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Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat
CBS News ^
| January 18, 2012
| ap
Posted on 01/18/2012 9:26:58 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
(CBS/AP) The cruise ship captain under fire for abandoning his vessel while thousands of passengers scrambled for rescue has reportedly come up with an explanation for his flight - he accidentally tripped and fell into a lifeboat:
Capt. Francesco Schettino stated: "I didn't even have a life jacket because I had given it to one of the passengers. I was trying to get people to get into the boats in an orderly fashion. Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60 to 70 degree angle, I tripped and I ended up in one of the boats. That's how I found myself in the lifeboat."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: costaconcordia; cruiseship; disaster; evilpenguins; schettino; vadaabordocazzo
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Captain Tripps
To: Upstate NY Guy
Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboatI like that . . . possible whiplash lawsuit in the works from slipping on unmarked wet floor and no cushion to break his fall . . . hope he uses Diddy, Dickem, and Howe and sues their a$$.
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:38:38 AM PST
by
laweeks
To: Upstate NY Guy
Shocked they didn’t have him wearing a neck brace.
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:38:49 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Upstate NY Guy
This guy should move to the US and get a job in the White Hut.
He’s that good.
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:39:40 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: lexington minuteman 1775
Carney does it better than Baghdad Bob did.
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:39:43 AM PST
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: RJS1950
That was my first thought - the excuse “I tripped and my * fell in”...
wonder if I should ping Laz...
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:39:51 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Upstate NY Guy
This guy is about to enter the “Hazlewood Ship Captain’s Hall of Fame”
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:40:21 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(Time to move forward not to the center.)
To: Upstate NY Guy
So did Brave Sir Robin
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:40:32 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
To: Upstate NY Guy
Wow, didn’t know the Captain was a democrat.
To: Blogatron
Sounds like a Kennedy Yup.
Question: How many Captains does it take to steer the Costa Concordia?
Answer: One and a fifth.
To: Upstate NY Guy
I’ll tell you what...
stand him in front of a jail cell and I’ll stick my foot out.
He won’t even have to lie.
To: Upstate NY Guy
Jerry Sandusky: We were in the shower when I tripped and fell into his...
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:41:08 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Whatever happened to that Amy Summerland sailing chick?)
To: Upstate NY Guy
The same captain—after being caught by his wife—using the services of a prostitute said, “Honestly honey, I wasn’t even wearing a condom...I just slipped and fell into bed with this woman!”
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:41:08 AM PST
by
Lou L
(The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
To: Upstate NY Guy
Now that’s a steamin’ pile of Schettino if I ever heard one. Did he get that from the Italian Guide for the Married Man? “I am innocent, cara mia! She tripped and fell on my lap*!”
*Just keeping it clean there...
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:41:32 AM PST
by
Lady Lucky
(A tea party in name only is worse than no tea party at all.)
To: Nervous Tick
He also claimed before this that he saved thousands by taking the ship so close to shore.
sounds like a psychopath.
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:41:49 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
To: Upstate NY Guy; NautiNurse
Wow, Rush has been talking about this... I thought he was joking! Rush said this captain should come to the U.S. and run as a democRAT over here... LOL.
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:42:01 AM PST
by
nutmeg
To: Upstate NY Guy
Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat No! He stumbled into jail!!
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:42:56 AM PST
by
ontap
To: dfwgator
Neck brace.
~snort~
Good One!
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:43:42 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: Explorer89
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posted on
01/18/2012 9:44:20 AM PST
by
svcw
(For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
To: Upstate NY Guy
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01/18/2012 9:44:20 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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