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Shiver Me Timbers! Pirate Bay is Finally Living Up To Its Name

September 17, 2023 by Ward Clark Leave a Comment

One can picture California Governor Gavin Newsom, on receiving the news of pirates raiding the San Francisco Bay, holding his head in his hands and complaining, “What next?” Because, sure as shipboard biscuits have weevils, an Oakland marina was recently raided by pirates.

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The Pirate Bay is a real place!

Seafaring Californians’ vessels are being boarded and plundered at a shocking rate by a fearsome new breed of pirates. 

One marina in the Oakland Estuary in Northern California’s Bay Area has been hit by a spate of robberies where boats have been ransacked or stolen wholesale.

Thieves have taken everything from engine parts, GPS equipment and personal items, according to authorities.

One would think that this latest wrinkle in the Bay Area crime wave would Teach the city, county, and state officials a lesson or two, but, as my Brit friend would say, it’s a rum old world, and it looks as though the lesson is lost on them.

Michael West said some residents who live on boats have armed themselves against the pirates, and are preparing to engage them on their own terms.

“Someone in this marina had to defend themselves with guns against the pirates,” said West, who also lives on his boat. “Everyone here has a knife, gun or sword or stick to protect themselves. We don’t bother to call the police anymore. We are going to handle it ourselves.”

Damon Taylor, who docks his sailboat at the Jack London Aquatic Center, told CBS outboard motors carry a hefty price— a small 10-horsepower engine is about $10,000 to $15,000. He said Oakland Police hasn’t been much help, so he and fellow sailors try to look after each other’s vessels.

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Of course, the boat owners arrrr-ming themselves seems an obvious solution so that if they ever come aye-to-aye with a pirate, they have a better chance to protect themselves and their property.

There once was an actual Pirate Republic. In the early 1700s, there was a loose government—one might almost say, a confederacy—of pirates operating out of Nassau, the Bahamas, on New Providence Island.  (See the STARZ series Black Sails for a colorful but very, very loose depiction of those times.) The pirates there had a code of sorts; they didn’t interfere with each other, and ship captains were actually elected by their crews. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island was based on some real-life characters from the Pirate Republic.

Not so the California pirates, who seem to be hooked on this new and yet old form of thievery. They are just another manifestation of the loot and scoot craze that seems to have taken over most of our major cities. The Pirate Republic arose in large part because they were out of the reach of the established forces of order of the day; the California pirates of modern times have arisen because there are no effective forces of order.

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What efforts the California and Oakland authorities have undertaken would appear to be not a patch on what is required. People at his marina are seeing substantial losses in equipment and craft, costing millions of dollars. Even if some of the property was bought on sail, that’s still a considerable loss. This is as opposed to the thieves, who at most pay for their own tattoos and piercings, which are rumored to be a buck-an-ear.

This seems appropriate.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[California]]>, <![CDATA[crime]]>, <![CDATA[Oakland]]>, <![CDATA[Pirate Bay]]>, <![CDATA[Theft]]>, News, Red State

Oakland police tell folks to use air horns amid crime surge

August 9, 2023 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

There are a lot of times when the police issue advice and people would do well to listen. For example, once upon a time, people didn’t lock their doors, but they started to in part because the police advised it. We still do this and consider it pretty smart.

But the police in Oakland have kind of a bizarre suggestion.

As the city sees more and more crime, law enforcement there recognizes they can’t be everywhere, so the department offered some tips meant to help keep people safe.

One was to put bars on your window to deter would-be home invaders. This isn’t a happy suggestion, but it’s still a solid one.

Yet that wasn’t it. They also said people should get air horns, of all things.

After 60-year-old retiree David Schneider was shot and killed here while trimming a tree in his yard, his neighbor, Toni Bird, said she retreated indoors.

“People aren’t feeling safe out of their house,” she said. “It makes sense that you would want to protect your house then, right? You would barricade it.”

Amid a surge in crime in Oakland, California, police have advised residents to use air horns to alert neighbors to intruders and add security bars to their doors and windows.

Bird, who moved to Oakland 2 1/2 years ago, said she took their advice to heart. She now has three air horns and five security cameras around her home.

Yes, very good. That way the police can identify her murderer by the hearing loss.

That’s because that’s exactly what you’re looking at here.

An air horn is very loud and all that, but it’s not a terrible deterrent. I get the idea is that the blast of an air horn might cause the intruder to run away out of fear the police will soon be there, but that’s the best-case scenario. The worst case is that the air horn pisses the bad guy off and they brutally murder the resident, particularly in neighborhoods not known for calling the police.

The irony is that there is something residents could get that would actually keep them safe. It’s even louder than an air horn, generally speaking, and while it might anger the bad guy, it’ll also either stop them dead in their tracks or scare them enough that they’ll actually run away.

I’m talking, of course, about a firearm.

A gun is a more proactive tool. It doesn’t just assume someone will come in to rescue you but is a tool that allows you to handle the situation yourself. As such, it’s far more immediate than a neighbor calling the police.

An air horn is little more than a rape whistle for a home invasion. Here’s what AWARE.org has to say on the subject of personal alarms like this:

Believing that someone will come to your rescue when you blow a whistle or set off a siren is a wonderful fairy tale. Don’t fall for it. Not only are noise-makers and rape whistles ineffective at deterring crime, they are likely to do more harm than good, for several reasons.

Counting on an alarm to summon aid means that you are depending on someone else to come forth to rescue you. That is, you are betting your life on the hope that someone will hear the alarm, and will respond, and will be capable of stopping the attack. That’s a lot of ‘ifs’ that are out of your control.

The act of activating the alarm or blowing a whistle can take anywhere from 2 to 20 seconds, but the outcome of an attack is usually decided within the first 8 to 10 seconds. So, if the noise doesn’t work, you may be out of time, the loser, before you can try other options.

And yes, all of that applies to using an air horn as well.

The difference is that an air horn blasting in a confined space is kind of painful, which means it may well rile up a potential attacker even more, making a violent assault even more likely.

A gun, on the other hand, may cause discomfort too, but since it can be used to kill the bad guy, it’s much more effective than something that might make it harder to hear the TV.

Oakland police, however, can’t make that suggestion because of the politics there. It’s a damn shame, too, because a gun is really the best option in cases like this.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[air horns]]>, <![CDATA[Guns]]>, <![CDATA[home invasion]]>, <![CDATA[Oakland]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

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