When the pirates are your customers...

**warthog** · 09-27-2007, 07:17 PM

it rarely ends well.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21010076/

Looks like these guys chartered the boat, killed the crew, ran out of gas on the way to Cuba, bailed out into the lifeboats, and were found by the coast guard. Scary to think about for charter captains. Could happen a lot more often.

**flatNshallow** · 09-28-2007, 04:05 AM

not to be a hater but.... $4000 for a 50 mile trip and no one smells a rat?

**sail'em** · 09-28-2007, 05:42 AM

I'm just glad carl hiaasen will never run out of material. Maybe its the water.

**warthog** · 09-28-2007, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by flatNshallow

not to be a hater but.... $4000 for a 50 mile trip and no one smells a rat?

No kidding. But, we are talking about Miami here.

Sail'em- You live in Randy Wayne White/ Doc Ford country- get with the program.

**mushmouth** · 09-28-2007, 08:03 AM

Sounds like the guy from Arkansas had a lot of legal baggage and was looking for a fresh start. I bet he was going to try to pass himself off as a Cuban refuge in a life raft and get a whole new life in the U.S.

Personally, I think these guys should be tortured until they admit what they did, then executed. But then again I was stuck in gridlock for an hour this AM moving a total of 50 feet so I'm a little biased.

**bklyn** · 09-28-2007, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by flatNshallow

not to be a hater but.... $4000 for a 50 mile trip and no one smells a rat?

Yeah, I don't know what the going rate would be for something like this... it may not be that far above normal. They probably booked at the last minute.

Something about this case resonates with me and I am sympathetic with the crew. Those waters are beautiful, but to be tossed off a boat into them!

The suspects' story is pure horseshit, btw.

**warthog** · 09-28-2007, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by bklyn

Yeah, I don't know what the going rate would be for something like this... it may not be that far above normal. They probably booked at the last minute.

Something about this case resonates with me and I am sympathetic with the crew. Those waters are beautiful, but to be tossed off a boat into them!

The suspects' story is pure horseshit, btw.

A flight would run you about $400 last minute.

But, rich folks like boat rides, and in Miami, like New York, nothing is really THAT strange when put in perspective.