Just like the Company Towns in the good ol' days.

Evans' two labor camps in East Palatka and North Carolina, have been forfeited to the government, and he and his wife, Jequita, a co-defendant, must also hand over one-point-one million dollars.

The government don't like it when you horn in on their drug business.

3. Profit.

Was that wrong?

Should I not have done that?

Was that wrong?

Should I not have done that?


Doping your workers up is perfectly fine, but you've got to pay your taxes, make sure that you use the government approved drugs and slide your local politicans a healthy 'campaign donation' from time to time.

And this is what comes from selling liquor without a license.

Obviously not greasing the right palms

that is freakin' brilliant! i'll just bet he didn't have to attend some fancy ivy league school to learn them thar business skills.

So, he took some homeless people, gave them jobs, and got them high?

/looking for the crime here

Ah, yes, the American South. With its fine old hallowed institutions, like labor camps. Something not normally seen in the rest of the USA.

/fark this, MSNBC's running "Supersize Me", I'm gone.

But...but...Capitalism!

Move 16 tons and what do you get?1



/sold my soul to the company store

I've been to places that hire drug addicts and homeless peoples....Enjoy your meal........Whats the health department for anyways...Bribe taking...

♫♪♫ Sold my soul to the company stooooore ♫♪♫


//Was already working on it :p

Just remember to blame the government when potato and cabbage prices go up next year.

Why bother to adhere to minimum wage laws when you're selling crack? If you're going to break the law, go all-out!

crack addicts make me really sad.

Florida IS NOT typically southern.

IT is parts of NY and Cuba that broke off and re-attached there.

Welcome to the Machine: IT is parts of NY and Cuba

Don't forget Ohio. That's where the name Miami comes from, among other things.

Sounds like a pretty good business plan to me!

Welcome to the Machine...."Florida IS NOT typically southern"

Actually, the northern sections of Florida are very, very Southern. I lived in Jacksonville for a couple of years and can tell you that there are areas there (Palatka being one of them) that are more "Southern" than my home state of SC.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

The government stores drugs in Ft. Knox

/according to the History channel documentary, on tv right now

Welcome to the Machine: Florida IS NOT typically southern.

As soon as you get out of sight of the ocean, most of the state turns into Alabama.

one-point-one million dollars

Was that supposed to be more dramatic like that?

Welcome to the Machine

Florida IS NOT typically southern.

IT is parts of NY and Cuba that broke off and re-attached there.

You apparently haven't been to the northern 3/4 of the state, or have only been to the heavily tourist areas.

Ya know... take out the crack and he is onto something! Open the migrant camps way out in nowhere, and put a convenience store there. Markup the beer and smokes and profit! Brilliant!

I still don't understand why they haven't greenlit the Florida night of the living duck story.

I bet this man sold the duck the PCP that kept him alive for two days in a refirgerator.

/end of threadjack

One Thirty-two and Bush

one-point-one million dollars

Was that supposed to be more dramatic like that?

On television news station websites, you're often reading the same copy that's read by the on-air talent. TV news has its own stylebook, just like newspapers and magazines. Sometimes they hire web editors to translate those stories to article format, but oftentimes it's much cheaper to post them exactly as written by the reporters.

Resin33: take out the crack and he is onto something! Open the migrant camps way out in nowhere, and put a convenience store there. Markup the beer and smokes and profit! Brilliant!

Brilliant? Bullshiat! Try "old school." Company Towns were common in years past - "here's your 'paycheck'...you can only redeem it at the company store!" Where everything was overpriced, of course.

It's a way of actually paying your employees less. And encouraging them to go into debt. To their employer. Brilliantly evil, perhaps.

motherbuster

I did not know that. Now it makes sense. Keeps the news guy from saying 11 million if doesn't spot the decimal in 1.1

That is what the world of business calls an unsustainable business plan.

What is inflated prices for crack thesedays, anyhow?

Anonymooses: What is inflated prices for crack thesedays, anyhow?

Five blowjobs per rock.

/*sigh* back in my day, it was only two...

chrislob, SGT Otter:

I call it Florigia, it's more Georgia then Florida. You're still in the deep south. However, Florigia, is still beter then Floribama.....

One of my first memories that is seared into my head is of watching a movie about the Oakies. (It might have been the Grapes of Wrath but I'm not sure.) A family moves to California for work and the father is thrilled at getting a job and providing for his family. He's busting ass all week picking crates of fruit and bringing them to the foreman to tally. On payday he thinks he's going to get mad cash but the foreman deducts everything, housing, clothing, food, air and they end up owing THEM money.

I started crying (it still brings a tear to my eye) and my mom had to explain that such things did indeed happen but it doesn't happen so much anymore and those were bad owners and they were going to hell.

/My introduction to injustice.
//Probably explains my pessimism.
///I hope these bastards go to hell--if there is such a place.

smoke 16 rocks, what do you get?

Okay. This article might be my favorite thing that I've ever read on Fark. This is truly a classic situation with infinite comic potential. It even has the Florida tag! I think my head just exploded.

The fact that the northern part of Florida is southern is kinda creepy.

oftentimes it's much cheaper to post them exactly as written by the reporters.

I'm more troubled by the idea that the on-air talent wouldn't know how to speak "$1.1 million" if it had been written that way.

"...ordered to pay dollar-sign one dot one million..."

Motion made for the "Hero" tag. Do I have a seconder?

Does anyone else see this??? (Not that anyone else is reading this..)



/jes sayin