Some people just need a good keelhauling

Perhaps they should quit shooting blanks.

Because, clearly, the condos were there before the ship.

"This is the heart of the city's history," Ames said. "If you don't like it, don't live here."

'nuff said

Who are the plaintiffs? I'll go silence them!

The captain should load up some bar shot. See how those Yuppies like that.

nunyabidness: Some people just need a good keelhauling

Nah, just chain them to the poop deck.

TOO. FARKING. BAD.

You moved close to a ship that fires its cannons twice daily. Love it or leave it.

Up it to four a day.

thisispete:
Nah, just chain them to the poop deck.

Constitution doesn't have a poop.

/nautical nerd

Is the complainant a long time Boston resident? If so, he should have been aware of the impairment.

Tough luck.

They should just use silent gunpowder instead, made out of hushaboom. I'd tell them the formula but I wrote it down on a banana and a moose ate it.

"Over the summer, we have entertained several times, and we have had guests sit up in shock when the cannon goes off," the resident wrote. "It has also awakened them at 8 a.m. while they are vacationing and then blasted them again at sunset."


Er...warn them?

The complaning parties need some good 18th century naval discipline. 40 lashes with the cat o nine tails sounds like a good start

And yet there's nothing you can do about the car alarm outside that goes off at all hours of the night, without any reason at all

/I kicked that car just to see what it would do
//It did absolutely nothing

Question:

Are the condos in range of the guns?

Muffy and I find the daily commotions a bit trite, and rather tastless. Really, how does one expect to play crouqette with all that tacky history folderdall going on...?


/sniff.....

Gulper Eel: Up it to four a day.

Use it like a clock bell. At the top of the hour have it fire the same number as the time, at the bottom of the hour fire it once.

Or, fire it once for each complaint received the previous day.

H₂O, NH₃, C₂H₅, PDQU235 and a pinch of salt.

*Hic!*

Katastrfee: Question:

Are the condos in range of the guns?

There ya go!

FTFA: "This is the heart of the city's history," Ames said. "If you don't like it, don't live here."

Enough said.

Douchey McDouchebag needs to STFU and appreciate the fact that there is a USS Constitution.

Eat a bowel of dicks.

FARK that... every hour, on the hour

Dancin_In_Anson: Perhaps they should quit shooting blanks.

I'm pretty sure that is the smartest thing I'll hear all day.

thisispete: nunyabidness: Some people just need a good keelhauling

Nah, just chain them to the poop deck.

"Lois, it is called 'the poop deck', that is why I pooped there."

Why were the condos not sound proofed?

/I hear the cape is quiet

MBarry: The captain should load up some bar shot.

Nah, grapeshot. Spread the wealth even more, I says.

And if you bought a condo next to an active naval ship and didn't ask about the goddamned cannons, whether it be from neighbors or, oh, I don't know, GOING TO THE FARKING SHIP, then you deserve to clean your farking Depends at 8 and 5 every farking day!!!

\would love to see the apartment distribution of the complainants, guessing the annoyance isn't limited to facing condos
\\and for christ farking sake, you're inviting the captain for wine?? You think the guy who works on the damned ship is going to spill it on his white uniform or something????

High-end condominium developments have sprung up across from the Charlestown Navy Yard over the past decade

yah um, the boat was there first. If you don't like it, you can walk the plank


///yarrrrrrrrrrr.... she blows!

I like a quiet residential area myself, but cannons are cool. They would totally be a bonus. If I lived there I think the biggest disruption they would cause is my nieces and nephew wanting to come by all the time so we can go watch the cannons being fired.

"The ship it mov'd on the sleeping wave
Like a bird upon the air;
He knew it gained on the deep,
But he felt no motion there!"

- 'The Prophecy of Merlin' by Anne Bannerman (1802)

It's only fair to consider their plight. If those Condos have been there since 1798, I say we have to tone it down a bit.

If.

Turn the boat around. Problem solved.

Dancin_In_Anson: Perhaps they should quit shooting blanks.

We have an answer

They seem all douchebaggy, until you read the part about renovations apparently moving the Constitution closer to the condos.

I know I'd be pissed if that was the case. But there is not enough info to determine if they're complete douches, or just douches of opportunity.

Awfully telling that these concerns were not brought up when Charlestown was a crime infested white trash slum. fark them, MOVE

The people shouldn't have moved there if cannons freak them out. That being said, the whole ritual is silly.

thamike: The people shouldn't have moved there if cannons freak them out. That being said, the whole ritual is silly.

Well, people have pointed out that the Constitution, and hence the cannons, were further away originally. So they do possibly have a point.

Every military base in the country has a flag raising and lowering ceremony. Every day. If you don't like it, you can move away from it.

Call Al Gore and the leftist democrat environmentalist and make the ship get an air permit for all that "carbon". It'll shut those guns down.

Stupid yuppies, if you are going to be a commie loving marxist, use the courts to bend the country to your will like the democrats do.

welcome to the new United Socialist States of Amerika

0bama!

FriarReb98: MBarry:

And if you bought a condo next to an active naval ship and didn't ask about the goddamned cannons, whether it be from neighbors or, oh, I don't know, GOING TO THE FARKING SHIP, then you deserve to clean your farking Depends at 8 and 5 every farking day!!!

Jeez, I mean it's only the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, and one of the oldest ship's of any sort still around. Why would you want to visit it?

The should fire the people who complain from the cannons. Bastards. My favorite boat in the world.

Aim for the condos, Mr. Cooper.

YouPeopleAreCrazy: "This is the heart of the city's nation's history," Ames said. "If you don't like it, don't live here."

'nuff said

FTFY. Those people need to get over it.

On the one paw, FARK THESE UNPATRIOTIC WHINERS

On the other paw, I live near a municipal airport. We have prop planes flying over head at 7, 8am.

>=(

lukelightning: Well, people have pointed out that the Constitution, and hence the cannons, were further away originally. So they do possibly have a point.

Yeah, a point. Also, it's the City that allowed its coastline to become congested with moneybags yuppies who like to sleep in. You want their business, you might have to tone down the cannonball lunacy.

MBarry: FriarReb98: MBarry:

And if you bought a condo next to an active naval ship and didn't ask about the goddamned cannons, whether it be from neighbors or, oh, I don't know, GOING TO THE FARKING SHIP, then you deserve to clean your farking Depends at 8 and 5 every farking day!!!

Jeez, I mean it's only the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, and one of the oldest ship's of any sort still around. Why would you want to visit it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory

Coming to the nuisance. Case closed.

/Yeah, I know it's not quite that simple, but I don't care.

Do not f*ck with a national treasure, lest ye stir the wrath of the Fark armchair jockeys, who might deeply think about putting down the Cheetos.

Hell, I live by Stone Mountain and they have the laser show there that concludes with fire cannons that are very loud. But fark it, it's at 10 pm who gives a damn?

And yes, they added the cannons after I moved out here, but it's still not that big of a deal. Although I am about 3 miles away with trees and houses to muffle the noise instead of being across open water from it.