103- Danger at Matecumbe

Tired of the everyday routine, ever dream of a life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all? We offer you escape! Escape, designed for you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

Tonight, you are swimming for your life in the dangerous waters of the Florida Gulf Coast, about to be smashed by a launch carrying a vicious criminal who must kill you or die himself. An unsure 500 yards away, the police are waiting to arrest you for murder.

there can be no escape. This is the end of the line. Thanks for the ride. Don't mention it. Compliments may am it please. Now you see that sign?

Yeah I see it. Read it. It's a matter don't they teach you cops to read? I said read it. Miami city limits. Good. See that you stay on the other side of that sign. We don't take kind of the bums down here.

I tell you I'm not a bump. I came down here to take a job. Sure, sure. You guys always have jobs. That's why you come down and sleep in Ava City parks as soon as it gets cold up north.

But now get gone. And keep going. And don't come back. Don't come back, he says. Fat chance. One night on the streets in Europe, vagrant. They give you a cottonless city jail and some coffee and spot-nuts in the morning in the scorchu out of town.

Every step I took was away from that place and that was alright too. They could have their sunshine and their orange juice. All I wanted was a ride north, anywhere north. But one after another car has passed me up until my thumb got tired.