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Old 12-15-2009, 10:49 AM   #10
Smarty
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Default RE: WOW heres a late post from 1997

I grew up there. Lived on Keys Court by the tracks from '66 to '99. Old man Clark shot at me a few times before he died and his son took over. Used to love shooting the endless supply of turtles. When we were kids we would sit on the edge of the cliff and watch free movies from the Twin Air drive in theatre that used to be there prior to hurricane fredrick. Used to see schools of mullet running the banks all of the time. Swam in there at least once a week but never saw a hoss like that one. It's probably that big from all the chemicals in the water! When I was little I even remember seeing guys dumping 55 gallon drums of who knows what in the old filled in dirtbike pitt on the northeast side by the Stewarts property. That whole area was fenced in and drill test sites were done to survey the impact on the water table. The surveyors were all wearing full body suits and using geigor counters checking radiation levels. I started to lose my hair at age 22. Maybe that's the reason Pensacola was just deamed having the most contaminated tap water in the country. I know at one point the southeast side pond had a fish farm there. Thousands of freshwater cats in there that I saw 1st hand. I would never eat anything that I knew came out of that place! I use to hang out with a gaurd that used to work there in the '80s and I remember him telling me he had to keep people away because of the high levels of mercury but I knew there was much more to it. Fish there at your own risk, I wouldn't!
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