Posted on 02/17/2018 6:38:06 PM PST by nuconvert
A Carnival cruise devolved into near-anarchy during its 10 days in the South Pacific, with some passengers locking themselves inside their cabins, others kicked off the ship and security guards brawling with vacationers in a bare-knuckles melee.
Carnival said it would investigate what happened after a video surfaced, showing the guards punching, kicking and threatening passengers during the worst of the fighting Friday. But the cruise line is already blaming “a large family group” for instigating the violence, which some passengers said escalated for days before security could contain it.
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A floating Chucky Cheese.
From the comments page of the Sun article:
“If you go to David Barkho’s facebook page something does not seem right. There are a few comments in English, none in Italian, but many in Arabic. The page is filled with anti semitic, anti western hate crap and some of the posts seem like Al Queda or ISIS propaganda. This family doesn’t seem like any Italians I’ve ever known.”
FWIW, this is from myheritage.com
Where do people with the Barkho surname come from:
USA
(42%)
Australia
(31%)
Canada
(8%)
Iraq
(8%)
Sweden
(4%)
Azerbaijan
(4%)
Syria
(4%)
Odds are they are of Iraqi origin.
“My idea of a great cruise is an overnight with my wife at a Best Western, with Thai food carry out.”
You & your beloved have a beautiful relationship. My wife & I did similar inexpensive weekends of wonderful memories until the Lord called her home.
We did take our honeymoon on an older passenger liner converted to cruise ship. That was decades gone. More like the Titanic than today’s experiences.
They should’ve calmed things down with complimentary Honey Buns and Bloody Marys.
Well, the mimes cleared off the decks faster than the lobster disappeared off the plates on lobster night.
It was just me and Professor Mime or whoever the heck they have teaching them.
He must have been a black belt in Mime Kwon Do or something because he squared off with me and kicked me in the nuggets.
Good thing I had a bag of em or he’d have got me in the jewels.
I had a bag of them, too.
After that, I’m gonna wash ClearCase_guy right out of my hair.
Would never go somewhere I cant be armed.
I hit him in the head with my shovel so hard that his little black hat (what the heck are those things called, Fedoras?) sailed right into the ocean and the naturalist damn near tipped the boat over by telling everyone it was a whale.
You would think people had never seen a whale before.
I climbed up on the safety rail holding my shovel over my head and started screaming,
“I smite you with this harpoon oh great beast of the Sea!”
Hit that hat straight on.
The naturalist keeled over.
Five or six of the mimes threw up.
I looked around all wild eyed and said,
“Jacques Cousteau showed me how to do that!”
It's nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
Most people think I'm crazy when I tell them you couldn't pay me to go on one of those things.
To each his own, I guess, but why would someone want to pay through the nose to be trapped with hundreds of other people, some of them seriously ill and contagious?
It's more like a floating petri dish.
No, those hats are called bowlers.
Which might remind you of another story!
That’s a whale of a tale...
Thanks. I hadn't spotted that. I thought most of them looked a bit Med, but some of them did look to have a healthy measure of Aryan blood. Italy would explain that.
That too! And with the kind of south of the border help they employ, there's no telling who's “surreptitiously adulterating your food!”
I've always liked cruising. My most recent one was two weeks Caribbean from Baltimore. It was fine, but had enough imperfections for me to be okay with it if I never cruise again. I could see that something like this could happen. They are cutting corners on a lot of things, and it's beginning to show.
JMHO
Sperm donors, they receptacles and they's “results!" Dat beez a beeeg fambly!
count me as well... stuck out at sea, with a few thousand drunk strangers while people try to sell ma a lot of crap I don’t need
Of course it does.
There are two things that everyone must pack for a cruise.
1. A hockey stick.
2. A bowling ball.
The hockey stick caused my incarceration in the cruise ship brig (with Beppo The Drunk Magician....I wish he would have made himself disappear. He damn sure could make vodka disappear).
The bowling ball can be used to barter with the natives you meet on the islands.
We stopped at a quaint island called England, and I traded a bowling ball to those yokels for this big clock called Large Benjamin or something.
Amazingly, those natives could almost speak American.
They call French fries chips. They have lots of quaint ways like that.
I asked to see their king. They said they have a Queen. I asked if they had a witch doctor and they said they have Doctor Who.
This led to a twenty minute take of the old Abbot and Costello routine except this time it was a phone booth instead of baseball bases.
“Who is in the phone booth?”
“Exactly.”
I was kind of surprised they had phone booths. I know they use drums to communicate because they have some kind of drum royalty named Ringo.
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