Attention all members in Tampa!

[bigbear77]

Need a secure place to store your firearms and ammunition? Here's a nice place that's sure to be empty in the very near future:

TAMPA -- Police detectives arrested a man they said grew dozens of marijuana plants in an underground ammo bunker formerly used by the military.

Gustavo Gonzalez, 37, was arrested Friday and charged with possession and manufacture of marijuana as well as grand theft, for allegedly stealing electricity. One week before, police said, detectives raided a 2,000-square-foot bunker used by Gonzalez and found 66 marijuana plants alongside the equipment needed to grow them.

The bunker, located next to Tampa International Airport at 4107 N. Manhattan Ave. and constructed by the U.S. Air Force predecessor known as the Army Air Corps, used stolen energy to help cultivate the plants. Gonzalez, who is listed in a jail report as being a self-employed construction worker, was released Saturday on $40,000 bond.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2009/01/old-air-corps-b.html#more

Be sure to check out the video of the bunker.

[wwIIBuff]

Classic, A guess I may have a new place to store my stuff :thumbup:

[brewskzilla]

Manufacturing Marijuana? Funny, I thought it was grown...

[bigbear77]

Manufacturing Marijuana? Funny, I thought it was grown...

I thought all of the good manufacturing jobs had already gone offshore.

[bluma123]

Oh Tampa! Stay classy!

[rifleman]

I've always needed a big ole building to grow, i mean store my stuff.

Really though old military silo's etc are always on sale where lots of people turn them in to houses on the cheap.

[RandyCOG3]

I've always needed a big ole building to grow, i mean store my stuff.

Really though old military silo's etc are always on sale where lots of people turn them in to houses on the cheap.

This would be a pretty nice piece of ex-mil concrete to have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

RandyCOG3

[rustypirate]

IRRC somebody set up a Web Hosting business there, and would host most anything.

The Brits got a bug up their a$$ about something, and tried to land, but were recalled because of the image they protrayed attacking some helpless people.

[RandyCOG3]

IIRC somebody set up a Web Hosting business there, and would host most anything.

The Brits got a bug up their a$$ about something, and tried to land, but were recalled because of the image they portrayed attacking some helpless people.

I believe that you are right. IIRC, they were hoping to be the central hub of some sort of global e-money thing as well.

RandyCOG3

[Blondeoake]

That part of Tampa was an AAF air field during WW2. No one knew it was there and know one knows if and how many more bunkers there are around there.

[RandyCOG3]

That part of Tampa was an AAF air field during WW2. No one knew it was there and know one knows if and how many more bunkers there are around there.

One of the most high-dollar locations around here is Longboat Key <tweak your nose upwards when you say the words>.
The only munitions that were on Longboat during WWII were the bombs they dropped on it for practice.
If you know where to look, there are still some businesses near our airport that use old Quonset huts for stuff...the current SRQ airport is not all that far in air-minutes from the currently named MacDill AFB; "One a day in Tampa Bay" was the saying for all the bomber-pilot-trainee accidents at that time. MacDill is on the end of a peninsula jutting into Tampa Bay. SOCOM is based there now.

RandyCOG3