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I'll bet that @CELLFISH and/or @DarthBaiter will have a few things to say regarding this...
$20,000 for a Permit? New York May Finally Offer Vendors Some Relief
In an attempt to shut down a thriving black market, the City Council passed a bill that would increase the number of permits for street vendors.
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$20,000 for a Permit? New York May Finally Offer Vendors Some Relief
Hope they realize they're liable from damage due to their wake, although if they can afford the toy, they can afford the pain...Coming to a bay near you..
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This New Wake-Surf Boat Creates a Wave Big Enough to Make Maui Jealous
With its perfect monster wave, the $600,000 Gigawave will revolutionize wake surfing into a sport that even Kelly Slater would love.robbreport.com
Yep, 5 years and $250.000 should make one think about pulling off a stupid stunt like that. If the fine can't be satisfied then a mandatory work session (Say working for the state every day till it's paid off) should be enforced. $ 3.00 a day to the perp and the remainder to the USCG. This should be a good place to start the chip implant program on humans. OR, as you say "Keel Haul his ass" . Do it in Chatham in July !!With zero helicopter traffic up here, any time I hear or see an orange CG chopper, overhead my heart goes out to whoever is in trouble out on the water. Five years and a $250K fine for this scum? I think Keel Hauling is more appropriate...
Rockland man charged with making false marine distress call
pressherald.com/2021/01/29/rockland-man-charged-with-making-false-marine-distress-call/
By Stephen Betts January 29, 2021
SPRUCE HEAD — A 31-year-old Rockland man has been charged with making a false distress call late last year that resulted in a large search effort and drew condemnation from the Coast Guard for coming shortly after a fishing boat out of Portland was lost at sea claiming the lives of four fishermen.
A criminal complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland charges Nathan Libby with communicating a false distress call on Dec. 3. He is scheduled to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday. Libby faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of the crime.
Court documents don’t list a lawyer for Libby, who was being held at Cumberland County Jail on Friday night. He is scheduled to make a court appearance Monday.
The Coast Guard sent out a vessel that searched for more than four hours and a helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod spent more than five hours in the search on Dec. 3. The Maine Marine Patrol and private boats also helped in the search.
The hoax call came less than two weeks after the Coast Guard mounted an extensive search for four fisherman who were aboard the Portland-based Emmy Rose when it sank off Cape Cod on Nov. 23. The search turned up debris and an empty life raft but the fishermen were never found.
A Coast Guard official condemned the hoax call at the time.
“Today’s hoax is particularly offensive given the loss of four fishermen aboard the Emmy Rose just last week,” Capt. Brian LeFebvre, commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Northern New England, said in a statement on Dec. 3. “We will use all available resources to identify and hold the responsible individual accountable.”
The charge against Libby is outlined in an affidavit filed in court by Coast Guard Investigative Service Special Agent Mark Root.
The Coast Guard received a mayday call shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 3 on VHF marine radio Channel 16.
The Coast Guard dispatcher spoke with a man for about one to two minutes during which time he said he was on a boat that had lost its rudder and was taking on water fast and the pumps couldn’t keep up.
“Mayday, mayday, mayday,” says the voice in an audio recording released by the Coast Guard Sector Northern New England. “We lost our rudder and we’re taking on water fast. I just don’t have enough pumps to keep up with it.”
The man said there were three people aboard the boat and they were in Spruce Head Harbor and trying to get to the Atwood float.
Marine Patrol Officer Nicholas Stillwell responded to Atwood Lobster Co.’s wharf on Spruce Head Island in South Thomaston and boarded a private vessel in an attempt to locate the boat that made the distress call. No vessel was located.
Stillwell returned to the dock and spoke to Libby, a dock worker at the neighboring Spruce Head Fisherman’s Co-op. Libby provided Stillwell with a list of boats that had gone out that morning.
The officer then spoke to someone else at the co-op and played the recording of the distress call. That person said the voice sounded like Libby. The officer went back and spoke to Libby, who said he had heard the distress call. He also acknowledged the co-op office had a VHF radio that was on Channel 16.
The officer taped Libby and his voice was compared to the distress call by an associate research professor at the Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Associate Professor Rita Singh concluded the voice on the distress call was the same as Libby’s, the affidavit states.
