Jimmy Buffet and Bono get shot at in Jamaica
Jimmy Buffett is a beloved musician, a singer, songwriter who has embodied the laidback Gulf Coast lifestyle for decades. Buffetts music is known for being a chronicle of his experiences and adventures. And over the years, Buffett has often written about some of the dramatic things that have happened in his life. Notably, Buffetts hit song Jamaica Mistaica tells the strangebuttrue tale of what happened when the musician and his good friend, singer and activist Bono of the band U2, tried to land in Jamaica in 1996, only to accidentally incur the wrath of the Jamaican authorities. In January 1996, Buffett and Bono, along with a small cohort of friends and family, taxied into Negril on Buffetts Grumman HU16 Albatross, when shots rang out in the air. According to Buffett World, Jamaican authorities started shooting at the plane because they mistook Buffetts plane for a drugrunning plane. Bono later described how the people on the plane dove for cover, telling the Belfast Telegraph that The
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