May 17, 2006

• Two things....one, the ice cream maker showed up, so Don received his
  gift from me, which included two ice cream recipe books:  Ben & Jerry's, and The Idiot's Guide to...

  I want cappucino ice cream. 

  Second, while in no way intending to make light of the recent deaths of
  those lost at sea due to falling off of cruise ships, I'm still
  puzzling over how the dickens they manage to do that? 

  If y'all have been on a cruise, you're aware of how high those rails
  are.  They aren't precisely at knee level.  IIRC, they come
  chest-high on me, and I'm 5'5".  I truly don't see how someone can
  possibly fall overboard in the sense of "Oops!"   To go over
  the side, barring being on deck during a hurricane or something, a
  passenger would have to actively climb upon the rail.  Well,
  perhaps if the passenger is 7'6" tall....for him (her, I don't want to
  think about) it might be low enough he could stumble, fall against it
  and flip over into the water.

  The one thing in common between the teenage girl's death this past
  spring on a Costa cruise, and the young man who just died earlier this
  week on a Royal Caribbean cruise, is they were both apparently drunk as
  skunks (my apologies to their families).  People under the
  influence tend to demonstrate remarkably little sense, and climbing up
  to get a better view or feel the wind on their face might seem like a
  nifty notion.

  Drunkenness is a sin at any time, according to Scripture, but beyond
  that, it's simply dangerous.  And the weird idea some people have
  that it's safe as houses to get smashed on a cruise ship, seeing as how
  one won't be driving, is foolish in the extreme.

  That said, I expect Royal Caribbean is in a world of trouble,
  considering the fact they delayed eight solid hours before notifying
  the authorities of the suspected fall of the young man due to first
  searching the ship, presumably from top to bottom and bow to stern, and
  now it turns out his fall overboard was captured on one of the security
  cameras.

  I'd have thought checking those cameras would have been among the first things they'd do, not the last. 

  • 10:25 pm
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