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Useful safety concept?
On 30 Nov 2006 12:07:41 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote: JimH wrote: "Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... This was in this morning's email. Presented here as an interesting idea, so the specific contact details for additional information or purchase information have been eliminated from this post. In the unlikely event that somebody would be interested in contacting the firm that makes this device, Email me at and I'll send the contact info via that route: ********* Hi Chuck, snip Grant Chuck, remind me again how this is not SPAM. Gladly: 1) I have no financial interest of any kind in the item described. 2) There is no pricing or commercial contact information included, (in fact, it was deleted), merely a description of a new product. 3) I do have contact information available to anybody interested via email- but I didn't post that here to *avoid* falling into a spam category. Spam is a commercial solicitation in a non-commercial venue. If somebody wants the commercial solicitation, I will put them on the track to get it- but it isn't appearing here. 4) There is no personal endorsement or recommendation that anybody actually purchase one of these for any purpose, merely an invitation to discuss whether such a device by this or some other manufacturer with a similar concept might be a useful safety device. It would be tough to discuss whether or not people consider a new device potentially useful as a safety system without at least describing the device. As I have never seen one in person, I forwarded a description that I received. How about you, Jim? Do you take a dog or young kids out with you when you use your boat? What would you think of a system that could sound an alarm the instant one of them fell overboard? I see one use for this, depending on the range of the transmitter, that isn't addressed in the original description. I hate to see it, but it's a common practice for some boaters to put kids as young as 5 or 6 years old in a PFD and then turn them loose to run around the docks in a marina. They are usually goofing off trying to snag a pile perch with a miniature fishing pole or hauling critters up to the dock with a dip net. Sometimes these kids get several slips away from their own boat and there may or may not actually be somebody on deck keeping a constant eye on them. In such a case, knowing that your kindergartner has fallen off the dock at least somewhere nearby would be better than not knowing until the next 10-15 minute interval when the parents put down their martinis and take a visual check. I could probably post something like "Make sure you shred your bills so the local ID thieves don't profit by skimming your garbage", and it would make a nice follow up to the "crooks jotting down numbers on gift cards" post that appeared here recently, but I try to keep the threads I start in the NG related to boating. But I could be wrong. Anybody besides by good friend in Ohio object to the original post as "spam"? I'm not to stubborn to learn from the errors of my ways and if the majority of the NG feels that a description of a new, boating related product is inappropriate in the NG I won't offer that kind of content in the future. FWIW, I took it as a purely informative post about a new product. Your "good friend in Ohio" is trying hard to become the group a-hole again. |
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