clematis Wrote:
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> I looked up Marine VHF radio on Wikipedia since I
> didn't know what it was.
>
> There's a picture there. It's totally complicated,
> with scads of channels! How in the world did a
> 7-year-old even know how to do this?! Why did he
> call from a house? Isn't marine radio usually
> installed, as wikipedia says, on a BOAT? What's
> Daddy doing messin' around monitoring ship and
> boat traffic from his home? Could be SOP so far as
> I know but seems a tad odd.
>
> Why was dad "asleep" at noon AND 6, as kidlesskim
> observed? Where's mommie, pray tell?
>
> Why do they say the dad "could" face criminal
> penalties? How about he "will"? And pay a gigantic
> fine. There goes the college fund. No cure for
> cancer for us then, I'm afraid.
Hmmmmm, it being so complicated makes you wonder if Duh was right there when he made the calls. Stranger things have happened.