Women and children first...after me that is: Captain Francesco Schettino (pronounced "isgettingoff?) certainly won't have impressed the beautiful lady he was drinking with for much of Friday night. The Captain of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship [quickly becoming
notorious] is now known to have abandoned the ship before most of the passengers and crew. What a complete c#nt. Click on image (copyright AP) to enlarge.
The coastguard who spotted him on shore apparently told him to "get back on the fucking ship." The fact that he needed a taxi to take him four hundred yards to a bar suggests that he knew what he'd down.
ResponderEliminarOn a lighter note somebody did suggest yesterday that as Michael Gove is so keen on Her Maj having a new ship they could give her this one!
Good ol' Coast guard! :-) What would be worse for the Captain, being found to be drunk or abandoning the ship early and being found to be drunk?
ResponderEliminarI expect the repairs would be less than a new Royal Yacht so a possibility, mind you it would be a bi big even for a royal entourage.