Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat
(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.
Jailed since the accident, Capt. Francesco Schettino appeared Tuesday before a judge in Grosseto, where he was questioned for three hours.
Several English-language newspapers have reported that, according to La Repubblica, Schettino testified that "the passengers were pouring on to the decks, taking the lifeboats by assault."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57361085/report-captain-claims-he-tripped-into-lifeboat/
obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)He really needs to shut up if he doesn't want to spend about 70 years in prison. I can't believe his attorney is allowing him to give interview.
I talked to a ship's captain relative today, and she said this guy is a disgrace to the sea. I agree.
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)Yeah ... it is soooo easy to trip into a life boat and leave unawares ... good grief ... if it wasn't so sad it would be funny ....
dmr
(28,349 posts)who was so busy working hard & being a faithful public servant that he cheated on his wife.
It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)I am sure that will go over well with the jury.
all the officers. Uh huh. Why can't Darwin get a helpful ship list in the right direction from time to time?
NinetySix
(1,301 posts)Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)But, that made me laugh. He should be a GOP candidate.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)JBoy
(8,021 posts)I tripped and my penis fell into her.
Wistful Vista
(136 posts)a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)And I spewed coffee all over the floor.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)BadtotheboneBob
(413 posts)Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!
Wistful Vista
(136 posts)Scairp
(2,749 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:55 AM - Edit history (1)
I'm so glad to hear that when the poor captain tripped he landed in a lifeboat (way to stick that landing! A 10!), and that he's not one of the dead bodies trapped in the hull of his ship. Prick. I hope they put him under the prison.
valerief
(53,235 posts)I know the size didn't cause the accident, but good lord!
truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)It's a mighty incentive.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)That's four times the amount of people that are supposedly on the supermassive Enterprise D from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
provis99
(13,062 posts)apparently a dumbass, too, for thinking people would believe him.
dballance
(5,756 posts)And I've been watching the GOP debates so it takes quite a lot to top the incredulity. He should be pulled up to the nearest yardarm. Tripped into a lifeboat? Who could believe such BS. Just say you were trying to save your ass. There is actually nothing wrong with not wanting to die. Of course you have a responsibility to your passengers first.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,016 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)and without thinking, I said, "WAIT, WHAT DID HE SAY? LOL!! DA FUCK??!!! He "tripped and fell into the boat and I guess he accidently rowed away with a lifeboat full of all of the officers of the boat? All of them tripped and fell into the boat? REALLY?? lol!!
SeattleVet
(5,479 posts)of Emergency Management"
Everyone else is to blame; everything he did is justifiable in some warped manner.
SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)still no excuse for abandoning your ship as it's going down before your passengers and crew were taken care of.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Only a wild drunk would think that anyone would believe a story like that.
trof
(54,256 posts)Rught.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Big Orange Jeff
(262 posts)...others are using the foolproof "I tripped" excuse:
- Mitt Romney is using it to explain how all that money wound up in a Cayman Islands bank,
- It's Newt Gingrich's explanation for how his penis wound up in other women,
- Ron Paul says that, while trying to regain his balance, a leaky pen fell out of his pocket and onto several sheets of paper and the resulting inkblots just happen to produce all of those newsletters in the nineties, and
- Rick Santorum says that he hurt himself when tripped and, instead of swearing, shouted out a string of gibberish that sounded as if he were warning John Ensign that a story was going to break about his extramarital affair with the wife of one of his top aides.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)And if it wasn't for all of the women and children that he fell on, he would have the bruises to prove it.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)and the car made a right turn into the parking lot of a donut shop. THIS WAS NOT MY FAULT!
The darned shopkeepers forced me to buy a cheese danish. I AM A VICTIM HERE!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Evasporque
(2,133 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Moondog
(4,833 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)This excuse is on par with Santorum claiming he said bleah people, not black people.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Cruise ship's cook says captain ordered dinner after crash
(CNN) -- The captain of the Costa Concordia ordered dinner for himself and a woman after the ship struck rocks off Italy's coast, a cook from the ship told a Filipino television station.
In an interview with GMA Network, cook Rogelio Barista said Capt. Francesco Schettino ordered dinner less than an hour after the accident.
"We wondered what was going on. ... At that time, we really felt something was wrong. ... The stuff in the kitchen was falling off shelves and we realized how grave the situation was," Barista told GMA.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/19/world/europe/italy-cruise-cook/index.html