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'Drunk' Russian ship captain steers giant cargo vessel straight into busy South Korean bridge
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 28, 2019 | Miranda Aldersley

Posted on 02/28/2019 12:11:41 PM PST by C19fan

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To: buwaya

That’s smaller than my largest ship I owned long ago


41 posted on 02/28/2019 1:23:59 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Peterbilt arguing with a mass of concrete and steel I beams.
He seemed to think you could drive through the shipping dock.


42 posted on 02/28/2019 1:25:30 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

Sounds like your typical HS drop out.
Truckers are a bizarre breed. Friend of mine manages a logistics warehouse and he says these truckers get in fist fights with each other all the time near the docks.


43 posted on 02/28/2019 1:29:56 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: waterhill

I was thinking the same thing.

I’d be torn between the desire to not move so as to not do anything to make the car slip forward, and the desire to get the heck out before it did anyway.


44 posted on 02/28/2019 1:31:06 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Yo-Yo
Got it and decreased to 25%.
45 posted on 02/28/2019 1:33:15 PM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

actually didn’t know Russians drank, until met a sober one a while back.


46 posted on 02/28/2019 1:34:16 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: C19fan

Could have been much worse. He had already reversed engines.


47 posted on 02/28/2019 1:36:11 PM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: PlateOfShrimp

The captain of this boat should send a shore party into town to steal a boat big enough to pull their cargo ship off the bridge.


48 posted on 02/28/2019 1:45:35 PM PST by Cecily
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To: NormsRevenge

You see that prop wash off the stern? He’s still driving ahead! We can make it... Just a little more throttle...


49 posted on 02/28/2019 1:51:53 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: C19fan

50 posted on 02/28/2019 1:53:10 PM PST by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: wardaddy
"That’s smaller than my largest ship I owned long ago"

You or your Uncle?

51 posted on 02/28/2019 1:53:47 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: outofsalt

On the video version you can see he is full astern. My bad.


52 posted on 02/28/2019 1:58:08 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

Congrats! You’ve now unleashed the power of posting mindless memes on every thread here on FR (like I do....)


53 posted on 02/28/2019 2:04:49 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: C19fan

In Soviet Russia, bridge hit you!


54 posted on 02/28/2019 2:08:30 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: C19fan

Now you see, Trump left the meeting with the nork leader to sneak up to S. Korea and secretly lower the bridge knowing that the Russian ship would hit it.

This...….. is CNN.


55 posted on 02/28/2019 2:15:44 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

It’s weird, I have had drivers that were absolutely great to deal with.
Drivers like the dude who drive into the building because he “didn’t see it” seem to be more numerous though.
Had a bunch of drivers insist the truck entrance was a public road and they could park there, one of them worked really hard to back over a fire hydrant.


56 posted on 02/28/2019 2:28:14 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Darksheare

I’d chalk those up to drugs more than likely.

Cooped up in the cab for 12-18 hours a day probably isn’t good for anybody’s sanity either.

Fire hydrants, light poles, power transformers, cars - they hit everything if they can.


57 posted on 02/28/2019 2:35:23 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Certain companies that sure wish they finished training or can’t remember stuff today tend to be more...advanced in performing these feats.
Have seen some really wanted out behavior from some over the years.
But the No Freaking Idea driver who thought the guard booth could move out of her way was the master of this stuff.
Saw her every three days for several years, always the same thing: “I know that (local highway) is in there (obvious truckyard) and you’re trying to fool me! You have to let me in!”


58 posted on 02/28/2019 2:46:22 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

Egermancy?


59 posted on 02/28/2019 5:43:08 PM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: C19fan

Was this Captain formerly in the U.S. Navy????????????????


60 posted on 02/28/2019 5:48:04 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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