Friday, November 23, 2007

Cocaine galore! Villagers live it up on profits from ‘white lobster’
“To many, however, cocaine promises deliverance from poverty. Marvin Hoxton, 37, a lobster diver, once discovered a 72kg bale. Thieves forced him to hand over 70kg at gunpoint but he sold the remainder for $5,000. It lasted two months. “Drinking, dancing, women, the dollars fly,” he rued.”

Thursday, November 22, 2007

No Mary, that was Tuesday!
I thought my Dad’s need to precisely place his stories on a particular day was weird (Seriously, Dad: You had a
Danish in Sainsbury's. It's no loss to the story if I don't know the date), but last night I met a former trucker, who prefaced every tale from his trucking days with the gear he was in at the time. I kid you not. The gear.