Their new patrol boat stolen?
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Their new patrol boat stolen?
http://www.loopjamaica.com/content/m...police-station
Wow that's a pretty large thing to just disappear.
Law enforcement looks bad on this one. Even if it is not an inside job, it still looks bad.
mi got nuttin to say on this one.......except 10 of dem police boats cost us American taxpayers 1.5 million US
Cool Runnings, Marko
you mean no one believes someone would just randomly steal a 37 ft twin engine boat?
the logistics alone to steal a boat like this are mind boggling. it would take quite the operation to move the boat, let alone steal it.
And that's with a volume/govt. discount. A used 37' foot Boston Whaler Outrage 370 goes for anywhere between $270,000 to $350,000 USD depending on the engine configuration. I'm sure since it was an interception vessel it had all of the bells and whistles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marko
all the bells & whistles... except OnStar....
Thanks Murph, I just finished cleaning off my screen from the beer I spit on it after reading your post.Quote:
Originally Posted by murph
'Free' has no value...
why the hell are us tax payers paying their boats
Ever hear of the failed effort called "War on Drugs"? Also, there is the issue of guns. Ganja goes to failed countries like Haiti where it is exchanged for guns. The Jamaican government needed those boats but couldn't afford to buy them. Probably cheaper in the long run to give them the boats than to suffer the consequences of not having them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy
Peace and Guidance
Not to mention that that the U.S.A. spent 1.7 trillion dollars on an illegal war that it did not need to wage in Iraq. Purchasing a few boats for neighbouring states to help contain the war on drugs in the Caribbean is the least of the American taxpayer's worries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Accompong
There is no containing the "war on drugs". It's a completely failed policy that has backfired spectacularly.
[QUOTE=TAH;173462]There is no containing the "war on drugs". It's a completely failed policy that has backfired spectacularly.[/QUOTE
We'll have to agree to disagree. Is the war on drugs winable? No! Can it be "somewhat contained" IMHO, yes.
Every time a shipment is confiscated it makes a dent. Yes, I know for every shipment that is found out by authorities, thousands of other shipments get through, so it is an unwinable war to be sure.
Cannabis should have never been included in the war on drugs! That's a huge part of the problem right there! Instead of spending time looking for the real drugs they waste wayyyyyy to much time on ganja
[QUOTE=halfwaytree;173463]Yeah, we definitely disagree. No dents are made by intercepting a few shipments, prices just fluctuate to account for the loss. Some gets intercepted, enough gets through, and round and round we go. Meanwhile, cartels are richer than a lot of nation states, and violence and corruption runs rampant. The "war on drugs" is what created the cartels in the first place. The whole thing needs to be dropped. The only way to truly end this cycle is to legalize drugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by TAH
Medicinal cocaine for 2016
Lol
They've had medicinal cocaine forever. I used to work in a hospital pharmacy and the secure room had a whole wall full of bottles. Powder and flake. Can't imagine what that would have been worth on the secondary market.Quote:
Originally Posted by 541lion
The war on drugs IS a failure, in every sense of the word. We spend billions of dolalrs and what is the end result? More drugs, of greater purity, available at lower prices than ever before. Exactly how can that be seen as an improvement over even doing nothing? We are paying billions, and having ZERO real impact. Those who want drugs still get drugs...period.
The impact definitely isn't zero though, it's a net negative. Drug cartels are more powerful and violent than ever, and essentially control large swaths of entire countries now. Failure is a massive understatement. And that's not even getting into the whole saga of crack cocaine in the 80's and 90's, the Iran Contra scandal, governments that we have toppled etc etc etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by Troublemaker_420
But all of the folks that invested in privately owned prisons have experienced a net positive.
Did they find the boat yet? Lol
I saw that boat when I was chilling on the beach at Alfred's a few weeks ago. Hummmm??
Didn't they get like ten of them? Maybe it wasn't the missing one you saw?Quote:
Originally Posted by one-lag
~Moose
Have we had any wars lately that have succeeded?Quote:
Originally Posted by TAH
The only way to get this issue resolved from destroying the world is to go right to the source and destroy everything there..........Whack a Mole for sure.......But.....
Ken
they sure do
It was found in Honduras and will be returned Radios, motor, canopy gone....they were told it will be returned in good condition....this was at the Resort and Tourist Board meeting yesterday. They continue to look for better spot to hold it.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by takinitslow
Does anyone remember the black helicopters that used to fly around Westmoreland in the early eighties? I believe they were part of Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative and Nancy's war on drugs. My wife says she used to get work picking ganja for the farmers (which was a windfall for a poor girl twice a year in rural Jamaica). She said the helicopters would fly over, then land in their fields and they would have to all run into the bush to hide. Another crazy thing she said is every hour or so the farmer would come by and scrape their hands with a knife in order to collect the hash that had accumulated on their hands from picking the sticky buds...all this from a girl who has never taken a drop of alcohol or smoked a skiff in her life...lol