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Hello my name is Alex and I will help you with this. Please note that I am a working Solicitor and may be on and offline as I have to attend Court and meet with clients, even at weekends. As such you may not get an instant response when you reply, but rest assured I will be giving your question my immediate attention upon return You do not need to wait here as you will get an email when I reply.
Could you please explain your situation a little more?
My daughter decided to buy a car online,the car was advertised on Gumtree.It turned out the car was in Spain(first mistake)we were given a shipping agents website which is still up and running! They were very professional with live online chat and plausible working practices.Money was sent by bank transfer(huge mistake) but no sign of car or money was ever seen again.
Do you know which country the agents are based in please?
Start Time: 12/03/2013 08:22:14End Time: 12/03/2013 08:49:06Operators: Ariana Eva Mendes Transcripts: Please wait for a site operator to respond...If you do not want to wait, please click here to leave us a message.Operator Ariana Eva Mendes has joined the chat.[08:22:26] Ariana Eva Mendes: Good morning[08:23:36] Stuart O'Brien: Hi there can you tell me how much in total it would cost to buy and deliver with Reg number DE10KZS to scotland?[08:23:50] Stuart O'Brien: Good morning[08:24:04] Ariana Eva Mendes: Shipping fees was already paid by seller also let e check about this car please[08:24:15] Stuart O'Brien: ok thanks[08:28:10] Ariana Eva Mendes: I have found the car as: Volkswagen Polo TDI,Year 2010,Colour Black,Mileage 37500,Price 2900,VRN:DE 10 KZS Is this the vehicle you are interested in ?[08:29:12] Stuart O'Brien: yes that is the car my daughter wants to buy? how does the payment work? do we pay a deposit then the full payment on delivery?[08:29:26] Ariana Eva Mendes: The seller has already agreed to use our third party services.This means that we will act as a third party and guarantee your payment, same as the vehicle itself. Are you familiar with our 6 steps transaction ?[08:29:48] Stuart O'Brien: no im not familiar with that[08:30:46] Ariana Eva Mendes: Please follow me and I will explain.I will copy paste the steps for you;please read them carefully and ask if any question occurs.[08:30:51] Ariana Eva Mendes: 1. Both parties agree to terms of the transaction,which includes a full and accurate description of the merchandise, sale price, number of days for the Buyer's inspection (2-3 days). 2. We will provide you our payment details. 3. You will have to submit the payment, by bank transfer,into our bank account in maximum 24 hours after you will receive the payment details.The money will remain in our bank account and will NOT be forwarded to the seller until the buyer receives,inspects and accepts the vehicle. 4. As soon as the vehicle leaves our warehouse we will send you the tracking number. 5. The Buyer has a number of 2-3 days for an inspection and the option to accept or reject the vehicle. 6. If the buyer accepts the vehicle, we will forward the payment to the seller. Should you dislike the vehicle for any reason, we will refund you in FULL in maximum 48 hours and return the vehicle to the seller at his expense.[08:30:58] Ariana Eva Mendes: I can also see in the data base that there are two buyers on hold since they are waiting for the bank approval.[08:32:25] Stuart O'Brien: ok that is perfect,we would like to go ahead with the bank transfer as soon as possible[08:33:01] Ariana Eva Mendes: Our policy is first come first serve. In case you have funds available today you can buy it. The other two are waiting to get the funds in order to buy the vehicle.As soon they will get the funds they will contact us so we can provide the payment details in order to make the transfer of the funds.[08:33:27] Stuart O'Brien: we have funds available today[08:34:04] Ariana Eva Mendes: If you want to buy the vehicle and you have the funds available, you must provide us the following details: 1. Full name 2. Delivery address 3. Phone number / Fax Number 4. Email address As soon as we receive your details we will immediately forward you the payment details and payment instructions.[08:34:22] Stuart O'Brien: ok[08:34:39] Stuart O'Brien: Laura O'Brien[08:35:53] Stuart O'Brien: 7 Highfield Avenue,Banchory,Kincardineshire,Scotland,Tel 01330 823699,[email protected][08:36:16] Ariana Eva Mendes: Ok few moments please.[08:37:05] Ariana Eva Mendes: Done can you check your email ? All process for delivery it takes just 5 days also this shipping will be insured.Please note our shipping service it is DOOR TO DOOR shipping that mean you will receive this car in front of your house.[08:40:15] Stuart O'Brien: ok give me 5 min[08:41:09] Ariana Eva Mendes: Yes take your time Stuart[08:42:00] Stuart O'Brien: im trying to contact my daughter,its her email account i gave you.Maybe better if you can send the details to my email? [email protected][08:42:26] Stuart O'Brien: we can do the bank transfer just the same[08:42:36] Ariana Eva Mendes: Ok right now Stuart[08:42:51] Stuart O'Brien: I am working on an oil rig so many miles from home [08:44:33] Stuart O'Brien: Thanks Ariana i got the bank details,now i need my daughter to transfer the money to my account and then i will send it onto your bank[08:44:54] Ariana Eva Mendes: Brilliant news Stuart. Once we have confirmation from our bank same day shipping will be started[08:45:06] Stuart O'Brien: Perfect :-) [08:45:59] Stuart O'Brien: do i need a reference number to say which car we are buying?[08:46:24] Ariana Eva Mendes: You can put your name is better[08:47:01] Stuart O'Brien: ok will do,and just to clarify it is £2900 serling?[08:47:44] Ariana Eva Mendes: £ 2900 NO HIDDEN FEES on our transaction[08:47:59] Stuart O'Brien: Thank you so much for your help[08:48:40] Ariana Eva Mendes: Thank you and keep in touch later. Bye ByeOperator Ariana Eva Mendes has left the chat.The chat is ended.
Money was sent to a bank in spain
What website is it and are THEY (the agent) based in Spain
I have bank details and the shipping company we bpage
web page
Web page is ok
That was in December
What is their web address please?
Give me a moment please
Yes clearly they are in Spain. Indeed the web URL you have given is quite a poor website, looks very nice but thing such as terms etc do not work.
Further I did a whois lookup on the domain and it is registered in Spain
What you need to do is report this to the POLICE.
we were well suckered,kicking myself ever since
Whilst they can not take action directly then it would be for the UK Police to alter their Spanish Police counterparts
police didn't want to know because its not in uk
I think in terms of being suckered - it is a shame when they gave you a name to make the payment to rather than a company that alarm bells did not ring
But do not beat yourself up because you are where you are
You MUST insist the Police take a statement from you.
Spain is in the EU and therefore they could, if wanted, issue an international arrest warrant.
You need to ask to see a senior officer or go to another station
But this is international money fraud - they MUST be interested and take action
I do not expect the Police at your local station to do anything, OTHER than report it to the Serious Fraud Office and pass it to their Spanish counterparts
But do not be satisfied or put up with being fobbed off
ok thanks I will try to get it sorted,even if it saves someone else being stung its got to be worth pursuing
Can I clarify anything for you about this today please?
Yes I agree and it is very decent of you
Even if the Spanish Police only get the domain hosting closed down
Can I clarify anything for you?
