Cocaine Cowboys
08-30-2008 | 08:41 AM
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Most of those guys just dumped cash into bank accts with business names on them regardless of whether or not they actually did any work/ had a factory/ crew of workers.
I know of two separate businesses that would actually order cheap inventory and throw it in the trash just to have some "costs" built in to compensate for the large amounts of revenue. Both businesses failed miserably when the "revenue" stopped flooding through the doors.
I know of two separate businesses that would actually order cheap inventory and throw it in the trash just to have some "costs" built in to compensate for the large amounts of revenue. Both businesses failed miserably when the "revenue" stopped flooding through the doors.
02-16-2011 | 01:24 AM
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02-16-2011 | 07:34 AM
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Most of those guys just dumped cash into bank accts with business names on them regardless of whether or not they actually did any work/ had a factory/ crew of workers.
I know of two separate businesses that would actually order cheap inventory and throw it in the trash just to have some "costs" built in to compensate for the large amounts of revenue. Both businesses failed miserably when the "revenue" stopped flooding through the doors.
I know of two separate businesses that would actually order cheap inventory and throw it in the trash just to have some "costs" built in to compensate for the large amounts of revenue. Both businesses failed miserably when the "revenue" stopped flooding through the doors.
Jupiter you smokin toilet paper again
02-16-2011 | 07:38 AM
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02-16-2011 | 08:23 AM
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If I could build a DeLorean with a flux capacitor...
I would head straight back to 1980 to Maimi. Then live there for that decade and just do it over and over...
Sure as hell would beat living in Australia in 2011
I would head straight back to 1980 to Maimi. Then live there for that decade and just do it over and over...
Sure as hell would beat living in Australia in 2011
02-16-2011 | 09:01 AM
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I graduated high school in Miami in 81..
You would have lived thru a lot more than just than that..
The Liberty City Riots
The Mariel Boatlift and subsequent Wild West that followed the importing of 100,000 released felons from Cubas jails to miami streets
The Overtown Riots
The collapse of the housing and job market after the drug days were over.
Yes some was fun and exciting but there was plenty bad as well.
Ever notice that when you see episodes of Miami Vice you could throw a rock and not hit anyone on the beach or in downtown.. Thats how deserted and run down it really was.
Had it not been for the turnaround and rebranding of Miami Beach into the trendy "South Beach" and the wave of international money that followed that rebranding of the beach the following decades might have been very different.
Make no mistake I would not trade growing up there for anything and personally hate how rich and shameless Miami has become but it had some rough azz times in the 80s.
You would have lived thru a lot more than just than that..
The Liberty City Riots
The Mariel Boatlift and subsequent Wild West that followed the importing of 100,000 released felons from Cubas jails to miami streets
The Overtown Riots
The collapse of the housing and job market after the drug days were over.
Yes some was fun and exciting but there was plenty bad as well.
Ever notice that when you see episodes of Miami Vice you could throw a rock and not hit anyone on the beach or in downtown.. Thats how deserted and run down it really was.
Had it not been for the turnaround and rebranding of Miami Beach into the trendy "South Beach" and the wave of international money that followed that rebranding of the beach the following decades might have been very different.
Make no mistake I would not trade growing up there for anything and personally hate how rich and shameless Miami has become but it had some rough azz times in the 80s.
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02-16-2011 | 04:16 PM
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Ultimate Popped Midnight Hull.. raised aft freeboard. Race boat was called "Ultimate Osculation"
By the way...
If you liked Cocaine Cowboys you will love Mid Ocean
http://www.amazon.com/Mid-Ocean-T-Ra...6297929&sr=8-1
By the way...
If you liked Cocaine Cowboys you will love Mid Ocean
http://www.amazon.com/Mid-Ocean-T-Ra...6297929&sr=8-1
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