For the love of all that\'s still good on this earth SHUT THE HELL UP FRED!
The reason people thought they could all bring stuff on board was because the previous 2 years anything went basically. This year, due to sellout boats the past 2 years, they went for a way bigger (like twice as big) boat and booked with Carnival. The size of the affair was so big that apparently DEA was all over it.
I was lucky and got a little bit of a heads up. Having lost my passport the night before at a show in Jacksonville, I was all freaked out and was pacing around my hotel at about 3AM when I ran into someone who was working on the boat and asked him if there was any way I could get on without a passport. He told me what to do and mentioned that there would be all kinds of drug dogs and security. Josh and I laughed that one off.
When we got to the port the next AM, there were about 10 million police officers, Sheriff cars, etc. scarin the heck out of everyone. But we proceeded through the lines, gave them our info, got our passes and little money burning plastic cards etc... Finally, when we were almost through the line, we called a friend to see if there was anything shady to deal with when getting on the boat... since thus far it had been smooth sailing.... he said to pitch whatever we had because one of our other friends had just gotten nabbed. So we did. Adios to 9 grams or so of various delicious varieties that we had been saving up for the cruise.... *sigh*
Anyhow at the front of the line they checked through your info one more time, then took a picture of you under a big arch that said JAMCRUISE 2005 or something like that. So you\'re all smiling and psyched, ready for sailin... you walk around the corner, and BLAMO! Helllooooo Fido. Those were some powerful-nosed dogs; they could smell pot on my clothes from smoking in the hotel room earlier that morning. So we were detained for a while and then let on the ship. One of my unlucky friends got his manhood jiggled around just from having smoked in the car on the way over.
All in all, a whole bunch of people weren\'t allowed on the boat, but only about 15 were arrested. The rest had their charges dropped. Poor suckers, no arrest, and no cruise. Some of these fellas called Carnival who told them that if they flew to Freeport they could get on the boat there. So 14 people bought one way tickets to the Bahamas for 700 bucks only to be told they couldn\'t get on the ship. Shame.
No band members were arrested. STS9 and the other band (I forget who it was) rumored on here to have not played did in fact play. However, Karl Denson\'s sound guy was busted.
There were party favors to be had, but they were quite tough to come by. Most people pitched what they had when they heard tell of the dogs. There was virtually no good pot on that boat. Pretty much everything that made it by the dogs was the crummy stuff that doesn\'t smell like anything. We got some, but by the last night we were giving it away because it was starting to taste really gross.
As far as other drugs go, *** was pretty plentiful and molecule was around as well. Pretty much anything else was impossible to find. People were holding on to everything with clenched fists.
For the record Joe, I did not see one single person who was tripping or rolling or whatever who caused any sort of a problem. Unless you consider their wearing sunglasses and having a good time watching the fog and seafoam to be a problem. The only waste-azoids that I saw on the boat were drunk assholes. They\'re much worse 99% of the time than someone on some sort of hallucinogen.
The biggest scam was the raid that was planned for the end of the cruise. The last night on board, we all got little pieces of papers that said that the boat would be docking early, at 1 AM (instead of like 7AM,) due to weather conditions. In tiny little letters at the bottom it said Reminder: Once docked the ship will no longer be in international waters. All US laws will be applicable. We found this to be rather curious.
Later that night at the Pursur\'s office (I needed more money in my account, I had only had maybe 5 beers and 3 rum punches thus far
) and the very friendly fellow working there told me (very quietly) to be careful because they were planning on bringing dogs on board the ship once docked, somewhere between 1 and 2 am. This would have been a very bad situation seeing as there was music until like 4 am, so people were still partying it up. This never ended up happening though, because we hit such heavy fog that they had to drop anchor way out in international waters. They weren\'t able to get the boat to back to shore until late Mon morning. Causing us to miss our flight of course.
That\'s about it.
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