What an A$$Hole!!!!!!!

Read this this morning im glad the judge threw the book at him!!!!!!!!!    Salinas man gets 3½ years for faking distress signals
The Monterey County Herald
Herald Staff Report
Posted: 06/16/2010 01:30:41 AM PDT
Updated: 06/16/2010 01:30:41 AM PDT


A Salinas man will spend the next three and a half years in federal prison for repeatedly playing hoaxes on the Coast Guard.
Kurtis Thorsted, 53, was also ordered to pay $102,298 in restitution for knowingly communicating false distress signals.

Thorsted pleaded guilty to making three mayday calls, but actually placed 51 false signals during a six-month period in 2008, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

In one of the calls, according to the statement, Thorsted reported that he was in a kayak off the coast of Santa Cruz and having difficulty getting to shore. He was neither in a kayak nor on the water at the time.

Thorsted was convicted of the same crime in 2004 and sentenced to two years in prison.

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte found that Thorsted's most recent actions showed a conscious disregard for the lives of the officers who responded, that he was a public-safety risk, and that he deserved an aggravated sentence under federal guidelines.

"Broadcasting hoax mayday calls is illegal, dangerous and cannot be tolerated by emergency response agencies or the boating public," said Capt. Paul Gugg, commander of the Coast Guard's San Francisco sector. He noted that such unnecessary searches often cover broad areas during adverse conditions.

"These emergency responders risk their lives every time they launch," he said, "and while they are responding to false alarms, they are not available for true emergencies


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elsewhere."
U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello said Thorsted's case illustrated the rigorous prosecution and serious consequences faced by people making false distress signals.

crying wolf?!  i hope the CC remembers that he's in jail for the next 3 RF seasons.

Fricken*A*hole is right   "i'm on a Kayak" 

Yeah what an idiot...peeps say we need a life...that dude will get one...LOL...false maydays!!!   Whats funny or not...when he really needs it...guess what!!!  The Karmic circle will consume him!!!

I can see it now..."help...thump thump...help help...thump slam thump"  security guard will be like "what, can't hear you" "do you really need some HELP!!!"   

Thx Andy for the post hard to believe there's people like that.......get a freaking life!!! A$$Hole!!!!!!

Hope the prison guards think his cries for help are hoaxes too! 

Word, this guy is a total douche, a first class to boot.  I hope he enjoys prison life.

strange, why would someone even think of doing that...??

He'd already spent time in prison for the same offense prior?????????????

I don't get it, he must get a charge out of faking the distress calls? WTF?

He better never go out on the water after he gets out.

Absolute f**kwad. 

Glad they nailed him, although 3 1/2 yrs ain't nearly enough.

Thanks for posting.

strange, why would someone even think of doing that...??

Same reason people fake 911 calls, report rapes that didn't happen, start fires, cut themselves, etc etc...

Daddy didn't love them.

Dipshit.

Somebody need to make him "squeal like a pig"; Is that banjo music coming from his cell??

Wonder if any of his fake distress calls involved a kayaker who masturbates at other boaters?

Wonder if any of his fake distress calls involved a kayaker who masturbates at other boaters?

I can see it now,
 CG dispatcher:
"Sir, this distress, it wouldn't be taking place inside your wetsuit, would it?"

Yeah, glad he got caught! But why did he do this? I can't understand it.
Maybe he was PO'd at the CC for some prior probs with them, still no rational reason though.

While we're on a$$holes here's another one...Stewart Resnick. Yeah, this Los Angeles billionaire wants the state to declare the striped bass a non native fish that endangers other fish species such as salmon and smelt. Get this, he thinks that once he eradicates the striper, then he will be able to get all the delta water he wants to water his Kern county fruit orchards. Ain't that some shit??   

That s.o.b. should be thankful authorities got to him before the locals did. Them folks down there are for real.