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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When wouldyou board someone else's boat??
Bob D. wrote:
Quick question along these lines, when is it okay to fire your flare gun into somone elses bilge, or at least urinate upon their deck? Two years ago, I was at Put-in-Bay sleeping one off at my favorite facility, when at 7:30am one Sunday this "gentleman" started his go fast boat which had twin unmuffled engines. I was along the wall, the marina was packed, so this guy was perpendicular to me along the pier squeezed between me and the boat in front of him. His exhaust was about one foot away from the starboard side of my boat hull. Needless to say when he started the engine, I sprang up and almost crapped my pants. Now I'll admit I am prejudiced against loud go fast boats, as I don't personally see the use in the excess noise (same opinion of loud harleys), but I've never begrudged someone over it. If its loud and moving into my quiet zone, it will eventually move out of earshot and it's no longer a problem. And even though it's 7:30am, he still has to start his boat to leave, right? Unfortunately this ****head didn't have a clue about courtesy and decided he needed to start his engines long before unsecuring his spring lines, or taking in his power line, water hose, or even his morning reign on the porcelin throne. I guess he needed those hi performance ponies good and warm huh? TWENTY FIVE MINUTES LATER, bozo the boater pulled out of the marina. By this time I couldn't get back to sleep as all I could her afterwards were my friends and neighbors awake, talking about what a flamming asshole this guy was. What would your reaction be? Bob Dimond I would consider writing a gentle, threatening note signed "an x-friend" warning him that his "lack of consideration" for other persons' quiet enjoyment of their property could become reciprocal, and surreptitiously gluing it to his windscreen with soluable glue and a long handled applicator some lonely 4 AM. Don't go aboard. I might also leave a rotton fish or bag of dog **** or a rotton egg or six on his deck, not broken, just a warning gift. Use rubber gloves and cut out words from some magazine or newspaper, and burn the book with the holes in it. Don't cause any damage to his boat. You could get several niegbours to sue him in small claims court over it, a week or so apart. Expect to lose, but you might get lucky. Get a really crappy sounding stereo turned up too loud to wake him up to Yoko Ono at 6 AM a couple of times, he'll enjoy that. Make sure your niegbours all laugh and applaud and toast to him with grapefruit and liqueurs as soon as he comes on deck to complain. They could all hold up score cards, like 2.3, 4.1, 6.8, etc. You could make it into a really nice breakfast party. Tape it all and send it to funniest videos, he'll look good on TV, you'll get some money. No point in politely advising him of your fellow boaters' feelings in the presence of a witness or two, the clod would just go overly defensive, right? It would be really nice if the ignorant asshole would idle out of the slip under trolling motor power and start his sonic warp drive up out side the breakwater if leaving early, but he would never agree until he had suffered as you did. You could clean a few guns where he could see you doing it, while muttering insanely about sonic vandals and drinking heavily from a whiskey bottle full of tea beside a bag of sugar. Tip a little sugar into the bottle from time to time. Don't speak to him, just yell at your "crew" below decks about inconsiderate assholes, while ignoring him. Print this out (minus my name, please), or something similar and tell him someone asked you to give it to him, and that your niegbours all voted it was the best thing to do, because you all did not really want to upset him unneccessarily. Maybe they will all sign it. Or, just forgive him once or twice and pray for him. Judge Judy would be on your side, so long as you did not instigate violence or real damage. She hates noisy, inconsiderate people, too. There is a site somewhere concerning really nasty dirty tricks, some of which are essentially harmless, I don't remember the URL. Terry K |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:09:44 GMT, Terry Spragg
wrote: Bob D. wrote: Quick question along these lines, when is it okay to fire your flare gun into somone elses bilge, or at least urinate upon their deck? Two years ago, I was at Put-in-Bay sleeping one off at my favorite facility, when at 7:30am one Sunday this "gentleman" started his go fast boat which had twin unmuffled engines. I was along the wall, the marina was packed, so this guy was perpendicular to me along the pier squeezed between me and the boat in front of him. His exhaust was about one foot away from the starboard side of my boat hull. Needless to say when he started the engine, I sprang up and almost crapped my pants. Now I'll admit I am prejudiced against loud go fast boats, as I don't personally see the use in the excess noise (same opinion of loud harleys), but I've never begrudged someone over it. If its loud and moving into my quiet zone, it will eventually move out of earshot and it's no longer a problem. And even though it's 7:30am, he still has to start his boat to leave, right? Unfortunately this ****head didn't have a clue about courtesy and decided he needed to start his engines long before unsecuring his spring lines, or taking in his power line, water hose, or even his morning reign on the porcelin throne. I guess he needed those hi performance ponies good and warm huh? TWENTY FIVE MINUTES LATER, bozo the boater pulled out of the marina. By this time I couldn't get back to sleep as all I could her afterwards were my friends and neighbors awake, talking about what a flamming asshole this guy was. What would your reaction be? Bob Dimond I would consider writing a gentle, threatening note signed "an x-friend" warning him that his "lack of consideration" for other persons' quiet enjoyment of their property could become reciprocal, and surreptitiously gluing it to his windscreen with soluable glue and a long handled applicator some lonely 4 AM. Don't go aboard. I might also leave a rotton fish or bag of dog **** or a rotton egg or six on his deck, not broken, just a warning gift. Use rubber gloves and cut out words from some magazine or newspaper, and burn the book with the holes in it. Don't cause any damage to his boat. You could get several niegbours to sue him in small claims court over it, a week or so apart. Expect to lose, but you might get lucky. Get a really crappy sounding stereo turned up too loud to