Jimmy Buffet and Bono get shot at in Jamaica

Jimmy Buffett is a beloved musician, a singer/songwriter who has embodied the laid-back Gulf Coast lifestyle for decades. Buffett’s 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, Buffett’s hit song “Jamaica Mistaica” tells the strange-but-true 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 Buffett’s Grumman HU-16 Albatross, when shots rang out in the air. According to Buffett World, Jamaican authorities started shooting at the plane because they mistook Buffett’s plane for a drug-running plane. Bono later described how the people on the plane dove for cover, telling the Belfast Telegraph that “The