Originally Posted by
alarkyokie
The A/C announced the closure rate as we approached the trawler, and as we passed over the boomer dropped the pipe and off-loaded a thousand lbs.
of JP4!
He came over the intercom and said," I don't know what happened, Cap'n,
but we just lost a thousand lbs. of gas!"
Everyone on board got a chuckle, and the Soviet swabbies got a JP4 shower!
(Sorry, no pics-just a hazy flashback to the late '70's..)
Hmmm.... As much as the stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me, I find this hard to believe. The boys up front would have had to flip on a pump to offload the gas, so this couldn't have been the boomer's doing by himself. If this is a true story, it's no wonder everyone else in the world thinks we're A-holes.