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Prayers for Eden Marie
I forgot this section of the board existed, and we already have probably hundreds of people praying for us, but really, we can't have too many prayers. Our daughter, whom I'm now 21 weeks pregnant with, was diagnosed with anencephaly on July 3rd. This is a fatal neural tube defect, and we are going to lose her shortly after she's born if she makes it through birth. She could also pass away before I reach full term, or I could go into preterm labour from excessive fluid (they are normal for now, but she probably isn't able to swallow so once I'm farther along, this could be a problem), but we are praying she stays inside me as long as she's meant to, and that when she's born we are able to hold her alive in our arms. We are also praying that she'll be responsive and that we'll get to see her beautiful eyes. There is a possibility I won't go into labour on my own and will need to be induced, because she's lacking the pituitary gland, however if we make it full term, we are going to be trying to induce labour naturally with herbs before allowing a hospital to induce me (going into labour on my own or successfully inducing with herbs will allow me to birth at the hospital I want, that "doesn't allow vbacs" with my supportive OB and the L&D team I trust and know rather than being forced to go to the large hospital over 65 miles away to be induced with total strangers). This is to help avoid a repeat c-section, and to help ensure a peaceful, calm, and healing birth for Eden and myself. A natural and peaceful birth will also help her odds of being born alive. And finally, please pray for continued peace for our family. I truly can feel when people are praying for me, because waves of peace literally wash over me out of nowhere. I am having more happy times during the day celebrating Eden's life, and cherishing the family around me, than I have low times (though sometimes I just need a good cry), and I'm sure it's only by the grace of God. I've started a blog to help celebrate Eden's life (link is in my siggy), and to help others going through something similar.
Oh, and we are also looking into organ tissue donation to see if it's allowed in the state of Missouri from anencephalic babies, it varies state by state, and I haven't been able to get ahold of anyone yet about it (I tried calling once and emailing, but now I'm going to call and be more aggressive with getting a real person who knows anything about this.) Please pray that maybe we can use Eden's life to help save the life/lives of someone else's baby/babies.
I also plan on donating breastmilk if I can get ahold of a hospital grade pump - I'd like to start pumping colostrum at 30 weeks just in case Eden lives long enough to need it, and I plan to pump afterwards for as long as I'm able to donate. I'm trying to get the local WIC office to let me rent theirs from them, but they don't normally rent it out to pregnant women, or women not actively breastfeeding their child...so I have a couple people trying to pull strings for me, because they know how important donating milk to another mama is to me, but it isn't looking good. So prayers for that or prayers that we can find one really cheap or something would be greatly appreciated.
I know I'm asking for so many different prayers...I'm sure if you just prayed for Eden Marie, God would know what you mean. Thank you so much mamas. :hugs:
You got it mama. Hugs.
I continue to pray for your family every day :bighug:
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Prayers sent:hugs:
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I'm praying :pray:
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Praying for your family daily.
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You got it!
Prayers and hugs!
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I will join with you in prayer.
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The issue is TNR …
which you may be tired of hearing about, but it's one I've grabbed like a feral cat grabbing a helpless little bunny.
And I'm not letting it go.
Keeping up a friendly (I hope) dialogue with Joanne Schoch of the Humane Society of the Nature Coast, I think where our opinions diverge is with this question:
What should you do if you see a hungry feral cat in your yard?
She says it's her duty as a compassionate human being to feed it.
I say trap it and bring it to a no-kill shelter such as hers or, failing that, to Animal Services, where it will have an admittedly slim chance of being adopted before being put down.
Schock thinks that after trapping, the cat can be neutered and returned to the outdoors, which is what TNR stands for. I say that if there's a consensus now that it's irresponsible for cat owners to allow their pets to roam — and there is, by the way, because it's harmful to cats and the many animals they hunt down — then it's definitely irresponsible to allow them to live outdoors full time.
Who else but Lucy Morgan …
could write a letter to the incoming Florida House speaker, Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, in the tone of a mom telling her college-bound boy to behave himself?
Nobody, of course.
Morgan has announced she is leaving this newspaper after decades as a Times reporter and Tallahassee bureau chief. Every employee and reader of the paper will miss her tremendously, partly because we know we can trust every word that appears under her byline.
You might, however, retain a little skepticism about the editor's note above her letter to Weatherford in Sunday's Perspective section, especially the part that said Morgan had definitely retired last week.
I have a hard time imagining that we won't see at least a few more of her bylines. Probably just some fluff that will expose rancid corruption and bring down a lawmaker or two.
Arriving at my son's tennis tournament …
on Sunday morning, and seeing that all of the other parents in the stands were dressed like Green Bay Packers fans, I decided to duck out to a nearby Dunkin' Donuts and treat myself to a "regular" coffee, which, I vaguely remembered, meant that it would come doctored with cream and sugar.
But the amount!
It was like sipping coffee-flavored sweetened condensed milk. And it will fatten you up like it, too, or almost like it. According to the Dunkin' Donuts website, one 20-ounce coffee with cream and sugar contains 240 calories.
In a newly released book — Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Companies Hooked Us — author Michael Moss talks about the "bliss point," which is the amount of one or more of these unhealthy ingredients that most appeals to the palate of the average American.
If this "regular" represents the serving of coffee that Dunkin' Donuts has found to be irresistibly blissful, then our diets are in even more trouble than I thought.
The tournament …
by the way, was at the newly renovated — or more like rebuilt — Crystal River High School.
Having written recently about the lavish public facilities Citrus County has been able to construct, partly with tax revenue from Duke Energy's nearby, soon-to-be-closed nuclear power plant, I was curious to take a look around the campus.
I saw handsome brick buildings, immaculate ball fields and, of course, the eight new tennis courts.
Maybe the county got a bit fat on power company revenue. But maybe, if you heard the pride in parents' voices when they talked about place, you'd think it was money well spent.
Once in Citrus County …
I thought it would be a shame not to stop off at the vaunted Freezer Tiki Bar in Homosassa.
We huddled up next a space heater, which made it just cozy enough to enjoy a cool draft beer with my blue crabs — locally caught, steamed and spiced to perfection, the tender meat dipped in a small tub of melted butter.
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Thermaltake eSports Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard Review and Ratings
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Our Verdict: The feature-packed, good-value Challenger Pro includes subtle key backlighting, a fan, excellent macro features, and more to boost your PC-gaming efficiency. Read More…
- What We Liked…
- Subtle red backlighting
- Palm-cooling, movable mini-fan
- Optional WASD keys have specific texture
- Intuitive software
- What We Didn't…
- Shallow key feel
- Media keys don't work in-game
- Backlit "Tt" logo is distracting
Thermaltake eSports Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard Review
By December 21, 2010reviewed
When you're upgrading your PC gaming life, it's easy to forget about your keyboard in the frenzy of fresh game titles, muscular new graphics cards, and other new gaming hardware. But as any serious gamer knows, the quality of the board whose buttons you're mashing can mean the difference between digital life or digital death.
Thermaltake, better known for its PC cases and power supplies than its input devices, ups the ante for comfort and control in a gaming-centric keyboard with its Challenger series of keyboards. Considering what competing gaming boards cost, the Challenger Pro has an on-target price of $79.99, and it packs a good range of gamer-friendly features. A more basic, "non-Pro" Challenger model runs $20 cheaper and lacks a few of the Pro version's cool differentiators: dedicated macro keys, backlighting, and interchangeable key caps. Both, though, are true contenders in the gaming-keyboard space. We looked at the Pro version.
