[rktman]

Can’t the brits afford any ammo to use for gunnery practice? Just sayin’.

[sickoflibs]

Is there some reason why England must welcome these rats to their shore?

Couldn’t they just round up some hungry stray cats and drop them in for dinner?

[Celtic Conservative]

WTF?

CC

[knarf]

Some smart cookie might come up with an idea like;

Shoot through every orofice you can, flaming sulphur bombs ... keep doing it for a full 24 hours or something.

Let a week go by, board the thing and sweep up the carcasses and feed the fish.

Just a thought

[cripplecreek]

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[Opinionated Blowhard]

As for the rats? The National Post reports that the Lyubov Orlova sat in port for more than two years in Newfoundland, "virtually guaranteeing" the ship acquired a rat infestation. After a nearly year adrift with no food, many British media outlets believe that the rats may have turned on each other in order to survive.

Whether or not the cannibal rats make landfall remains to be seen, but Irish authorities are bracing for impact.

So the most sensational part of the story -- that the ship is infested with bloodthirsty, canibalistic rats -- is pure speculation. And Irish authorities are "bracing for impact" based on that speculation. Gotta love it. The fact that their navy doesn't just sink the damn thing and instead everyone wrings their hands is a telling commentary on what the West has become.

[SMARTY]

Wow... you mean there is no maritime protocol for that kind of thing?

If an ice berg is a problem... so is a ghost ship...It’s irresponsible to just let it drift!

[Truth29]

Could this be a suggested location for the upcoming GOP policy retreat? Boehner and cannibal rats has a certain symmetry to it.

[CommerceComet]

For heaven’s sake, this isn’t a submarine. If the British navy has deteriorated so severely that it can’t find a large surface ship which is taking no evasive actions, it could ask for U.S. assistance. I’m sure our military satellites could find it in no time. Something as big as a cruise ship cannot escape detection for too long, even in the vastness of the north Atlantic.

[Cvengr]

They better hurry before it hits and sinks one of the British Isles!!!! /s

[Uncle Chip]

Sink it —

Is that too hard to figure out.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Why not just sink it if nobody wants it? Seriously, problem solved!!!

[ßuddaßudd]

Maybe an awesome SyFy movie next year, ? ,

[areukiddingme1]

Jeeez us...hazard to navigation...sink the GD thing. Duh!

[Bobalu]

[PATRIOT1876]

Round up the Somali pirates and GreePeace hippies and put them on the ship.

[OKSooner]

+1 “Just sink the damn thing and be done with it.”

[Fiji Hill]

Click below to hear Lyubov Orlova, the ship's namesake sing the Soviet patriotic song "Shiroka Strana, Moya Rodnaya" (vast country, my homeland) in the movie "Circus." Radio Moscow fans will recognize the first few notes as the station's call sign. The words go as follows:

Vast country, my homeland,
Full of mountains, forests and rivers
I don't know of another country
Where a man would want to breathe...

In big golden letters,
We write the Stalinist code.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISGSGi_eno