Admit it.........
 

So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax and
a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items (if
they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a large fish
net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a pair
of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and forgot they
were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were never to be
seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating related
and not OT....eh?

"JimH" wrote in message
...
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related
and not OT....eh?


6 years ago, while in my own slip, my wife dropped her diamond tennis
bracelet off the bow of the boat. she had caught it on the fender holders
and the clasp broke and over the side it went. She immediately started to
cry. I then told her to sit down on the bow and point to where the
bracelet went over the side. I put on my bathing suit and went into the
water wearing my swim goggles and swam out to the bow where she was sitting
and then I went to the bottom of the harbor to see if I could find the
bracelet. I found it on the second dive. My wife was so relieved as the
bracelet was a wedding gift to her from me.

Jim Carter
"The Boat"
Bayfield

I had company drop a pair of expensive glasses hoping onto the boat. It was
in the winter so they lost them.

I think the worse thing I dropped overboard is some screws and screwdriver.

One time, I was helping someone work on their sailboat and they dropped a
very expensive brass cog when cleaning and repacking the wench. I borrowed
a tank to look for it, it was hell finding it because of the deep layer of
slit. I finally found it under a pile of rocks. It landed on the rocks and
then slide in between them.

There are some firemen at our lake who will dive for lost articles for a
minimum cost of $100.






"JimH" wrote in message
...
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax
and a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items
(if they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a
large fish net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a
boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a
pair of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and
forgot they were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were
never to be seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related and not OT....eh?

Class ring is about it for me. I was dumb enough to jump into a lake
once wearing my pager (remember those?). It survived with a new battery
and plenty of time to air dry.

Dan

JimH wrote:

So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax and
a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items (if
they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a large fish
net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a pair
of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and forgot they
were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were never to be
seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating related
and not OT....eh?

Dan Krueger wrote:
Class ring is about it for me. I was dumb enough to jump into a lake
once wearing my pager (remember those?). It survived with a new battery
and plenty of time to air dry.

Dan

JimH wrote:

So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of
wax and a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal
items (if they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office
had, a large fish net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with
that) or a boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a
pair of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and
forgot they were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses
were never to be seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related and not OT....eh?

Lots of tools, screws and even a camera.

Be nice if the god Neptune would allow us to sacrifice some amount of
stuff at the beginning of the season, then let us be for the rest.

I envision some sort of ceremony where some percentage of the boats
value is tossed over the side with appropriate chants, drinking of wine,
and general hoopla. Then we would be safe for the rest of the season.

Wife dropped the cell phone in, but it wasn't worth diving for of
course.
Once after returning from vacation my dock neighbor approached with a
gummy expression on his face, Turns out he sneezed and blew his dentures
overboard the day before, put the dive gear on and found them, took
awhile though. no charge, but I found a bottle of Myer's rum laying on
my deck the next morning. UD

Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash ($80K)
even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©™ wrote:

Wife dropped the cell phone in, but it wasn't worth diving for of
course.
Once after returning from vacation my dock neighbor approached with a
gummy expression on his face, Turns out he sneezed and blew his dentures
overboard the day before, put the dive gear on and found them, took
awhile though. no charge, but I found a bottle of Myer's rum laying on
my deck the next morning. UD

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
ink.net...
Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have heard
of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash ($80K) even
made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©™ wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

Sun Glasses (raybans). rod holder. New rod and reel left the boat without
permission.
Bill

"Jim Carter" wrote in message
...

"JimH" wrote in message
...
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related
and not OT....eh?


6 years ago, while in my own slip, my wife dropped her diamond tennis
bracelet off the bow of the boat. she had caught it on the fender
holders
and the clasp broke and over the side it went. She immediately started
to
cry. I then told her to sit down on the bow and point to where the
bracelet went over the side. I put on my bathing suit and went into the
water wearing my swim goggles and swam out to the bow where she was
sitting
and then I went to the bottom of the harbor to see if I could find the
bracelet. I found it on the second dive. My wife was so relieved as
the
bracelet was a wedding gift to her from me.

