Doug Franklin wrote: > frank theriault wrote: > >> When Mark and Dave and I head down to GFM we're a couple of hours >> driving through West Virginia. It's beautiful-but-kind-of-sad >> country. Hard to imagine how such a place could be economically >> viable (coal and tourism seem to be about the only industries - and no >> one but the owners seem to be getting rich from those). > > They do a pretty decent business in untaxed liquor, too. (Also known as > "moonshine" :-) ) You might be surprised at the financial position of a > few of those guys who look like a backwoods hick from Central Casting. > Of course, a lot are just as comparatively bad off as they seem to be.
There's some pretty serious moonshine operations out there. Places with virtual private armies where the police don't even like to go. Dealing in moonshine and North Carolina's second biggest cash crop (after tobacco, of course) - marijuana. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
