More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on a beach in the Florida Keys after Hurricane Debby battered the Gulf Coast’s Big Bend Monday morning, officials said.
Debby, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early in the morning, carried more than two dozen 70-pound packages of cocaine ashore as winds topped 80 miles per hour, the US Border Patrol said.
“Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys,” US Border Patrol acting chief patrol agent Samuel Briggs II said in a social media post.
Well all right then. I love Florida, but it has some goofy branding.
Debby also kicked up the square grouper population. (Florida slang for marijuana bales.)
ReplyDeleteIt happens. Eh, it's Florida.
Now, of course, Debby also stirred up the oil seeps off the east coast, causing more tarballs to form. Again, a very Florida thing. Florida could be one of the richer states if offshore drilling was allowed on the east coast.
Yet none of those guns all the folks have lost in boating accidents have surfaced. Funny that. :-)
ReplyDeleteThey admit to so many bundles recovered, but maybe a few were not reported, I wonder? That would be cynical I know...
ReplyDeleteI noticed the amount is unclear - one place it says 25 packages of 70 pounds each (which is a LOT), another it says 25 packages totaling 70 pounds. That's a substantial difference.
DeleteEither way I'm surprised they are only claiming it's worth $1 million; have they stopped exaggerating street values?
In the late '70s to about 1980, I belonged to a fishing club in south Florida and fished offshore with a lot of other guys. Everyone had stories of finding square grouper and the white ones or knew someone that had.
ReplyDeleteMy bet is that those were destined for New Yorkers!
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