Monday, October 29, 2007

Jail bait

It seems that you need to know exactly where you are when fishing in the Caribbean -- otherwise you may end up in the slammer next to some low-life drug smuggler.

According to The Chicago Tribune a retired police officer, the captain of an U.S.V.I. charter boat, ended up in British Virgin Island territory by mistake.

The sloppy skipper was charged with illegal entry into the British territory and fishing without a license and was slapped with a $45,ooo fine and one-year prison sentence.

"He is the laughing stock of the prison," his wife Deborah Barton said Tuesday. "The inmates who are in there for every other crime just crack up at him because he is doing a year for fishing."