Cruise ship captain says he 'tripped' into lifeboat


World | 206816 hits | Jan 18 11:13 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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The captain accused of abandoning a wrecked cruise ship off the Italian coast says he ended up on shore after accidentally tripping into a lifeboat that was being lowered into the sea.

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  1. by avatar QBall
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:08 pm
    This story just keeps getting better and better. I fell into a lifeboat has got to be 2012's new euphamism.

  2. by avatar Brenda
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:12 pm
    I think it can replace the "my dog ate my homework" :P

  3. by avatar saturn_656
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:33 pm
    "I was helping some passengers put the life boat to sea. At a certain point the mechanism for lowering it, blocked. We had to force it. Suddenly the system unblocked itself and I tripped and I found myself inside the life boat with a number of passengers."


    Sure you did, Mr. Ismay.

  4. by avatar 2Cdo
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:47 pm
    From what I remember of the life boats, it is physically impossible to "trip" into them. His bullshit excuses just keeps reminding us what a coward the man truly is.

  5. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:54 pm
    I caught my ex cheating once and that was her excuse too.

  6. by avatar saturn_656
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:58 pm
    What? She tripped? Fell? Landed on his dick?

    - Marshall Bruce Mathers III

  7. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:01 pm
    Ok, let's pretend he did "accidentally" fall into the lifeboat. Still doesn't excuse his dicking around when told to get back on board the ship by the Port Authority.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:21 pm
    "2Cdo" said
    From what I remember of the life boats, it is physically impossible to "trip" into them. His bullshit excuses just keeps reminding us what a coward the man truly is.


    They are sealed units, and you have to climb UP to them, IIRC. If he fell in to one, why didn't he just get back out?

    And why was he off the Bridge during a disaster such as this in the first place?

  9. by avatar martin14
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:22 pm
    my only comment:



    ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL

  10. by avatar DanSC
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:25 pm
    I've heard rapists use this defense.

  11. by OnTheIce
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:32 pm
    I hope a fist slips into his face.

  12. by Thanos
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:50 pm
    Going by the looks of the guy the only things he fell into before the ship crashed was a pile of cocaine and a couple of cheap blondes.

    Italians. I'll never understand what it was that the Fuhrer thought he saw in these people. 8)

  13. by avatar Scape
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:56 pm
    Cheap manpower.

    The captain is done but what of the XO? And there is a review going on in the US who is responsible for this cruise line, are they actually going to be held to account for this fiasco?

  14. by avatar saturn_656
    Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:58 pm
    Allies were hard to find for Nazi Germany, they didn't favour the Italians so much as they were stuck with them.

    Still stuck with them today.



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