Unique Showroom

We need a new motor for our boat or at least a spare so we can get ours fixed. Several locals have approached me about motors for sale and I asked the boss if I could go look at them. He said sure and gave me an amount to spend.

I contacted one of the guys (Paul) and asked him to show me the motor. We had a 5pm appointment. About 5:30 I called him and he claimed he was on his way. I finally called again and determined that he was walking from about 4 miles away. We drove down and picked him up. We came back toward the resort and stopped at a soccer field to pick up another guy that was helping sell this motor.

We continued back toward the resort until we were about 10 feet from the entrance to the property. They had me turn down a dirt path so I stopped the truck. We didn't think the road was good enough so we started walking. About 300 yards down the path and within 200 yards of our dive shop we came across a field of 4 to 5 foot high grass. Paul pointed into the grass and said there's the motor. The grass was very buggy and had sharp edges but we waded into it about 20 feet only to discover this 200 HP motor laying there. I quickly decided this was an unusual showroom.

The stories about it are very vague but it was likely used to run drugs and was abondoned. Someone grabbed it and hid it from the police or drug enforcement agency assuming there is such a thing. We never got a straight answer on who claimed ownership of the motor or who we were buying it from. These guys just said we should pay them. I decided to talk to my boss about this purchase before going further.

We may actually purchase this motor but we are going to ask to have it mounted on our boat first to test it. We will also offer considerably less than the asking price since we don't think they have any cost involved at all and we'd be taking some amount of risk.

I've had a few strange things happen since I've been here but this is at the top for weird.