Huge explosions at Texas fertiliser plants

[KentPhilip]

On a positive note on the disaster, at least there is going to be a bumper harvest from the crop fields a couple of miles round the factory..

[Sysman]

Well they always ran protection rackets - that is nothing new. Although you might be right about the drugs thing, I thought they were anti that. Maybe they were just anti anyone else doing it!

A Belfast chap I knew in 1996 reckoned it was mainly a few hundred on each side who had a vested interest in keeping it going. Illegal bars and protection rackets were sources of income, and all tax free of course.