Posted on 08/03/2007 5:34:17 PM PDT by libstripper
A man in a Revolutionary War-era submarine was cited by the U.S. Coast Guard for drifting into a security zone, and for unsafe sailing in New York's East River near the Queen Mary 2 luxury liner, the Coast Guard and New York City Police Department said Friday.
The man in the replica vessel was identified as 35-year-old Philip "Duke" Riley of Brooklyn, N.Y., according to Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer Seth Johnson.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
I love it! The turtle was re-enacted? The geek in me salutes the guy.
Probably cited for no running lights or life preservers...
Well, I'm impressed!
Probably no license plate.
re-enactment ping
I hope he wasn't smoking on board or he'll get another citation.
Probably ran over a manatee.
Was Ron Paul inside?
Hope all the ten foil hat crowd on the earlier thread see this guys name.
It’s a sad day when “joe average” gets a creative idea, acts upon it, and then gets sited with tickets out the wazoo.....
Good for him though, the Turtle was man powered and very green as it had foxfire inside to light the interior compartment.
Sure that it wasn’t Al Gore in there?
It’s a sad day when “joe average” gets a creative idea, acts upon it, and then gets sited with tickets out the wazoo.....
Good for him though, the Turtle was man powered and very green as it had foxfire inside to light the interior compartment.
Sure that it wasn’t Al Gore in there?
I’m sure that George Noory and Art Bell will qualify this incident as an alien invasion... I was listening to their show a few days ago and Noory was saying that the Earth is hollow and that near the North Pole there’s an entrance for alien aircraft...
Weirdo’s.
That is too cool.
Maybe he should have included the 100 lb. black powder “torpedo” and made the voyage worth the trouble.
OMG! Somebody actually posted a picture of the Turtle in an earlier thread. Reality follows satire?
Oh, the hewed Manatee!
He was an idiot for launching it where he did.
That’s “GR” to you, mere peasant! GR stands for...
GEORGICUS REX!
You are not expected to grasp latin though, givin your inferior stock.
btw, don’t forget to pay your tea tax you insolent tramp!
“Idiot”?
Yeah probably, but what do you want, more then likely the current took them into the vicinity of the QE2.
IMO, he should have been warned and towed out of the area with tresspasing charges if the Turtle made it back into the region.
ping
It’s not a www, I guess, couldn’t get your link to work, so I googled this link.
And you’re right...it is interesting (if that’s the right word, LOL.)
pong :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
A man in a Revolutionary War-era submarine
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In another article it was a wwII era submarine. Do these reporters know anything?
"From 1992 to 1997, I lived and worked in an 8 by 10 foot pigeon coop constructed out of a widow's walk on the roof of an old dilapidated building in Providence, RI. I shared the space with both domestic and street pigeons. A series of assemblages made with materials collected directly from the site and some photo documentation are all that remains of, what I now regard as my first conceptual performative and multimedia project. To this day, I continue to build functioning pigeon coops as sculptural gestures on the landscape, and to include images of birds in my work."
What a freak. Five years in the pigeon poop...
LINK
My work addresses the prospect of residual but forgotten unclaimed frontiers on the edge and inside overdeveloped urban areas, and their unsuspected autonomy. I am interested in the struggle of marginal peoples to sustain independent spaces within all-encompassing societies, the tension between individual and collective behavior, the conflict with institutional power.
IOW, his artistic medium was pigeon guano.
"What a Freak" indeed!
Thanks for the correct link. My HTML skills are rusty :-)
I love his Dead Horse Inn project. Sounds like fun!
I think he has in mind things like the homeless living in remote crannies of the subway tunnels. At one time I believe there was a regular little community of them down there, living in truly horrendous conditions. I think they got rooted out when they started to gain attention.
Are you a turtle?
You bet your sweet @ss I @m.
Well, it was the Clinton years...
yeah, Phil instead of Ahkmed.
You're close. The Coast Guard issued two citations - one for having an unsafe vessel, the other for violating a security zone. Then the city got involved and got him for reckless operation of a craft and towing in a reckless manner.
I'm sure other citations are pending.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070804/ap_on_re_us/nyc_submarine
Indeed, and attaching the bomb to the QM II would be even harder than the Turtle's first effort.
If it can be done its a possibility that terrorists can do it, think of an all wood and non ferrous disposable sub on a one way mission to attach itself like a sea lamphrey upon an ultra large tanker or LNG vessel. And all made from available hardware from Home Depot and a NAPA parts store.
No war is ever won by being defensive, we must become ever more offensive and strike at the heart of terrorism, cut their heart out and destroy their desire to want to rule the world.
My rant of terrorism and this article is a little off the wall and slanted but just think about it now and hopefully not after an event when we are all scratching our heads trying to figure out if a major disaster was terror related or expertly disguised as an accident of design or flaws in the structure etc.
I doubt there is enough black powder in all of America to blow up all of the idiotic bureaucrats, and other assorted, sordid socialism hangers on, now greedily feeding at the gooberment troughs.
Therefore, since the powder box (cartridge box) is too small, just as the Founders thought might happen, there is the soap box and the ballot box in November, 2008.
We are all on a journey. Whether towards a Republic or towards socialism is the question.
Time to seize the helm, as the “Ship of State”, so to speak, is wallowing without a helmsman.
The “New Media” is the soap box of our day. Indeed, it may prove to be the reason that the cartridge box will not be needed. Given the realities of a ‘wired world’, crooks & commies can be exposed easily and their evil deeds shown to all.
Now that cell phones are de facto camcorders, the evil deeds are easy to publish. And, with the Internet, something unconceivable to the Founders has occurred.
In the Founders era, they knew that “’freedom of the press’ belongs to he who owns one”. With the Internet and camcorders/cell phones, anyone can exercise and enjoy ‘freedom of the press’.
Extra! Extra! “Watch the Lil’ Bachelor’s Child”! “Watch What He Did”!
The Eyes Of The Pajama Brigade Are Upon You.
;-)
Why was the reconstructed Turtle launched in New York Harbor? Because the first one was launched there! ! !
Please note that the first launch was a failure, as was this one. BUT, in both cases, fear was created by the failure.
Who says history does not repeat if we don’t learn from it.
Here’s a link of interest, especially as th sub project came from an individual, and the project was not ‘supported’ by a huge Federal grant:
http://www.oldsaybrook.k12.ct.us/HSWebsite/Turtle_Webpage/Turtle.html
Being ABC News, you can count on something in the story to be incorrect. In this instance, the headline is incorrect. The Turtle was built in 1776, not 1775.
LOL. Good story and great thread comments! Gotta love FReepers. :-)
It means he’s interested in homeless squatters sticking it to The Man.
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