post by jstubby2 on Aug 9, 2024 15:40:56 GMT -5
True dadt😎
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 9, 2024 18:51:34 GMT -5
I wonder how many were fed to the gators
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 9, 2024 19:15:05 GMT -5
Billy Dekle on the top was one of the Cocaine Cowboys from the 1970s out of Lake City. He eventually got busted for bringing in cannabis and was sentenced to life. Obama commuted his sentence at the end of Obama’s term. George Dekle is Billy’s brother. George was the prosecutor that sent Ted Bundy to the electric chair. He was also my mentor. I don’t know Billy and never asked Bob (George) about him. Heard lots of interesting stories in the community though fathers of various locals who ran with Billy back in the day in Columbia and Dixie counties.
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 9, 2024 19:48:30 GMT -5
A lot of stories out of Gulf County and Bay county. Especially up around Overstreet and East Bay.
A section of CR 386 was dubbed the Airport runway. The locals would block the road on both ends of the straightaway while a plane landed, unloaded, and took back off again.
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Post by tonyroma on Aug 9, 2024 21:25:27 GMT -5
There are some old pasture runways in Putnam county , steel cable barriers were put up. Ol’ dude from work said shit was moving pretty good back in the day.
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 9, 2024 22:30:31 GMT -5
I wonder how many were fed to the gators I bet there was a lot of Columbians back in the 70s & 80s. There was a plane load of weed that crashed at the Sylvester airport back when I was in high school. Everybody in town knew who it was.
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Post by anumber1 on Aug 10, 2024 5:47:21 GMT -5
I wonder how many were fed to the gators I bet there was a lot of Columbians back in the 70s & 80s. There was a plane load of weed that crashed at the Sylvester airport back when I was in high school. Everybody in town knew who it was. You ever know Donnie Peacher?
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 10, 2024 6:02:52 GMT -5
I can't remember the name of of the man. He's the one that built the mansion west of town. Drove a yellow Corvette. Claimed to be a private detective. I keep thinking his name was Hufstetler or something close. Wasn't long after the plane crashed he lost his house.
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Post by slough on Aug 10, 2024 6:23:50 GMT -5
Baker county was a big drop zone.
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 10, 2024 6:28:15 GMT -5
Baker county was a big drop zone. I remember the mayor of Newton. I think his name was Terry Musgrove robbed a bank or something in Panama City. Never did see what happened about that.
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