Newest Sign of California’s Decline: Pirates
The rule of law continues to decline all across California. Today’s case in point: Oakland Bay estuary, where actual pirates are stealing and plundering ships:
- In Oakland estuary, “the threats of pirates have risen to a new level.”
- A few weeks ago, they were coming in off the water to steal dinghies, but now they’ve moved on to much larger boats.
- A man outfitted his 40 foot boat as a survival home, and thieves came into the marina and stole it. He spotted it stuck to nearby rocks and asked police to impound it. They said he needed to file a police report first.
- The police never came and his insurance company called to tell him the boat had been found trashed. “The stole GPS equipment, engine parts and three handguns.”
- Two other large boats were stolen the same week.
- Boat owners are now going armed.
- The city of Oakland only has one boat officer.
- Boat owners say they’re going to ban together to do whatever they must to protect themselves. “We don’t bother to call the police anymore. We’re going to handle it ourselves.”