We live in revolting times. ( The Times - UK.)
''# On September 21, 1797, on HMS Hermione Captain Pigot ordered the last man down from the
topsail to be flogged. In the rush, four fell to their deaths. Protesters were flogged and Piigot
and eight officers were killed
# A planned uprising across the Russian Black Sea Fleet began spontaneously in 1905 when crew on the battleship
Potemkin were punished for refusing to eat rotten meat
# Crew on board a Chinese torpedo boat who mutinied and defected to South Korea were repatriated in 1985
# Four workers for Irish Ferries locked themselves in an engine room last year over plans to replace them with
cheaper foreign agency staff. '' One better than - 'Three old ladies locked in a lavatory' ?