Design & Features
The Challenger Pro is black, with red backlighting shining subtly through the keys. Running down either edge, you'll find five macro keys (10 total, labeled T1 to T10), which are programmable using Thermaltake's bundled software. The software enables you to program four discrete profile sets of macro functions to the keyboard's onboard memory. You switch among the profiles via a dedicated key at the far right of the function-key row. Near the top edge of the unit, an indicator light (next to the more common Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Insert LEDs) shines in a corresponding color for each set of macro commands, letting you know which one is active.
What really sets the Challenger Pro apart, though, is its adjustable fan. The idea is that this little blower, which you can rotate horizontally in 360 degrees, will keep palm perspiration from slipping up your gameplay. The fan plugs into one of two ports on either side of the keyboard; you can also pull it out and stash it in a recess in the back edge of the keyboard's body when not in use (or for transport).
Thermaltake includes a few other keyboard niceties not often seen. One is a extra set of keycaps, in red and with a different surface texture, for the WASD and arrow keys, making those keys extra-visible if you install them. (Thermaltake also bundles a keycap-pulling tool.) You also get a pair of non-functioning dummy Windows keys, which you can install to disable the Windows keys' functionality. (Hitting this key in the heat of a deathmatch by mistake, and bringing up the Windows menu, can be fatal.) The keyboard is also a USB hub of sorts, with two low-power (100mA) USB 2.0 ports located on the back edge.
Also in the box are a nylon carry bag for the keyboard, plus a smaller bag for USB cables and the extra keycaps—a nice touch. The latter kept all of the small, easily scattered parts in one place.
First Impressions
The 30x30x10mm fan was our first order of business. As noted, you can plug it into either of the 5-volt DC outlets on the top left and right of the unit, and rotate it freely for maximum cooling comfort for your dominant (or mousing) hand. (The outlets are capped with stoppers when not in use.) The fan blew stronger than we expected it to, and it kept our fingers perspiration-free. Precision was further aided by the subtle texture of the red replacement keys, which guided our fingers to them by touch. The backlighting also proved nonintrusive and helpful in a dark room. The keys were illuminated enough for visibility, but not enough to be distracting. The red letter legends glow against the backlighting, just enough to draw your gaze and fingers to the right ones at a glace.
We also liked the profile-switching feature. We were able to quickly switch among profiles for four different favorite games. The color-coordinated indicator helped avoid confusion between profiles, and we appreciated that you can program the macro keys for either macros or single-key-press functions (like weapon switching in certain shooters).
Thermaltake put a lot of thought and effort into adding features that would aid the gamer in pressing the right key the first time, like the textured optional keys and conservative backlighting. However, note that there is little space between the keys in this design, with little tactile feedback to alert the gamer that his or her hand has drifted off the intended bindings. As a result, the backlighting and texture are essential to keeping fingers on target.
In the function-key row, you'll also find a set of dedicated media-file-playback keys (pause/play, track forward and reverse, and the like). These control keys worked when the music player was active, but in-game they didn't work if we were playing music in the background while gaming. And while we're great fans of the backlighting behind the keys on this model, the beacon-like Thermaltake logo in the middle of the wrist rest was not so welcome. It was bright and seemed to angle right into our eyes. It is not controlled by the key above the number pad that toggles the keyboard backlighting. You can turn off the logo in the bundled software, but the next time the unit is connected, the light will switch back on by default.
Setup and Testing
First, we installed the bundled software and driver onto our test machine. After a brief installation process, the software appeared on the screen. It took much longer to load than it did to install.
The software interface is simple. Across the bottom sit 10 fields, each corresponding to a T1-to-T10 macro key. From a drop-down menu, you can choose one of the preloaded macro functions (cut, copy, paste, and save) or create a new one. Thankfully, the macro-creation keylogger is straightforward, with only two buttons for controlling it: Start and Stop. To create a macro function, you hit the Start button, input the keystrokes just as you would in-game, then hit Stop. The tool registers when each key is pressed and when it is released. A delay feature, which allows you to adjust the timing (down to the millisecond) between the keystrokes, proved helpful for some of the more complex commands we programmed. Once you've programmed a macro key, you can load it into one of the four switchable profiles in the onboard memory, or save it to your rig for later use.
We played two games to test the effectiveness of the macro keys. World in Conflict, the first game, features simple key-combination shortcuts. We truncated these commands into macros to test the keyboard's ability to reproduce the required press-and-release sequence to execute a command (for example, holding down Ctrl and pressing a series of other keys before releasing it). We also played some CounterStrike: Source. This title lets you alter options via an in-game command prompt, which made it perfect for testing the keystroke-timing feature and the ability of the firmware to accurately simplify a longer string of keystrokes. We played both games with both the original and red replacement WASD keys and the Windows dummy keys, and with and without the fan.
The software functioned flawlessly. The macro-key recorder worked well and was easy to understand. It required no tweaking to properly execute our simple World in Conflict commands. Some CounterStrike commands didn't work the first time, but after we tweaked and increased the delays between certain strokes, we got the macros working. Overall, the keyboard increased the speed at which we could do more complex tasks in-game.
While playing, we realized one thing we'd have loved to have seen: a way to record macro commands inside our games. Starting CounterStrike: Source, then having to return to the Thermaltake software to fix the keystroke timing, was a little plodding and clunky.
Once we got used to our macro configurations, the added convenience of the macro keys made a major difference in the smoothness of our gameplay. Plus, the red textured keys we installed helped balance the shallowness of the keyset, so we didn't find ourself misstriking much. And the bundled software, finger fan, and onboard memory all worked well.
For the hard-core gamer, these features, paired with a moderate price ($79.99 direct from Thermaltake), make the eSports Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard perfect for getting a leg up on the competition. Even more enticing: Some online resellers were carrying this model for $10 to $20 less as we wrote this. At under $60, this is one of the better gaming-keyboard values out there, provided you don't mind a relatively shallow key feel.
Thermaltake eSports Challenger Pro Gaming Keyboard
Our Verdict: The feature-packed, good-value Challenger Pro includes subtle key backlighting, a fan, excellent macro features, and more to boost your PC-gaming efficiency.
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The new project Gorillaz, thundered with his two cartoon clips and got them in the first place of all world charts – from the standard.
In recent years, musicians becoming boring just to do what you love – writing songs and perform them at concerts. Increasingly, they are trying their creativity to present outside the box.
Some see this as exclusively evil grin of show business – they say, without the beautiful legend is glorified. Others say that these musicians are just extraordinary flight of fancy and the desire to create not just music. Who is right, it is difficult to understand. But damn interesting!
The new project Gorillaz, thundered with his two cartoon clips and got them in the first place of all the world charts of this series. The idea of creation belongs to one cult producer Dan Nakamura, who went and invited Damon Albern (the leader of the group BLUR), Miho Hatori (from Sino-American team CIBO MATTO), kid Koala (DJ), Del ze Funky nicknamed Homosapien (rapper), Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth (TALKING HEADS) and Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club).
