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Old 03-25-2013, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by dvd View Post
I was staying overnight a year or so ago at South Beach in SF Bay and this large brand new ugly power boat thing had this high shrill alarm that was on all day and night. There were various mechanics crawling all over it to find out why but it still took til the next morning for the incessant noise to be shut down.
I think there might be a chance that without the irritating alarm Skippy the ugly powerboat captain would have cast off and poured the coals to her oblivious of any problem. It's possible this sort of captain needs such an alarm.

I'm in no way suggesting the description applies to anyone around here.
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