Abandoned boats a growing problem on Waterway

WMBF News ^ | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | A.J. Ross

[Tax-chick]

these vessels have been an eyesore for the past several years

Since no level of government can do anything about it, perhaps some anonymous citizen action under the cover of darkness is in order.

[econjack]

I don't know the law, but at what point can someone declare the boat to be abandoned and simply salvage it?

[Disambiguator]

I say we load the boats onto trains and whisk them away.

[Tax-chick]

;-)

[denydenydeny]

Clearly this is an emergency that requires us to build the Intracoastal Railway.

[Alberta's Child]

I learned at a young age that the use of combustible materials and application of a combustion source was usually a very effective method for getting a government carry out its responsibilities with regard to abandoned property, vehicles, etc.

[oh8eleven]

Hmmm, been trying to convince my wife it's time to move south and Little River was one of my choices.
House prices way down and now "free" boats.

[camle]

" Army Core of Engineers"

um.. this lends an air of great credulity to the article...

[Charlespg]

I don't know the law, but at what point can someone declare the boat to be abandoned and simply salvage it?

Good question

[thulldud]

Interesting. For a generation or more, we've all been trained to "wait for higher authority" to get anything done, and abandoned all that power to the leftists in DC. But now that we have a bunch of narcissistic idiots in charge, idiots who have no real-world ability, the real responsibilities of government are left unhandled.

Time for the locals to step in and take care of their own place, like it used to be before all the socialism. Just like the folks in LA and MS tried to do with the oil spill, before the Coast Guard muscled in and stopped them.

[N. Theknow]

Army Core of Engineers

Idiots!

It's "Corpse" of Engineers.

[Kozak]

Same writer as Zero’s “ Corpseman”?

[Paladin2]

We’re from the gov’t and here to help and serve.

[SJSAMPLE]

I remember a story about a Louisiana boy that got his 4x4 “swamper” stuck in the bayou. A dredging boat came by, saw the truck and picked it up. The kept it under state laws of salvage, and he had to pay a good penny to get it back.

[Nateman]

[N. Theknow]

Clearly this is an emergency that requires us to build the Intracoastal Railway.

Is that the High Speed Intracoastal Railway?

On another note; why can't the owners be traced by the boat registration? Even is the registration numbers are gone, isn't there a serial # or something like a VIN on boats?

[NavyCanDo]

Here in Washington we pay a derelict boat tax on our boat licence. We who own working boats have to pay for the idiots who dump their old ones on the side of the road or set them adrift.

[camle]

LOL~!

any farmer knows it’s the CROPS of engineers!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

” Army Core of Engineers”

Apple corps have seeds...and funeral homes deal with corps.