Boat Trailer Security

at home i have a tow ball rawl bolted to the wall...my trailer is clipped on to it and locked ...

2008-06-19 07:22:56 by diane c

To view the source video/project: www.dirtyshirt.info We've taken steps to improve the security of our boat when it's parked at the house ...

This question is for all the boat owners out there who regularly trailer their boat to a public launch site. Beyond the normal expectations of a storage facility such as security, cleanliness, and ease of access, what amenities do boat owners want to see at a dry, open lot storage site? Water? Electricity? Detail area?

Please provide what you would expect to see at a "full service" boat storage facility.

In most boat storage facility there are few if any amenities. The purpose of the storage is to have a place to safely and legally park one's boat. They never supply electricity (at least not in my state). They pick up trash and keep the lot clean. The facility should provide a large dumpster to discard trash and a washdown area is all one can usually expect. When paying only $35 to $100, you're not going to get much.

At a Full Service storage facility, they charge upwards of $300 per month. There you can expect the boat to be removed and placed into the water for you (Dry Stack Storage). They may clean your boat and even keep the batteries charged too. Some of these places will even have indoor storage for those willing to pay the price. Many contract with authorized dealers to have service performed for thee maintenance and upkeep at additional costs. At places like that one can expect a monthly bill of $300 up $1000 depending on the size of boat and additional care you ask for.

2010-08-09 19:01:48 by re19g79al

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I was bored and I always thought a theme park would make for a great horror movie and of all of them, it would be scariest at.. Disneyland!!

It's called The Happiest Place on Earth

I wrote a teaser trailer.

Please tell me what you think

Here goes:

THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH TEASER
























FADE IN

EXT. DISNEYLAND SKYLINE - DAY

VOICEOVER NARRATOR
They were excited to come.

EXT. DISNEYLAND ENTRANCE – DAY
A family of five is walking to the entrance. A little girl named EVELYN; 4; starts jumping.

EVELYN
Disneyland! Disneyland!

VOICEOVER NARRATOR
But what they didn’t know…

EXT. DISNEYLAND ENTRANCE – NIGHT
Security guards lock up the park early at 6pm.

NARRATOR VOICEOVER
Was that the wonderful land they had entered…

INT. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN RIDE SCENE – NIGHT

PIRATE
Yo, ho; Yo, ho; a pirate’s life for-

Robotic words are meshed up and all the pirates’ eyes turn red.

NARRATOR VOICEOVER
…Was a nocturnal hellhole.

INT. SMALL WORLD RIDE SCENE – NIGHT
The family rides on IT’S A SMALL WORLD boat.

CHOIR OF ANIMATRONICS
IT’S A WORLD OF LAUGHTER, A WORLD OF TEARS
IT’S A WORLD OF HOPE, IT’S A WORLD OF FEAR
THERE’S SO MUCH THAT WE SHARE
THAT IT’S TIME WE’RE AWARE
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER-

DEMON ANIMATRONIC comes to life

DEMON ANIMATRONIC
ALL!!!

Family screams.

It darkens and a big yellow happy face rolls with a boing sound. The title in spell in traditional Disneyland font: THE HAPIIEST PLACE ON EARTH; except the title is written with blood. The tagline follows with; also written in blood; NOT EVEN DISNEYLAND IS SACRED NOW!!!

INT. MICKEY’S HOUSE – NIGHT
MICKEY; traditionally animated; appears to be there to comfort.

MICKEY
Who’s ready to POP!!!
He turns into a mutated vicious real looking rat.
FADE OUT

It's a good idea but I don't think it will go over well with Mickey Mouse being a killer.

I'd like it but the majority might think that would be the wrong place to choose or not take the to the idea.

Everything is good about it but the location for most.

2009-08-09 15:07:06 by SuperFreak

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Huge 6 tooth, 3/8" dual ratchet locking system
Hardened 5/8" 16mm steel shackle
One size fits all (from 1-7/8", 2", to 2-5/15", all coupler types)

They say illegals are paying taxes but get no refunds, we know this is a lie.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinio …
Should a program like e-verify be used for tax returns?
How can we stop these illegals from collecting refunds they don't deserve?
What do you think of this tax fraud. Did these illegals know what they were doing? I believe so.


http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/2010 0205/NEWS/100209908/1017/NEWS?p=1&tc =pg

Drug raid uncovers massive tax fraud scheme


By Lisa Rogers
Times Staff Writer


Published: Friday, February 5, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.

