Boat off mooring - salvage claim... Again?! Arrr!

@Jordanbasset, Steveyates ... I'll take that bet. Shall we say £50?
@Longjohn ... iou a beer for the most helpful post so far (#9) Arrr!
@Saraband ... close second. I wonder which firm you're with at the moment?
@Biggles ... I've started seeding the torrent sites with fake fakes of our completed movie ... Gone with the Wind (2019) is live!
Pirate bay has 400,000 leachers all blaming each other that the torrent is a fake. Well done buddy ... we're goaanna beee riiiich!!!

I have some time this morning.
 
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were you real, and coming to Southampton, I would counsel not doing so. I dont have any mates with gin palaces, we are not all rich down here you know. But of course as this is a rather funny wind up I will put the concrete overshoes on hold. Shame as we will never get to re enact that scene where Bruce Willis sits the the boat, his feet in the hardening cement and recounts his sorry tale. I dont think the concrete would set quick enough to save my ears, maybe we will just go with an anchor chain.
I still think it is Greg or Phil.
 
all the risks I take are those I can assess. You do not exist in any substantial way beyond a persona, and provide no kind of means to make yourself known, and no evidence to substantiate what you assert. If your motivation is a fun trolling post as an alter ego, then this is an amusing if baffling thread, if it is genuine then it is one heck of an introduction. If that is how you operate in real life then be careful who you cross, it's a small world.
To make a bet, do it man to man, look someone in the eye, and shake their hand. Have the courage of your convictions and make yourself known
 
Well... not a problem! If that's an invitation I can walk you down to the cashpoint when you are forced to eat your words! Bet accepted.
 
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Personally I care not who you might be, and I take most posts on here with a grain or two of sea salt...so please feel free to carry on enthralling us with your tale.....as wonderfully confusing as it has turned out to be...better than reading the news.
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@Offshore57... The strangest thing is ... how little I have had to invent and make up!
@Clown ... so ... I'm sort of over-committed at the moment. Shall we say beginning of September?
 
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Fatbeard said:
Well... not a problem! If that's an invitation I can walk you down to the cashpoint when you are forced to eat your words! Bet accepted.
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Out of interest how will you proof that you are not the alter ego of some one else on here. Few people use their real names many don't have pictures of themselves and some have never met another forumite in real life. I have probably met about a dozen or so but there are thousands I haven't. How would some one know you are not one of those persons besides taking your word for it?
 
@Jordan ... Easy... I'll turn up at your house with my phone (with the pictures fresh on it) the police reports (what they would grudgingly allow me in writing) and my log, and you can judge for yourself. Then We can wonder down to the cashpoint together. So... £50? or do you feel flush? We could make it £100 if you like.
 
Well, reading this has just wasted a half hour of my life... or maybe not. Twas certainly more entertaining than an episode of EastEnders!
FWIW, I am a strong swimmer and have tried to swim in an LJ in 20kn of wind (without carrying my entire toolkit) and it was damn nigh on impossible. But hey, I'm old. Love the story anyway - ever thought of writing fiction for a living?
 
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@Jordan ... Easy... I'll turn up at your house with my phone (with the pictures fresh on it) the police reports (what they would grudgingly allow me in writing) and my log, and you can judge for yourself. Then We can wonder down to the cashpoint together. So... £50? or do you feel flush? We could make it £100 if you like.
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Win or lose , I can assure you that you be Out of pocket by some few hundred pounds .
 
Mr Southpark character person, you sound like some kid in the school playground who got caught out lying. Put up or shut up. It was entertaining until you went all infantile and passive aggressive. what's next "bet you a million pounds" Do yourself a favour and stay away from most people on here in real life, and put me at the top of the list, your "morals" make my blood boil - even if they are fantasy. Sorry if that sounds rude but you have all the makings of an absolute rotter
 
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@Jordan ... Easy... I'll turn up at your house with my phone (with the pictures fresh on it) the police reports (what they would grudgingly allow me in writing) and my log, and you can judge for yourself. Then We can wonder down to the cashpoint together. So... £50? or do you feel flush? We could make it £100 if you like.
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so you want someone else's address to prove you are not lying/unreal while you remain anonymous..... There is an irony there chap.
 
@Solent ... sorry ... you misunderstand.
J asks how I will verify to his satisfaction the veracity (or lack thereof) of this long tale.
I reply that verification is easy... I can visit, we can go through it... and then he can pay me the money he owes me.
@Solent ... You're right. I'm a bit of a rotter but the girls like that.
Re. our bet ... In terms of the ca$h you will owe me in September - and I would prefer ca$h ...
What date are you free for my visit on the weekend 1-2 Sep 2018? We can meet up. You can verify my story, and we can drop off at a cashpoint on the way to the pub.
 
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@Solent ... sorry ... you misunderstand.
J asks how I will verify to his satisfaction the veracity (or lack thereof) of this long tale.
I reply that verification is easy... I can visit, we can go through it... and then he can pay me the money he owes me.
@Solent ... You're right. I'm a bit of a rotter but the girls like that.
Re. our bet ... In terms of the ca$h you will owe me in September - and I would prefer ca$h ...
What date are you free for my visit on the weekend 1-2 Sep 2018? We can meet up. You can verify my story, and we can drop off at a cashpoint on the way to the pub.
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I do not have a bet with you as you cannot turn up and shake on it. But happy to meet. You need a lesson in manners, honesty, and many other things, and I will happily oblige.
Verify your story here where you brag about it at such length.
I am around all weekend of the dates you mention.
I think your experience of girls is probably mostly 2d and involves bandwidth and your right hand
 
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@Shineyshoe ... Hi! ^^ as BDH tries to explain in post 135 ... "If a boat comes off its moorings, it isn’t generally classified as a wreck for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, as it hasn’t been abandoned without hope of recovery." ergo your webpage is a red herring.
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The Webpage says that. Did you ask your legal advisor what that actually meant?

The crucial word is "generally" - which means in court you could argue that in this case the vessel was "abandoned without hope of recovery" because this was not a 'general case' - afterall you were within 30 seconds of it crashing into a bridge, destroying the boat, the bridge and the party of brownie guides walking home from Sunday School who would have been drowned falling off the bridge until you swam across in 40knots of wind dodging sharks and killer eel on the way and saved the day.***

However, if it isn't classed as a wreck, what makes you think you can claim salvage on it?
You have registered it as "Lost Property" is my understanding. So what happens if the owner claims it? If I loose my wallet and someone takes it to the police, I don't pay to get it back. (I may choose to reward the finder). But without having notified the received of wrecks - what makes you think you have any legal rights to the lost property?

And if it is classed as a wreck, boarding without permission of the master constitutes a £1k fine.

Others have said you committed criminal damage. I don't buy your argument that you though the owner might be lying injured inside. Afterall it was locked. However, I think you'll be fine legally on that count - because it is only a crime to cause criminal damage without lawful excuse. The law would allow him to cause the damage if he believed the owner would have consented (if my boat is adrift and breaking in might save it, please feel free) - the owner doesn't actually need to consent - the person breaking in just needs to believe that the owner would have consented.
OR it was damaged to protect the property
OR the property was in need of protection

Tell me - why did you stay aboard and not leave by land? I missed that bit?

***There may be some exaggeration in this version of events.
 
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