Yacht Owned by DeVos Set Adrift by Vandals

[DonViejo]

July 26, 2018 at 8:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

A 163-foot yacht worth a reported $40 million and owned by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was vandalized over the weekend and set adrift, the Toledo Blade reports.

“The crew eventually got control of the yacht, but not before it struck the dock, causing an estimated $5,000 to $10,000 in damage from large scratches and scrapes… Officers were searching for surveillance video that may show who untied the yacht.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/26/yacht-owned-by-devos-set-adrift-by-vandals/

[Cartoonist]

1. Here's a suspect

007

[whathehell]

2. Aww..that gives me a sad

not.

[gibraltar72]

3. Read a book recently

about the resistance in Norway against the other Hitler. Small groups did many seemingly insignificant things such as this. It had a cumulative toll.

[Aristus]

13. Denmark, too.

There's a story that after the Danes surrendered to the Nazis, the Nazis put up the swastika flag in front of the Parliament building. A Danish patriot ripped the flag down and raised the flag of Denmark. Strangely, he was not punished for this, but the occupying authority told him not to do it again.

Well, he did it again. This time, the Nazis took down the Danish flag, put up the swastika flag, and posted a guard to keep it from happening again. The Danish man simply installed a second flagpole, put up the Danish flag, and then told the guard: "Here. Now you can guard this one, as well!"

[dlk]

4. No Doubt, the Yacht is Heavily Insured

This would be a mere minor inconvenience, if that, to DeVos.

[global1]

5. The First Thing That's Wrong With This Is That....

DeVos has a $40 million yacht.

[d_r]

6. the *first* thing wrong with it

is that there is such a thing as a $40 million yacht

[FakeNoose]

10. You call it a yacht, I call it a floating hotel

[DFW]

7. This does us no good

We do better when point out that she HAS a $40 million yacht than we do when we laugh at $5,000 worth of paint scratches.

[dalton99a]

8. Her net worth last year: $1.3 billion.

Her husband's? $5.2 billion.

[lpbk2713]

9. Forty mil and they can't afford a watchman or security cams?

They deserve what they got.

[d_r]

11. don't worry about her

she has 9 other yachts as back up.

The Seaquest, according to a number of profiles in national publications, is one of 10 boats owned by the family. It is registered to RDV International Marine LTD., according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection database.

[gratuitous]

12. "Set adrift by vandals"

Yeah, tell the insurance company that. They gotta cover vandalism!

[Aristus]

14. Since the 'v' in Vandals was capitalized, I can only assume it was perpetrated

by crazed Northern European barbarians.