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spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
7,830
How much does this job pay?

What is a few extra golf balls worth?? When I was diving I new a guy that would dive for golf balls at golf courses. He was in a dry suit that required air pressure from your tank so you can ascend. The rule is that you ascend once our air pressure falls below 300 psi. Far more important when you have a drysuit.

He had a load of balls and made his ascent. Got to the surface, noticed he was below the 300 psi limit. But there were a few more balls to be gotten. He dove back down, ran out of air. He could not inflat his suit. Apparently he did not have the presence of mind to drop his weight belt and drowned trying to kick his way to the surface. Dead because he wanted more balls.
 

RichardO

Joined May 4, 2013
2,270

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
13,270
"Deputies from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office were dispatched to keep traffic moving away from the gator which seemed to be lounging alongside of the road."

Along the causeway going out to Cape Canaveral, there are signs that say something like "Alligators. No stopping". And, yes, I did see at least one alligator in the ditch paralleling the road.
Jim, it's your time for road duty.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
13,270
"But bad at the basic seven deadly sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride".

All I see there is seven good reasons to move to Florida. :)

Ron
They do have a nice native (Seminole) casino with plenty of Lust, Gluttony and Greed that we stopped at on the trip from Orlando to the Keys.
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
5,283
They do have a nice native (Seminole) casino with plenty of Lust, Gluttony and Greed that we stopped at on the trip from Orlando to the Keys.
That means you passed right by the Seminole Hard Rock down the road from me without stopping either there, or at my house.
 
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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
13,270
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article212673589.html
The Lawless C9 Basin

The property lays in the rural C9 Basin, just 12 miles northwest of Hialeah but a sometimes lawless world away from Miami-Dade's suburbs and cities. The region north of Okeechobee Road is a wild collection of farmland, nurseries and quarries — and the setting for unregulated slaughterhouses, ramshackle and unpermitted buildings, illegal dumping and underground cockfighting.

In 2010, Miami-Dade authorities, responding to complaints from animal-rights activists, started a task force to crack down on slaughterhouses and illegal structures in the basin. In all, 20 cockfighting arenas were discovered, and 175 properties were cited for having illegal structures, including the land where Garcia would be shot and killed.

"This is nothing new in the C9. This is historically where it happens," said Rick Roig, the assistant director of the county's code compliance office.
 
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