Posted on 10/01/2014 8:25:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
As high as the mast from which he fell; as high as a brain on ecstasy.
“I’m the King of the Wo........”
Poor you! I was immortal (i.e., stupid) well into my 30’s.
>>“He got a thing that’s called radar death”<<
Great — now I have to whisk off to YouTube and search for Golden Earring...
>>Poor you! I was immortal (i.e., stupid) well into my 30’s.<<
Well, my 20s and 30s sorta run together.
I could not tell when my brain started to say “BAD IDEA — DON’T DO THIS”...
Fortunately, it did happen before my demise (else I would be posting beyond elsewhere...)’
“Nice going “mentor” of the group. Idiots.”
Yes, what an idiot. Letting them all do something like that proves it.
“There are personnel working aloft on board (ship), do not rotate, radiate, or energize any electric or electronic equipment, start gas turbines (or aboard submarines “raise or lower any mast”), or operate ship’s whistle while personnel are working aloft on board (ship).”
Why wasn’t the ship’s radar operating 24/7 while at sea?
At his age I climbed masts to change steaming lights.
Ah, but that was back before captains perched 80 feet above the waterline on sunny days activated RADAR first thing in the morning...
“He was the kind of guy, that if you had a daughter, you’d want him to marry her,”
I dunno... in the photo he looks pretty gay.
How sad. He was so young.
Not just stupid, just disobedient. “the restricted platform”
Government schooling has created a generation of ego maniacs without the brains to think. They’re all rebels without a cause and they love “me, me, me”.
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