X-OldHeader: From jrstudio@home.com-DeleteThis.com Mon Apr 2 12:21:27 2001 Return-Path: <jrstudio@home.com-DeleteThis.com> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id MAA25270 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.58]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id MAA08287 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AD8346 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:21:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from home.com ([24.1.69.3]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010402192059.PTQP1403.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com-DeleteThis.com> for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:20:59 -0700 Message-ID: <3AC8D1F4.934661EA@home.com-DeleteThis.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:24:38 -0800 From: JR Johnston <jrstudio@home.com-DeleteThis.com> Organization: @home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com Subject: Re: Malicious and Irresponsible?!?!?! References: <004301c0bb8a$723f35c0$0300a8c0@dave>
Dude, I've helped all kinds of people and people have helped me,
but I see some stupidity with a few folks, that's all.
Just be responsible, right?
"Scribble thoughts flowing freely from the mind, sing in good voice,
keep the beat and, above all,
accept a call to the Coasties when it is pressed upon you."
Yoshida Kenko,
'Essay in Idleness', 1340
Dave Polzer wrote:
> What ever Dude... I hope that was meant as a joke.
>
> You might as well say that we shouldn't endanger Paramedic's lives by
> getting into an autombile accident on the highway and endanger their lives
> by requiring medical attention. After all they could die in the process of
> helping the injured. ?!?!?
>
> Malicious and irresponsible? Ya right.
>
> You should definately not sail beyond your own personal limitations, but
> emergency people are there for a reason. Careful what you preach.. One day
> you just might need some help yourself.
>
> Thanks to all those people who do take the time and effort to help those in
> need.
>
> I broke my 2 week old mast just shy of the channel last night myself. I swam
> half the way and was lucky enough to recieve some towing assistance to make
> it back just north of SM Bridge. Had it not been for those two individuals I
> would have wound up somewhere near Redwood Shores making for one hell of a
> walk back.
>
> Thanks Pierre and Paul.
>
> My 2 cents....
>
> Dave Polzer
>
> -- Original Message -----
> From: JR Johnston <jrstudio@home.com-DeleteThis.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:40 AM
> Subject: Re: VHF radios
>
> > This radio business all sounds a little malicious and irresposible
> > to me. What i can't understand is why would you endanger your life
> > & the lifes of others, not to mention the coast guards? Why are you
> > going out so far that you can't make it back on your own? Is your
> > equipment going to fail because you are to cheap to replace last
> > years uni? I understand that equipment can break, even when it is
> > brand new, but if you can't swim in -- you shouldn't be there(.)
> > Don't endanger your life or the lifes of others, not to mention the
> > coast guards!
> >
> > "Good swimmers are oftenest drowned."
> >
> > Thomas Fuller Gnomologia, 1732
> >
> >
> > [HTML file part2 deleted by listprocessor]
> >
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