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Heroin ship sinks to watery grave
Herald Sun ^
| 23 March 2006
| Max Blenkin
Posted on 03/23/2006 12:32:53 AM PST by Aussie Dasher
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Let me tell you, the Air Force LOVED it!!!!!!!!!
To: Aussie Dasher
You guys down under still have F-111s??! Cool!
Celebrating the Kim-Jong-Ils birthday?
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:41:02 AM PST
by
Atlantic Bridge
(De omnibus dubitandum.)
To: Atlantic Bridge
We wish it was his birthday EVERY day!!! LOL!
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:41:57 AM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Before:
After:
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:46:50 AM PST
by
Rastus
To: Aussie Dasher
God bless you Aussies, by the way. :)
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:47:16 AM PST
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Rastus
To: Rastus
It looked SENSATIONAL on TV!
God bless you Septics, too :)
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:48:54 AM PST
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Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Wowser, I love happy news.
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:54:21 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: Aussie Dasher
We wish it was his birthday EVERY day!!! LOL!
Thank you for this wonderful party!!!
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posted on
03/23/2006 1:00:31 AM PST
by
Atlantic Bridge
(De omnibus dubitandum.)
To: Aussie Dasher
I detect a great gnashing of teeth from Libs and Dems over such a loss. Of course, they still have their homemade meth rightchere to fall back on.
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posted on
03/23/2006 1:35:49 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(MOHAMMED LIED-PEOPLE DIED)
To: Aussie Dasher
removing all potentially polluting fuel and oil. The article doesn't say, but I sure hope they removed the 150kG of heroin as well.
They don't need any fish junkies, I'm sure.
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posted on
03/23/2006 2:09:32 AM PST
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Izzy Dunne
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To: Aussie Dasher
the preferred option was for the ship to be sunk at sea. Indeed, that is the best place to sink a ship.
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posted on
03/23/2006 2:11:11 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
"The article doesn't say, but I sure hope they removed the 150kG of heroin as well."Too bad they didn't put the 4 that they convicted back on the ship before they sank it. That would've appropriately demonstrated their "outrage at what has happened by sinking this ship.". But of course that didn't happen, and now the Aussie taxpayers will have to fork over $$ for care and feeding of the new inmates. I'd be willing to wager that it will cost more than the $2500/day it cost to keep the ship in the harbor. Which brings me to my next question. Why $2500/day to keep a ship anchored in the harbor? Is it metered parking only? Or?
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03/23/2006 2:40:12 AM PST
by
chief_bigfoot
("isn't THAT amazing?" - Ron Popiel)
To: Aussie Dasher
Was the ship no longer usable? Could they not have benefited more by reflagging it, auctioning it off, or atleast using it for scrap steel? Anyone know the rest of the story?
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posted on
03/23/2006 3:33:37 AM PST
by
posterchild
(Living a capitalist dream in a socialist 'paradise.')
To: Izzy Dunne
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03/23/2006 3:36:13 AM PST
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ovrtaxt
(Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
To: posterchild
Was the ship no longer usable? Could they not have benefited more by reflagging it, auctioning it off, or atleast using it for scrap steel? Anyone know the rest of the story? The material condition of the ship was probably so bad that the cost of rehabilitating it was prohibitive. Plus, a SINKEX provides valuable training for Airforce and Navy pilots and gunners(and they're really cool!)
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03/23/2006 3:41:20 AM PST
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Drew68
To: posterchild
Could they not have benefited more by reflagging it, auctioning it off, or atleast using it for scrap steel? Anyone know the rest of the story? Perhaps they were concerned that, given the Dear Leader's propensity for irrational and violent scheming and outbursts, this ship would have been an ongoing provocation and a magnet for mischief in the future.
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posted on
03/23/2006 3:42:11 AM PST
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Steely Tom
(Your taboos are not my taboos.)
To: Steely Tom
"Perhaps they were concerned that, given the Dear Leader's propensity for irrational and violent scheming and outbursts, this ship would have been an ongoing provocation and a magnet for mischief in the future."
Unlike, say, the USS Pueblo.
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posted on
03/23/2006 3:53:42 AM PST
by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:23:18 AM PST
by
Flavius
(Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: posterchild
There is no cheap appeal of a sinking.
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posted on
03/23/2006 4:59:20 AM PST
by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
To: Steely Tom
It is North Korean, they could only sell it for scrap, it would never meet any safety or environmental regulations.
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posted on
03/23/2006 5:07:49 AM PST
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gafusa
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