Posted on 09/04/2005 3:34:56 PM PDT by veronica
EFFORTS by Hollywood actor Sean Penn to aid New Orleans victims stranded by Hurricane Katrina foundered badly overnight, when the boat he was piloting to launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.
Penn had planned to rescue children waylaid by Katrina's flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.
The actor, known for his political activism, was seen wearing what appeared to be a white flak jacket and frantically bailing water out of the sinking vessel with a red plastic cup.
When the boat's motor failed to start, those aboard were forced to use paddles to propel themselves down the flooded New Orleans street.
Asked what he had hoped to achieve in the waterlogged city, the actor replied: "Whatever I can do to help."
With the boat loaded with members of Penn's entourage, including a personal photographer, one bystander taunted the actor: "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"
Clown Posse of Wussy's......why are the authorities letting these idiots endanger the process with their personal agendas. Arrest these losers before they have to be rescued.....
HAHAHAHAA!! OMG..I can't breath.
This is the most hilarious report I've heard in a long time!
If Penn was this entertaining in film, I'd actually buy a ticket.
I want footage!
Oh for... Did AFP really misspell "bails"?
Hint for AFP: You *bail* water out of the boat, you *bale* hay into bundles.
The mental image that produces just tickles.
It's also a good idea to run your motor on the muffs before you drop it in too. LOL!
Yes ..!!! I always take my entourage, including my photographer, with me to a disaster zone, doesn't everybody? ;).
This was a lot funnier than Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
If you are, I'm just as rotten.
"Did anyone just see that footage on FNC of Geraldo "rescuing" the old lady and her dog live on camera? I think I'm going to be physically ill.."
Yeah . Hardly a rescue. She seemed to the only person in the city that was prepared for the hurricane, had water, canned food candles and was housed high and dry.
Now Geraldo dumped her at the convention center where the night before was a hellhole.
I have a hard time determining where the overstuffed chair ends and Hassan Khomenei begins.
HotShots Part DUH.
I'm sure that his fat head weighed the boat down.
....but his inflated ego should have counteracted that weight and held them up.
Now I'm so confused.
"John Siegenthaler told Rita Crosby (MSNBC) that he had just seen Sean Penn and Historian Douglas Brinkley in a boat on a rescue mission in the Garden District."
Maybe he got the story wrong and the boat was on the way to rescue Sean Penn.
Standard Liberal Operating Procedure = SLOP
My God . . this pic *is* the democrat party today.
Boat capable of carrying a sizeable entourage: $100,000
Cost of entourage, including photographer(s): $25,000
Cost of red plastic cup: $1, tops
Cost of beeing seen bailing out the leaky-assed boat with the plastic cup for all the world to see, probably blaming it on Bush: Priceless.
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