wake him up to Yoko Ono at 6 AM a couple of times, he'll enjoy that. Make sure your niegbours all laugh and applaud and toast to him with grapefruit and liqueurs as soon as he comes on deck to complain. They could all hold up score cards, like 2.3, 4.1, 6.8, etc. You could make it into a really nice breakfast party. Tape it all and send it to funniest videos, he'll look good on TV, you'll get some money. No point in politely advising him of your fellow boaters' feelings in the presence of a witness or two, the clod would just go overly defensive, right? It would be really nice if the ignorant asshole would idle out of the slip under trolling motor power and start his sonic warp drive up out side the breakwater if leaving early, but he would never agree until he had suffered as you did. You could clean a few guns where he could see you doing it, while muttering insanely about sonic vandals and drinking heavily from a whiskey bottle full of tea beside a bag of sugar. Tip a little sugar into the bottle from time to time. Don't speak to him, just yell at your "crew" below decks about inconsiderate assholes, while ignoring him. Print this out (minus my name, please), or something similar and tell him someone asked you to give it to him, and that your niegbours all voted it was the best thing to do, because you all did not really want to upset him unneccessarily. Maybe they will all sign it. Or, just forgive him once or twice and pray for him. Judge Judy would be on your side, so long as you did not instigate violence or real damage. She hates noisy, inconsiderate people, too. There is a site somewhere concerning really nasty dirty tricks, some of which are essentially harmless, I don't remember the URL. Terry K Nicely said! John H On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay! |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
John H,
I agree with your comment, but wouldn't it have been a lot more expedient to top post it? A two word comment in my opinion is a very good reason to top post. Paul "John H" wrote in message news On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:09:44 GMT, Terry Spragg wrote: Bob D. wrote: Quick question along these lines, when is it okay to fire your flare gun into somone elses bilge, or at least urinate upon their deck? Two years ago, I was at Put-in-Bay sleeping one off at my favorite facility, when at 7:30am one Sunday this "gentleman" started his go fast boat which had twin unmuffled engines. I was along the wall, the marina was packed, so this guy was perpendicular to me along the pier squeezed between me and the boat in front of him. His exhaust was about one foot away from the starboard side of my boat hull. Needless to say when he started the engine, I sprang up and almost crapped my pants. Now I'll admit I am prejudiced against loud go fast boats, as I don't personally see the use in the excess noise (same opinion of loud harleys), but I've never begrudged someone over it. If its loud and moving into my quiet zone, it will eventually move out of earshot and it's no longer a problem. And even though it's 7:30am, he still has to start his boat to leave, right? Unfortunately this ****head didn't have a clue about courtesy and decided he needed to start his engines long before unsecuring his spring lines, or taking in his power line, water hose, or even his morning reign on the porcelin throne. I guess he needed those hi performance ponies good and warm huh? TWENTY FIVE MINUTES LATER, bozo the boater pulled out of the marina. By this time I couldn't get back to sleep as all I could her afterwards were my friends and neighbors awake, talking about what a flamming asshole this guy was. What would your reaction be? Bob Dimond I would consider writing a gentle, threatening note signed "an x-friend" warning him that his "lack of consideration" for other persons' quiet enjoyment of their property could become reciprocal, and surreptitiously gluing it to his windscreen with soluable glue and a long handled applicator some lonely 4 AM. Don't go aboard. I might also leave a rotton fish or bag of dog **** or a rotton egg or six on his deck, not broken, just a warning gift. Use rubber gloves and cut out words from some magazine or newspaper, and burn the book with the holes in it. Don't cause any damage to his boat. You could get several niegbours to sue him in small claims court over it, a week or so apart. Expect to lose, but you might get lucky. Get a really crappy sounding stereo turned up too loud to wake him up to Yoko Ono at 6 AM a couple of times, he'll enjoy that. Make sure your niegbours all laugh and applaud and toast to him with grapefruit and liqueurs as soon as he comes on deck to complain. They could all hold up score cards, like 2.3, 4.1, 6.8, etc. You could make it into a really nice breakfast party. Tape it all and send it to funniest videos, he'll look good on TV, you'll get some money. No point in politely advising him of your fellow boaters' feelings in the presence of a witness or two, the clod would just go overly defensive, right? It would be really nice if the ignorant asshole would idle out of the slip under trolling motor power and start his sonic warp drive up out side the breakwater if leaving early, but he would never agree until he had suffered as you did. You could clean a few guns where he could see you doing it, while muttering insanely about sonic vandals and drinking heavily from a whiskey bottle full of tea beside a bag of sugar. Tip a little sugar into the bottle from time to time. Don't speak to him, just yell at your "crew" below decks about inconsiderate assholes, while ignoring him. Print this out (minus my name, please), or something similar and tell him someone asked you to give it to him, and that your niegbours all voted it was the best thing to do, because you all did not really want to upset him unneccessarily. Maybe they will all sign it. Or, just forgive him once or twice and pray for him. Judge Judy would be on your side, so long as you did not instigate violence or real damage. She hates noisy, inconsiderate people, too. There is a site somewhere concerning really nasty dirty tricks, some of which are essentially harmless, I don't remember the URL. Terry K Nicely said! John H On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay! |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
In article , "Paul Schilter" paulschilter@comcast,dot,net wrote:
John H, I agree with your comment, but wouldn't it have been a lot more expedient to top post it? A two word comment in my opinion is a very good reason to top post. Paul http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
The **** flies...
