Posted on 09/25/2012 2:47:46 AM PDT by Ken H
A $500,000 Port Authority patrol boat sank this month after a veteran police sergeant took the advice of a clueless civilian safety instructor — and opened a hatch while it was under water, The Post has learned.
“It was like opening a window during a carwash,” one PA insider lamented of the screw-up off Breezy Point, Queens, that left 11 people scrambling for their lives.
Nobody was seriously injured, but eight cops and three civilians had to either swim to safety or be rescued as the 37-foot M-2 model Moose Boats craft sank 40 feet to the ocean floor about 300 yards off shore.
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1. It’s only money.
2. There’s more where that came from.
3. Officer Nemo still has a cushy taxpayer funded job with benefits and retirement.
I don’t really see the problem./s
I’d be tempted to claim salvage rights and take it. Nice boat.
Screen doors, submarines .. yadda, yadda yadda..
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I know it is basically ‘covered’ in the yadda etc BUT
Many a Submariners career ended for the want of sleeping with open windows.....
And that, Gov. Romney, is why the windows don’t open on airplanes.
THAT is a 1/2 million dollar boat? Sure is easy to spend other people’s money.
As someone said, the cops all still have their jobs for life and their fat protected, inflation proof early retirements.
Isn’t that nice?
Life is hard.
Life is harder when you’re stupid.
It was really fitted out!
But...it will have to be replaced, and people will have to build and outfit it. Sounds like a win-win for the economy to me...kind of like Cash for Clunkers.
/sarc
Yeah. They should just go ahead and sink them all! Give the cops a medal for meritorious service!
Capital idea.
/dripping and angry sarcasm
“...took the advice of a clueless civilian safety instructor”
If he loses his job with the Port Authority, he sounds like a natural fit as a replacement ref in the utterly inept NFL.
There’s actually a video of the maintenance crew working on the boat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxEOiqtV_MA
Civilian is a relative term.............
Actually this was a job well done. Now they can’t go and harass any mariners for a while.
Oh no! Now the water will be teaming with pirates! What ever shall we do????
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