Claim: Rich Russians bought lifeboat space on Costa Concordia
And you thought Wall Streeters made conspicuous use of their wealth.
Now there are reports that rich Russian passengers paid cash _ lots of cash _ to obtain space on lifeboats as the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia was sinking.
“Italian officials have reportedly taken evidence from other cruise passengers that the expensively-dressed holidaymakers stuffed wads of cash into the hands of eager crewmen to secure an early seat as the holed ship began to capsize,” according to a dispatch in The Sun.
Women and children first?
Nyet!
Prosecutors are on the probe.
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6 comments Add your comment
BJohnDawg
January 24th, 2012
9:58 am
Like a scene out of the movie 2012.
Michael
January 24th, 2012
11:24 am
That’s what the money’s for.
Ivan
January 24th, 2012
11:55 am
Do svidanya b*tches.
francisco sarrias
January 24th, 2012
1:11 pm
It is interesting how this catastrophe relates to the Titanic and Columbia Shuttle, both of them were also caused by a chain of bad human decisions.
I recommend you this book that explains what happened there and it gives some clues of what could be going on the Costa Concordia:
http://www.amazon.com/Iceberg-Sighted-Decision-Making-Techniques-ebook/dp/B0064AS8CM
Farouk
January 24th, 2012
1:30 pm
Well this should come as no surprise since everything else imaginable went wrong in that clusterf##k. Wouldn’t want to be Carnival’s insurance carrier, the lawsuits are gonna be huge not to mention the submerged ship.
Big John
January 25th, 2012
3:32 pm
The darn ship was only a few hundred yards from shore ! Don’t Russians know how to swim ?