An income tax fraud scheme discovered during a drug raid Thursday night is expected to lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal tax refunds.

“I wouldn’t be surprised it went into the millions,” Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin said during a news conference Friday.

Agents went to a mobile home on Sligo Road, just off Egypt Road in the Rockledge community, Thursday night to raid a suspected methamphetamine distribution ring and discovered more evidence than expected in the tax scheme.

Lori Lei Bodden, 41, her husband, Carlos Cardona-Herrera, 36, and Juan Hernandez-Telle, 22, were charged with trafficking in methamphetamine. Bodden is expected to be charged with distribution of methamphetamine.

Three-fourths of a pound of methamphetamine in its purest form, ice, was found hidden in a baby wipes container. The drugs have a street value of about $40,000.

Three children under the age of 4 were in the mobile home when agents raided it Thursday night and the Etowah County Department of Human Resources was called.

The drugs, along with guns, swords, cash, vehicles, a boat and several computers, were seized during the raid.

Those computers are expected to provide more information about the tax scheme, Entrekin said.

It is believed Bodden was filing income tax returns from her mobile home, primarily tax returns for illegal immigrants, and claiming the first-time home buyers tax credit of $8,000.

If someone is using a Social Security number and paid taxes through an employer, income tax returns can be filed.

“This was a very organized and elaborate tax fraud scheme,” Entrekin said. Records to confirm about $200,000 in tax refunds were discovered.

It is suspected that many more tax returns have been filed electronically and that information can be obtained through a forensic investigation of the computers.

It appears Bodden was profiting by filing the returns and charging 25 percent of the tax refund. The refunds were deposited into a bank account over which she had control.

Agents found one instance in which a person’s refund was about $12,000 and she made $2,700.

District Attorney Jimmie Harp gave an example of one tax return in which a person believed to be in the U.S. illegally made $6,000 last year and got a $13,000 refund using the tax credit.

Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit Commander Rob Savage said investigators have not found any homes listed as purchased on the returns that even exist.

“One was the address of a vacant lot,” he said.

Internal Revenue Service investigators have been contacted and are working the case.

“This started as a relatively routine narcotics case,” Savage said. “We are somewhat outraged to see this occurring. The victims are the taxpayers.

“This was in a double-wide trailer in the middle of western Etowah County.”

Brenn Tallent, supervisory resident agent at the Gadsden FBI office, said the tax scheme is a new twist for the partners in the Safe Streets Task Force.

“We’ve been taking drugs, guns and bad guys off the streets, but this is a crime we haven’t seen,” Tallent said. “I commend the agents on the streets for a job well done.”
If they are paying in, it is with fake and stolen S.S.N. So it is another crime commited by them

Shh. You might offend a top contributor. And yes it is fraud; as my Dad used to say, "Two wrongs don't make a right".

2010-03-10 07:08:35 by Kize

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080413/ap_o n_re_la_am_ca/mexico_fewer_migrants

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

ARRIAGA, Mexico - For thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America, the long journey to the U.S. starts here, on the groaning back of a freight train they call The Beast.
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But these days many don't get too far.

Central Americans without documents now face increased security within Mexico, including checks on the train for stowaways. It's also harder for them to head north once they cross into Mexico because of hurricane damage to the train tracks.

The result: The number of non-Mexican migrants stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol has dropped almost 60 percent from 2005, despite increased detention efforts. About 68,000 non-Mexican migrants — mostly Central Americans — were detained last year, compared to 165,000 in 2005. Non-Mexicans make up about 10 percent of all migrants caught by Border Patrol officers.

Mexico itself is also seeing fewer illegal immigrants — 120,000 were arrested last year, a 50 percent drop from 2005, when Hurricane Stan hit and destroyed the railroad, according to the National Immigration Institute. Since President Felipe Calderon took office two years ago, Mexico has added more soldiers and federal police on its border with Guatemala and more immigration and military checkpoints throughout the south.

Despite its efforts to secure its own southern border, Mexico does not try to stop its own citizens from crossing north illegally into the United States, beyond pursuing drug and people smugglers. By law, Mexico notes, Mexicans can go wherever they want within the country, including the border. They don't break any laws until they are on U.S. soil.

