On Jul 13, 4:19Â*pm, Harry  wrote:
On 7/13/10 3:52 PM, Jack wrote:



On Jul 13, 3:24 pm, Harry Â*wrote:
On 7/13/10 3:18 PM, YukonBound wrote:

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On 7/13/10 2:54 PM, Jack wrote:
On Jul 13, 11:32 am, John Â*wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:56:10 -0400, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:25:34 -0400, Wayne.B
Â*wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:14:25 -0400, John
wrote:

I've lived in several different apartments in and around Cocoa
Beach, back in
the '60s, when the place was cool and you could drive on the beach.

You can still do that a little further north in Daytona Beach.

It is not really like the old days tho. It is not, "drive out there
and have a picnic" It is more like the tourist parade.

Things were pretty loose and easy in Cocoa Beach back then. I did
get stopped
once for having glass packs that were a little loud, but the cop let
me off with
a warning to 'take it easy'.

Probably 15 years ago we were vacationing at a beach in SC (where it
is illegal to drive on the beach) and we got up early one morning for
a walk. About a mile down the beach there was a car that made it
about half way from the dunes to the firm sand, sitting there, back
tires spun down so that the frame was sitting on the sand. Some dude
was behind the wheel, and his wife/girlfriend was in the passenger
seat, both trying to sink down and blend in to the car. :-)

I'm sure his wallet was much lighter when that was over.

I'm sure he appreciated your offer to help.

JackOff couldn't wait to turn the guy in.

Probably, but a decent guy would have offered to call a tow truck or
something...15 years ago, cell phones weren't that common.

Between the the police car sitting back up in the parking lot, and the
tow truck that would have already been called, he had more "help" than
he could wish for. Â*D'oh.

In the 1950s, my dad's employees would deliver boat rigs to a popular
beach where there was pass-through between two old hotels direct to the
water. Once in a while, the jeep they used would bury its wheels up to
the hubs in the sand. When that happened, plenty of guys would come over
to help out.

So your dad delivered rental boats or new boats to a beach to be
launched into the surf, without a boat ramp, in the soft sand? Â*Rental
boaters or new boaters doing surf launches? Â*I smell B.S.

Rental boats? Say what? No...they weren't rental boats. He had a few
customers with summer cottages at that beach, and they kept their boats
moored a few hundred yards off the beach, beyond the low-tide sandbars.
The crews would deliver new boats and pick up customer boats that needed
repair. These were 14-17 foot outboard boats with 25-35-40 hp Evinrudes.

The beach was not that deep. The crews would drive out onto the sandbar
to launch the boat. No boat ramp there. Once in a while they got "caught."


An entirely plausible tale... if you didn't lie constantly, it would
be believable. Chicken Little syndrome.

If you smell b.s., you should change your shorts.

It's just that all your posts are tainted.