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"Looking for la langosta blanca - the white lobster."

By Ann Althouse

There's a town where no one needs a real job, because cocaine, tossed overboard by smugglers, washes up on the beach.

"People here now go beachcombing for miles, they walk until the find packets. Even the lobster fisherman now go out with the pretence of fishing but really they are looking for la langosta blanca - the white lobster."

(Via Metafilter.)

Well, what would you do if you happened to live there? Remember, you'd be with all the other people who lived there. Outsiders flow through town, eager to give you cash for whatever you want to sell. It's your decision: Take as much money as you want, use as much cocaine as you want. What would you do? You'd be all:

Full post as published by Althouse on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).