By the way, the names of these people were declassified recently. And before that, according to the official version of the legend, members of this cyber-rap-pop-house-punk-hip-hop-reggae-jazz collective (the key word here – "cyber") was vocalist and keyboard player, and at the same time a dreamer and a romantic 2D; bassist and a Satanist Murdoc; drummer and rapper Russell; guitarist and karate (ten years old!) named Noodle. Their images were created by artist Jami Hewlett Most of his time these creatures spend on the Internet, where virtual hosts concerts, conferences, presentations and interviews. If anyone now not understand, then clarify that Gorillaz is an animated, simply, a cartoon and a Studio only project.
The real part already gave one loud concert in Europe, which was attended by a crowd of newfound admirers. However, despite heart-rending appeals of the public, "Show me your face!", the musicians never came out from behind the white screen onto which were projected images of your favorite "gorillas" comic book. And only occasionally of the musicians shone a searchlight – their shadows could be seen on the screen…
So, the four musicians managed at the turn of centuries to invent a completely new style in modern music. Crossed American and British culture, they got something that could be called British-American retro-country with elements of folk and all kinds of pastiches. Gorillaz is a completely new sound, manner of execution and filing.
Of course, not without a follow, and catch yourself thinking that IT's something like: buck (Re Hash), Morphine (Double Bass) and even Primal Scream (M1 A1). But who said that's bad? The first Gorillaz album of the same name, which was launched in late March last year in London, in the first place, should be considered as parody. A parody of everything that has happened in music over the last hundred years. In other words, its story told with a grin. Such albums appear once in ten years. No wonder the Gorillaz called "super group of the 21st century."
Place of birth: Stoke-on-Trent
Age: 35 years
Hobbies: to offend 2D
The leader of the group Gorillaz. He is ugly, even horrible just, his face expresses otherworldly brutality and energy vampirism, eyes filled with a cruel prank, and the teeth resemble the teeth of a rusty trap.
Bassist self-taught, prefer everything in life to achieve. His great aim is rapidly changing. But his whole being expressing herself in music, which he is given, without remainder, completely departing into the depths of her, sometimes hardened, souls. Externally it is rough and vulgar, but inside Murdoch burns the eternal flame, able to heat the heart of any. Owns a desire to be first everywhere, no matter in what ways.
Place of birth: Crawley
Age: 23 years
Fate was cruel to 2D. In his youth, quietly hurt on keyboards, cute, skinny Stu-Pot he worked as a Junior employee in the Mall, selling elektroorgana. But his life changed dramatically when Murdock flew his car through a storefront window: So Stu-Pot had lost the first eye. After some time, he was catapulted straight through the windscreen of the car Murdoch (when you attempt to dramatically expand the car), while losing the other eye, and the memory completely, becoming a walking zombie with a cute appearance.
Stu-Pot has changed the name, becoming now 2-D (2 "dents", ie 2 "hole"). The wizard of keyboard instruments, maniac tunes, virtuoso, wall graffiti, he's maddening crowds of fans and his angelic voice, and his appearance, radiating kindness.
Place of birth: Osaka (Japan)
Age: 10 years
Loves: soft toys, pokemon, toys, yo-yo, my new hat-aural, rice and noodles.
One day the doors of the members of the band Gorillaz dropped the food container, which was lovely, small, unusual miracle is a mischievous, frisky Japanese girl, Asian Princess with a guitar in his hands.
Bringing children into a state of shock, she flew out of the box, the restless shouting and punctuating his speech kick-ass guitar party. And since it is at this point the band really missed a guitarist, a bustling establishment was very welcome.
This is too alive, lively, but a cold-blooded person constantly saying something in an incomprehensible for guys language and the English knew only the word "noodle", which translated to English means "noodles", which she devoured with great appetite, and in incredible quantities. Members of the group and called his guest – Noodle. And soon her unstoppable and unfathomable in music has captured the hearts of not only group members, but also charmed the audience.
Place of birth: new York (USA)
Age: 25 years
Likes: to eat
The great and terrible follower of percussion instruments, originally from new York and everything else, African-American, loves hip-hop. Music stimulated him, helped to go through life. Russell was in a group of talented street musicians, rappers and DJs, but happiness, as in any fairy tale, was short-lived: during a random shooting on the night street tragically died all friends of Russell, who miraculously survived. And the souls of the dead comrades moved in his young body. Since then, a ghostly veil of blue haze covered the large, sad his eyes, heart and soul crept into the fog and uncertainty, but they brought Russell the great talents of rappers, DJs, hip-hoppers, and drummers.
A chance meeting with Russell Mardakan became a milestone in rock history, as "gorillas" there was a third party. Russell, major, reliable, steady, like a wardrobe, is a defender, hope and support in the group. It's calm, level-headed, highly educated, always polite and considerate young man, an exemplary musician, friend and comrade. He is the safe network, which withstands any tension in the group. Women wins its reliability, men – solidity, hardness and determination.


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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – A man from Youngstown is facing several drug charges following a raid on the city's north side Wednesday.
Police were serving a search warrant about 5 p.m. at a home on Forestview Drive when they found two baggies of cocaine, two baggies of fentanyl, heroin, three digital scales, marijuana, and $1,436 in cash, according to a police report.
Officers arrested 31-year-old Antonio Crockett at the scene. He is charged with several counts of drug possession. The booking information from the Mahoning County Jail also lists an illegal conveyance of firearms charge, but the police report did not indicate that violation.
About two hours later, just before 7 p.m., officers raided a house in the 1700 block of Wellington Ave. Several drugs, including crack cocaine, Tramadol and alprazolam pills were seized, according to a police report. A digital scale and $540 in cash were also found, the report stated.
Police arrested 23-year-old Staffon Hall. He is charged with drug possession and had an outstanding warant.


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Most would say that he wasn�t great and, though he might not like to admit it, he wasn�t. Instead he was content to surround himself with greatness, to lead others in fulfilling their potential.
No- content is too soft, too gentle a word for what he felt.
No- he glorified his role, loving the hunt to find future leaders and superstars. He enjoyed finding the potential in those that others had passed over or judged prematurely and guiding them on their path in life. He created a place for success, a place that celebrated greatness, uniqueness, and handpicked those who entered.
And, when his pupils left his little nest and made their own way in the world, they always remembered him. Him, the one who had taken them under his wing. Him, the one who had listened to their plans long after everyone else had stopped. Him, who had seen their potential.
Him, the shining beacon of their past.
Yes, he wasn�t great but he had seen many become it. And that was enough for him.
For now.
Fear can make a rational man irrational, a calm man shivering and scared.
It can force the mind to create things that aren�t really there, great gapping illusions that leap from the smallest shadow and arise from the slightest sound.
It is both man�s greatest strength and its most dangerous weakness.
A man is named brave if he can face his fears and conquer them.
He was not a brave man.
He was much more at home in a warm castle room stirring his potions than on a cold, damp battlefield dodging curses.
He was not at all like Minerva, confident and stubborn in the face of adversity. He was not at all like Filius, quick with a wand and a master with spells. He was not at all like Poppy, calm in times of distress and defiant in search of healing.
Instead he was terrified.
Which was why it was incredibly stupid of him to be dueling He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, especially while wearing his silk pajamas. Goblin-made armor would have been much more suitable, for its thick and spell-resistant metal would have kept him safe.
