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Seattle Man Accused of Sinking His Own Yacht

cnn.com — Times are tough. A Seattle man has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly sinking his own yacht because of "financial pressure and frustration with the maintenance" of the vessel, authorities said.

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  • inactive, on 02/22/2009, -1/+63This happened on Arrested Development.
    http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?oid=198831 ...
    Michael: All right, so how’d you do it?
    G.O.B.: Michael, a magician never reveals his... I sunk it! I sunk the yacht! At least I think I sunk it. I mean, I blew it up and I don’t see it anywhere. Oh, God, my heart was in my throat when that curtain came down and I’m looking out.
    Michael: You sank the yacht? You sank a $700,000 yacht?
    G.O.B.: With $900,000 worth of insurance on it. And got rid of the evidence. How about a “Good job”?!
  • supferrets, on 02/23/2009, -1/+35"ILLUSION, Michael!"
  • inactive, on 02/23/2009, -1/+25I've made a huge mistake.
  • selphishnerd, on 02/23/2009, -2/+24came on here to post Arrested Development references, but true to Digg form, several people have beat me to it.
  • state08, on 02/23/2009, -2/+22"Oh COME ON!"
  • dannyboy3020, on 02/23/2009, -1/+16Nana was on that boat!
  • inactive, on 02/23/2009, -0/+13Who says he was rich? It was a 1967 Chris Craft, pretty modest boat, valued at $28k.
  • fabkebab, on 02/22/2009, -5/+17So much for the assumption is that high intellegence correlates with becoming rich (at least in America). We are seeing this more and more (people staging thier own deaths, etc)- I see this as the bright side of an otherwise depressing economic situation
  • jarfmardisen, on 02/23/2009, -3/+15Nana was on that yacht!
  • kh99, on 02/23/2009, -1/+10Everything's happened before. We should tell the news people they can all go home.
  • twotimesthru, on 02/23/2009, -1/+7"Where once there was a yacht! Now, there is NOT!"
  • DirtyVicar, on 02/23/2009, -0/+5I have several bankers here who would like a moment of your time.
  • novenator, on 02/22/2009, -1/+6I'd rather set mine on fire and send it into harbor as a distraction for my get away. Wait a minute, I don't have a yacht!
  • inactive, on 02/23/2009, -1/+6I'm not sure how the insurance fraud scheme works, but wouldn't a PROTIP be to pay someone just to sail the damn thing away and report it stolen?
  • yelper, on 02/23/2009, -0/+5"Puget Sound Bay", ha!
  • publiclurker, on 02/23/2009, -0/+4The market is understandably depressed for boats right now, and considering the price he was asking for it, I think it probably needed a lot maintenance. Boats are often referred to a holes in the water that their owners throw money into.
  • cheekdog, on 02/22/2009, -0/+4i just saw something on tv the other day about boat repos. boat loans are the first to default and repos on them have more than doubled.
  • ivaldes1, on 02/23/2009, -0/+4Wow, I haven't seen this kind of stuff since the 1970's. Next comes buildings set ablaze on purpose for the same reasons: to get out of an upside-down situation via insurance fraud. Evil days are upon us indeed.
  • implied, on 02/23/2009, -1/+5A trick is something a whore does for money.

    ... or CANDY!
  • Gr1mm, on 02/23/2009, -1/+3Come on!
  • winter360, on 02/23/2009, -1/+3looks more like a house boat than a yacht
  • implied, on 02/23/2009, -2/+4I just blue myself
  • GKang, on 02/24/2009, -0/+1guy works for NOAA the marine stewards of the US and on a national marine fisheries vessel?
  • tenmenkilled, on 02/23/2009, -3/+4What a downer.
  • CYCLEORDIE, on 02/23/2009, -2/+3Dug because that's how we do it in seattle.
  • srs2000, on 02/23/2009, -1/+2You sank my battleship.
  • elmuerte17, on 02/23/2009, -1/+2he used a drill to make holes? how did he think he wouldn't get caught there? run it up on some rocks or something... geez
  • layhooo, on 02/23/2009, -0/+1"This is a very rare, not common occurrence"

    Quoted from the article.
  • chadfaaborg, on 02/23/2009, -1/+2Too bad Marina Yacht Sales doesn't have Haundai's 'Loose Your Job - Return Your Yacht' program....
  • sarahes, on 02/23/2009, -1/+2One less yacht I'll have to look at when walking my dog...I'm down.
  • jba68, on 02/23/2009, -1/+1looked pretty sweet too, ***** why did you just sell it
  • microview2007, on 02/23/2009, -2/+2Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship.
  • Plower, on 02/23/2009, -2/+2That guy's financial troubles are goin down fast...
  • Fruit45, on 02/23/2009, -1/+1He's hit rock bottom
  • Christy18, on 02/23/2009, -1/+1It's an ILLUSION!
  • CYCLEORDIE, on 02/23/2009, -2/+1We're not ***** San Francisco (bay)
  • inactive, on 02/23/2009, -2/+1Brian Lewis's ass virginity would be lost.....virginity would be lost.....
  • sockpuppets, on 02/23/2009, -4/+2I sank my rubbie duckie. I just couldn't afford to keep feeding him.
  • LoudMusic, on 02/23/2009, -7/+6Insurance fraud happens all the time. Sinking a boat is not new, nor is it news.
  • kh99, on 02/23/2009, -2/+1Well yeah, but it sounds like he got mad and sunk it in a fit of anger, then later thought he should just try to get the insurance on it.
  • d2002, on 02/23/2009, -3/+1BWC where are YOU!
  • Projektorboy, on 02/23/2009, -4/+1NOT THE SEAWARD
  • inactive, on 02/23/2009, -6/+1OK so Does CNN stand for Communist News Network

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