Be Alert! (We need lerts)

[marisca]

From a plod leaflet encouraging sailors to contribute to "Homeland Security". Supplied here as a guide for forumites so they know what not to do. The 2nd last one is particularly hard to avoid!

What to look for:
• Anyone filming, taking pictures or notes of critical infrastructure,
such as bridges, docking procedures or security methods
• Anyone loitering around maritime areas
• Evasive answers to common boating questions
• Deliberate attempts to avoid contact with others or to draw attention
• Inappropriate equipment and knowledge for the environment
• Placing objects into waterways near bridges or pipes at unusual
times
• Vessels or fishermen entering restricted maritime areas
• Efforts to gain employment at sensitive sites
• Inappropriate large cash payments for daily extension of marina or
port mooring
• Consecutive round trips on the same ferry.

[aquaplane]

I think I could be found inocent of most of those, I would call it taking holiday snaps, not really knowing what's going on (or why) and talking bollicks.

[claymore]

Oh Dear - who do I tell....?
There was a large group of Japanese people in Windermere on Sunday. They were doing many of the activities in the list whilst posing as tourists. How could I have been so stupid as to not have seen through this cunning ruse?

[ubergeekian]

• Anyone filming, taking pictures or notes of critical infrastructure,
such as bridges, docking procedures or security methods

Anyone filming my docking procedures will be invoiced for half the money paid by You've Been Framed.

• Evasive answers to common boating questions

Like "What sort of docking procedure was that?"

• Deliberate attempts to avoid contact with others or to draw attention

Absolutely. There's nothing as suspicious as people trying to draw attention to themselves, unless it's people not trying to draw attention to themselves. From now on I shall endeavour to do both, by docking with a pillowcase over my head. I may cut eyeholes.

• Inappropriate equipment and knowledge for the environment

Is there room in the Bar-L for all the Bavaria owners?

• Inappropriate large cash payments for daily extension of marina or
port mooring

What other sort of large cash payment do marinas want? What other sort of cash payment, come to that?

I shall certainly sleep easier in bunk tonight for reading this list. Thank you.

[Arghiro]

Guilty as charged, err apart from the large cash payments.

All seem perfectly normal activities to me.

[Clyde_Wanderer]

From a plod leaflet encouraging sailors to contribute to "Homeland Security". Supplied here as a guide for forumites so they know what not to do. The 2nd last one is particularly hard to avoid!

What to look for:
• Anyone filming, taking pictures or notes of critical infrastructure,
such as bridges, docking procedures or security methods
• Anyone loitering around maritime areas
• Evasive answers to common boating questions
• Deliberate attempts to avoid contact with others or to draw attention
• Inappropriate equipment and knowledge for the environment
• Placing objects into waterways near bridges or pipes at unusual
times
• Vessels or fishermen entering restricted maritime areas
• Efforts to gain employment at sensitive sites
• Inappropriate large cash payments for daily extension of marina or
port mooring
• Consecutive round trips on the same ferry.

Anyone trying to take innocent photo,s of there own kids while out for a bit of quality time with the family.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-15250846