The Never Ending Story

[turboplanner]

..........trust he had built up with Cappy. During a prawning trip he'd met up with an Indonesian trawler Captain, Solly Wesi who ran, as a sideline an "import/export business"

 

Solly pointed out to bull the benefits of buying on the high seas, where there were no taxes and selling on high seas near Australia where there were no duties. I

 

f the products were assisted to get on the Indonesian boat, rather than bought and even paid to do so there was a big wad of cash to be shared by the two trawler skippers.

 

Knowing deals like this could turn nasty, bull  hired Cappy for security. Cappy knew the normal military rifles were inaccurate on small vessels due to the constant rolling, so he took his gold plated Under and Over skeet gun and a case of SGs.

 

All went well for three months and they were rolling in money, but the Australian Coastguard had picked up from a gossiping poster on WF that "some" people were about to buy themselves new, top of the range LSA aircraft from Romania.

 

Weipa was the go to port smugglers went to and also the base of Sergeant  Shane Track, Commonwealth Police, who was embedded there as a beachcomber but didn't seem to be very successful. He drank everyone under the table and went home every night with a diffferent chick. Owing a Drifter, his ears pricked up at the latest WFgossip, and he was fishing on the wharf when bull's trawler came in.

 

He noticed the smell of a particular stinky cigar wafting from the boat.

 

A week later it was his stint on the Coastgard boat out of Darwin, and they accosted various Torres Strait Islanders, inspecting their fish catch and fining them for any under-length. Oddly none of their boats carried the Australian Torres Island flag. This flag shows the back end of a bull (not our bull), so people should have been aware the flag was a joke. And every one of them swore they were not Austrasians, had never been there, and living 400 metres off PNG, were never likely to go there because PNG paid a lot more. They argued they were not under Australian jurisdiction.

 

Just then, a trawler appeared over the horizon,  and bull deployed his nets quickly.

 

As the Coastguard boat "Harold Holt" drew near, the Captain hailed bull and asked how the fishing was going. "the xxxxx all seem to have gone out into the xxxxxxx indian ocean" replied bull, trying to appear innocent.

 

Everything looked OK and the Coastguard boat was pulling away.

 

"WAIT!" yelled the Sergeant. He could smell that stinky cigar smoke wafting across from the old gentleman who looked to be a tourist, but who was watching him with the intent of a .......................

[Captain]

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

an Indonesian trawler Captain, Solly Wesi

Solly's 1st mate was Wes Pap-ua-smear.

 

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Oddly none of their boats carried the Australian Torres Island flag.

Because all of the Torres Strait Islander flags were down in Cantberra covering up the Aussie National Flag at press conferences.

2 hours ago, turboplanner said:

"WAIT!" yelled the Sergeant. He could smell that stinky cigar smoke wafting across from the old gentleman who looked to be a tourist, but who was watching him with the intent of a ...........

..... coiled Eastern Brown, but Cappy and his trusty shotty full of SGs, although it also crossed his mind that taking on the Aussie Govt, just to protect bull, was not one of his best ideas.

 

But then the danger was over, as bull had sent the crew and Captain of the Harry Holt $1,000 each plus a 5 kg bag of uncooked prawns, although that smell of prawns reminded them of ......

 

 

Cappy looked like a big version of this as he prepared to protect bull.

Edited 14 minutes ago by Captain