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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: Blogatron

Yes Blogatron: Kennedy-esque for sure.
He was with a “woman” at the time that the ship capsized. So he’s in trouble at home too right now. But then again, his wife was probably used to it.


41 posted on 01/18/2012 9:45:42 AM PST by Mountain Mary (Awaken Oh America...)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

He and Plugs Biden must go to the same transplant guy.


42 posted on 01/18/2012 9:47:24 AM PST by Mountain Mary (Awaken Oh America...)
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To: Sacajaweau
Did you see the ship...He absolutely had a better window from the shore....

He wasn't on shore. He was floating around in a lifeboat avoiding responsibility. The absolute worst thing a Captain can do is abandon ship, especially when it is still loaded with passengers who were not given the evacuation procedures prior to the wreck. There is no way you can defend the actions of this Coward. As the ships Captain, the safety of the lives on his ship are his responsibility.


43 posted on 01/18/2012 9:47:47 AM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Explorer89

My translator says that the phrase literally is: I go on board, f***ing, however that means what the article says its says.
Obviously your take is different, just wondering what you are thinking.


44 posted on 01/18/2012 9:47:50 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: TSgt
Women, children, red Indians, spacemen and a sort of idealized version of complete Renaissance Men first.
45 posted on 01/18/2012 9:49:13 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Prepping for an interview with nobama administration. Cruise Ship Czar.

Hey, this makes as much sense as Chris Dodd jumping from Senate to Prez of Motion Picture Assn..


46 posted on 01/18/2012 9:49:13 AM PST by X-spurt
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To: Tijeras_Slim

47 posted on 01/18/2012 9:49:36 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
I saw the route maps...He had the rip in the hull MILES before he hit the beach. Had he gone out to sea rather thn becah it, no doubt many more would have been lost and the thing would have quickly sunk.

The Titanic had 2200 passengers. 1500 died and it was upright.

Please take a look at the pictures.

48 posted on 01/18/2012 9:51:21 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Ah! a liar and a coward.

What a low life weasle.


49 posted on 01/18/2012 9:52:03 AM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country., Really! NOW!!!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

>> sounds like a psychopath.

Hey, Barky’s administration needs those too! Maybe DOJ would be a better fit than the press secretary’s office though...


50 posted on 01/18/2012 9:52:35 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

This is good. I can think of lot’s of uses for that excuse. I “tripped” into bed with that other woman. I “tripped” into the entire bottle of Jack Daniels. etc....


51 posted on 01/18/2012 9:53:02 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat....

After one too many cocktails?

52 posted on 01/18/2012 9:53:27 AM PST by BossLady (Where There's A Shill...There's A Pay.......)
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To: Sacajaweau

This is a lost cause even more amusing than what one hears from Lost Causers...


53 posted on 01/18/2012 9:54:36 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: SMARTY
Was he drunk?

Not yet determined but according to the U.K Daily Mail:

One passenger has accused the captain of drinking in one of the ship's bars on the night the vessel ran aground, before taking control after the crash. Monique Maurek, 41, from the Netherlands, said: 'What scandalised me most was when I saw the captain spending much of the evening before we hit the rocks drinking in the bar with a beautiful woman on his arm.

Italy's most hated man

54 posted on 01/18/2012 9:54:51 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Upstate NY Guy

The dog ate my homework ...


55 posted on 01/18/2012 9:58:02 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Upstate NY Guy
This reminds me of Aaron quoted in Exodus 32:
So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”
ML/NJ
56 posted on 01/18/2012 10:02:13 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Upstate NY Guy
I have it on good authority from an un-named source highly placed in Hollywood, that the good and totally innocent Captain will have his true story told in a Hollywood blockbuster!

His part will be played by sean penn; the assistant captain by alec baldwin, the physical activities director by michael moore, the social director by jane fonda, the purser by ed asner, the bartender by al franken, and the first steward of the lifeboats by tim robbins. The owner of the cruise line will be played by - who else - the stain himself!

The entire passenger group will be made up of extras; these to be drawn from the republican voting rolls in the state of california. If there are not a sufficient number, then the movie will tap the states of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona to come up with enough extras.

The captain will receive $350,000,000 paid by mr. g. soros and the film's director sidney lumet (yes, he's dead, but that little fact never stopped a lib before!).

57 posted on 01/18/2012 10:02:22 AM PST by Logic n' Reason (N/A)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

LMAO - this guy should write speeches for the democrats!


58 posted on 01/18/2012 10:03:19 AM PST by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
"I did not have relations with that life boat."

Great minds think alike. When I read this story, my first thought was: how very 'Clintonian' of him.

59 posted on 01/18/2012 10:04:46 AM PST by Mich Patriot (I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

He was tripping? That would explain a lot.


60 posted on 01/18/2012 10:08:03 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "EconomiIt is not impossibllcs In One Lesson.")
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