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(Reason Magazine) Interesting "White lobster" responsible for Nicaraguan town's booming economy, impressive beer consumption   (reason.com) divider line 40
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kingMountain [TotalFark] 2008-02-10 10:53:01 AM  
"If shiat washes up on your shore it belongs to that family. Every family owns their turf," said a Miskito fisherman, "We were at the beach. Everybody had matching towels. Somebody went under a dock. And there they saw a rock. It wasn't a rock. It was a white lobster."

interesting.

 
2wolves 2008-02-10 11:03:28 AM  
Also interesting that a cut goes to the local church.

 
Musicology101 [TotalFark] 2008-02-10 11:10:55 AM  
White Lobster. Sounds like DC's next comic book hero.

 
rocinante721 2008-02-10 12:15:37 PM  
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[insert generic Rock Lobster pun]
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rocinante721 2008-02-10 12:16:20 PM  
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[insert generic White Rabbit pun]
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Kome [TotalFark] 2008-02-10 01:04:14 PM  
Lobsters are red. Some lobsters are blue. And now there's white lobsters. Is the lobster going to be the new US mascot or something?

 
nobozo 2008-02-10 01:10:20 PM  
"The pastors priests here get mad when they don't get their cut from the find."

Pet peeve.

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2008-02-10 01:15:35 PM  
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[insert generic beer pun]
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cheesedinverts 2008-02-10 02:13:41 PM  
I lol'd

 
phaseolus 2008-02-10 02:15:11 PM  
fta: "Law enforcement in Bluefields is practically invisible... The police and Navy have few resources and less trust from the local public. Bluefields is effectively an anarchist nation - no Government, no organised institutions and the rules are made by community groups"

In other words, a paradise-on-earth for Reason magazine subscribers?

 
D'Annunzio 2008-02-10 02:15:22 PM  
I don't see lobsters in terms of color.

 
wildcardjack 2008-02-10 02:17:29 PM  
Possibly the funniest thing I've seen all day.

Drug money has been used to build a school and replace the church roof. "The pastors here get mad when they don't get their cut from the find," says Francisco a court official. "If a member of the congregation has found 15kg, the church calculates 15 times $3500, that's $52,500, and at 10 per cent they are saying: where's the $5250?"

 
ne2d [TotalFark] 2008-02-10 02:18:25 PM  
And these geniuses tell the media about it. I suspect that place will soon be very popular with the DEA and the smugglers.

 
bruce4bruce 2008-02-10 02:19:06 PM  
WHite lobster! I never heard it called that.

 
Rivethead 2008-02-10 02:21:11 PM  
www.lobsterscience.ca

 
wax_on 2008-02-10 02:32:49 PM  
Is that anything like a 'white steak'?

A friend who is in advertising once told me that if you made landed a big client the boss would take you out for a steak dinner and give you an 8-ball. According to him it was fairly common practice in the ad business.

 
CnFlght 2008-02-10 02:34:12 PM  
Nobozo:

Priests are catholic church. Pastors are in protestant churches. Father is pretty much acceptable all around.

Different names in different faiths for the guy who sits up front and tells what jesus really meant to them.

 
radioman_ 2008-02-10 02:37:27 PM  
Why am I not surprised the Catholic Church accepts, nay, demands drug money?

 
Broadside 2008-02-10 02:42:38 PM  
Bluefields is effectively an anarchist nation...and the rules are made by community groups

Wait. Am I missing a step in logic here or is my definition of anarchy wrong?

Unless, of course, they live in an an anarcho-syndicalist commune where they take turns acting as sort-of-executive officers for the week but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting...

 
Deftoons 2008-02-10 02:45:02 PM  
Latest breaking news is the orange/red lobsters are protesting of oppression from the rich white lobsters, demanding equal rights for lobsters of color.

 
ISITTHATOBVIOUS 2008-02-10 02:46:05 PM  

 
YixilTesiphon 2008-02-10 03:19:59 PM  
Awesome.

 
likwidflame 2008-02-10 03:54:43 PM  
It's like prohibition doesn't work!

 
buzzvert [TotalFark] 2008-02-10 04:14:48 PM  
How wierd. I was just reading This CraigslBoobies right before I opened Fark.

 
depmode98 2008-02-10 04:14:56 PM  
I'm still a little confused. How do they fence it? is there some sort of cocaine to cash kiosk or exchange?

