Booze Run

[W0X0F]

.....And the thanks you get for trying to spread a little Christmas cheer

Suspect charged for smuggling liquor into dry community

Updated: Tue Dec. 22 2009 11:27:39

ctvwinnipeg.ca

RCMP have arrested a man who chartered a plane to allegedly fly in hundreds of bottles of liquor to a dry community in Manitoba.

Officers performed a check on a small plane that landed in the community of Pauingassi on Dec. 19 and found and seized 242 bottles of liquor and 24 pounds of yeast with a total estimated street value of more than $36,000, said RCMP.

The plane's only passenger, a man from Pauingassi, chartered the plane and was arrested and charged, said RCMP.

Pauingassi, located about 300 km northeast of Winnipeg, has a by-law in place which prohibits the possession, consumption or transportation of liquor.

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[ywgflyboy]

I take it you are not from Manitoba? Most of those communities are dry for a very good reason, saving lives.

I highly doubt he was trying to spread a little xmas cheer, but rather trying to help his cousins get smashed and make a quick buck doing it.

[Brewguy]

...seized 242 bottles of liquor and 24 pounds of yeast with a total estimated street value of more than $36,000...

24 pounds of yeast?
Was he planning on opening a very large home-brew brewery?

I make my own wine & beer, and a tiny bit of yeast goes a long way....

[Slats]

How easily written sarcasm is lost on some........

[W0X0F]

Thanks Slats.

...seized 242 bottles of liquor and 24 pounds of yeast with a total estimated street value of more than $36,000...

24 pounds of yeast?
Was he planning on opening a very large home-brew brewery?

I make my own wine & beer, and a tiny bit of yeast goes a long way....

Yeh, just imagine the amount of sugar that would have to be brought in, you'd need a herc.

[ywgflyboy]

This is an internet forum. Insert sarcasm like so... or so grumpy asses like me having a bad day at work pick up on it!

[Kilo-Kilo]

This is an internet forum. Insert sarcasm like so... or so grumpy asses like me having a bad day at work pick up on it!

Smilies are for the illiterate...

[rigpiggy]

Used to do the same thing friday night to "tuk" I won't say which one. they would get 100$/bottle of Vodka. the customer would normally pay for 2 return trips. ie first one to pick him up and bring him to town, where the company shuttle would run him into town 1st to the liquor store, next to the Northern for the Pizza/KFC run then out to the airport, back to Tuk, back to base. The rest I can't print.

[W0X0F]

rigpiggy

shhhh, newbies will figure out how to fund their first 500 hrs PIC.

[higherthenakite]

I heard that Pauingassi and Little Grand Rapids are bad for going crazy when the locals are drunk. Anyone from that area will tell you that they are worse then the locals in Bloodvein. I don't know about you but when I get drunk I just end up passing out and not killing people with axes or any other garden tool. I'm glad they get busted I know they make it in more then not. That's part of doing business like that!!! The guy was most likely a lackie for someone else the guys that buy the booze are never the ones that fly in with it or rarely anyway!!!

HTAK

[CGZMT]

Must have landed on the ice cause last time I checked Pauingassi had no strip. The strip was on the north side of Little Grand Rapids by the northern store. Yeah, flew to little grand a couple times, never a dull moment there from a daughter stabbing her father in his back in his sleep to going there at 5 in the morning to pick up guides and hear gunshots from across the bay and then a speeding truck. Ah yes, the good ol days LOL. But in there defense few of the boys are good there!

[2R]

Little Grand used to be a wet community,very wet,

[CGZMT]

do you have some kids running around little grand?

[2R]

Not that kind of wet

[tca]

I take it you are not from Manitoba? Most of those communities are dry for a very good reason, saving lives.

The advantage of dry communities is not exactly cut and dry! As you say there are bootleggers who are trying to make a quick buck off of their fellow community members. In fact, I'll bet that you can go into almost any dry northern community, and find that there is a serious problem with bootlegging. This means people are still drinking, still getting drunk, but are spending vastly more money to do it! They may also be drinking chemicals that are not fit for human consumption... meanwhile if they are spending all of their money on booze, how do they feed their children? I have heard that several communities are going "wet" because of this very problem, while some that are bent on staying dry do so because the biggest bootlegger in the whole community is the chief or his family!

So don't try to tell me that making these communities dry is to save lives! In the best case, it's a political maneuver to make it look as though they are trying to do something about the rampant alcoholism in aboriginal communities. In the worst case, it is to fund the chief's other business that pays a whole lot better than his day job!

[CGZMT]

I have heard that several communities are going "wet" because of this very problem, while some that are bent on staying dry do so because the biggest bootlegger in the whole community is the chief or his family!

+1

[ywgflyboy]

Aww is that why they have the giant, breathtaking lake front home!

[BigQ]

Aww is that why they have the giant, breathtaking lake front home!

Interestingly, the Chiefs and their families do tend to have very nice houses. The Chiefs in God's River and Oxford House are ones I know of (compared to everyone else on the reserves), as well as (I believe) homes in Winnipeg... The Chief of Lac Brochet has a really nice fishing boat. It's not my business of commenting or speculating how they got to have such riches, but I'm just sayin'.

Go in the remote, fly-in only communities, and the Chiefs and/or councillors are the ones who usually don't have mobile homes.