Well, as safe as you could be while in the midst of a battle and dueling a Dark Lord.
He had seen Minerva�s slight widening of the eyes and the triumphant curve of her lip when she had seen him storming the front steps of the castle with reinforcements from Hogsmeade and the greater Wizarding world. She had obviously expected him to disappear after he led the under-age students to safety�he had been very tempted. To be safe from harm, safe from death, safe from Voldemort� It would have been the right thing to do.
But no, he had been worried about those students he had left behind. He had been worried about Hogwarts, the place that had given birth to his most spectacular relationships. His mind wouldn�t let him leave them behind, but it also wouldn�t let him return without some guaranty of his safety.
Marshalling the men and women of Hogsmeade hadn�t been difficult for the sounds of war could be heard in the little village�battle cries, screams of pain, shouts of triumph�and flashes of green and red spells highlighting the dark sky. Family and friends of those already in the thick of the battle apparated into his group as he led them towards Hogwarts, their faces lined with worry, pain and, in most cases, determination. Wands were already tightly gripped in hands, for if a spell was to come their way there would be no time for fumbling.
Minerva was the first soldier they had seen, standing tall on the stone staircase leading into Hogwarts. Her face showed no sign of weariness and there was no despair in her posture. She was in the very thick of the fight, marshalling troops, shooting spells that were bright in the darkness of the night and protecting her students whenever she could. She was a leader for the Light and had a true part in this war.
He just wished his part would disappear.
The battle was chaotic, a mess of danger, blood and grotesque actions squished into a place that had been made for learning.
The Death Eaters didn�t bother to cover their faces for they expected to win. It was disturbing to see the silver masks hanging down their backs and their true faces curling in ecstasy at the carnage they created.
But the students and professors of Hogwarts were holding their own, backed by the forces he had brought. More people were flooding through the courtyard each moment as the battle wound its way deeper into the castle, into the heart of the resistance.
Something akin to despair and repulsion sunk its fangs into Horace as he saw flashes of his previous students dressed in the black robes of Death Eaters. The blond hair of Lucius Malfoy whirled past him early in the fight, its owner barely glancing at him.
He watched as Lucius meticulously cut through the flesh of his steak, wielding his knife with a precision he would later use with his wand. The seventh year carefully chewed and swallowed as his eyes swept over the other occupants of the room.
Horace smiled. The man had fine upbringing, that was clear, and a ready-made path in the Ministry. Lucius would know how to use it well, he knew, and would rise high in the Wizarding world. He was already in contact with several prominent members of the Wizarding community and had chosen his stance on popular subjects.
But, perhaps most importantly, he never tipped his hand before it suited him and knew how to use his knowledge of others for his own gain. Horace had seen the order in Slytherin since he had become Prefect�first years knew the rules and were well-groomed each morning and each student portrayed a perfect image in class.
He had had no complaints from the other professors.
Yes, he had chosen well with this one.
But he hadn�t. Lucius had used the exact qualities he had chosen him for to pursue a path that led him away from the appropriate and legal paths of a wizard. He had sunk himself deep into the trenches of the Dark Arts and had never resurfaced.
Lucius Malfoy had been a mistake and if he could have blotted his membership from his club, he would have.
He didn�t see the faces of Avery or Lestrange among those in Death Eater robes, though he knew from the papers that they too had become something he would be ashamed to admit any relation to
And so he fought, doing his best to counter attacks and launch an offense of his own. There were many in the battle who were more talented in fighting than he, so he retreated to guarding and helping the younger students that he was sure were fighting against You-Know-Who.
It was almost a relief when his old student�s voice boomed through the castle, announcing his triumph over Harry Potter. But he couldn�t feel any gladness that Lily Evans� son was dead. He couldn�t feel safe when he knew that the Death Eaters had targeted him before Dumbledore had offered him sanctuary at Hogwarts.
The period between the first sound and the first sight of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was one of the most nerve-wracking moments of his life, worse than the hour he had waited after his final exam to know if he qualified to become a Potions Master.
So much worse.
Tall, pale-skinned and red-eyed, he looked nothing like his past self. The dark, silky hair was gone, leaving no strands on the scaly skull. The smooth, manicured hands were now dangerous weapons with nails like the claws of a wolf and it was no longer possible for him to hide his dark intentions behind a mask of goodness.
Horace could hardly reconcile him with the Tom Riddle of his memories until their eyes had met. For one instant, just before You-Know-Who made his great victory speech, he had seen the knowledge hidden in his eyes and had known that, if given the chance, Tom Riddle would resurface to ruin his life.
He had only seen the dark walls of courtroom ten in the Daily Prophet�s photos of the Death Eater trials after the first Wizarding War. The malevolence that leaked from them had not been tangible in those and for that he was grateful, though he knew that the Daily Prophet would most likely have been ruined had it scared its readers in such ways. The Daily Prophet, though the tool of the Ministry, was no fool in business matters.
The coldness seeped through the thin fabric of his boots (Death Eater sympathizers weren�t allowed good quality clothes�any luxury that they could deny him they did) and the manacles around his wrists and ankles burned his skin. He was seated on a stiff metal chair, awkwardly formed so that it was impossible to sit comfortably on it, and faced the members of the Wizengamot.
The eyes of one of them, Damocles Gorny, avoided his no matter how he tried to gain his attention (though there was not much he could do while chained to a chair) and he was hurt. One of his old favourites was denying their relationship� But then his chains rattled and the Head of the Wizengamot spoke and he forgot about those troubles.
�Do you, Mister Slughorn, deny your involvement in Tom Riddle�s production of horcruxes?� He winced, miserable, at the emphasis the Head had placed on his title. His family was not old, was not of court status, so he could not be addressed as �Lord� and he was no longer a professor.
And what could he deny? Tom Riddle, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, Voldemort had spoken before the entire hall during the battle, taunting about his immortality. It mattered little that he was dead now�the damage had already been done.
But he tried anyways. The battle was not lost until the final decree was made and he was not stupid enough to just give up.
�I didn�t mean to�you don�t understand what he was like in those days� So charming, so good. The perfect student� He was a master of deception and I fell under that spell. I would never have willingly harmed anyone, especially not Lily Evans. I loved her.�
But he was stupid enough, it seemed, to create traps for himself where before there had been none.
Silently, he cursed himself. There had been no need to bring Lily up. And he saw that the Head�s interest had been piqued.
The Head leant closer to him, his eyes narrowing. �You say you loved her?�
Horace realized his mistake and beads of sweat trickled down the side of his neck. The sensation tickled him and he shivered. The Head glared.
�I didn�t mean it like that! No, not at all. Lily was a wonderful student, charming and kind and so generous. I loved her in the role of a teacher� Nothing more was ever felt.�
But he could already feel his sentence being formed in their heads. He was condemned, guilty of indirectly causing the second Wizarding War.
He could not, would not allow that to happen.
As a boy he had been nothing special, nothing special. He was average in all respects, displaying a mild interest in potions and enjoying the gambling games of young boys. But his mother told him that he was special and he believed.