Many Mexicans are also sympathetic to illegal immigrants from Central America, but the issue still causes some tensions that echo the U.S. debate. Isaac Castillo, owner of the Hotel La Posada in Arriaga, argues that Central American immigrants often end up working in Mexico, where wages can be double the few dollars a day they might earn at home.

"The problem isn't just in the U.S., but in Mexico, because a lot of Central Americans want to stay here and compete with Mexicans for jobs," he said.

The crackdown on Central American migrants has left them searching for new routes. Some pay smugglers $7,000 to go by boat into southern Mexico, then hide in tractor-trailers heading north.

These boats and trucks try to evade highway checkpoints set up every few miles alongside most of Mexico's southern roadways. But migrants have been crushed to death when false floors collapsed under the weight of freight, and 22 Salvadoran migrants drowned in an October shipwreck off the coast of southern Oaxaca state.

For those Central American migrants unable or unwilling to risk the sea, a cargo train — The Beast — remains the only option for the 2,000-mile trip to the U.S.

The long trek begins at the Suchiate river, on the border with Guatemala, where for $1 they cross on makeshift rafts into sweltering jungles.

Then they hike along the destroyed, sun-scorched train tracks to Arriaga for up to nine days. Arriaga, 200 miles from the Guatemalan border, is the closest place to hop a train since Hurricane Stan destroyed the Chiapas-Mayab line.

As they head north, they pay off thieves, immigration officials, police and railroad employees.

Juan Gabriel Ramos, a Guatemalan 17-year-old trying to join his mother in California, said he bribed a Mexican federal police officer and an immigration agent before even making it to Arriaga.

"They both told me that if I didn't give them money they would send me back to Guatemala," Ramos said.

When they're caught, migrants say they're often abused by Mexican authorities. In one notorious case last year in the northern city of Saltillo, migrants complained to the National Human Rights Commission of rectal exams done by immigration officials who said they were checking for cholera.

"The mistreatment of migrants here is brutal, and no one does anything about it because everyone sees them as booty," said Heyman Vasquez, a Roman Catholic priest. He estimated 80 percent of migrants are robbed before they arrive at his two-room shelter in Arriaga.

The slowdown in immigrant traffic is notable in Arriaga, a town of corn and sorghum farmers. Only a few clusters of Central American men and women linger around the mostly abandoned, graffiti-covered train station, where they wait for the first train they can grab. Many stay at a local migrant shelter, watching television or sharing stories of abuse.

Sitting on a cracked sidewalk outside the shelter, one Nicaraguan man told of the time he saw a group of criminals gang-rape a woman and shoot her boyfriend. A Honduran couple talked of fleeing their country after gang members killed their teenage daughter, and leaving their seven children, ages 18 to 1, in hiding.

It doesn't get any easier once immigrants hop a train. They must often bribe private guards and police stationed along the tracks. Many stowaways are too tired to hold on to the train and fall, losing limbs.

The trip itself can be deadly.

Jorge Guevara, a 21-year-old Salvadoran, said he first rode the train to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2001 and saw 20 people crushed, and probably killed, when cars derailed. He fled and never found out what happened.

"That accident left me in shock, but I kept going," Guevara said to a group of first-time migrants, listening intently. "One doesn't think about the danger, only about getting to the United States. Once I'm there, I'll think about it."

Guevara said he drove a forklift in Dallas until he was pulled over for a burned-out taillight and deported last year.

It took Milagros Rivera and her family a month to reach Ixtepec, just 85 miles north of Arriaga. By then, the 36-year-old from El Salvador said they had been robbed three times.

The first time was at the river crossing into Mexico. Soldiers demanded money before allowing her, her boyfriend, her 20-year-old son and her 18-year-old daughter-in-law to continue on.

About 50 miles later, gunmen held them up along the tracks, forced them to strip naked and took about $1,500 they had saved, Rivera said.

"It was a terrible moment because they took my daughter-in-law away, and we thought they were going to rape her," said Rivera.

The thieves ended up freeing the girl unharmed. But then they were robbed by a local police officer of the $40 they had collected begging on the streets.

Rivera said she is bound for Virginia, where friends have promised to help her find work.

"There is a lot of suffering," she said. "But the hope of reaching your destination helps you to keep going."

GOOD NEWS.

2008-04-13 13:02:47 by new name