Coast Guard, CHP chasing guy in boat near Golden Gate Bridge

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[dep]

FNC reports Coast Guard and California Highway Patrol are trying to apprehend a guy in a small boat operating without running lights near the Golden Gate Bridge. The man is said to have snorkeling equipment. That is all they have at the moment.

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think we are going to convince these people that there are no lobsters in San Francisco. They are running with it.

MSNBC Reporting now that it was a guy in a Zodiac, and they missed him.... can't find him.

[JohnnyZ]

Ghetto Lobsters of California and How to Catch Them

Every year there is a taste-testing contest organized by the Maine Lobster Festival, held in Rockland, the Lobster Capital of the World, and some punk festival in California who thinks they're all that. As far as I know the Maine lobster has won every time.

[mewzilla]

Maybe the guy realized he was lookin' for lobster in all the wrong places...

[Chad Fairbanks]

So you think you are strong because you can survive the soft cushions. Well, we shall see. Biggles! Put her in the Comfy Chair!

[John H K]

I don't think we are going to convince these people that there are no lobsters in San Francisco. They are running with it.

But there are abalones, and I'll take my usual educated guess that it's about 18 billion times more likely this was someone poaching something instead of a terrorist.

It's a different species, of course, but on the East Coast the number of lobsters goes UP as you go north, the opposite of California, it seems.

[John H K]

This is all very interesting, but we don't have lobsters in the Pacific!

There are plenty of lobsters in California waters.

With California coastal lobsters selling for $7 to $15 a pound on U.S. retail market, state Department of Fish and Game officials said there is significant lobster poaching off the Southern California coast. Officials described the problem as moderate, but persistent, with commercial poachers sometimes taking hundreds of the crustaceans. Sport divers poach smaller amounts, authorities said, but they damage lobster fishing equipment or kill lobsters they don't want to eat.

However, like I said, it seems the lobsters are mostly in Southern California, not Northern, while abalone are the reverse. Hence, it seems more likely this could have been an abalone poacher....which wasn't immediately obvious to us East Coasters because our lobsters are more common the further north you go.

And as much as people don't want to admit it, about 99% of the time in a breaking POSSIBLE terrorism story, the most mundane, least-terrorism-related explanation turns out to be correct.

[Kip Lange]

And as much as people don't want to admit it, about 99% of the time in a breaking POSSIBLE terrorism story, the most mundane, least-terrorism-related explanation turns out to be correct.

Heinlein's razor...never attribute to human malice what can more easily be attributed to human stupidity. ;-)

[theFIRMbss]

>I tell you, it's no wet suit, it's that Darth Vader guy from the Raiders' games!

Could be worse! It could
be a Zodiac with this
guy behind the wheel...

[HairOfTheDog]

And as much as people don't want to admit it, about 99% of the time in a breaking POSSIBLE terrorism story, the most mundane, least-terrorism-related explanation turns out to be correct.

HEAR HEAR!

And back on the lobsters, I am from Washington, not CA, so after I made such a bold statement, I went looking too, and found the southern CA lobster.... surprise suprise.

[Crowcreek]

(hey -- you're spoiling the fun....)

[Hatteras]

"MSNBC Reporting now that it was a guy in a Zodiac, and they missed him.... can't find him."

Return of the Zodiac Killer?...

[Crowcreek]

" the most mundane, least-terrorism-related explanation turns out to be correct."

And "Thank You" for being so quick to provide that explanation, even if it is totally assinine and uninformed!

Abalone poacher! Lobsters! LOL!

[Natural Law]

No Lobsters or abalone in the Bay

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Goodness, Chad, you seem to have an unusual fascination with shower heads!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Maine Lobster Festival, held in Rockland, the Lobster Capital of the World, and some punk festival in California who thinks they're all that. As far as I know the Maine lobster has won every time.

Hogwash, last time I had a Maine lobster, it was plastic tasting, and smelled like cheap tuna.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Oh.. you said shower headS... my bad... ;0)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Yes. You're bad. : )

[ez]

I don't think we are going to convince these people that there are no lobsters in San Francisco. They are running with it. MSNBC Reporting now that it was a guy in a Zodiac, and they missed him.... can't find him.

Right. All Oriental lobster fisherman can afford a Zodiac...

[socal_parrot]

No Lobsters or abalone in the Bay

How's 'bout....

Could be Jackson Browne?