Jim Carter
"The Boat"
Bayfield

"JimH" wrote in message
...
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax
and a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items
(if they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a
large fish net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a
boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a
pair of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and
forgot they were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were
never to be seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related and not OT....eh?

Let me see...well to start me...four times I think. Recovered every time.
Once well dressed in front of 100 people.

My dog...has hit the drink at least 7 or 8 times. 3 times when it was a
pain. Came up out of the cockpit to bark someone up and would trip himself
on the last step...splash. Also could not judge distance to the dock coming
in for the morning walk Had an 8 foot range on a good day but would try
from 15. Dog was also recovered every time.

Cell phone 40 miles off the coast of Oregon while moving a boat to San
Francisco.

Nice watch...Caught it on a cabin fitting and it flipped right off into the
drink.

Wallet..fell out docking a dinghy in Avalon on Catalina. Returned by a
tourist who found it floating in the surf.

Wife (than SO) Slipped climbing on board. Challenging rescue.

Content of wife's purse. When she went into the drink so did everything in
her purse. Got all the floaters quick. Dove the next morning and recovered
glasses and some cosmetics including some she swore not hers. Recovered
1941 50 calibre round from the muck.

Shopping carts filled with supplies twice. Once in Newport Harbor..Once in
Long Beach. Long Beach involved really hard effort to recover package of
clams that were attempting to escape during the confusion. Caught them 50
yards down channel barely floating.

Eyeglass lense. Got whacked by wife's elbow. Lens popped out and went into
drink. Saw it go and dived after it. Caught it at about 6 or 7 feet.

Boat hooks, Lost at least two and recovered four or five.

Dish clothes, swim suits, shoes, swimming masks and other miscellaneous
items. Use to dive under the boat before leaving Catalina. Found something
of ours half the time. Actually better it sunk. Floating stuff would get
away.

Was in a party that lost 5 or 6 paving blocks into the surf on Catalina.
Dove and recovered them. It takes a lot of doing to get paving blocks to an
isolated cove on Catalina.

Also lost three spare airs over the years...but that was while diving not
from the boat.

Jim Donohue

"JimH" wrote in message
...

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
ink.net...
Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash ($80K)
even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©T wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?

"JimH" wrote in message
...
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax
and
a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items (if
they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a large
fish
net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a
pair
of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and forgot
they
were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were never to be
seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related
and not OT....eh?

Not recovered...

$150 pair of sunglasses.

$350 air compressor (don't ask)

My wallet ($100)

2 watches ($25 & $100)

3 sets of ski gloves ($25 ea.)

1 set of keys. ($30)

Recovered...

1 set of keys

1 shoe

Ratchet/socket

1 watch

Been pretty luck over the years considering. I also lost a pair of
sandals...left them on the bow of the boat, when trailering home.

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.columbus.rr.com/ckg/

Hats, hats and more hats. Every summer the lake takes a least 4 hats.
Two cheap watches. Several tools. Lost count of the number of sunglasses.

Stella

"Jim Donohue" wrote in message
news:bHn5e.134$%c1.82@fed1read05...

"JimH" wrote in message
...
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax
and a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items
(if they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a
large fish net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a
boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a
pair of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and
forgot they were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were
never to be seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related and not OT....eh?

Let me see...well to start me...four times I think. Recovered every time.
Once well dressed in front of 100 people.

My dog...has hit the drink at least 7 or 8 times. 3 times when it was a
pain. Came up out of the cockpit to bark someone up and would trip
himself on the last step...splash. Also could not judge distance to the
dock coming in for the morning walk Had an 8 foot range on a good day but
would try from 15. Dog was also recovered every time.

Cell phone 40 miles off the coast of Oregon while moving a boat to San
Francisco.

Nice watch...Caught it on a cabin fitting and it flipped right off into
the drink.

Wallet..fell out docking a dinghy in Avalon on Catalina. Returned by a
tourist who found it floating in the surf.

