busted again

[glassman]

heard today in avl that ole popcorn got busted again with stills and they say 400 gallons of shine. also some guy in TX busted with 400 bottles with little rattle snakes in each bottle. sounds yummy. gman

[Uncle Jesse]

http://canadianpress.google.com/article ... unvhEnEifA

[Uncle Jesse]

I wonder if the revenoors actually believe their own nonsense sometimes.

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs. ... 0880317038

“Moonshine is romanticized in folklore and the movies. The truth though is that moonshine is a dangerous health issue and breeds other crime,” ATF Special Agent James Cavanaugh said in a statement.

“The illegal moonshine business is fraud on taxpayers in Tennessee and across the country,” he said.

What a knucklehead James is.

[Husker]

“The taxation of the legal liquor business is fraud on the people of Tennessee and across the country,” The husker distiller said

[punkin]

“The business of making moonshine illegal is fraud on taxpayers in Tennessee and across the country, and the world” said the punkin.

[Chev]

“...moonshine is a dangerous health issue and breeds other crime,” ATF Special Agent James Cavanaugh said in a statement.

That is how I want my tax dollars spent, sending old men like this to jail...

[big worm]

free men should live or die free...mother nature is a good culler...some times its hard being protected from our selves

[Butch50]

I wonder if the revenoors actually believe their own nonsense sometimes.

I think they do believe - it is how they self-justify putting an old man who hasn't harmed a soul into a cage. Believing is how they manage to look into the mirror without cringing at the site of the true monster. Or perhaps I am an old cynic?

[GingerBreadMan]

I get kinda ticked or peeved when I read about idiots that blow off garage doors making moonshine. Were these idiots lighting the distillate into a flame and then tossing it in the collection - boom!

The one thing that will stop hobby distilling from ever becoming legal in Canada are idiots like this. We're pretty liberal here, but when it comes to fire safety we have 10 laws for every idiot that burns down their house recklessly.

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[dixiedrifter]

The gov't likes their tax dollars too much.

Can't have a bunch of moonshiners out there cuttng into their profits of $27 per proof gallon (correct me if I'm wrong on the amont of taxes.

For every hundred gallons of shine thats nearly $2500 out of the governments profits... if a big time shiner makes and distributes a thousand gallons a year, well thats a lot of money out of their pockets.

[crawdad]

i doubt the highest amount of tax evasion is occurring in popcorn's still. atf should move on to the bigger fish, but the term moonshining has some bite to it and gives them reason to go on walks in the woods.

[goose eye]

would like to here how he come to no the buyer.

[dancatalyst]

you know, nobody ever gets busted w/ x gallons of mash.the feds add all of it up,wash,mash,tails ends hell even foreshots and call it ''shine''.somebody should teach those fuckers to charge us right! 400 gallons of shine found by feds is 35 gallons in the woods.and you know im tellin it like it is!
ive said it b4, the only differance between 'shine and everclear is taxes,reflux and lead free solder.

[BlackTooth333]

you know, nobody ever gets busted w/ x gallons of mash.the feds add all of it up,wash,mash,tails ends hell even foreshots and call it ''shine''.somebody should teach those fuckers to charge us right! 400 gallons of shine found by feds is 35 gallons in the woods.and you know im tellin it like it is!
ive said it b4, the only differance between 'shine and everclear is taxes,reflux and lead free solder.

Oh yes I agree w/ ya..I also agree w/ GBM that if some of these idiots would start lookin into diffrent ways to keep their operations safe, the government might just legalize home distillation of spirits..coneheads!