NationStates Jolt Archive

I did a rudementary search and didn't find anything, so forgive if this has been covered...
Clickity (http://canf.org/2004/1in/noticias-de-cuba/2004-feb-11CUBAN%20FAMILY%20CAUGHT%20IN%20BOAT%20-%20CAR%20SENT%20TO%20GUANTANAMO.htm) Clackity (http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=113444&region=4) clickety (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-06-08T215653Z_01_MOL818475_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-CUBA-BOAT.XML)
Grass and his family were picked up at sea on a 1959 Buick along with eight others last week.

A family making its third bid to flee Cuba within two years is in US custody after sailing a converted vintage taxi 110 kilometres across the Florida Straits.

The US Coast Guard picked up all 13 people on board, including six children, from the 1949 Mercury cab 35 kilometres off Key West, on the southern tip of Florida.

The DIY water-taxi had been fitted with a boat prow and a propeller to help it cut through the rough seas.

Thirteen Cubans, including six children, sailed across the Florida Straits in a 1949 Mercury with an built-on prow and a taxi sign on the roof. They were intercepted about 20 miles (32 km) off Key West on the southern tip of Florida on Tuesday morning, Miami television station NBC 6 reported.
Image of the boat/car from The Sun (http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005260760,00.jpg)

Now, this is determination. I say that The Discovery Channel should sponser their citizenship-Jesse James is chaffing under the schedule of Monster Garage, I think this family would make a great filler host. Frankly we could use this kind of engenuity.

I'm sure a more serious immigration discussion will develop, which is for the best. But for me, for the moment, I'm just impressed.

Impressed on the design of the home-built boat/car or the face that some cubans made it in a desparate attempt to get to America?

Personally both impressed me. The fact that they are so eager to get to America from Cuba that they went all the way to making a car into a watercraft (a working one at that) just stuns me.

Impressed on the design of the home-built boat/car or the face that some cubans made it in a desparate attempt to get to America?

Personally both impressed me. The fact that they are so eager to get to America from Cuba that they went all the way to making a car into a watercraft (a working one at that) just stuns me.

Yeah, I mean, why would anyone want to leave a Communist paradise like Cuba? :p

Impressed on the design of the home-built boat/car or the face that some cubans made it in a desparate attempt to get to America?

Personally both impressed me. The fact that they are so eager to get to America from Cuba that they went all the way to making a car into a watercraft (a working one at that) just stuns me.
Kinda both. It sort of sets my politics aside for a moment and just look at that all by itself, as a human story. That it's the third attempt and second car (according to one of those articles the Cuban police looked at a 51 pickup that they thought might be being converted to another one. Cuba might be able to develop a cottage industry of amphibious cars...I kinda want one.

I mean, I guess there is this thing (http://www.rvtraveler.com/boatpic.html) but where's the romance in that...

I mean, I guess there is this thing (http://www.rvtraveler.com/boatpic.html) but where's the romance in that...

from the discription, I would say the romance is on its roof....