Wife (than SO) Slipped climbing on board. Challenging rescue.

Content of wife's purse. When she went into the drink so did everything
in her purse. Got all the floaters quick. Dove the next morning and
recovered glasses and some cosmetics including some she swore not hers.
Recovered 1941 50 calibre round from the muck.

Shopping carts filled with supplies twice. Once in Newport Harbor..Once
in Long Beach. Long Beach involved really hard effort to recover package
of clams that were attempting to escape during the confusion. Caught them
50 yards down channel barely floating.

Eyeglass lense. Got whacked by wife's elbow. Lens popped out and went
into drink. Saw it go and dived after it. Caught it at about 6 or 7
feet.

Boat hooks, Lost at least two and recovered four or five.

Dish clothes, swim suits, shoes, swimming masks and other miscellaneous
items. Use to dive under the boat before leaving Catalina. Found
something of ours half the time. Actually better it sunk. Floating stuff
would get away.

Was in a party that lost 5 or 6 paving blocks into the surf on Catalina.
Dove and recovered them. It takes a lot of doing to get paving blocks to
an isolated cove on Catalina.

Also lost three spare airs over the years...but that was while diving not
from the boat.

Jim Donohue


I fell in once, as did my daughter and son. I also had to fish a couple of
people out after they fell in . Most of them were drunk. Thank goodness
for swim platforms.

My wife never fell in, even when her muscle disorder started to get worse.
Go figure. ;-)

"JimH" wrote in message
...

"Jim Donohue" wrote in message
news:bHn5e.134$%c1.82@fed1read05...

"JimH" wrote in message
...
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax
and a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items
(if they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a
large fish net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a
boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a
pair of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and
forgot they were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were
never to be seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related and not OT....eh?

Let me see...well to start me...four times I think. Recovered every
time. Once well dressed in front of 100 people.

My dog...has hit the drink at least 7 or 8 times. 3 times when it was a
pain. Came up out of the cockpit to bark someone up and would trip
himself on the last step...splash. Also could not judge distance to the
dock coming in for the morning walk Had an 8 foot range on a good day
but would try from 15. Dog was also recovered every time.

Cell phone 40 miles off the coast of Oregon while moving a boat to San
Francisco.

Nice watch...Caught it on a cabin fitting and it flipped right off into
the drink.

Wallet..fell out docking a dinghy in Avalon on Catalina. Returned by a
tourist who found it floating in the surf.

Wife (than SO) Slipped climbing on board. Challenging rescue.

Content of wife's purse. When she went into the drink so did everything
in her purse. Got all the floaters quick. Dove the next morning and
recovered glasses and some cosmetics including some she swore not hers.
Recovered 1941 50 calibre round from the muck.

Shopping carts filled with supplies twice. Once in Newport Harbor..Once
in Long Beach. Long Beach involved really hard effort to recover package
of clams that were attempting to escape during the confusion. Caught
them 50 yards down channel barely floating.

Eyeglass lense. Got whacked by wife's elbow. Lens popped out and went
into drink. Saw it go and dived after it. Caught it at about 6 or 7
feet.

Boat hooks, Lost at least two and recovered four or five.

Dish clothes, swim suits, shoes, swimming masks and other miscellaneous
items. Use to dive under the boat before leaving Catalina. Found
something of ours half the time. Actually better it sunk. Floating
stuff would get away.

Was in a party that lost 5 or 6 paving blocks into the surf on Catalina.
Dove and recovered them. It takes a lot of doing to get paving blocks to
an isolated cove on Catalina.

Also lost three spare airs over the years...but that was while diving not
from the boat.

Jim Donohue


I fell in once, as did my daughter and son. I also had to fish a couple
of people out after they fell in . Most of them were drunk. Thank
goodness for swim platforms.

When someone falls in at the marina......the no swimming signs and police
"Do not cross" tape mysteriously appear the next day around their boat. :-)


My wife never fell in, even when her muscle disorder started to get worse.
Go figure. ;-)

My dad went through the ice once while bottom painting a boat in a covered
well.........thankfully the water was only about 3 ft deep under the ice.