Surveillance video showed that Libby was at the co-op office at the time the distress call was made. And a check from a radio tower showed the call came from the direction of the co-op.
The Coast Guard said that Libby is not a suspect “at this time” in another fake distress call that went out in October 2019. In that case, which kicked off a 22-hour search, the purported “emergency” involved a man and three children and a capsized boat off Kennebunkport.
Coast Guard officials say that fake distress calls tie up resources that may be needed for a vessels that are actually in trouble.
“Our Coast Guard rescue crews thrive on taking risks for the sake of helping others in distress on the water,” LeFebvre, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Sector Northern New England, said in the wake of the fake call on Dec. 3. “Hoax distress calls – like the one we received this morning – unnecessarily put our rescue crews at risk, drain resources, and may limit our ability to respond to actual emergencies.”
Ha Ha, yeah i may like an "an electric Hummer".There better be a chit-pile of fast charging stations by then, but who's gonna pay for the electricity?
G.M. Will Sell Only Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035
The move, one of the most ambitious in the auto industry, is a piece of a broader plan by the company to become carbon neutral by 2040.
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General Motors plans an electric Hummer pickup, with a high-end version due in showrooms sometime this fall. Credit...General Motors Company, via Associated Press
The days of the internal combustion engine could be numbered.
General Motors said Thursday it would phase out petroleum-powered cars and trucks and sell only vehicles that have zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a seismic shift by one of the world’s largest automakers that makes billions of dollars today from gas-guzzling pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
The announcement is likely to put pressure on automakers around the world to make similar commitments. It could also embolden President Biden and other elected officials to push for even more aggressive policies to fight climate change. Leaders could point to G.M.’s decision as evidence that even big businesses have decided that it is time for the world to begin to transition away from fossil fuels that have powered the global economy for more than a century.
G.M.’s move is sure to roil the auto industry, which, between car and parts makers, employed about one million people in the United States in 2019, more than any other manufacturing sector by far. It will also have huge ramifications for the oil and gas sector, whose fortunes are closely tied to the internal combustion engine.
A rapid shift by the auto industry could lead to job losses and business failures in related areas. Electric cars don’t have transmissions or need oil changes, meaning conventional service stations will have to retool what they do. Electric vehicles also require fewer workers to make, putting traditional manufacturing jobs at risk. At the same time, the move to electric cars will spark a boom in areas like battery manufacturing, mining and charging stations.
You know what the ironic part of this is? Since it was a Maine-based boat, that monster had to get tossed back over the side!! Maine is one of the few states that have a maximum size limit on lobsters. Don't ever believe a lobster over 4 lbs came out of a Maine port, that's about the max weight of the slot.
Don't forget, if he steams down to NH he had better have a NH out of state Comm. license. Otherwise they can own your boat. That alone makes it almost a no brainer for dropping them over the side . Hey, Nothing to do with this but, did i ever tell you we had a BBQ on boardYou know what the ironic part of this is? Since it was a Maine-based boat, that monster had to get tossed back over the side!! Maine is one of the few states that have a maximum size limit on lobsters. Don't ever believe a lobster over 4 lbs came out of a Maine port, that's about the max weight of the slot.
Maine draggers tried to get an exception to this rule for lobsters that came up in their nets, but it wasn't allowed. If a dragger gets a decent haul of larger lobsters, the captain needs to do a quick "Plus/Minus" analysis to see if steaming down to NH to unload the catch and lobsters will mean more money than tossing over the monstah lobstahs and heading back into their Maine home port.
All states an the feds have a max size gauge. I can't get those 25-30 pounders anywhere anymore. All of the big (10+) lobsters come from draggers, they're too big to fit in the pots. MA is the big landing port for draggers with a load of lobsters.You know what the ironic part of this is? Since it was a Maine-based boat, that monster had to get tossed back over the side!! Maine is one of the few states that have a maximum size limit on lobsters. Don't ever believe a lobster over 4 lbs came out of a Maine port, that's about the max weight of the slot.
Maine draggers tried to get an exception to this rule for lobsters that came up in their nets, but it wasn't allowed. If a dragger gets a decent haul of larger lobsters, the captain needs to do a quick "Plus/Minus" analysis to see if steaming down to NH to unload the catch and lobsters will mean more money than tossing over the monstah lobstahs and heading back into their Maine home port.