Get real.
In every country the wealthy feed off of the poor. The Bahamas is no different. But for a foreign person, organization, or group to enter a nation and violate that nation's laws is outrageously disgusting. And to add insult to assault they to you to shut up and be happy...
Those are fighting words. The Bahamas may be dependent upon the US for a lot. But the Bahamas is a country of many that supports the power that the US so blatantly flaunts. Its like a tower of building blocks. The block at the top has the most power. The blocks on the bottom have the least. But the minute you start removing blocks from the bottom, the one at the top falls faster and harder.
Being a third world nation, things can't get that much worse for the Bahamas. But for the US, falling from position as the sole super power to a second tier nation would be devastating. Especially when countries like Japan, China and Germany are surpassing the US by leaps and bounds in several areas of industrialization.
Those yankee boys shouldn't be to shortsighted to believe that the US' reign will last forever. Even Crazy Horse predicted that America would fall to its own arrogance.
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Guys, you need to read that forum a little closer, some of the other views are actually kind of legit, like that the "visitors" pay the bahamas government money to be able to catch a certain amount of fish, whetever those fish be.

I think the most relevant issue is, that the government does not have a law that protects the Bahamian who drops a trap, if they do, its not in the book that the "visitors" obtain when they get the license.

Dont hang the messenger, just what I got from reading all the different views. Like I said, only fish I do like is Crawfish, but it costs too much in Nassau for me. If they started eating up all the gas station hot dogs, then boiii id be all over their case!! Ha ha ha.

LOL bey rory, i aint ga lie....eating cooked food/any food from a gas station just sound wrong, and i dont make it a practice...but boy when i in nassau - ON THE RUN EAST BAY! their hot dogs is be carryin on FA REAL - not to mention their chicken! i tell you, when imperial full after the club - you know where to find me!

My thing is, a foreigner, any foreigner, CANNOT enter another country and feel that they can do as the natives do. If you in another man's house you can't just sh*t on his floor because you see him sh*t on his floor. He has every right to buss you in the head. And then to have the audacity to talk down to us....

If you rent from a landlord or if you have a mortgage with the bank -- that doesn't give the bank the right to come in your house and do and say as they please. There's still the issue of respecting another person's property, even if they don't respect it themselves. And as long as we're here, we pay the bills, we run the country, this is our damn house. We run it.

On a serious note, do some surveillance, get some photos, exact locations, and any other useful information pertaining to the matter, then take it to the local government, and only give them copies. If they do nothing, then come to nassau and raise hell, ill be behind you for one - but i need to see evidence first. Target the newspapers and get support, once people see hard evidence then they arent just going to sit back and let it be.

I will be behind you as well. take some photos a video. Hold a GPS in front of the camera with them in the back round taking crawfish out of a trap.
I know I could rally some support for you.

I thought there was an unwritten law in the Bahamas that if you catch a man stealing from you that you had the right to kill him.

Rory
re the foreign boats pay for the right with fees.
The tropical sportsman forum (a few months ago) said 70% of returning boats did not bother to clear when they returned to the US. Do you think that the same70% of boaters bother to check -in and pay here?

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I thought there was an unwritten law in the Bahamas that if you catch a man stealing from you that you had the right to kill him.

You can not kill someone for stealing. Now if during a robbery you fear for your life a loved ones life and or someone else life and you happen to kill the perpetrator to stop the event its called justifiable homicide. I could be wrong check a lawyer, police or the AGs office before you kill someone.

I'm not going to comment much. I don't believe any self-respecting american citizen has the gall to tell someone from the Bahamas that they can come into the Bahamas as they feel and do as they wish.

That is the key word.

You can not kill someone for stealing. Now if during a robbery you fear for your life a loved ones life and or someone else life and you happen to kill the perpetrator to stop the event its called justifiable homicide. I could be wrong check a lawyer, police or the AGs office before you kill someone.


say check with the police before you kill someone!!! :D

say check with the police before you kill someone!!! :D

The police can tell you when you have the right to kill.

which ones? Half of them dont even know ..

actually noone has a right to kill, but one does have a right to defend oneself. Certain incidents allow for use of as much force required to stop the situation and protect oneself, but to actually say one has a right to kill, noone can make that decision.

I was just kidding about killing somebody who stole from you. But there are people who feel that they have every right to take your life if you violate their property -- including me.