"P.Fritz" wrote in message
...

"JimH" wrote in message
...

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
ink.net...
Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash
($80K)
even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©T wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?







Some people are a little slow. About 20 years ago or so, the Budget Rent a
car people recovered an overdue car from SFO parking lot. The lady at
Budget removed the 2 suitcases in the car and after opening them, she turned
them in. $10,000,000 in cash and gold and platinum. The government took
them as drug booty and she got nothing.

On 4/8/2005 10:06 AM, Black Dog wrote:

Hats, hats and more hats. Every summer the lake takes a least 4 hats.

Several hats of mine have gone swimming, thanks to rough-ish water and
my head bouncing up into the airstream, but I've been able to retrieve
all of them before they sank, only a little saltier for the experience.
Last one was last summer up in Cowichan Bay, BC.

Never lost a pair of glasses since I always use a strap, but I have lost
several small hand tools.

One boat hook when I was about 6 or 7 (Hey, I had heard that they
floated. Nobody told me that particular style had to be *extended* to
float!).

Myself, once, when I gave an inexperienced moron a helping push off the
end of the local launch's float. Shoved just a little too hard, and
suddenly *I* was also off the end of the local launch's float. :)
Thankfully, it was a *really* low tide and there was only about 2 feet
of water at that spot.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Dan,
I did a 60' dive by Cozumel with my lighter in my pocket. Had to send
the lighter back to Colibri. :-(
Paul


Dan Krueger wrote:
Class ring is about it for me. I was dumb enough to jump into a lake
once wearing my pager (remember those?). It survived with a new battery
and plenty of time to air dry.

Dan

JimH wrote:

So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of
wax and a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal
items (if they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office
had, a large fish net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with
that) or a boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a
pair of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and
forgot they were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses
were never to be seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating
related and not OT....eh?

I have had many hats blown into the water while underway, but I am very fast
with a boat hook, and I don't believe I actually lost any.


"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
...
On 4/8/2005 10:06 AM, Black Dog wrote:

Hats, hats and more hats. Every summer the lake takes a least 4 hats.

Several hats of mine have gone swimming, thanks to rough-ish water and my
head bouncing up into the airstream, but I've been able to retrieve all of
them before they sank, only a little saltier for the experience. Last one
was last summer up in Cowichan Bay, BC.

Never lost a pair of glasses since I always use a strap, but I have lost
several small hand tools.

One boat hook when I was about 6 or 7 (Hey, I had heard that they floated.
Nobody told me that particular style had to be *extended* to float!).

Myself, once, when I gave an inexperienced moron a helping push off the
end of the local launch's float. Shoved just a little too hard, and
suddenly *I* was also off the end of the local launch's float. :)
Thankfully, it was a *really* low tide and there was only about 2 feet of
water at that spot.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

P. Fritz,
What bag?
Paul


P.Fritz wrote:

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If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?

Harry,
What $10 million?
Paul


Harry Krause wrote:

snipped

If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.

"Paul Schilter" ""paulschilter\"@comcast dot net" wrote in message
...
Harry,
What $10 million?
Paul


Harry Krause wrote:

snipped

If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.



So a lib is now a moderate.

How funny.

"Paul Schilter" ""paulschilter\"@comcast dot net" wrote in message
...
P. Fritz,
What bag?
Paul

LMAO




P.Fritz wrote:

snipped

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?

JimH wrote:
So what have you dropped in the water from your boat or dock?

For me....tools, hardware, a boat brush, a fishing rod/reel, cans of wax and
a set of keys.. I was successful retrieving most of the metal items (if
they were worth it) using a large magnet the marina office had, a large fish
net with extension pole (retrieved the keys with that) or a boat hook.

Never lost my cell phone or expensive sunglasses, although I did put a pair
of fairly decent sunglasses on the hardtop of a friends boat and forgot they
were there until we arrived at his dock. Those glasses were never to be
seen again.

