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Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat
CBS News ^ | January 18, 2012 | ap

Posted on 01/18/2012 9:26:58 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy

(CBS/AP) The cruise ship captain under fire for abandoning his vessel while thousands of passengers scrambled for rescue has reportedly come up with an explanation for his flight - he accidentally tripped and fell into a lifeboat:

Capt. Francesco Schettino stated: "I didn't even have a life jacket because I had given it to one of the passengers. I was trying to get people to get into the boats in an orderly fashion. Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60 to 70 degree angle, I tripped and I ended up in one of the boats. That's how I found myself in the lifeboat."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: costaconcordia; cruiseship; disaster; evilpenguins; schettino; vadaabordocazzo
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Captain Tripps
21 posted on 01/18/2012 9:38:13 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat

I like that . . . possible whiplash lawsuit in the works from slipping on unmarked wet floor and no cushion to break his fall . . . hope he uses Diddy, Dickem, and Howe and sues their a$$.

22 posted on 01/18/2012 9:38:38 AM PST by laweeks
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Shocked they didn’t have him wearing a neck brace.


23 posted on 01/18/2012 9:38:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

This guy should move to the US and get a job in the White Hut.

He’s that good.


24 posted on 01/18/2012 9:39:40 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Carney does it better than Baghdad Bob did.


25 posted on 01/18/2012 9:39:43 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: RJS1950

That was my first thought - the excuse “I tripped and my * fell in”...

wonder if I should ping Laz...


26 posted on 01/18/2012 9:39:51 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

This guy is about to enter the “Hazlewood Ship Captain’s Hall of Fame”


27 posted on 01/18/2012 9:40:21 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Time to move forward not to the center.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
So did Brave Sir Robin

28 posted on 01/18/2012 9:40:32 AM PST by TSgt (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Wow, didn’t know the Captain was a democrat.


29 posted on 01/18/2012 9:40:45 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Blogatron
Sounds like a Kennedy

Yup.

Question: How many Captains does it take to steer the Costa Concordia?

Answer: One and a fifth.

30 posted on 01/18/2012 9:40:51 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Upstate NY Guy

I’ll tell you what...

stand him in front of a jail cell and I’ll stick my foot out.

He won’t even have to lie.


31 posted on 01/18/2012 9:40:51 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Jerry Sandusky: We were in the shower when I tripped and fell into his...


32 posted on 01/18/2012 9:41:08 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (Whatever happened to that Amy Summerland sailing chick?)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

The same captain—after being caught by his wife—using the services of a prostitute said, “Honestly honey, I wasn’t even wearing a condom...I just slipped and fell into bed with this woman!”


33 posted on 01/18/2012 9:41:08 AM PST by Lou L (The Senate without a filibuster is just a 100-member version of the House.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Now that’s a steamin’ pile of Schettino if I ever heard one. Did he get that from the Italian Guide for the Married Man? “I am innocent, cara mia! She tripped and fell on my lap*!”

*Just keeping it clean there...


34 posted on 01/18/2012 9:41:32 AM PST by Lady Lucky (A tea party in name only is worse than no tea party at all.)
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To: Nervous Tick

He also claimed before this that he saved thousands by taking the ship so close to shore.

sounds like a psychopath.


35 posted on 01/18/2012 9:41:49 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy; NautiNurse

Wow, Rush has been talking about this... I thought he was joking! Rush said this captain should come to the U.S. and run as a democRAT over here... LOL.


36 posted on 01/18/2012 9:42:01 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat

No! He stumbled into jail!!

37 posted on 01/18/2012 9:42:56 AM PST by ontap
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To: dfwgator
Neck brace.
 
~snort~
 
Good One!
 
 



38 posted on 01/18/2012 9:43:42 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: Explorer89

What do they say?


39 posted on 01/18/2012 9:44:20 AM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Was he drunk?


40 posted on 01/18/2012 9:44:20 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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