Opportunity Lost

          On Wednesday, July 1, near Marathon, Florida 29 bricks of cocaine with a total weight of 35 kilograms and worth approximately 1 million dollars, simply washed up on the shore. This is not the first time something like this has happened in the world. The town of Bluefields, Nicaragua was enriched beyond all imagination by repeated discoveries of such packages, castoffs from Columbian speedboats fleeing law enforcement. Well informed fisherman of the remote town set aside their cumbersome nets and began fishing for what they called "white lobsters."

          What would you do with all that blow? I can only imagine the myriad possibilities and the opportunities that such a find would present. Certainly, death by heart attack is a possible scenario at the end of such a rainbow. But I'd like to think that a small fortune would also possibly come my way, if I handled things just right. 

          But obviously whomever discovered this once in a lifetime windfall has little in common with me. Because they called the police, who brought in the U.S. Border Control. 

          Sigh. I mean, really? Some people have no imagination.