How about you? ;-)

BTW: I admit this is fluff, but who the hell cares....it is boating related
and not OT....eh?


A cheap ($15) pair of binoculars. "I" didn't lose them but they were
lost while I was aboard our friends' party-barge. That's why the good
binoculars stay in the truck !


--
G.D.Smith
Harpers Ferry, WV

FOR SALE: 2003 Swee****er 22' Pontoon Boat
http://icanhelp56.homestead.com/gs_pontoon01.html

FOR SALE: 1999 Fleetwood Mallard 37' Travel Trailer
http://icanhelp56.homestead.com/Mallard001.html

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:


If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

$ 10 million? I don't know Harry, but I might be able to rationalize the
greater good of keeping one crook's illicit gains out of the hands
of another crook (the government). ;-)

Glenn S. wrote:


A cheap ($15) pair of binoculars. "I" didn't lose them but they were
lost while I was aboard our friends' party-barge. That's why the good
binoculars stay in the truck !


A couple of years ago while crewing on a friends Mirage 33, I got it
into my head to find out why his Scotty anchor light didn't work. This
was the model with the mercury and photoelectric switches and took at
least 4 'D' sized batteries. I took the thing apart at his slip, using
the boat deck as my worktable. I disassembled it, turned around to get
my battery tester as the whole unit rolled off the boat into about 8
feet of water. I found a long boat hook and got everything back but the
mercury switch. A quick trip to the Binnacle and $ 20.00 took care of
that. I cleaned the unit up, installed the new switch and fresh
batteries and it worked perfectly.

Harry,
Smoking? What smoking, I just carry it to help out Boy Scouts if
rubbing their sticks together fails. :-) No, you're right. Especially
after I jumped in at a later date with a pack of cigarettes. Heck at
least that time I didn't have the lighter.
Paul

Harry Krause wrote:
Paul Schilter wrote:

Dan,
I did a 60' dive by Cozumel with my lighter in my pocket. Had to
send the lighter back to Colibri. :-(
Paul



You should have taken that as a sign to quit smoking.

thunder,
Exactly!
Paul

thunder wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:



If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.


$ 10 million? I don't know Harry, but I might be able to rationalize the
greater good of keeping one crook's illicit gains out of the hands
of another crook (the government). ;-)

Wouldn't it be more likely for the druggies to come after your for
turning the cash in since your face would be all over the news? If they
could track you down, and you did manage to keep it out of the media,
why wouldn't they assume you have it anyway?

Harry Krause wrote:
thunder wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:



If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.



$ 10 million? I don't know Harry, but I might be able to rationalize the
greater good of keeping one crook's illicit gains out of the hands
of another crook (the government). ;-)


Aside from the honesty issue, there is a danger issue. If the druggies
ever determined you were in possession of the cache of cash, you'd have
visitors in the night, and they wouldn't be from the Gang of Tuuk.

Come on Dan, can't you see this boils down (for at least one person here) to
ones political stance (lib vs conservative)?

How black and white some folks lives are.

LOL.


"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...
Wouldn't it be more likely for the druggies to come after your for turning
the cash in since your face would be all over the news? If they could
track you down, and you did manage to keep it out of the media, why
wouldn't they assume you have it anyway?

Harry Krause wrote:
thunder wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:



If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.
I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.

I don't see how politics have anything to do with this issue. Even if
the Sheriff keeps a tight lip, the "owners" of the cash would still be
looking for you.

JimH wrote:
Come on Dan, can't you see this boils down (for at least one person here) to
ones political stance (lib vs conservative)?

How black and white some folks lives are.

LOL.


"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...

Wouldn't it be more likely for the druggies to come after your for turning
the cash in since your face would be all over the news? If they could
track you down, and you did manage to keep it out of the media, why
wouldn't they assume you have it anyway?

Harry Krause wrote:

thunder wrote:


On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:




If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.

I agree. But I guess you missed this post of Harry Krause on the matter:

"I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives."

He was referring to one NG member categorized as conservative by Harry
Krause and voicing an opinion that he would keep the money.

