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"David Rance" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 Robert wrote:

: Here in Dorset, often the whole community would venture out, often in
: appalling weather to grab whatever was there for the taking.
:
: PS It is said that ships were sometime lured onto rocks with
: judiciously placed lights so that wrecking could take place.

Good luck to them I say. If someone has the cheek to put a ship like that
to
sea, endangering our coast, then they deserve no compassion and their
cargo
is 'fair game'. The only quite big problem I have with this ship's cargo
is
that the redistribution is causing more damage to the beach than the
original containers were...

But that's hardly fair to those people who were entrusting their personal
belongings to a transport company and which were seen to be stolen when
reported on television as, for instance, the couple who had emigrated to
South Africa. Ok, so they were insured (I suppose) but you can't replace
something with sentimental value.

David



and what about the owners of the cargos of old? The Whiskey Galores etc of
all sorts of cargoes through the ages?

Why should the rules 'suddenly change'? People keep on saying that 'things
were better in the old days', right, here you have a bit of 'old days'
thrust upon us, but it doesn't suit 'certain people'!!

Rules for some but not others?

:-(((

Mike