Each year another Swamp Buggy Days tradition took place. The mobile jail cell, used to raise money for charity each year, was owned by the Naples JayCees. Somewhere along the line it became tradition for local high school students to steal the jail. And place it in the damnedest places.
No matter how inventive the JayCees were in hiding the jail, the students were just as sly in finding it. And where they moved the jail to caused some of us to wonder how they pulled it off. I suspect collusion on the part of some of the NPD cops. How else could you drag a jail cell on a trailer around town in the middle of the night and not be seen?
Where did it appear? Once the missing jail was found at the end of the pier. Several times in local parks. Another time in front of the NPD headquarters building. And Dave Dampier remembers perhaps the most baffling; on the roof of the Sunshine Hardware on 5th Ave South.
How'd they do that? Damned if I know but it was always fun trying to figure it out.
Where did it appear? Once the missing jail was found at the end of the pier. Several times in local parks. Another time in front of the NPD headquarters building. And Dave Dampier remembers perhaps the most baffling; on the roof of the Sunshine Hardware on 5th Ave South.
How'd they do that? Damned if I know but it was always fun trying to figure it out.
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