How simple some folks lives are.

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...
I don't see how politics have anything to do with this issue. Even if the
Sheriff keeps a tight lip, the "owners" of the cash would still be looking
for you.

JimH wrote:
Come on Dan, can't you see this boils down (for at least one person here)
to ones political stance (lib vs conservative)?

How black and white some folks lives are.

LOL.


"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...

Wouldn't it be more likely for the druggies to come after your for
turning the cash in since your face would be all over the news? If they
could track you down, and you did manage to keep it out of the media, why
wouldn't they assume you have it anyway?

Harry Krause wrote:

thunder wrote:


On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:




If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Calif Bill wrote:
"P.Fritz" wrote in message
...

"JimH" wrote in message
...

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
thlink.net...

Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash

($80K)

even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©T wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?






Some people are a little slow. About 20 years ago or so, the Budget
Rent a
car people recovered an overdue car from SFO parking lot. The lady at
Budget removed the 2 suitcases in the car and after opening them, she
turned
them in. $10,000,000 in cash and gold and platinum. The government
took
them as drug booty and she got nothing.



Some people are honest.

About five years ago, I found a wallet on the sidewalk in NW DC between
a fancy hotel and the Georgetown U law school campus. It had several
hundred dollars in cash in it, and all sorts of plastic. Belonged to a
woman who lived out of town. I made several calls to her various
offices and finally someone there tracked her down at a medical
conference she was attending in DC. We met briefly in the hotel lobby,
where she explained she had been carrying her coat while running for a
cab, and the wallet must have fallen out of her coat pocket.

If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.



If I found $10mm in suitcases in a rental car, I would know it is drug money
and is now mine. As to finding wallets, I have returned a couple of them
over the years. Major difference between a wallet and a $1mm+ case of money
on the street. Why not profit from the drug business's screwup?

Dan,
Harry's comment is not logical, he was using the $10M as an opportunity to
make a negative comment about conservatives and try to boost his weak ego.


"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...
I don't see how politics have anything to do with this issue. Even if the
Sheriff keeps a tight lip, the "owners" of the cash would still be looking
for you.

JimH wrote:
Come on Dan, can't you see this boils down (for at least one person here)
to ones political stance (lib vs conservative)?

How black and white some folks lives are.

LOL.


"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...

Wouldn't it be more likely for the druggies to come after your for
turning the cash in since your face would be all over the news? If they
could track you down, and you did manage to keep it out of the media, why
wouldn't they assume you have it anyway?

Harry Krause wrote:

thunder wrote:


On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:




If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.

It would have to be drug money, and I would keep it.

Harry says his local county mounty is going to protect him from the drug
kingpins, so of course he can give the money to the cops, but he is
terrified of Tuuk.


"Calif Bill" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Calif Bill wrote:
"P.Fritz" wrote in message
...

"JimH" wrote in message
...

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
thlink.net...

Good topic but we may as well add what people have "caught". I have
heard of the bales of drugs in the ocean and a duffle bag of cash

($80K)

even made the news a few years ago.

I caught a cheap 35 mm camera. It was in terrible shape. A friend
of
mine fought a 24 oz hammer for a good 2 minutes on 6lb test on the
Mississippi once.

Dan

UglyDan®©T wrote:



Never caught anything to that extreme.

Great suggestion....let's go for it...

What have you dropped and what have you caught....

If you caught $80k in a duffle bag....would you report it to the news?






Some people are a little slow. About 20 years ago or so, the Budget
Rent a
car people recovered an overdue car from SFO parking lot. The lady at
Budget removed the 2 suitcases in the car and after opening them, she
turned
them in. $10,000,000 in cash and gold and platinum. The government
took
them as drug booty and she got nothing.



Some people are honest.

About five years ago, I found a wallet on the sidewalk in NW DC between
a fancy hotel and the Georgetown U law school campus. It had several
hundred dollars in cash in it, and all sorts of plastic. Belonged to a
woman who lived out of town. I made several calls to her various
offices and finally someone there tracked her down at a medical
conference she was attending in DC. We met briefly in the hotel lobby,
where she explained she had been carrying her coat while running for a
cab, and the wallet must have fallen out of her coat pocket.

