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		American Armed Forces fires upon Japanese ship in international waters (news.yahoo.com)		72
		More: Followup, U.S. military, Gulf of Alaska, Japanese, international waters, tsunamis

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kidgenius		2012-04-06 08:33:30 AM

Should be noted that this was an unarmed japenese ship!

ihatedumbpeople		2012-04-06 08:34:39 AM

thing is in pretty rough shape...looks like it's been floating around a whole lot longer than a year. Unless it was in shiat shape when it floated away that is...

GameSprocket		2012-04-06 08:35:08 AM

They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

Dick Gozinya		2012-04-06 08:36:31 AM

It was headed for a scrapyard when the tsunami hit, so yeah, it was in shiat shape for quite a while. Surprised it lasted this long.

Harry Freakstorm		2012-04-06 08:36:31 AM

Think it will come back as a spaceship?

cdn.gs.uproxx.com

Ahh! The Space Shrimp are attacking! Who will defend Earth?

You laugh but there was an episode of Alf - The Animated Adventures where a Space Shrimp did attack.

Slives		2012-04-06 08:37:40 AM

GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

Article said there was interest but it was deemed too dangerous to attempt to tow it someplace for salvage. I guess it is better to just sink it and add to the pollution rather than risk a life or two.

MindStalker		2012-04-06 08:37:59 AM

kidgenius: Should be noted that this was an unarmed japenese ship!

Yes, not even willing kamikazes.

The Bestest		2012-04-06 08:38:11 AM

GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

The original owners didn't want it (probably already written off) and all the salvage companies they contacted deemed it not worth it.

Dino Zaffina's M		2012-04-06 08:39:51 AM

Ooooo! Target practice!

Arkanaut		2012-04-06 08:40:16 AM

They should just send a 16-year-old courier with a vagina dentata.

sulco		2012-04-06 08:40:21 AM

Figured they'd come up with another way to stop the illegal whaling.

MindStalker		2012-04-06 08:40:22 AM

Slives: GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

Article said there was interest but it was deemed too dangerous to attempt to tow it someplace for salvage. I guess it is better to just sink it and add to the pollution rather than risk a life or two.

Assuming they took chemicals off first it doesn't "add to the pollution." Ships like that become reefs and breeding grounds are are hugely beneficial.

Oldiron_79		2012-04-06 08:40:29 AM

kidgenius: Should be noted that this was an unarmed japenese ship!

Yeah, but its not Black, so Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton aren't gonna be biatching about it.

gingerjet		2012-04-06 08:42:36 AM

GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

One Canadian company tried but couldn't get control of it - so they said fark it.

6655321		2012-04-06 08:42:37 AM

McHale's Navy Ensign Charles Parker was the fire control officer. How may times did he shoot down the same plane/sink the same boat?

chuggernaught		2012-04-06 08:42:40 AM

Heard about it a week ago when it was in Canadian waters. The Canadians contacted the Japanese owners and were trying to determine if they wanted it back, if it should be towed in, or if hazardous material should be taken off and the ship sunk.

Meanwhile, it floats into American waters and what do we do? Blow that thing to Hell!

/It's time we acted the way Americans act best! Unilaterally!
/close enough.

prekrasno		2012-04-06 08:42:58 AM

Is this a repeat from 1945?

Witchyman		2012-04-06 08:46:11 AM

I bet those douches from Whale Wars are masturbating like crazy this morning.

The Voice of Doom		2012-04-06 08:47:15 AM

Arkanaut
They should just send a 16-year-old courier with a vagina dentata.

First picture looks like they made it listen to Reason instead.

farkityfarker		2012-04-06 08:47:32 AM

America's habit of sinking unwanted ships is polluting the world's oceans.

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired		2012-04-06 08:48:09 AM

prekrasno: Is this a repeat from 1945?

More like payback

Syphilis_Smile		2012-04-06 08:50:26 AM

Slives: GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

Article said there was interest but it was deemed too dangerous to attempt to tow it someplace for salvage. I guess it is better to just sink it and add to the pollution rather than risk a life or two.

Just sending that scrap back to the waters it originally oxidized out of. Recycling at its finest!

aNihilV10L8tr		2012-04-06 08:57:48 AM

sulco: Figured they'd come up with another way to stop the illegal whaling.

relevant link (new window)

MooseUpNorth		2012-04-06 09:04:22 AM

MindStalker: Assuming they took chemicals off first it doesn't "add to the pollution." Ships like that become reefs and breeding grounds are are hugely beneficial.

If by first taking off the chemicals you mean that they sank it knowing there was somewhere between empty and 8000 liters of diesel on board, then yes, they took the chemicals off first.

bbfreak		2012-04-06 09:10:08 AM

This was the best solution to the problem. It couldn't be salvaged safely, and would of had more of an environment impact if it had wrecked on the shore like it eventually would have.

crispyone		2012-04-06 09:18:10 AM

As opposed to actual headline

"Coast Guard fires cannons on Japanese Ghost Ship" that was on AP news earlier today?

rfronk		2012-04-06 09:26:38 AM

A Japanese civilian vessel sunken off of the coast of Alaska, riddled with large caliber rounds?

This is going to confuse the hell out of some scientist 300 years from now.

vudukungfu		2012-04-06 09:28:38 AM

GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Back in the 1970s, the big economic problem for the steel industry was that Japan was starting to drop cheap steel on us here in the USA.
Looks like they are getting sneakier.
Inscrutible, if you will.

WelldeadLink		2012-04-06 09:30:28 AM

Bravo, subby!

Oh, there's actual discussion? Well, the ship was swept out to sea while it was waiting its turn at a Japanese scrap yard -- which explains why nobody was on board.