As a young man he had chosen to surround himself with greatness, viewing his friends as the elite of Hogwarts, thinking that they would all go on to do fantastical things. He still believed that he was special, though the edges of that illusion were wearing away.
As an adult he had faded into anonymity, knowing that he was not special, not great in the eyes of society. But still something inside of him insisted that he was something, that he could be someone. His friends had risen high in the world, becoming respected potions masters, healers and aurors. They still contacted him, inviting him to catch a bite to eat with them, to discuss trivial topics over tea for hours. They still cared about him and with them he felt great in a way that he couldn�t dismiss.
He had chosen his friends well, he saw, and decided that he wouldn�t be great in the way society defined the word. No- instead, he would be great on his own terms. He would find his own path in this world of traditional, rigid standards.
That path had led him here, in the middle of a massacre. Never before had he questioned his choice of careers so thoroughly, with such desperation.
The battle that had broken out after Longbottom had killed You-Know-Who�s snake was even fiercer than the previous one.
His silk robes were smeared with dirt and ripped from the jagged edges of the broken stone walls. He barely saw the rush of people as he passed among them, only the flashes of spells flying and his destination. If he could just reach the doors to the Great Hall then he would have a better, more strategic position. His back wouldn�t be exposed�nothing could penetrate two feet of solid stone�and he could pick his enemies off as they walked through the door.
If it was him or them tonight, he planned on making it home to his potions.
There was no place for ethics on a battlefield.
Each face was shocked, stunned to be taken down. They never looked to their left, focusing only to the front and back, overwhelmed by the crush of fighters. They never saw him and the bodies began to pile in the door frame. A giant, stepping through, sent them sprawling with his foot as though they were gobstones and the doorway was once again clear.
Horace saw Minerva rush past him, heading towards He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, who had somehow worked his way to the center of the hall. He was taking advantage of the fact that no one had noticed his presence to strike and kill those opposing him and Horace shuddered as the circle around him widened.
He thought that Minerva had gone insane, for she tossed a cutting curse at You-Know-Who with the knowledge that he would turn his attention to her. As Horace watched, Minerva was being overwhelmed by his power, more and more spells cutting through her defenses to reach her body. Cuts appeared on her body, but she didn�t waver in her attack.
Horace couldn�t watch her lose�he had enough morals, enough of a conscience and a heart that her death would burden him for a long time�so he abandoned his post by the door and threaded his way through the crowd to her.
Tom Riddle turned his head to towards him as Horace neared the circular clearing, his red eyes glinting with taunts. He shot a spell at him, but it missed and cracked the stone floor. Horace stumbled as his foot caught in the fracture and another spell shot over his head.
Another few steps and he was a part of the most dangerous thing he had ever done. Any mistake would mean his death; any false move could mean Minerva�s demise. Trapped in a battle of his own choice, his mind blurred as he shot spell after spell at Tom. There was no time to think, no time to plan.
If he survived, it would be by the skin of his teeth.
He barely noticed when an Auror joined the fray, for a cutting curse was already heading in his direction.
He didn�t hear Molly Weasley�s shout, nor see the death of Bellatrix Lestrange (at least she had never been a part of his Slug Club), but he did feel the decrease in spells.
There was hardly time for him to breath before he was blasted backwards, surrounded in the heat of Tom�s fury. The edges of his robe blackened and curled and his skin reddened. He had never been this hot before, not even after standing over his cauldron for hours.
And then he crashed into a stone wall, his body cracking upon impact. His ears rung and every part of him hurt. He had never been in this much pain before; he had nothing to compare this to.
As his vision blackened and he lost consciousness, he heard the voice of Lily Evan�s son challenge Tom and smiled.
What a lovely boy.
It was to Poppy�s tired face that he woke up. He groaned and looked around for a pain-relieving potion. She seemed to understand immediately what he wanted and handed him a light blue flask. He fell back into his pillow, which had the softness of a bed of grass and stared at the ceiling. From what he had seen, the Hospital wing was crowded, filled to the brim with the dead and injured. Friends and family, many who he had been the one to bring into the battle from Hogsmeade, surrounded the beds, creating human shields of privacy.
There was no one beside his bed except for Poppy, who smiled at him tiredly.
�What were you thinking, fighting him? Were you trying to be killed?� He wasn�t able to answer, for her words spilled out of her mouth like lava from a volcano. He could see the pinched lines around her mouth and eyes�she had probably been just waiting to say this to someone. �That was a very brave, very stupid thing to do! What were they thinking, fighting in a school? A school! With students�.�
As he listened to her, his eyes wandered across the wing. From the lack of Death Eaters and the lightness of spirit that infested even the hospital, he knew that Lily Evan�s son, Harry, had succeeded in ridding the world of Tom, of his greatest mistake.
Those who caught his eye gave small smiles and nods of recognition, from one fighter to another.
He nodded back and closed his eyes, letting Poppy�s voice sooth his mind.
He had fought Voldemort, defended Hogwarts and saved lives.
He was great in a way that mattered least to him and most to the world.
He was more than satisfied with that.
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The guess is that it will have staying power, primarily because of the presence of Will Smith, a rapper who does, indeed, go by the name of "Fresh Prince." Smith, half of the rap duo of D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, is a natural, so likable and charismatic that he already has drawn parallels to Eddie Murphy from NBC's Brandon Tartikoff. [10 Sept 1990, p.C-1]San Diego Union-Tribune Full Review
While Smith's act is G-rated enough to give rap a good name, the show offers a new and not-so-safe perspective of the so-called "black experience" in America. These are not the Jeffersons. These rich people have their pretentions, but they're no fools. [10 Sept 1990, p.C4]Seattle Post-Intelligencer Full Review
The most interesting feature of the program is how it stays specific to Smith's underclass style while fashioning a story that the whitest of white people can easily relate to. That's achieved, in part, by making Smith's relatives unbelievably broad. You've never met Boston Brahmins as preppy as these people. It's the weakest part of the program, but it allows Smith to have a great time playing Groucho Marx to his family's Margaret Dumont. [10 Sept 1990, p.35]Boston Globe Full Review
The punch lines are predictable, but the kid and his stern uncle generate a great deal of comic energy.Entertainment Weekly Full Review
Until the confrontation scene, Fresh Prince coasts along on the considerable charm of Smith, who is making his acting debut at 21. Many shows before it have relied on their stars, but that last scene gives an intriguing insight into what Fresh Prince could be. [9 Sept 1990, p.H1]Miami Herald Full Review
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Whether clinking crystal to a beat or jiving with the crusty butler, Smith is looked upon by even his detractors with condescending "isn't he something" adoration. Tiresome as that is, Smith's breezy and non-combative charm gives this the look of a winner. Even if, in concept, it's more nap time than rap time. [10 Sept 1990, p.3D]USA Today Full Review
The cultural clash contains a wealth of comic possibilities and kids may well take to the show although I found it rather predictable. [10 Sept 1990]The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Full Review
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In an interview with The Herald, Dr Mpofu said: "Yes, a police report has been made."
Contacted for comment, police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba — who has on several occasions said she will not speak to this paper — said she was on another line.
Thereafter, another officer answered her phone and said they would get in touch if they had anything to share with The Herald.
They had not done so by the time of going to print.
