Lots of time poachers are small timers who come down from Miami etc and usually the general consensus is throw the book at them etc.  But this time it was local guys some of whom are well known and looked up to charter captains. They are also white, which I know is opening another can of worms, but let’s be honest it’s the South.

So reading online there is various talk about what great guys they are, and how they just made a mistake (apparently repeatedly for years at a nice profit). The same people who would want to castrate some guy from Miami taking a few short snapper want to you to now give these other guys a chance.

The whole thing is kind of amusing, two of the guys at least on the surface seem to be involved in successful fishing charter businesses.  How dumb is that.  You are making good money legally taking people fishing and on the side you are risking everything to poach lobsters. Greed knows no bounds.

Funny things that have been happening lately:  people getting in all kinds of trouble for shady stuff. I’m sure there is stuff like this happening everywhere but it gets magnified down here because it is a small town, plus there is very distinct line between the financially well off locals and everyone else.

First we have the school superintendent’s wife, Monique Acevedo allegedly buying whatever she wants on the school credit card and not paying it back. The superintendent hired her and she went from a 9 dollar an hour job to one that pays over 100k a year. That not being enough to satisfy her greed, she went on to go nuts with the credit cards and now there are allegations that she held fundraisers for the school and then just kept the money.

It would seem like there would be some checks and balances for this sort of thing, but apparently not. If you are a local and well connected it appears that laws don’t apply to you. If you were drunk and shoplifted a pack of gum you would go to the county jail down here, but stealing possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars has not warranted any charges as of yet.

Catherine took some pictures, there were kite boarders enjoying the 40 knot winds. They wrapped up the southern most point for some reason. Everything is boarded up and closed including the post office.

There is a fair number of locals wandering around looking for something to do.  There were news crews also parked around hoping for something bad to happen so they can film it.

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