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I don't buy the drunk part. Evidence says other wise.

The Defence lawyer thru that in to muddy the waters and hopefully get a liberal judge to be more lenient.

A lawyer always wants to put most of the blame on addiction to booze or drugs

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Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 1734779)

Thanks :yeah:

Your welcome :sunny:

Sounds like a heavy drinking session with some buddies that led to 'hey I bet ya $100 bucks you can't drop the ships anchor'. The rest is history...:rotfl2:

I wonder who'll get his 50 foot boat. I'll take it if nobody else want it. I'll give it back to him when he gets out. Promise!!!

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Originally Posted by RickC Sniper (Post 1734965)

I wonder who'll get his 50 foot boat. I'll take it if nobody else want it. I'll give it back to him when he gets out. Promise!!!

I wonder who'll get his RV dealership in Thousand Oaks? :D

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee (Post 1734268)

...testing out the new sig.:salute:

Nice sig. :cool:

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1734403)

LOL but on a more serious note, my son is Third Officer on the MS Ryndam and I'm about to email him to see if he was aboard at the time.

Whoa! Small world. :DL

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1734967)

Whoa! Small world. :DL

Not sure if you noticed it before but just in case, this is part of my sons email response:

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Hahaha its funny you send that as I was keeping the report to show you when I got home and yes I was on board, all I can say is that the British should take a lead from the way the Americans prosecute people, the guy who did it is also very wealthy so we have been informed they are going to take him to the cleaners.

I shall explain the story more when I get home but yeah it wasn't a good day that day as we thought we had lost someone overboard due to a life buoy being released so we had to do a full ship muster including the guests and crew on deck.

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1735133)

Not sure if you noticed it before but just in case, this is part of my sons email response:

Yes I did. I imagine your son was none too amused to have to try and help find a missing passenger in a huge cruise ship because of somebody's dumb drunken prank. I look forward to hearing the full story. I'm sure he has plenty of other stories as well. :)

I recall the one cruise I took up to Alaska. Judging by the irreverent behavior I saw at the pre-departure lifeboat drill I'm sure half of passengers attending mine had already gotten pretty loaded either on their flight or on the limo drive over to the docks from the airport. Some of them were already three sheets to the wind. You had a small group of stern sober officers in white trying to explain to a half drunk, giggly crowd (some still holding their drinks) the procedures that could save their lives. A weird mix. I could see the bemusement and annoyance in some of the officer's faces.