Whoa, there's shimp?

lack of warmth		2012-04-06 09:31:38 AM

As long as the USS Arizona rest on the bottom so shall japanese ships. Japan should surrender again and we will send a general right over to run things for a few years before he decides to run for president.

/we like 'ike
//just not that much

GameSprocket		2012-04-06 09:32:27 AM

Slives: GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

Article said there was interest but it was deemed too dangerous to attempt to tow it someplace for salvage. I guess it is better to just sink it and add to the pollution rather than risk a life or two.

Well, if the fuel was gone it will make a good reef.

leevis		2012-04-06 09:32:47 AM

They ruined a perfectly good slideshow of a sinking ship with tsunami pics.

AtlanticCoast63		2012-04-06 09:39:09 AM

...Should point out (without intending ANY disrespect to the USCG) that it took 'em FIVE HOURS to sink it with a 25mm chain gun....

/If these guys are going to do their jobs, they need heavier firepower

Wade_Wilson		2012-04-06 09:39:21 AM

Harry Freakstorm: Think it will come back as a spaceship?

[cdn.gs.uproxx.com image 640x480]

Ahh! The Space Shrimp are attacking! Who will defend Earth?

You laugh but there was an episode of Alf - The Animated Adventures where a Space Shrimp did attack.

No, I laugh because someone other than me remembers Alf - The Animated Adventures.

Mykeru		2012-04-06 09:40:24 AM

Meh, the Japanese are pretty used to us sinking the hell out of their ships.

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/Amirite?

hp6sa		2012-04-06 09:46:26 AM

Photo 11 (new window)

Dammit Coke - this isn't American Idol, you don't get your product placement everywhere

Skyd1v		2012-04-06 09:47:14 AM

Was just watching this on the local news. Apparently there was up to 1,000 gallons of diesel on board, but the EPA gave the go ahead to sink it because the environmental effect would be greatly reduced if they did it in open waters rather than risk it grounding on a beach somewhere.

Plus...you have an armed cutter and a big floating target. What else you gonna do?

abhorrent1		2012-04-06 09:50:19 AM

GameSprocket: They couldn't figure out a way to salvage it?

Seems like a huge waste.

ANother article this morning said it was scheduled to be scrapped anyway. Must have washed away from a scrap yard.

kendelrio		2012-04-06 09:50:39 AM

rfronk: A Japanese civilian vessel sunken off of the coast of Alaska, riddled with large caliber rounds?

This is going to confuse the hell out of some scientist 300 years from now.

This made me lerff owt lowed.

jtown		2012-04-06 10:01:57 AM

Wow, that takes me back. Been a while since an American military vessel has attacked an unarmed Japanese merchant vessel.

Molavian		2012-04-06 10:05:17 AM

They couldn't get a Navy sub to ram it?

Satanic_Hamster		2012-04-06 10:06:09 AM

Bah. Submitted this with a ghost ship joke.

Wonder why they decided to use a Coast Guard cutter with a bushmaster to sink it? I mean, I know the Coast Guard's job is to do this, but with the size of the ship, I would have thought they would have said "fark it" and let a Navy jet or sub use it for target practice.

wombatoftruth		2012-04-06 10:09:26 AM

Arkanaut: They should just send a 16-year-old courier with a vagina dentata.

Is that a Snow Crash reference?

denbroc		2012-04-06 10:15:49 AM

At the present rate of Ghost Ship Sinking it is not clear that some of the best seaside property will be in the Dallas Metroplex?

Gleeman		2012-04-06 10:16:18 AM

Arkanaut: They should just send a 16-year-old courier with a vagina dentata.

My interest, you has it?

AtlanticCoast63: ...Should point out (without intending ANY disrespect to the USCG) that it took 'em FIVE HOURS to sink it with a 25mm chain gun....

/If these guys are going to do their jobs, they need heavier firepower

Really: the USN would have shot it full of 5", dropped a few bombs and a harpoon on it from the air, then finished off with a Mk48 torpedo.

They could have at least sent one of the bigger cutters with a 76mm gun, but they probably couldn't afford the ammo

www.motifake.com

DPSturm		2012-04-06 10:23:16 AM

Mykeru: Meh, the Japanese are pretty used to us sinking the hell out of their ships.

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/Amirite?

and down goes the Akagi

Arkanaut		2012-04-06 10:25:25 AM

wombatoftruth: Arkanaut: They should just send a 16-year-old courier with a vagina dentata.

Is that a Snow Crash reference?

I figured, hulk of a ship floating on the Pacific Gyre from Japan to US waters, that kinda works, right?

balfourk		2012-04-06 10:25:56 AM

I'm sure there was an Air National Gaurd base with A-10's in the area that would have loved to practice gun runs with the Vulcan cannon on that thing. The footage of that would have been just as much fun to watch.

jtown		2012-04-06 10:27:50 AM

wombatoftruth: Arkanaut: They should just send a 16-year-old courier with a vagina dentata.

Is that a Snow Crash reference?

No.

MythDragon		2012-04-06 10:30:03 AM

chuggernaught: Heard about it a week ago when it was in Canadian waters. The Canadians contacted the Japanese owners and were trying to determine if they wanted it back, if it should be towed in, or if hazardous material should be taken off and the ship sunk.

Meanwhile, it floats into American waters and what do we do? Blow that thing to Hell!

/It's time we acted the way Americans act best! Unilaterally!
/close enough.

Well, to be fair, we did radio two warnings that they would be fired on if they entered our waters, and to respond if they needed assistance. We even gave another chance after they crossed into our sea-space, and again, they didn't respond. We are not going to take the chance that there might be hostile intent on the part of the ship. It has over 1000 gallons of weapons-grade diesel on board. Do you have any idea of what kind of damage that could do?

Besides, what the hell else are we supposed to do with those big-ass guns? (Big ass-guns, I know)

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