So Saturday I thought I would put in a little work on the boat, for the Hawai'i trip I'm planning, and I saw that there was a Sheriff knocking on the hull of my boat. My first impulse was to turn around and run in the other direction, but then I thought about my not having committed any crimes lately, so I assumed it was safe for me to walk down the dock and say "Howdy."

I did so, and had a very interesting conversation. He told me that he had been by every day for nearly two weeks hoping to talk with me. That discussion was about his concern for the revenge "picket" the crime syndicate held at my boat (which I had no knowledge of until yesterday). Seems that a few goons from the Crime Syndicate of Scientology had been out to the marina "picketing" and passing out "dead agent" flyers falsely purported to be about me and my sibling. These goons had tresspassed on the docks (against County law) and put their bogus flyers on people's boats (also against the law).

Some of my boat's neighbors got royally pissed at this behavior and they called the Sheriff, the police, and the Harbor Patrol.

Unfortunately one of the neighbors informed the crime syndicate goons he was doing so a minute or so before he did; the criminals fled less than a minute before the Sheriff, police, and Harbor Patrol showed up.

ROTFL! Shit, I wish I had been there.

The Harbor Patrol pulled up in launch, the Sheriff pulled up in a launch, lights and siren wailing, and then the police car rolled in a few minutes after them. My boat's neighbors bitched and complained about their boats being trashed. One neighbor said he was going to shove the bastards into the water but was talked out of it by his wife. LOL!

The police went away and left the HP and Sheriff there to talk to folks. The people on the dock were told to call on marine VHF Channel 16 immediately if the criminals come back, and they would be arrested for tresspassing on County-owned property and for boat vandalism. The Sheriff collected the DA flyers for "safe keeping" and then left.

So now the Sheriff finally caught up with me yesterday and while he was telling me about this, some of the boat's neighbors who were around during the "picket" came over and talked about it. (Eventually some 15 people were standing around talking about this.) When I could force myself to stop laughing, I filled in every one about what was going on. The Sheriff gave us his home telephone number and told is to call him if the criminals come over again, because he lives aboard his boat in the other marina and can be at my boat office in a minute or two.

That's why he was so interested in the crimes the Scientology goons had committed down here: he's a boat owner.

It is now hoped that the next time the crime syndicate comes along, no one will warn them before calling the police. I have also went and bought four of those "disposable" 33mm cameras and I've given them to the neighbors and asked them to take pictures: when I later told the Sheriff that, he said that was an excellent idea and that he wanted copies.

The upshot of all this? Now ARSCC has a Sea Org!

And to save the best for last: I now have a motion picture camera on my boat, facing out to the dock so that it will recrd any movement within about 10 feet. So far it's working, but now and then it "goes off" due to boat motion. I have it pointed "up" the dock so it will film everyone who enters the dock, but well after they enter. This is not optimum, but I cannot let it run all the time.

Life is truely good!

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