Earlier in the day, after announcing a new CMED board, Dr Mpofu said the parastatal's leadership should immediately pursue the case.
"There have been claims that these guys are untouchable, but we are going to touch them," he said. "We do not want any bureaucratic approach to this matter because this will tarnish the image of the institution.
"Even my managers (at CMED) have been accused unnecessarily, but the actual people are there. We want that money and it should be repaid.
"The people who collected the money from CMED are known and they are around. The matter has been reported to the police.
"It is not money that was stolen from CMED, but it is money that was collected by characters and businesspeople who are well known. Their businesses and premises of operation are known."
Dr Mpofu said the new CMED board should "bring these people to account and let them make good of what they have prejudiced the state.
"That is what we are going to do until they are brought to book," he said.
Former Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation chair Mr Godwills Masimirembwa is the new CMED chairperson, deputised by former police Asst Comm Seymour Mpofu.
Other board members are Mr Chipiwa Philimon Pasipamire, Mrs Sihle Khabo, Mrs Tinotenda Nhwede, Mr Phinias Lugube, Engineer Tedious Chinyanga and Mrs Rita Lukukuma.
Dr Mpofu said there was much misinformation on the botched fuel deal in which CMED paid US$3 million for three million litres of diesel through an offshore account to First Oil last year.
The fuel, bought on the strength of two letters from State petroleum marketer and distributor Petrotrade, has not been delivered to date.
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"Those were public funds and from my earlier experience as a civil servant no one is allowed to keep public funds for more than 24 hours. These people have kept the money for more than that."
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The Arethusa, for those of you too young to remember, or who had somehow skipped this Chapter in American History 101, there was once upon a time an Act of Congress called the Vlostead Amendment. More commonly known as Prohibition, it outlawed the sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933. As impossible as it seems today, having a run and tonic at the end of the day became a federal offense! As you might imagine, this did not sit well with many, average Americans. A man's drink was in many communities and cultures, a God given right, and no mere statute was going to change that.
In responce to this turn of events, an entire new industry sprang up in this country, to cater to those who still needed a glass of whisky from time to time. Rum running, bootlegging, moonshining - call it what you want, but the importation, transportation and distribution of illegal booze became big business, literally overnight. Generally run by newly organized crime, and abetted by the indifference of many average Americans, the process of supplying alcohol reached into nearly every community in America.
Montauk was as much a part of the rum running scene, as any spot on the East Coast. A perfect hiding place for booze, cash and the element it attracted, Montauk offered the essential qualities a bootlegger needed. Montauk's isolation guaranteed the privacy needed for landing large quantities of questionable cargo. Once landed, the crates could be moved quickly to the up Island and New York speak easies. Perhaps best of all, Montauk had a tradition of good sailors who didn't mind a little risk for a fistful of hard cash. One night's run to the offshore wholesalers could put more money in a fisherman's pocket, than a month of long lining. That translated into a pool of Montauk boatmen ready willing and able to roar off into the night in search of booze and cash. Larceny in Montauk, you bet your life, and many of the locals did exactly that.
Anyone interested in local involvement in rum running, is required to read "Montauk - An Anecdotal History". Written by Peg Winski, and published by the Montauk Historical Socirty, it chronicles numerous tales of local knowledge and involvement in rum running. Mary Stannard remembered Montauk as a place where nearly everyone was involved in the business. " No dust curds could be found under beds. They were great storage places for Baccardi Rum and Johnny Walker whisky". As a young girl she wanted to see first hand how the liquor business worked. Being an indutrious litte Montauket, she and her cousin sneaked abord her uncle's boat, on one of his trips to the liquor supply ships anchored off Montauk. Her uncle, in an effort to protect her propriety, locked her in the cabin while he transacted business with the Captain of the supply ship.
Clancey Pitts was barely 17 when he had his first brush with bootlegging. Hired to help unload a major shipment, he was hard at work when the Coast Guard appeared on the scene. The Coast Guard spotted the activity on the main dock, and spotlighting the men at work, fired a warning shot in the air. Clancey remembers his fellow accomplishes scattering like rats on a sinking ship while he, took cover in the boxes and gear on the dock. Luckily for him, he got away that night. Another night he recalled directing a fleet of moving vans to the old Yacht Club. Just exactly what they were moving in the dead of night, was none of his business.
Frank Tuma remembers those days with a twinkle in his eye, and a sly smile that tells you he knows more than he cares to tell. He recalls Coast Guard boats chasing smugglers across Fort Pond Bay, and the sound of shot gun blasts in the night! Like most young Montauk boys of that time, he saw first hand how booze affected a sheltered town like isolated Montauk. It was an exciting time, a high stakes game with fortunes to be made overnight, for the those bold enough to risk everthing for a shipment of booze.
The pot of gold these local mariners were looking for, lay just over the Montauk horizon. Each night a fleet of Nova Scotian, English or Cuban ships would drift 12 miles offshore, just beyond the US territorial waters. That became known as the Rum Line. Each night a flotilla of small craft would sneak out of Fort Pond Bay, and make a bee line for the Rum Line. Often dodging Coast Guard and Customs boats, the speedsters would fill their holds with as much Canadian whisky and Jamaican run as they could take, and zig zag their way back to shore.
One of the best known of the liquor boats was the Arethusa, run by one William McCoy. Anchored 12 miles out, loaded to the gunnels with Johnny Walker Red and Baccardi, it was open for business 24 hours a day for anyone with the guts to reach her and cash to pay. Unlike many of his more cut throat competitors, McCoy was known for carrying good booze at a fair price. His reputation for solid dealing become so well known, it spawned an expression that lives on to this day - " the real McCoy"!
Those cagey enough to make it home would unload at Gin Beach, Shagwong, Oyster Pond, where ever a truck could meet them. Depending on the size of the shipment it would be sent into the City, or left here for safe keeping. Rumor has it a favorite storage spot was the old Wyandannee Hotel. Located near the :Lighthouse, it was one of the main lodgings in Montauk in it's day, and provided a safe haven for bootleggers and their booze. Seems the old Inn had the largest basement on the East End, and it was rented out to various shady characters for a handsome sum. No questions asked, no answers expected!
Mary Smith Fullerton was the owner and operator of the Wyandannee. Born in Montauk in 1915, she was a remarkable woman, who owned and operated a number of restaurants and inns in the area. Candidly, she told of her own involvement in Montauk liquor. Not only was she aware that booze was in the Inn, she made no secret of the fact she and her parents would help bring it from Montauk to retailers and speak easies up Island. She recalls driving with her mother and father on many occasions to speak easies and night clubs in places like Astoria and Glen Cove. Hiding the hooch in false bottomed cars and trucks they would snake their way across the Island, always on the look out for hijackers and Troopers.
Local customers were keep in supply, as much as any. Mary remembers one in particular, a Mr. Rheinstein. Mary and her father would pack a suitcase with your choice of gin, rum or whiskey and make their regularly scheduled trip to Mr. Rheinstein's. She remembers him well, not as a criminal, but simply as a nice man who appreciated her father bringing by the liquid solace he craved.
