Well Therion, you managed to dredge up a long forgotten post that I had edited, so I guess I owe you the whole story. Back in the summer of 1978, there was a "gas shortage" and gas prices skyrocketed. In Tampa Bay we had several host homes in Hillsborough, Polk, Pasco, Hernando, Sarasota, and Manatee counties. Due to the financial burden of hauling newcomers back and forth, the outlying families began dumping more and more newcomers on the Pinellas families who lived closer to the building in St. Petersburg. The 3rd and 4th phasers of the outer fringes did not have to host newcomers as it was too much of a financial strain. This gave these well bred rich kids all the time in the world to devise ways of conning their way through the program. With no newcomer responsabilities, it was'nt very long before some of the guys discovered that they could get high, and get away with it. Most of the ones that came in group high were from Tampa.
I was on 1st phase at the time and on a court program on top of that, so anything I said or did was considered untruthful. The Milton Roy building had phasers coming in high from June until the move in August, and it was'nt until we were in the new building, that the Tampa guys started slipping up enough to get nailed. I wrote 4 or 5 posts entitled "The Tampa Screw-Up"
it makes for good reading. I had edited my original post and erased it because no one believed what I had said, and I got pissed off. Well, that's it in a nutshell. See ya later.