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  • OPMT, on 10/11/2007, -3/+67woah nelly!
    • weeeezzll, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Dayum! Someone got fired! lol

      those containers on the bottom right are practically flat...lol
    • stupergenius, on 10/11/2007, -16/+48That's what happens when Chuck Norris flaps his wings in a rain forest in Brazil.
      • Netrilix, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12The butterfly effect theory combined with a Chuck Norris joke? I'll digg ya up for it.
    • GliTCH82, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17"Warning: Contents may have shifted during shipping."

      Edit: Wow, I guess I should read descriptions from now on.
    • Tunguska, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Pasha Bulker fellow Aussies?
    • al28p, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1someones hyundai just got mashed
  • MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -7/+211Sorry guys, your going to have to wait for your iPhones.
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+212Classic storm damaged ship. Anyway here's some more pics of the accident:

    http://i19.tinypic.com/66tqi5d.gif
    http://i15.tinypic.com/5418gt2.gif
    http://i18.tinypic.com/6cx124j.gif
    http://i11.tinypic.com/4y68wev.gif

    Images mirrored are from this horribly-designed webpage, which has more information about the ship and the accident if you're interested: http://www.cargolaw.com/2007nightmare_ital.florida.html
    • Dradis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I'll save people the cataracts and post the story from the awful site:

      PROLOG >> M/V Ital Florida made her maiden call at Hong Kong on April 20 2007. But the beginning of a busy career was interupted by a "Stack Attack" between June 16 & 19 2007.

      Was this problem the result of improper lashing securing, bad weather or both?
      Michael S. McDaniel - Your Editor

      From The Cargo Letter - June 23 2007 -- Container Vessel In Jeopardy

      New container M/V Ital Florida lost at least three fully loaden containers in severe seas between June 16 & 19 in the Arabian Sea. The ship faced wave heigths of 7-10 m height. M/V Ital Florida was running with almost 16 knots. The ship's deck also suffered storm damage.
    • FatalTragedy316, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Even worse than the epileptic color scheme is the site's only joke: "Ship Happens!"
      • sybarite, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5And I love how they think a copyright symbol will protect it as a trademark...
    • houndeyex, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Wow, that site is horrible. Giving people seizures can't be good for business, especially for The Law Offices of Countryman & McDaniel.
    • netdroid9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It doesn't look that bad. Until you scroll down.
      • osullivanbr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Or to phrase it another way, it doesn't look that bad until you look at it.
    • splendid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4mmm photos saved in GIF format, my favourite...
  • Lane, on 10/11/2007, -2/+55Dear Pirates: Please pull up to board starboard; thank you.
  • bradallen18, on 10/11/2007, -5/+93"I told you to get the shipping insurance! it was only $9.00"
    • cjpro, on 10/11/2007, -13/+3It's $9.00? CRAP! I paid $18,000 for shipping insurance. I gotta call my lawyer...and my accountant...and the local funeral home.
  • a1a04824, on 10/11/2007, -7/+92Those poor chinese people that were being smuggled in the containers. I wonder if they had enough barf bags to go around....
    • tw0bit, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8more like body bags...but seriously i work in a warehouse and we pack boxes. if this happened to our little cardboard boxes, we would be mad...let alone massive METAL ones probably filled with many many cardboard boxes...or maybe even cars...ouch......
  • acid0426, on 10/11/2007, -2/+255 bucks green one falls first.
  • BlackAle, on 10/11/2007, -29/+2I really hope that's photoshopped
  • HumanRecall, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3No wonder the Nintendo Wii is held up and Nintendo admitted it's shortage for the fiscal Year during Xmas 07

    They have to make more as they were all horribly crushed -Wii's to peas :)
    • phoenix78, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5I hate it when my wii gets crushed.
      • asforme, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Stooped, but on digg an out loud chuckle deserves a digg.
  • AWBoy666, on 10/11/2007, -4/+96Now THIS is an interesting picture of an accident:

    http://www.cargolaw.com/images/Disaster2007.Marquis2.GIF

    Look in the upper right corner of the ship......YEEHAW!!!
  • SteelFrog, on 10/11/2007, -5/+71YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
    • charlesroldan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It looks like an unsuccessful barrel roll...
    • SirSwiftblu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Rules 1&2 at both of you. No moar.
  • deff, on 10/11/2007, -20/+14So that's what happened to my Chinese sex slave...
  • iamdw, on 10/11/2007, -14/+1How about a comment thread for your immediate reaction after viewing?

