I need some help AFN peeps!! Got a couple 4/20 comps going down in the AFN town!
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Hello Stoners Happy 4/20 to all. I hope you all had time for a wake and bake that lasts all day.
GA6, I have a real 420 related story that could have easily ended on a dark side. It isn't a funny story, it is a bit long but it is a true story. So long ago I'm not even a memory of the I I was then.
I was invited down to a Central American country to celebrate their fiesta and made plans to spend a week on an off shore island that we like. I wanted stash for the week and knew where to find it so I went to a local bar and asked and was told to come back in a half hour. Across from the bar was a 2 story commercial building that turned out to have a police surveillance post upstairs. I killed the 1/2 hour on the seawall then returned and picked up a nice z of locals finest. Instead of returning the same way I had come I decided to go to an oceanside resort a couple blocks away for a drink and had a good time, then had to return the way I had come. The resort was on the opposite side of the street and when I got even with the two story across from the bar I heard a door slam open in the back and the sound of several pairs of boots stomping hurriedly down a flight of wooden stairs. I reached the other side of the building and just as I crossed the alleyway, a police Land Rover full of cops roared out just behind me turned in my direction and pulled to the curb. as the doors started to open I was about a half step ahead of them and hadn't broken stride so when I heard stop I just kept walking without turning my head. I made it to the corner and turned it and as I did I saw the five police looking at each other trying to decide what to do. I slipped into a vantage point across the intersection where I could see them as they decided it a safer career move to hassle two locals who were just leaving the bar rather than a possibly well connected foreigner and I knew I was home free.
Fast forward a few hours to the fiesta at a nice hotel and after a little while of festivities my wife got up to powder her nose and a 30'ish looking young local in an expensive suit invited himself to sit down next to me and strike up a conversation. The country had been on alert fearing communist activity so all the major buildings had machine gun toting guards for the first time that I had seen and I joked with the stranger about them not having bullets and he replied "I'll see that they have them if they need them". I said to myself, "oh oh". But the night proceeded nicely and a good time was had by all.
Fast forward to next evening out on the Island. A pretty basic but remote place that most tourists ignore but we love. Just after dinner we are in the bar having a great time and who walks in but "Mr. I'll give them the bullets" from the night before. He made a bee line right to me and asked me if he could speak to me in private outside. It was dark and I was wary but by now I was also curious. If he was there to bust me he wouldn't have been alone. So I stepped outside and we walked out of the light of the bar but not into the light of the dim streetlight about 50 feet away.
He didn't pull any punches and said right off. "I hear you are looking for weed?" Always on the quest, I replied that I'm always interested in a good deal, He said he had access to some fine sensi. I said "how much?" he quoted a lb price that was cheap. I said "how much for 100lbs", He quoted a price. I said "How much delivered to Miami" He said "No way" Then I decided "No Way" is right and explained that "I was just there for a little R&R and would think about it" then he reached into his pocket and pulled out a fist and raised it to my nose and said "Well I got you this sample so would you at least give me $10 for these guys" as he pointed his thumb behind himself and as I looked in the direction of the street light a group of the meanest Mexican looking bandito's I ever saw emerged from the darkness into the dim light. I kid you not, a couple actually had bandaleros full of ammo across their chests and all were armed. My nose told me to pay the man, it smelled nice. I gave him the ten and pocketed the small wad. He said we will continue this later and went to the guys and they all disappeared into the darkness. I went to my room and hid the stash in a jacket pocket.
The rest of the stay was uneventful except for a great time and over a year later I put on that jacket ,dug my hand in the pocket, and pulled out the wad of sensi that I had forgotten all about and had unknowingly carried through customs while I worried about the Havana's I had rolled in my socks. And it was still goood.
A footnote: I found out later that Mr. Bullets actually was their equivalent of The Bad Lieutenant and the business agent for some really bad characters who would make the deal then wait for the loaded boat to head to the only pass through a reef, intercept it, kill the crew, and steal everything. I had Gumped into a dark and deadly local industry looking for a z. I was right to be wary and good Karma won again.