Larry,

A fool and his money are soon parted. - English idiom

When one door shuts, another opens. - unknown



"Larry" wrote

| Ok, I'll just copy my message I posted to rec.boats groups this morning:
|
| Over in the binary group alt.binaries.pictures.sports.ocean I have posted
| the pictures of my visit to Sailnet's main headquarters in N Charleston
| TWICE this morning, just to make sure. Their hours were 0830-1700 ET so I
| went there at 9AM. While I was in the parking lot, another sailor drove in
| and said he couldn't get them on the local phone, get emails answered or
| FAX them, either. He came to see what I saw.
|
| At 9AM, as you can see in the pictures, the building was locked, a sign
| said CLOSED stuck to the front door, the building was dark save for one
| night light in the lobby, but, curiously, right inside the front door was a
| running copy machine, which may also be the FAX machine. Its LCD display
| was lit up. There's still power to the building.
|
| Well, after going nowhere at 9AM, I walked across the parking lot to
| Hospice of Charleston in the next building over and talked to the nice
| ladies who were watering their sidewalk garden. I asked them if they'd
| seen anyone at Sailnet, recently. One lady said she hadn't seen anyone in
| the parking lot for "some time", as she put it. I walked around to the
| County Clerk of Court's office in the back of the building and talked to
| the ladies through the prison bars that protect them from angry voters.
| They hadn't really noticed any activity, but weren't looking much.
| Government employees, they run in a vacuum it seems. I wondered as I left
| if they would have even notice the building burning they were in.
|
| I went off to shop my local favorite thrift shop (found a brand new
| fishtape, first class quality for $5). As it was after 10AM, I wandered
| back to Sailnet to see if anyone had shown up. They had! There was a
| nice, grey Mercedes C-230 sports car (see photo) parked in the closest slot
| to the building, so I got out of my car, again, and went up to peer into
| the darkened building. I knocked and knocked on the front door...no
| answer. I walked around to the side of the building where their other
| business, something called Oroton-something, and found the keyless entry
| door also locked and no response to my knocking. I kept an eye on the
| front of the building while I sat in the car, but finally gave up as
| whoever was inside never appeared at any of the windows I could see. Maybe
| he was contemplating Peggie Hall's latest suggestions while sitting on a
| Porta-Pottie in the employee lounge. Maybe he was hiding, afraid I'd punch
| out his lights for not delivering my stuff...(c;
|
| Note to Scott - No rigging and no answers to many poundings. Sorry I can't
| get to your rigging. If you need to have it picked up and can get the
| building opened, I'd be glad to take it away for you to have it picked up
| at my place.
|
| I'm not saying Sailnet is history. Maybe they're relocating to palacial
| new facilities in some posh industrial area, with 4 times the floor space.
| But, from what you and I can see today.....it looks like they are DOT
| BOMB...
|
| If you're waiting for delivery on your credit card orders, better call your
| card company and warn them. If you look at the Mercedes in the picture,
| you'll see I handily photographed the LICENSE NUMBER, a SC tag that can be
| traced to a person. Two places come to mind who might be interested in
| your fraud case:
|
| Charleston County Sheriff's Office - 843-554-4700
| North Charleston City Hall/Cops - 843-554-5700
|
| Ask them what they know and let them know you got no response.
|
| If any of you are already members of Sailnet's webpage forums, you might
| want to copy and paste this message and the pictures to their forum pages.
| From reading a few of the posts, most people there don't even know usenet
| exists, much less these newsgroups.
|
| --
| Larry
|
| These are my observations taken 30 minutes and 1:30 after they usually open
| on Tuesday. My OPINION is they are gone. Don't let they sway your
| opinion. Just look at the pictures....
|
| I have seen this grey Mercedes C-220 Kompressor sports car in the lot many
| times, admiring it so I remembered it. But, whoever was in the building
| from it would not answer the door I knocked on for many minutes...front and
| side doors. The License Number can be easily traced by the cops.