20 Years ago

Forecast for summer travel was that vacationers would travel, but not as far and most likely by car, with gas prices around $1.16 a gallon.
 
20 YEARS AGO

Ron "Noodleman" Carter, a candidate for the Key West City Commission, was arrested after smoking a joint at a campaign rally on the steps of Old City Hall.
 
20 YEARS AGO

Ron "Noodleman" Carter, a candidate for the Key West City Commission, was arrested after smoking a joint at a campaign rally on the steps of Old City Hall.

I must have been mistaken, but I thought that was a requirement for office down there. :D
 
Here's some shocking behavior !

A disturbance broke out in the Pier House Wine Gallery when a woman lit a cigarette in the nonsmoking section.
 
20 YEARS AGO

The Cuban government reported that "mystery bottles" found in the Keys were some of the 14,930 bottles they used to track the ocean currents in case of a major oil spill.

(In the States we call that littering)

An inmate who walked outside the Marathon jail returned and asked to be let back in before the guards knew he was missing.

A couple became so upset at the loud music from a Duval Street bar near their home that they attacked the band.

(This akin to people who buy a house near an airport or train tracks and bitch about the noise)
 
20 YEARS AGO

The TV show "America's Most Wanted" featured the case of a local shrimp boat captain who was murdered at sea by his crewman.

Responding to an increase in Cuban refugees, the U.S. Border Patrol had agents stationed in the Florida Keys.

A shoplifter was stopped in his tracks when an off-duty security guard drove his car over the man's foot
 
20 YEARS AGO



(This akin to people who buy a house near an airport or train tracks and bitch about the noise)

Our Dumb-Azz (past) mayor said that our "Deaf" population should re-locate to the new housing being built near Toledo Express Airport....:cuss:
People are Stupid....
 
20 YEARS AGO

The man who murdered a shrimp boat captain was arrested after the story appeared on the TV show "America's Most Wanted."
 
Federal and county agents raided a Marathon lobster trap yard and arrested five men and seized 602 pounds of cocaine.
 
20 YEARS AGO

Key West police suspended a dispatcher for habitually smoking marijuana including on duty.

Security for Mayor Tony Tarracino was increased after a man who said he wanted to kill him escaped from a Central Florida hospital.



50 YEARS AGO


Two shrimpers entered pleas of guilty on taking a boat without the owner's permission. The two testified they had been drinking and decided to go to Cuba to fight Castro, but ran aground after leaving the pier at Stock Island.
 
50 YEARS AGO


Two shrimpers entered pleas of guilty on taking a boat without the owner's permission. The two testified they had been drinking and decided to go to Cuba to fight Castro, but ran aground after leaving the pier at Stock Island.

"...to fight Castro..." LMAO. :rofl:
 
The Lundberg Survey reported the average price for a gallon of all grades of gasoline was $1.25, an increase of 71 cents since May 17, which was less than expected considering the recession.

A Miami private investigator was arrested by Key West police for the possession of marijuana.
 
20 YEARS AGO

A U.S. magistrate acquitted a woman who had chained herself to a tree in Peary Court for five days to protest the development of the Navy housing.
 
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