About 30 years ago we lived three houses down from Raymond Parks, he ran a small Liquor & convenience store nearby, that every wall inside was covered with old black and white photos from the 40s and 50s stock car racing. I never knew what he had to do with Nascar until the book "Driving with the Devil" came out , back when you could make more money driving ONE carload of moonshine from Dahlonega to Atlanta ( about 75 miles, about a three hour drive back then ) than you could working a normal job for a MONTH, all you had to do was be a better driver and have a faster car than the federal cops did. I grew up in rural north east Georgia in the late 60s and early 70s, my older brother went to school with the banjo boy in the movie Deliverance, and in those days there was NO public assistance like unemployment or food stamps etc and making moonshine was a major source of income. I saw alot of stills, my father was a park ranger and everyone would build their moonshine still on the state park property so they wouldnt get caught with it on their property, my father knew where most of them were , and just looked the other way, since he also knew who ran each still and knew that they had no other way of making a living to feed their family, my fathers jeep would make enough noise in the woods that no one was ever seen at the stills. and some of the moonshiners had actually trained crows to sit in the treetops and sound the alarm if they saw any people walking in the woods near the still, so the monshiners could have time to get away from the still and hide.
using birds as look outs is very smart, just feeding them to keep them in the area, so you see them react to anything invading the area, would do the trick.... how the heck they could be trained to do something easier than that, I can't imagine. Ain't it strange how illegal seems to often be more profitable than legal? Growing pot was more profitable than corn, smuggling whiskey during prohibition was more profitable than transporting cargo, selling machine guns anywhere they are illegal vs selling ordinary things like tvs
About 30 years ago we lived three houses down from Raymond Parks, he ran a small Liquor & convenience store nearby, that every wall inside was covered with old black and white photos from the 40s and 50s stock car racing.
ReplyDeleteI never knew what he had to do with Nascar until the book "Driving with the Devil" came out ,
back when you could make more money driving ONE carload of moonshine from Dahlonega to Atlanta ( about 75 miles, about a three hour drive back then ) than you could working a normal job for a MONTH, all you had to do was be a better driver and have a faster car than the federal cops did. I grew up in rural north east Georgia in the late 60s and early 70s, my older brother went to school with the banjo boy in the movie Deliverance, and in those days there was NO public assistance like unemployment or food stamps etc and making moonshine was a major source of income. I saw alot of stills, my father was a park ranger and everyone would build their moonshine still on the state park property so they wouldnt get caught with it on their property, my father knew where most of them were , and just looked the other way, since he also knew who ran each still and knew that they had no other way of making a living to feed their family,
my fathers jeep would make enough noise in the woods that no one was ever seen at the stills. and some of the moonshiners had actually trained crows to sit in the treetops and sound the alarm if they saw any people walking in the woods near the still, so the monshiners could have time to get away from the still and hide.
using birds as look outs is very smart, just feeding them to keep them in the area, so you see them react to anything invading the area, would do the trick.... how the heck they could be trained to do something easier than that, I can't imagine.
DeleteAin't it strange how illegal seems to often be more profitable than legal?
Growing pot was more profitable than corn, smuggling whiskey during prohibition was more profitable than transporting cargo, selling machine guns anywhere they are illegal vs selling ordinary things like tvs