    /me "Holy *****" eyes bugged out
  • ufia, on 10/11/2007, -4/+57This is what UPS would do to your containers if you wrote "fragile" on it.
    • cjpro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I got a package via UPS once of a chair that had fragile printed on the front. Found a couple holes that the parts punctured in it during shipping.
    • murakume, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29I logged in just to reply to this as I work at UPS just to say this.

      To everyone who has every shipped a Dell computer through UPS, I say, "Sorry" on behalf of the entire company. Be glad we lost their business. To be honest though, at least in the hub I work at, it isn't the workers, it's how the supervisors care about nothing except production, they will yell at us to shove anything and everything onto the belts. We don't mean to break your *****, we try to be careful, we really do.

      The fact of the matter is, they try to shove an entire trailers worth of boxes onto a narrow conveyor belt and then they get pushed down a slide and then stacked ontop of eachother. They get broken in transit between areas most of the time, no because of us workers. Yes, there are assholes who will break your *****, but just know, not all of us are dicks.
      • mtheoryx83, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4Let me get this straight. You are a worker. The workers handle the boxes. The workers are the ones with their hands on the boxes. But it's not the workers' fault. It's the supervisors. Even though the supervisors are not handling the boxes.

        Is it just me, or does this sound like the exact same gripe you hear from every worker about their supervisors?
    • RickySan65, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Sad but true
    • endlessoul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Tell me about it. I get UPS deliveries a few times a month and they come without a scratch on them.

      The _one_ package I get that says FRAGILE on every side and it comes to me beat up. Thank god for packing peanuts.
    • ieatsmurfs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2i used to load packages onto trucks for UPS and I can assure you the word fragile never ment a thing to us.
  • HumanRecall, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1Was this the ship caring Dr. Doom at the end of Fantastic Four
  • XStatic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+37Smile and wave boys, smile and wave....
  • matthewf01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35Photographer, probably not a great place to have stopped your boat...
    http://i18.tinypic.com/6cx124j.gif
  • HA5TY, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4Stupid Flordians
    • Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Hey, stop generalizing! Just because they're old doesn't mean they're stupid!
      • adage, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0It appears that he is talking about people from Florda, not Florida.
  • Light11, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8there goes your plasma tv!
  • Cink420, on 10/11/2007, -1/+55Is it wrong that when I see those I think Half Life 2???
    • HA5TY, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2Yes
    • woodcoxcb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7First thing I thought of.
    • Chairmonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I thought the exact same thing.
    • lukeydukey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+34Somebody toss me a gravity gun, I have to go fix this mess.
    • StephenCIreland, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7the combine will have somethin to say about this
  • m4rk0551, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2The leaning containers of Florida.
  • yingjai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+39How did the green container on the far right stay on the ship? If each container is locked to one another, then that link must be pretty strong.
  • cfd339, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22The worlds biggest JENGA game!
  • phantoms5000, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Timberrrr!
  • mikesay98, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Looks like we'll be getting a fresh shipment of 99ยข store products soon!
  • XxERMxX, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Funny part is, 1/2 the sealands were probobly filled with stolen cars and old matresses.
  • pagemaster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15I heard a story about one of these ships dropping a container of new BMW motorcycles into the ocean in an accident. The containers fell out just far enough out to be in international water. Well a couple guys went to the trouble of finding and surfacing the container. They were required to pay some sort of tax on what they got a the cost of the removal and shipping but they made quite a bit of money in profit when they sold the bikes.
  • primetime75, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7when i moved to germany...i lost a crate of furniture in the ocean...you'd think they'd figure out a better way by now
    • junegor, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0why in the first place you moved to germany?
      • OffPiste, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Must be military. The whole system of shipping goods to Europe is crazy. We think we have crime in America, but it shrinks in comparison to how much stuff gets stolen by Europeans from US service members. Guns, DVDs stereo equipment are the biggest things stolen. Most military members have stuff stolen during their careers during these moves. As the saying goes, if an Italian or a Turk shows up to pack your household goods, kiss your stuff goodbye.
  • Conwaysb0718, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Hello new wallpaper!
  • TumbleDown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Our next port of call...The Bay of BigLots!
  • KiTchMe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29Obviously, those green containers are not made to obey laws of physics.
    • Gectow, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2or maybe they were filled with helium or hydrogen?
      • chedabob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I guess you failed High School chemistry?
      • Stephenishere, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1well they do have big locks on the bottom of each container, locking them all together prevents stuff like this happening. I cant remember right but they might even weld them together
  • chlyon, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Red containers where made in China ? ,

