By The Garden Island | Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12 a.m.
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• Farmland is important for Kaua‘i’s future • The chief’s quick thinking will help save potential scam victims • A though on prejudice The chief’s quick thinking will help save potential scam victims Kaua‘i Chief of Police Darryl Perry recently
• Farmland is important for Kaua‘i’s future • The chief’s quick thinking will help save potential scam victims • A though on prejudice
The chief’s quick thinking will help save potential scam victims
Kaua‘i Chief of Police Darryl Perry recently posted his conversation with a scammer on YouTube in hopes it will save you from being scammed!
Imagine being a scammer and having a list of phone numbers and one of those phone numbers just happens to belong to the chief of police! What are the odds? Like winning the lottery or being struck by lightning? I am sure the chief would prefer winning the lottery (that’s if we had a lottery), but none the less is glad he wasn’t struck by lightning.
The scammer pretending to be from New York and telling the chief he has won $250,000 but will need a check for taxes, he asks the chief to send $500.00 via Western Union. The chief agrees using the fictitious name of Robert Silva, while the scammer with a foreign accent uses the name Peter Wallace.
The video is posted with an unlisted tag, only those with the enclosed link can view it:
May I recommend to the chief to drop the unlisted code and allow anyone anywhere in the world to hear this? This YouTube video could save many people from being victims.
This is some great acting by our chief, not only do I hope this YouTube goes viral, but hope our chief wins an Academy Award.
Jokes aside, mahalo nui loa Chief Perry for sharing your phone conversation and posting it on YouTube for the world to know what to look for in a scam!
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
Farmland is important for Kaua‘i’s future
While I can agree with Mr. Asquith that the average size of farms owned by Sunshine Market vendors is 2 acres, I cannot agree that this is an acceptable situation. When our family was able to afford the down payment in 1991, the only parcel in our price range was 2.75 CPR acres at $140,000. We would have loved to purchase the entire 12 acres offered, but we are farmers after all and even $140,000.00 was a huge sum for us. Does Mr. Asquith figure the current average cost of $375,000.00 for a 2 acre parcel on Kaua‘i into the equation of growing affordable food? I would like to see the balance sheet.
Maybe in 1950 with population under 25,000, Kaua‘i farms could supply enough food and still export some. With the present population near 70,000, Kaua‘i is now importing as much as 90 percent of our food. Would this be the case if farm land was more affordable? Allowing the present CPR land division model to continue, we are tied to a system that does not encourage start-up farmers. For example, one recent “humble offering” was at Brydeswood Ranch with 4 acres starting at $600,000 exclusively for “Kaua‘i Farmers” in the first four months.
Waipake is now a mix of upscale houses and mansions aka “farm dwellings.” There are two viable commercial farming operations in this entire subdivision. Not exactly a paradise of small farms. The “farm dwelling agreement” has proven to be a sham. The best we can hope for is some government limitation on the ability of developers to slice up ag land for great profit.
Malama Kaua‘i has two excellent studies on Kaua‘i agriculture that can be viewed on their website: Kaua‘i Sustainable Agriculture and North Shore Farm Systems. These studies reveal the current status of food production and how protecting farmland is paramount to sustainability.
Louisa Wooton, Kilauea
A thought on prejudice
Why do people who are prejudiced of a certain race or color always choose names of their prejudice?
It’s contradicting to degrade a person’s race or color. Then choose names out of the degraded person’s race or color to name their child(ren). Why not just give the child(ren) a name of their own ethnicity?