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2008-02-10 04:23:46 PM  
buzzvert: How wierd. I was just reading This CraigslBoobies right before I opened Fark.

That was an interesting filterpwn.

 
achristl 2008-02-10 04:39:07 PM  
D'Annunzio: I don't see lobsters in terms of color.

i have a dream that one day, we will judge lobsters not by the color of their skin, but by the quality of the cocaine inside them

 
JSantos 2008-02-10 06:22:17 PM  
You would figure the drug runner's would be looking for their stash.

 
brown25 2008-02-10 07:22:15 PM  
The first time I was in Nicaragua everyone called this "White Christmas" and it was supposedly more common on the Corn Islands (near Bluefields). The islands were said to be completely lawless at the time. Land travel isn't possible between the Nicaragua's Carribean and Pacific coast, so the government doesn't bother to exert much control over the eastern coast unless it really has to. Last I knew they had put one full time cop on Big Corn Island because it's become a popular diving spot and way too many tourists were getting robbed/raped/killed there.

Central American governments don't actually want to police the drug trade, as it benefits them and the country greatly (See Panama City's Skyline, for example). But they have to throw out a token gesture so they can continue to receive money from the US as allies in our War On Drugs.

 
mmmata 2008-02-10 07:23:55 PM  
Still gotta wonder..

Who was the first person to ever eat a lobster? the VERY first one...

ah lobsters..the cockroaches of the sea..

 
Dellirium 2008-02-10 07:52:12 PM  
mmmata: Still gotta wonder..

Who was the first person to ever eat a lobster? the VERY first one...

ah lobsters..the cockroaches of the sea..


It was a down on his luck American Indian, who, rather than eat the smelly fish head he was using for bait, ate the crablike creature that had clamped down on it, and pronounced its goodness.

This same Indian died of venereal disease that he got after the colonists landed and he boned one of their wives.

 
farknozzle 2008-02-10 07:56:43 PM  
I'm going to Nicaragua in a couple weeks so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/no, really.

 
Assimilate This 2008-02-10 08:37:18 PM  
They keep talking about how much money it brings in. Who exactly are they selling it to?

 
Mr. Gunn 2008-02-10 08:38:12 PM  
Well, sounds like the villagers are taking care of what the government won't. Namely, building schools. Can't say this is a bad thing.

 
RiverKing 2008-02-10 08:54:11 PM  
Eddie had known who they were since River Crossing, when the old people had knelt in the street to Roland. Hell, he'd known since the woods (what he still thought of as Shardik's woods), where Roland had taught them to aim with the eye, shoot with the mind, kill with the heart. Not three, not four. One. That Roland should finish them so, complete them so, was horrible. He was filled with poison and had kissed them with his poisoned lips. He had made them gunslingers, and had Eddie really thought there was no work left for the line of Arthur Eld in the mostly empty and husked-out world? That they would simply be allowed to toddle along the Path of the Beam until they got to Roland's Dark Tower and fixed whatever was wrong there? Well, guess again

 
NatashaLynn 2008-02-10 09:29:31 PM  
i know where i'mmm going on my next vacation!!

 
Phelon Hardtimes 2008-02-10 09:46:10 PM  
depmode98: I'm still a little confused. How do they fence it? is there some sort of cocaine to cash kiosk or exchange?

That is exactly what I was thinking. Where do they sell it and to whom?

 
dasc 2008-02-10 10:25:19 PM  
You guys didn't RTFA very carefully. They sell it to the homeless clothing peddlers who wander the beach. Which now that I think of it makes absolutely no sense.

 
Zarkin Frood [TotalFark] 2008-02-11 10:13:47 AM  
"Cocaine is a hell of an economic stimulus"

 
Gravitholus 2008-02-11 12:51:21 PM  
Bales of cocaine
Falling from a flying plane
I don't know who done dropped 'em
But I thank 'em just the same
Bales of cocaine
Falling down like pouring rain
My life was changed completely
By a low-flying plane

/Let's fly Jimbo!

 
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