  • flaflashr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15One of the oddities of maritime law state that *all parties who had cargo on that ship* will pay for the damage and/or loss to the other cargo, the containers and the ship. It's called General Average. Those who bought marine insurance are off the hook, but their insurance companies will pay. Those who did not will be out of pocket! Here's a bit more of an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_average
    • jamesmusik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Your own link says that the law of general averages only applies in cases of voluntary jettison of cargo to save the ship, which obviously didn't happen here.
  • jmbarbera, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Harbor Freight, here we come!
  • Drewboy64, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16"Captin! She can't hold out much longer!"
  • LEPT0N, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4dugg down for lack of witty cat based caption
    • StephenCIreland, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2OMFG !!!!! Cheezeburger in big waters, walrus has cheeseburger
  • Michas, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2That ship is enormous, how they control the ship? Simply. They Can't!
    • hassanchop13, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Samuel L. Jackson, cover this one for me:

      "ENGLISH *****! DO YOU SPEAK IT?"
  • BloKKem, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5So thats why the Xbox360's are ***** up.

  • geoffpado, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Looks like something out of the movie Idiocracy.
  • OceanOfSound, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0The Joker: "Have you shipped a million of those things?"
    Scientist at Axis Chemicals: "Yes sir!"
    The Joker: "Ship 'em ALL! We're gonna take 'em out a WHOLE NEW DOOR! ..."
  • fanclerks, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1"Left damnit! Left!"
  • P5ycHo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Never rent a red or blue container.
    • Katana314, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Shoulda just said 'red' for the star trek reference.



      Redshirts...
    • Jadael, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Green is apparently the way to go.
  • bytecolor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Looks like excellent, real world data to feed an FEM simulation.
  • Blacky, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Looks like that boat installed the leopard beta to play with stacks.
  • warzer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1How do those top containers not fall over? I thought they were just stacked. the gray piece on top seems to relate to this as to why, but can some one explain it?
    • graderguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4each container is locked to the one below it and the bottom one is locked to the deck of the ship. Pretty good sized posts and pins hold them, but each of those containers can hold up to 30,000## (or more) if I'm not mistaken. whatever the exact weight it, is substantial. then multiply it by the height of the stack and you are dealing with some serious tonnage! I actually had a container on a ship that had a similar, though not as dramatic, incident in South Africa. Thankfully, my junk was okay, just delayed. I was delighted with that because somehow my freight forwarder had neglected to insure the cargo! Since then that is the first question I ask "Is it insured, and show me the proof!"


  • Humbert, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2This is due to a phenomenon called "parametric roll" that large container ships are prone to. Preventing such occurrences is a problem in automatic control design for ships.
  • ChrisGranger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1"Fragile. Handle with Care."
  • tjmcmullin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2You think that is interesting? You should see how most of your passenger aircraft get loaded... =
  • K3ITHK, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Whats wrong? Seems fine to me.
  • Disease, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1This reminds me of Garry's Mod
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