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Piracy

A Coast Guard cutter found a 47-foot fishing boat, "Joe Cool," adrift, abandoned and in disarray near the Bahamas on Sunday. On Monday, the Coast Guard found Kirby Logan Archer, of Strawberry, Ark., with another man, floating on a life raft near the Florida Straits by Cuba. Without the four other crew members of "Joe Cool."

Archer is almost certainly the same man who, earlier this year, absconded from a Wal-Mart store in Batesville where he worked with almost $100,000.

Here's more info and a little video. (Link fixed.)

Posted by Lindsey Millar on September 25, 2007 02:00 PM | Permalink

Comments

Problem with the link.

Posted by: hugh mann | September 25, 2007 02:07 PM

test

Posted by: eLwood | September 25, 2007 02:16 PM

Hey Lindsy, the HYPERLINK you provided goes to Moveable Type

Posted by: eLwood | September 25, 2007 02:17 PM

YAAARGH!

Posted by: Buck Fuddy | September 25, 2007 02:24 PM

I think I tracked down the Lindy link (at my name)

Bizarre tale indeed.

Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR | September 25, 2007 03:16 PM

sounds like they had a drug deal going which went awry.

Posted by: eLwood | September 25, 2007 03:43 PM

"where they said girls were waiting for them."

Aha! I knew the decendents of Eve were involved.

Posted by: Cato | September 25, 2007 03:45 PM

You can't buy much of a yacht with $100K these days. I bet they had to abandon ship.

Posted by: Carrick Patterson | September 25, 2007 08:37 PM

Read the link at Eureka Springs link. They had chartered the boat for $4,000. Still bet there was a going to be a dope deal that got bungled.

Posted by: eLwood | September 25, 2007 11:45 PM

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