Cubans attempt to drive taxi to Florida

[oldnewbie]

update..

4 Cubans on Taxi-Boat May Stay in U.S.

Thursday June 9, 2005 8:16 PM

By CURT ANDERSON

Associated Press Writer

MIAMI (AP) - Four of the 14 Cubans intercepted at sea aboard a vintage taxi converted into a boat will be allowed to stay in the United States because they have valid immigration documents, but the others will be sent back to Cuba, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Rafael Diaz Rey, the mechanic who built the blue, 1948 Mercury taxi-boat, and his wife and their two children appear to have legitimate documents that would permit them to stay in this country, according to the U.S. attorney\'s office in Miami.

An attorney for Democracy Movement, a Cuban exile group in Miami, said Diaz and his family last year won the documents in an annual lottery in Cuba for legal travel to the United States. But the communist government of President Fidel Castro refused to let the family leave, said attorney Wilfredo Allen.

``They had to act before the documents expired,\'\' Allen said.


sinking and drowning....that\'s what these 4 deserved? children and persecuted adults trying to make a life for those children. this is your "opinion"? there are people in this country who think the same about hippies or blacks or women for christs sake. their "opinion" would be to kill them all. is that a valid thought for an educated adult and is it justfied because it\'s their "opinion"? your just like joe in my opinion.

oh yeah....and it\'s pretty fuckin obvious that you fit seven in the front and seven in the back.....sheesh

[Spacey]

So, I wasn\'t put on your ignore list?

anyways, I will no longer comment on this subject. I agree that I made a poor choice of words. Refering me to Joe is just your opinion and it is as poor of a judgement call as mine. But, again, I do not care and you are entitled to your own thoughts and opinions and ideas no matter what they are.

Take a look at the schematics for a 1948 Plymouth and there is no way you can fit 12 adults and 2 children 7 in the front and 7 in the back.

[oldnewbie]

link to the schematic?

[Todd]

14 in that big boat is nothing. Had 12 in my Honda Accord hatchback once. Plus at least two were kids.

That boat doesn\'t look all that big.

12 in a honda accord is a feat, I\'ll give you that.

Were you ever in the circus?

It looks pretty big to me. Those old taxis were fairly huge. Yeah that night will always be etched in my noggin. It was a 5 speed no less. Could only use 1st and 3rd (at the top) :lol: And yes, I was in a circus. But only once :