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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 spending much of the evening before we hit the rocks

As I understand it, the ship had only been underway for TWO HOURS.

61 posted on 01/18/2012 10:09:09 AM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: nutmeg

Remoinds me of the Brother Dave Gardner joke: “I was just standing on the corner trimming my fingernails and this dude came running around the corner and ran smack into my knife. 17 times!”


62 posted on 01/18/2012 10:10:12 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Uh oh!


63 posted on 01/18/2012 10:10:12 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Because! Because, as the leader...if I die...then all hope is lost! Who would lead? The clown? Instead of castigating me, you should all be thanking me. What kind of a topsy-turvy world do we live in, where heroes are cast as villains? Brave men as cowards?

64 posted on 01/18/2012 10:11:11 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Upstate NY Guy

This court martial is taking forever. Shouldn’t he be swinging from the yardarm by now?


65 posted on 01/18/2012 10:15:40 AM PST by Crichton
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Jon Lovitz, pick up the white courtesy phone....


66 posted on 01/18/2012 10:16:39 AM PST by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: WOBBLY BOB
He also claimed before this that he saved thousands by taking the ship so close to shore.

He's still thinking in lira? If it's in Euro or dollars, he only has to do it maybe half a million times and the cost of the accident would be covered.

67 posted on 01/18/2012 10:16:39 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (Whatever happened to that Amy Summerland sailing chick?)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

This guy is a completely despicable tool. Several passengers saw him huddled in a life boat wrapped in a blanket. If he “accidentally” tripped then why didn’t he go back on the ship?

For that matter, why didn’t he go back on the ship when the Coast Guard ORDERED him back on the ship?

I was a yacht captain and while I never sank a boat I dam sure wouldn’t have abandoned a sinking one until I was SURE all passengers and crew were off and safe.


68 posted on 01/18/2012 10:19:10 AM PST by MtBaldy
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To: Farmer Dean

He needs a better lawyer!


69 posted on 01/18/2012 10:19:20 AM PST by ThirdMate
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To: jagusafr

The Captain was just in a hurry to see his wife, Morgan Fairchild.


70 posted on 01/18/2012 10:19:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
Soon after this, witnesses saw him leaving the scene in a taxi - while his passengers were either still on the ship, in the water or stranded ashore injured or minimally cold, wet & in shock.

I guess, after tripping off the ship into the life boat, he bounced into the taxi. Wow... talk about a "hard fall."

71 posted on 01/18/2012 10:21:40 AM PST by drpix
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To: Upstate NY Guy

The Captain is obviously a cousin of Baghdad Bob.


72 posted on 01/18/2012 10:22:56 AM PST by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

The biggest failure of Costa/Carnival is obviously in personnel. How did this clown ever get the responsibility he had?


73 posted on 01/18/2012 10:23:17 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Why the fuss? The captain was clearly Leading from Behind. It works for Obama, right?


74 posted on 01/18/2012 10:24:55 AM PST by pabianice (")
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To: Upstate NY Guy
He must be reading Lord Jim in his spare time
75 posted on 01/18/2012 10:25:59 AM PST by stop_fascism (If a guy lies about his first name, what wouldn't he lie about?)
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To: dfwgator

He seen her naked, I hear..


76 posted on 01/18/2012 10:34:58 AM PST by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: Godebert

Well he had been drinking quite a bit trying to pick up a passenger.


77 posted on 01/18/2012 10:42:12 AM PST by chipper dave
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To: Tijeras_Slim
And every time he swam back out to the ship, evil penguins forced him back to shore.

Darn those penguins! Darn them to heck!.
78 posted on 01/18/2012 10:44:18 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: Sacajaweau

Had he been on his proper course the ship wouldn’t have struck the reef to begin with.

As for tripping into the life boat I always believed the Captain ran the ship from the bridge, not by helping load life boats.


79 posted on 01/18/2012 10:47:26 AM PST by Venturer
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To: svcw

Vada is go (third person, or formal, if you do not know the person), but then he personalizes it with cazzo, which means, d!-k. So I guess he wasn’t being too formal after all! LOL!

So, Vada a bordo, cazzo! Is: “Go on board, D—k!”


80 posted on 01/18/2012 11:00:43 AM PST by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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