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taterguy

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19. The name comes from the Outer Banks version of organized crime

Reply to Withywindle (Reply #18)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:57 PM

Jan 2012

They'd attach a lantern to a horse's head and walk it up the beach so ships would mistake it for another ship's light.

When the ship came in to investigate it would run aground.

Free lumber and anything else the Bankers could loot, er, salvage from the ship.

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