If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and you
conservatives.



If I found $10mm in suitcases in a rental car, I would know it is drug
money
and is now mine. As to finding wallets, I have returned a couple of them
over the years. Major difference between a wallet and a $1mm+ case of
money
on the street. Why not profit from the drug business's screwup?

Harry,
You really do seem very infatuated with me. If you notice all of your posts
have been attacking many people in rec.boats. You go out of your way to cut
and paste articles that will allow you to call conservatives names. You
have stated many times, the only reason you come here is to **** off the
right wing trash, and your posting history shows you meant it.

Even Chuck realizes YOU are the reason for the current tone of rec.boats.
There are people who would like to discuss boats, but you are too excited
about being able to cut and paste news articles.. You have nothing in your
life except this little kingdom, and you have turned it into a trailer park.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Me Again wrote:
Dan,
Harry's comment is not logical, he was using the $10M as an opportunity
to make a negative comment about conservatives and try to boost his weak
ego.


Ahh, I seen the president of the "Obsessed with Harry" Club is posting
again. I must be doing something right to be the object of obsession of
such trash as "Smithers," Tuuk, Hertvik, Herring, Robbins, Calif Bile,
Jackoff, and all the other little right-wing automatons who pollute this
dying newsgroup.


--
Bush and the NeoConvicts who control him
are destroying the once-great United States.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Me Again wrote:
Dan,
Harry's comment is not logical, he was using the $10M as an opportunity
to make a negative comment about conservatives and try to boost his weak
ego.


Ahh, I seen the president of the "Obsessed with Harry" Club is posting
again. I must be doing something right to be the object of obsession of
such trash as "Smithers," Tuuk, Hertv###, Herring, Robbins, Calif Bile,
Jackoff, and all the other little right-wing automatons who pollute this
dying newsgroup.


Always *them*....never you. Always liberal vs conservative. Always hatred
and personal attacks vs a conversation or debate. Always lies and
exaggerations vs the truth. Always is always quite evident whenever you
post.

Always. ;-)

The 10mm is just the cost of business. The car had been there a couple of
weeks. If they were that concerned about the money they would have
retrieved it.
Bill

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...
I don't see how politics have anything to do with this issue. Even if
the Sheriff keeps a tight lip, the "owners" of the cash would still be
looking for you.

JimH wrote:
Come on Dan, can't you see this boils down (for at least one person
here) to
ones political stance (lib vs conservative)?

How black and white some folks lives are.

LOL.


"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
nk.net...

Wouldn't it be more likely for the druggies to come after your for
turning
the cash in since your face would be all over the news? If they could
track you down, and you did manage to keep it out of the media, why
wouldn't they assume you have it anyway?

Harry Krause wrote:

thunder wrote:


On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:01:51 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:




If I found $10 million in cash and other valuables, I'd assume it was
drug
money and immediately call the local sheriff's department.

I guess that's just one of the differences between we moderates and
you
conservatives.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...

Terrified of Tuuk? If that wasted ejaculate is fool enough to try to break
into my house, you'll hear about how afraid of him I am. What remains of
his head will be on a pike.

Harry, that is why you spent weeks talking about how you were going to shot
him between the eyes, posting pics of your target practice, showing a
picture of your gun. Yeah right, you were ****ting in your britches.

I would not wish ill will on anyone, but you enjoy egging people on till you
get them worked up, and reap what you sow.

Tuuk did not commit assault,but he did scare the **** out of you.

Harry,

It does seem you are very obsessed with those you call Konservative Krap.
Without them, you would not have any reason to come to rec.boats.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Me Again wrote:
Harry,
You really do seem very infatuated with me. If you notice all of your
posts have been attacking many people in rec.boats.

No people. Just Konservative Krap.


--
Bush and the NeoConvicts who control him
are destroying the once-great United States.