Good news

[November Charlie]

http://coastguardnews.com/false-distress-call-leads-to-3-months-in-prison-and-489000-reimbursement-order-for-ohio-man/2013/08/19/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoastGuardNews+%28Coast+Guard+News%29 I'd have preferred he spend ten years in prison, along with 1000 hours of bilge diving in the boats that he caused to be launched, but it's still good to see this.

 

[MarcP]

Awsome!

 

[Delivering Happiness]

now that's suck to be him!

 

[Thudpucker]

Yup, that fine is right up there with the worst thing that could happen to him.
When he get's out, he's gonna have a tough time paying off that fine, while flipping burgers at McDonalds etc.

 

[PascalG]

Growing him in jail is only adding to the costs.... And he will probably never pay back the search costs anyway.

A better sentence would have been to make him work for 3 years at a USCG facility, living in a tent. Scrapping bottoms, cleaning grounds, etc

 

[Flutterby]

+10

 

[Bob J]

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Originally posted by PascalG

Growing him in jail is only adding to the costs.... And he will probably never pay back the search costs anyway.

A better sentence would have been to make him work for 3 years at a USCG facility, living in a tent. Scrapping bottoms, cleaning grounds, etc

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Pascal, the problem with you is you're thinking logically. Let's take care of the scum.

 

[Stephen]

The bad thing is that the fines will never be paid. The good thing is that if he tries to live any kind of conventional life after getting out of prison, he will be constantly reminded of his poor judgement. Whether it be a job application, certain loan applications, or any civil service job, he won't be able to hide his jail record.

 

[PascalG]

That s no problem.... He ll get food stamps, and obamaphone, free healthcare, and more.

 

[Billylll]

This happens every year or so in the USCG Delaware Bay area. I am always quite happy to see these type of arrests. In case anyone thinks they are smart enough to get away with this every transmitter has an electronic signature (a fingerprint). These are recorded and eventually when the user is conducting normal communications the signature is again captured and a case is built against these perps.
They need to be thrown in jail it's a serious waste of precious USCG resources once a SAR is initiated. The USCG must take all distress calls as if they are the real deal.
Bill