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by devogue » Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:20 pm
...remember this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ju ... ens-bodies
Divers searching sunken Russian tourist boat find up to 50 bodies in a recreation room – most of them children
The boast was carrying 50% more people than it was registered for, and it had a problem with its left engine. No doubt if health and safety officers in Britain had inspected the boat and shut it down the likes of Littlejohn would have sided with the poor owner whose business was being destroyed by red tape.
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by klr » Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:47 pm
50% over capacity
and a faulty engine.
Never mind the
Daily Hate Mail, let's see how
Russia Today tries to spin this one.
EDIT:
Prosecutors said the boat lacked a licence to carry passengers ...
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by Lozzer » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:38 pm
In Soviet Russia, boat sinks you!
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by klr » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:42 pm
Lozzer wrote:In Soviet Russia, boat sinks you!
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by Warren Dew » Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:03 pm
devogue wrote:No doubt if health and safety officers in Britain had inspected the boat and shut it down the likes of Littlejohn would have sided with the poor owner whose business was being destroyed by red tape.
The British health and safety officers inspect boats on Russian rivers?
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by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:19 pm
What does all of this have to do with
Health & Efficiency? Is the Daily Fail trying to demean an essential part of my adolescent degeneration? The bastits!
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by Nicko » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:43 am
I think that Devogue was pointing out that, whilst the
Fail may deride Britain's H&S regime, the absence of such a regime has consequences.
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by Rum » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:06 am
Nicko wrote:
I think that Devogue was pointing out that, whilst the
Fail may deride Britain's H&S regime, the absence of such a regime has consequences.
There is however a difference between criminal neglect and the bureaucratic nightmare that used to be the elfensafety industry, certainly here in the UK. One of the (very!) few things I agree with about our present government is their determination to rip up a lot of that bureaucracy.
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by mistermack » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:51 am
I think this is another case of getting what you deserve.
Not the victims, but Russians in general.
This boat was massively overloaded, it probably went out like that every day, but obviously people didn't vote with their feet, or complain enough.
Some things are more predictable than others, but 200 plus people loaded on that boat must have felt dicey to passengers long before this happened.
Maybe Russia is still suffering from an era when it was best not to complain. A national attitude that needs to change, to avoid more tragedies like this, and Chernobyl.
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