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Posted on 01/01/2008 2:33:43 PM PST by decimon
ACCRA, Ghana — Two U.S. Navy sailors were found dead Tuesday in a hotel room in the West African nation of Ghana, the U.S. Navy said.
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Although official Ghanaian census reports 16% of Ghanaians as being Muslims, this figure is highly questionable. More recent estimates place the figure at closer to 30%,[1] and in some instances, as high as 45%.
This is very early. Let’s see what comes out. Prayers to the victims family’s.
That’s exactly why I said “just in case”. However, the thought did cross my mind for some reason.
Most likely, the hookers who meant only to knock them out and take their wallets used too large a dose.
Sailors with hookers???
So we have two dead sailors and a dead diplomat in the same day in Sudan ?
They used to use liquor alone. There are many songs:
All sailors all come lend an ear, come listen to me song
A trick of late was played on me and it won’t detain you long
I come from sea the other day and a girl I chanced to meet
Oh me friends will be expecting me to a dance in Barrack Street
I said “My young fair maid, I cannot dance so well”
“Besides I am to Windsor bound where are me friends do dwell”
“In to see the party, as I’ve saved up thirty pounds”
“Me friends will be expecting me this night in Widsor town”
“Well if you cannot dance me love then you will stand a treat”
“Have a glass or two of brandy and a something for to eat”
“At six o’clock this evening I’ll meet you off the train”
“So don’t forget to give a call when you come to town again”
At eight o’clock that evening, then, the drinking did begin
And when we all had drunk our fill the dancing did begin
Me and me love danced all around to a merry tune
She says, “Me dear, let us retire to a chamber alone”
So dancing being over and to bed we did repare
And there I fell fast asleep the truth I will declare
Me darling with me thirty pounds gold watch and chain had fled
Left me here poor Jack alone, stark naked in bed
So I looked all around me and there’s nothing I could spy
But a woman’s shirt and apron all on the bed did lie
I wrung me hands and tore me hair crying oh what shall I do?
Fare thee well, sweet Windsor town, I’m sure I’ll never see you
Well, everything being silent and the hour but twelve o’clock
I put on the shirt and apron and steered for Crowman’s Wharf
The captain says “Now Jack, I thought you were to Windsor bound”
“You might have got a better suit than that for thirty pound”
I might have got a better suit if I’d had got the chance
I met a girl in Barrack Street she took me to a dance
I danced me own destruction now I’m struck from head to feet
Swear that I won’t go no more down in Barrack street
So all of you young sailor lads a warning take from me
Beware of all your company when you go out on a spree
And keep clear of Barrack Street or else you’ll rue the day
In a woman’s shirt and apron, oh, they’ll bring you out to sea
What were they doing in Ghana? Do we have a base there?
Do you really want that information on a public forum?
"The sailors were stationed aboard the USS Fort McHenry, which is on a seven-month voyage through the Gulf of Guinea aimed in part at training local militaries on maritime security."
Thanks. I should have just read the darn article—my bad.
Nah, that could set a bad precedent. ;-)
Sounds like Roppongi!
Where’s “Fighting Bob Evans” when we need him?
Alas Olongapo...... gone
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