Posted on 12/09/2025 8:43:44 AM PST by V_TWIN
Michael Virgil, 35, and his family boarded Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas in Los Angeles on Dec. 13, 2024, for a four-day cruise to Ensenada, Mexico, a trip they intended to be a fun vacation.
What began as a routine departure quickly unraveled, the lawsuit says, after an onboard incident involving security that would later become the center of a legal battle.
The family – which includes Virgil’s longtime fiancée and their young son who has autism – has filed a wrongful death complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Security and crew members allegedly tackled and restrained Virgil, compressing his body until he stopped moving. The complaint says that at the direction of the staff captain, the crew injected him with the sedative Haloperidol and used three cans of pepper spray.
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Thirty-three cocktails lined up at sea,
Thirty-three cocktails for me,
I downed them all, the ship swayed tall,
Now lawyers sail for free.
Thirty-three mai tais on the deck,
Thirty-three mai tais to check,
The bartender pours, the lawsuit soars,
And Royal’s in a wreck.
Thirty-three drinks on the cruise that night,
Thirty-three drinks — not a sober sight,
One man fell, now lawyers yell,
And Royal’s set to fight.
Thirty-three shots on a rocking ship,
Thirty-three shots — that’s quite a trip,
One too many, the case is plenty,
Now lawsuits take their sip.
Trust me; it ain’t free. Far from it.
We might have a couple glasses of wine on a 10-day cruise, but some people are there just to drink, I think.
“I‘ve never been on a cruise. How much are drinks ? Certainly it’s not “all you can drink”, eh ?”
Comparably priced to land-based bars from my experience. Price lists say high single digits for beer or wine, $10-$15 for most cocktails.
But most people do have the all you can drink package, so generally anything under a certain $x price is free (and over that you just pay the difference).
Have you seen the staff on RC. These guys are short, tiny and thin, many from Philippines or other 3rd world countries. The drunk guy is tall and weighs how much? We really don’t know the whole story yet, but I can see where they would do their best to detain him and had to medicate. They were in international waters too, so laws are different. Not trying to be argumentative just another perspective.
Captain Stubing set the limit at 34.
This man was acting within perfectly normal standards for the average drunk, intoxicated, obese, violent man with anger issues.
everyone gets tom make their choices, and some don’t turn out as one might think.
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