Hockey and Fights on the Beach
JT and I went down to Margaritaville to watch the Canada – US hockey game the other day. It was the only option that we knew of. There was a big crowd there, mostly Canucks. We watched it at the Tiki bar on a big screen TV. The signal was bad and cut out entirely once, but it was fun. I almost fell off the bar stool when the bill of $1,100J arrived for our two Red Strpes.
But the scenery was great, the surf washing ashore, a big catamaran in the water and the regular ‘scenery’ that gathers there every day. I went for a swim between periods, which I’ve never done while watching hockey before.
Of course, the Canadian team won the game.
That evening we went to Sunnyside for drinks. We noticed a commotion down the beach a little. A big crowd was gathered around a Jamaican dude who was having a conniption on the beach. There were four white helmets there. The guy was on his knees yelling and screaming and throwing sand at anyone who came close to him. Then he flipped onto his stomach and was pounding the sand with his fists. Then he flipped to his back and kicked his legs in the air.
Generally, he was extremely distraught. This went on for about forty minutes. Eventually we got the story. Apparently one of the women who runs a craft stand at Roots had had her stand vandalized. She believed that it was this fellow who had done it. She put an Obeah spell on him and what we were seeing was the result of the hex. His friends were standing by but he was yelling at them to stay away because he was worried that the demons that possessed him would jump to them if they got too close to him. Hmmm, I don’t know, I’m just passing along what I saw and heard.
Yesterday afternoon there was a fight in front of Rooms, on the beach. One of the local guys that hangs out around Sunnyside/Myrna’s begging beers from tourists was over in front of Rooms hassling a couple for something or other. He made a comment about the guy’s wife. I don’t know what he said but it set the woman’s husband off, he popped the higgler with a roundhouse right and decked him. People started yelling, which got the attention of some of the other young Jamaican guys that hang around there. They ran over and grabbed the higgler, who was just getting up to engage the white guy. They dragged the higgler across the sand past Myrna’s. The higgler was determined to get back into the fight, so the other Jamaican’s subdued him with a few well-placed punches to his face, then they escorted him off the property out to the road.
I don’t think we’ll see him around there again.
More staged ‘street theater’?
A couple of quick observations:
- There are a lot of Russians in Negril. They fly a Boeing 777 once a week – 350 people – Moscow direct MoBay
- Ahhh Bee’s jerk burger is possibly the best burger on the planet.
Likkle more . . . . .
Originally Posted by Lady Jane