Naturally, this flow of spirits spawned a string of local speak easies. By far, the most popular in this area was the Island Club on Lake Montauk's Star Island. The long since burned down Club was adjacent the current Montauk Yacht Club, and was in it's day the grandest night club and gambling casino, on the East End. Built by Carl Fisher during his monumental construction spree, it was the social center of this summer. Designed to rival the palaces of Palm Beach and Manhattan, it attracted the highest rollers of it's day. John Barrymore, Errol Flynn, Ernest Hemingway, even the then major of New York, Jimmy Walker, watched the sun set over Fort Pond with an illegal martini in their fists.
Clancey Pitts worked as a bellman in those high rolling days, and remembers the characters were nearly as flamboyant as the imported Austrian crystal chandeliers that hung from the center of the gaming room's ceiling. Many a night he would see society swells drop thousands of dollars at the tables, and laugh as though they'd just beaten the joint out of every dollar it had. He actually saw one gent light a cigar with a crisp, $ 100 bill!
Clancey was there the night the Feds nearly closed the place down. Acting on a tip, On the hot Summer's night of August 23, 1930, the Troopers massed for a head line grabbing bust guaranteed to shut the doors for good. Word was Mayor Jimmy Walker was on site, and well into a night of drink and dice. Unfortunately for the Feds, the watchman at the wooden causeway that then separated Star Island from the mainland saw the Blue shirts coming. Alerting the Club, he stalled the men in blue long enough for Jimmy to hop aboard a waiting speedboat, and head for the safety of the high seas.
Although Prohibition was in all likely hood the most ignored law ever passed in the history of this country, braking it meant serious trouble for locals. That could come from the T-Men, Troopers and local authorities looking to enforce the law, just as much as the crooks you had to deal with in the trade itself. Booze was big business, and attracted a very bad element.
Dutch Schultz was the king pin of Long Island bootlegging, and like most gangsters took no prisoners. Cross him and you ended up in a swamp with a bullet in your brain. Never content to stick to his own business, he like many other importers would hijack any shipments coming down the Island. Thomas Farrell Jr. and Jacob Antilety of Southampton leaned the hard way, that you don't even joke about stealing another mobster's liquor. In 1931 they were picked up by the Schultz mob, who had heard the two had intercepted a shipment of rum headed for Schutz's Manhattan speak easies. Tied up and taken out to the woods, they were tortured all night with red hot potato mashers. They finally confessed to being blowhards, not hijackers, and were mercifully let go. As a reminder of what happened to anyone who screwed with the Schultz gang, they were more valuable alive than dead.
Prohibition was a frustrating time for the authorities to had to enforce the Volstead Act. Not only did the public thumb their nose at the law, but the Feds had to abide by the International Maritime laws in pursuing rumrunners. That meant that outside the 12 mile limit, booze was legal, and the seas could be carpeted with trawlers hawking gin, rum, scotch and whiskey 24 hours a day. There wasn't a thing the coppers could do about that!
However, once the cargo was on it's way back to the beach, the pursuit could begin in earnest. A classic cat and mouse game ensued, with each side employing the best 1930's technology to win the race. Rumrunners built some of the fastest, sleekest boats afloat. Crammed with aircraft engines, lined with bullet proof glass, and designed to haul the greatest volume of booze, these custom busters became legendary.
On the night of August 20, 1931, the Coast Guard cutter CG-808 was patrolling Long Island Sound. Herself a converted rumrunner, she was on the high seas looking for the most famous of all rumrunners, the Artemis. It was rumored she was bringing in a full load of liquid spirits for the Labor Day weekend. Spotting a shadow on the horizon, the cutter's captain cut his engines, doused his lights and drifted in the moon light. He could hear the low rumble of diesels, as the shadowy boat approached. Throwing on his main spotlight, he picked up the fore castle of the boat, just as it crashed into the cutter. It was the Atemis, riding low in the water, loaded with gin and high tailing it towards Greenport. The collision nearly knocked the crew off the cutter, but they quickly recovered, fired up their engines and gave hot pursuit.
The Artemis was 4 knots faster than the cutter and began to lengthen the distance between them. The cutter hailed them to heave to, and put a shot over her bow. The Artemis ignored the exploding spray and began laying down a thick smoke screen. The cutter broke out everything they had - machine guns, carbines, deck gun 500 rounds in all. Disappearing into the smoke and fog, the Artemis lost the cutter. But she was hit, and headed for the nearest port.
At dawn's light the Coast Guard began a search of both sides of the Sound. They found two of the crew members in Greenport, where they'd checked into the local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. There was no sign of the Artemis, but it's distinctive cargo was spotted near Orient Point beach. A number of smaller boats had brought the booze to shore, and a furious off-loading was taking place in broad light. As happened with so much illegal drink, most of it disappeared into thin air. And the Artemis? She was found under repair in a Port Jefferson shipyard, where she was seized and ironically, turned over to the Coast Guard for recommissioning as a patrol boat!
Corruption was a constant drag on law enforcement efficiency. Let's face it, booze was big money, and more than one man in blue turned his head when a shipment came ashore. How much monry was at stake? A single shipment found at Montauk's Thrd House in 1925 was worth $ 200,000.00. In 1930, the Coast Guard captured a Bristish sloop off Montauk, with over a million doolars of rum in her old! That kind of money was unhead of in those days, and needed official protection.
There were local cops to be bought, and the going price was a weekly envelope of tens and twenties. Even the local Coast Guard had it's share of officers looking the other way. During the course of the campaign, Capt. Frank Stuart was accused of taking $2,000 - a year's pay - for letting boats offload in Montauk. In 1932 the Coast Guard officer stationed in East Hampton was set away for a year of hard labor, for tipping off the fleet that a bust was on it's way.
If the feds were affected by the flood of contraband, you can be assured the locals were in on the take as well. The most audacious ran the boats out to the Rum Line, others unloaded the crates into waiting trucks, many others would stash the stray bottles and crates that would periodically wash ashore, while most of the rest simply tried their best to look the other way and keep their mouths shut. Occasionally, a boat would run around, and then the fun would begin. On the night of December 23, 1922 the unlikely named Madonna V can crashing onto the beach at Napeague. Loaded with Canadian whisky she began breaking up in the heavy surf. Alerted to the disaster, the beach filled with dozens of local helping hands. As Mrs. Janette Rattray reported " Lifelong teetotalers and even Deacons of the Church risked pneumonia in the December surf to bring it ashore, promoted no doubt by the inherited custom of 'wrecking' and old New England principles against waste of any kind". The whisky those brave souls saved from a watery grave quickly disappeared into the cupboards and cellars of the otherwise pious community. It's been said that whisky warmed many a cold night, that winter!
The Noble Experiment, as Prohibition was called, came to an end in 1933. The public had had enough of enforcd temperance and the crime and corruption it spawned, and end it by act of congress. Over those 13 years nearly a third of all illegal booze come into the country over the high seas. Most of that came directly through Long Island Sound, much of that by way of the East End's lonely beaches and highways. Fortunes were made, lives were lost, attitutes toward the law and law enforcement changed forever. East Enders participated in the trade, kept liquor hidden in cupboards, found botttles on the beaches, and in general looked the other way. Compared to the problems we face today wth illegal drugs and smuggeling, it all seems like a far more innocent time. Perhaps it was, but those who lived through Prohibition, had never seen anything like it - and never did again.