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:32:54 -0400, "Paul Schilter" paulschilter@comcast,dot,net wrote: John H, I agree with your comment, but wouldn't it have been a lot more expedient to top post it? A two word comment in my opinion is a very good reason to top post. Paul ....no matter where one posts. John H On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay! |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
"John H" wrote in message
... The **** flies... On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:32:54 -0400, "Paul Schilter" paulschilter@comcast,dot,net wrote: John H, I agree with your comment, but wouldn't it have been a lot more expedient to top post it? A two word comment in my opinion is a very good reason to top post. Paul ...no matter where one posts. John H I think it depends on the message, and to which part of the message you're responding to. And, strategically placed "white space" goes a long way toward helping with clarity. You seem to understand this idea, John, even though you're a Republican lacky. :-) We don't need to explain it, right? |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:18:43 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote: "John H" wrote in message .. . The **** flies... On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:32:54 -0400, "Paul Schilter" paulschilter@comcast,dot,net wrote: John H, I agree with your comment, but wouldn't it have been a lot more expedient to top post it? A two word comment in my opinion is a very good reason to top post. Paul ...no matter where one posts. John H I think it depends on the message, and to which part of the message you're responding to. And, strategically placed "white space" goes a long way toward helping with clarity. You seem to understand this idea, John, even though you're a Republican lacky. :-) We don't need to explain it, right? Did I offend you again? There must be some reason for the name calling. John H On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay! |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
"John H" wrote in message
... On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:18:43 GMT, "Doug Kanter" wrote: "John H" wrote in message .. . The **** flies... On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:32:54 -0400, "Paul Schilter" paulschilter@comcast,dot,net wrote: John H, I agree with your comment, but wouldn't it have been a lot more expedient to top post it? A two word comment in my opinion is a very good reason to top post. Paul ...no matter where one posts. John H I think it depends on the message, and to which part of the message you're responding to. And, strategically placed "white space" goes a long way toward helping with clarity. You seem to understand this idea, John, even though you're a Republican lacky. :-) We don't need to explain it, right? Did I offend you again? There must be some reason for the name calling. John H Name calling? What name calling? :-) |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
"Terry Spragg" wrote in message
.cable.rogers.com... Get a really crappy sounding stereo turned up too loud to wake him up to Yoko Ono.... Yoko?!? Jeez.....it's making my teeth hurt just thinking about that! Perfect idea. You could clean a few guns where he could see you doing it, while muttering insanely about sonic vandals and drinking heavily from a whiskey bottle full of tea beside a bag of sugar. Tip a little sugar into the bottle from time to time. Don't speak to him, just yell at your "crew" below decks about inconsiderate assholes, while ignoring him. This is an excellent idea, the whiskey/gun combo. Even better if you wear a hat which hides your eyes, and steadfastly refuse to make eye contact with him. Judge Judy would be on your side, so long as you did not instigate violence or real damage. She hates noisy, inconsiderate people, too. So, Judy would be OK with using a crossbow, then. |
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When to shoot a falre into someone elses bilge WAS: When would you board someone else's boat??
"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "Terry Spragg" wrote in message .cable.rogers.com... Get a really crappy sounding stereo turned up too loud to wake him up to Yoko Ono.... Yoko?!? Jeez.....it's making my teeth hurt just thinking about that! Perfect idea. A while after the 9/11 attacks Ken Kesey wrote an open letter to the terrorists. His theme was that if they think that they are crazier than Americans by being suicide bombers they are, well, crazy. He then gave a long list of examples of how Americans are crazy. One of the best went something like... You think you're crazy? We shot John Lennon 6 times and didn't even aim for Yoko Ono. |
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