Squatter On Your Mooring Ball ( Canada )

[foggysail]

Originally Posted by HappySeagull

Elysium,
The solution, in the future as I vaguely indicated, while others have been plainer, is to leave a dinghy tied up to it, which makes it a mooring and not just a marker for underwater debris. Then,everyone knows you are coming back.

Sure, BUT HAVE IT ATTACHED WITH ACHAIN AND A LOCK or the unrepenting villain might just decide to attach it to teh rear of HIS boat on the way out of the harbor!

And "love your neighbor (or his wife)" but also "do unto others as they do to you." Maybe you could sweeten his boat with a pound of sugar dumped down you know where!

The guy probable believes he has nothing to loose but the sugar will show him otherwise. Now remember, the only intent for sugar is to sweeten----. I knew a guy who once "sweetened a bulldozer! " It never gave him anymore trouble.

[boden36]

Almost everybody here (NSW, Australia ) feels free to tie to another boat's vacant private mooring. The rule is not to leave your boat, so you can move off if the rightful owner comes along.
We returned to our mooring to find a yacht attached and obviously unattended.
I unhooked it and towed it across to a vacant visitor mooring and then phoned the Waterways officer to fill him in with rego details etc.
It turned out the guy had been offered the loan of a nearby mooring and picked up ours by mistake. We recieved a bottle of wine and an apology.
Regards,
Richard.

[jackdale]

Originally Posted by foggysail

Sure, BUT HAVE IT ATTACHED WITH ACHAIN AND A LOCK or the unrepenting villain might just decide to attach it to teh rear of HIS boat on the way out of the harbor!

And "love your neighbor (or his wife)" but also "do unto others as they do to you." Maybe you could sweeten his boat with a pound of sugar dumped down you know where!

I believe the Christian thing to do is "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

[downunder]

Originally Posted by jackdale

I believe the Christian thing to do is "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

S eems in real world not everyone is a Christian.

[hummingway]

Originally Posted by jackdale

I believe the Christian thing to do is "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

It predates Christian doctrine going back at least to Confucius. I'm not religious but consider it good sense.

I'm never sure if people simply feel a need to express a doctrine of escalated revenge or if it is how they actually act in life. Personally I believe the rule of law means that we all should act in a manner that respects it. However, it is the internet and I suspect the inner Rambo lives a more active life here then it does in real life.

[capngeo]

This thread has more turns than the Mississippi! All we need to decide is Manson or Ronca, what gun, cat or mono and who wins the next election!

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by hummingway

I'm never sure if people simply feel a need to express a doctrine of escalated revenge or if it is how they actually act in life.

People are mostly just talk!

[four winds]

In their mind, they are living the Hollywood movie version of their life.

[Ironhorse74]

This is a rough crew! However my faith in the RCMP and Dudley Do-Right has been restored.

[WrenchBender]

I once had a problem with college students parking in my driveway at night while they partied across street blocking me in, it happened 3 times in one semester. Police stated if they were parked all the way off city property having them towed was my responsibility and cost if they skipped town. Solution, push vehicle into street and call in an abandoned vehicle. Id wait for an offshore breeze and cut it loose and call the coast gaurd with concerns about a boat adrift.

[foggysail]

Originally Posted by Don Lucas

People are mostly just talk!

True, but the bulldozer I mentioned earlier was a real event. Most of us strive to be good neighbors. Parking on another's mooring....no, I don't mean tieing up for a few hours or even a few days if your staying on the boat, deserves attention. If everyone was a dogooder, there would be no jails or need for them.

Personally, if I got hit in the cheek, maybe I could turn my other cheek but if I got hit in the cheek with a load of poop, that is a different matter. The creep who left his boat on someone elses property deserves what he gets!

Around here in New England, he would have been long gone.....and it would cost him big $$$$ to get his boat returned. If anybody offers free lunches, he will always have takers..........same is true for free moorings!

Foggy

[sww914]

It is easy, as a spectator, to say "If anybody EVER did that to me I would kill them!" or other similar statements. Having been faced twice in my life with situations that most of you would say you would resolve with a murder, I can tell you that the reality is different than the actuality. I haven't murdered anyone nor have I done anything bad to either of the offending parties. What they did to my family could never be resolved in any way and the damage that they have done dominates our daily lives still.
Sometimes the best thing to do is forgive. Not for them but for you.

[justwaiting]

Originally Posted by sww914

It is easy, as a spectator, to say "If anybody EVER did that to me I would kill them!" or other similar statements. Having been faced twice in my life with situations that most of you would say you would resolve with a murder, I can tell you that the reality is different than the actuality. I haven't murdered anyone nor have I done anything bad to either of the offending parties. What they did to my family could never be resolved in any way and the damage that they have done dominates our daily lives still.
Sometimes the best thing to do is forgive. Not for them but for you.

if i may be as bold as to paraprapse you. You only have so much emotional energy, why waste it on w@#$ers when you can spend it on those who you love.

And yes there are a few keyboard heros

[Cavalier]

Originally Posted by justwaiting

...And yes there are a few keyboard heros

The question you have to ask yourself is, what would Mark Wahlberg do?

[sabray]

Originally Posted by downunder

S eems in real world not everyone is a Christian.

Not sure what you mean. In the world I love. Everyone may not be Christian Jew Muslim budhist but that's irrelevant the cool thing is most have some common values. Thank god your not all Christian.