"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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Actually, it was posted kinda tongue in cheek. The cargo wasn't all
that heavy (so no issue with the Plimsoll lines), but it sure hung
over the sides all over the place... and was likely the cause of
grazing the dredge.


Nothing to do with this thread or boating, but the above reminded me of a
hilarious scene I witnessed this morning at the supermarket.

A women was pushing her cart up an isle while chatting away on her cell
phone. In her cart was a broom with a wide but stubby head ... like a small
garage pushbroom. She had wedged it in the cart handle first, so the head
was sticking up in the air and at an angle away from the cart.

As she approached where I was, still yakking away, she drifted too far over
to the right and the head of the broom started taking down the first row of
catsup and spaghetti sauce bottles on an upper shelf display. She had no
clue what was going on behind her as about 20-30 glass bottles crashed and
smashed on the floor. She just kept trucking along, talking away. I
raised my hand and told her to "Stop" and she just gave me a deer in the
headlights look, didn't miss a step or a word to whomever she was talking to
and exited the isle, never looking back and apparently unaware of her path
of destruction.

Eisboch