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Abandoned cruise ship filled with cannibal rats headed for British shore

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  1. JuanValdez

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    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...l-rats-headed-british-shore-article-1.1588832

    [rquoter]Abandoned cruise ship filled with cannibal rats headed for British shore

    The Lyubov Orlova has been detected off the coast of Scotland. Its only passengers are demented, disease-ridden rats feeding off each other.

    An abandoned cruise liner teeming with inbred cannibal rats is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean and possibly about to run aground on Britain’s coastline, according to a new report.

    The Lyubov Orlova has been drifting east from Canadian waters since last year.

    Newly detected beacons off the dilapidated vessel’s rescue boats indicate it is was recently off the west coast of Scotland, raising concerns it could run ashore there, along the west coast of Ireland or the southern tip of England, according to The Sun.

    Salvage hunters are keen to find the dilapidated 300-foot ghost ship that can carry 110 passengers because it is estimated to be worth nearly $1 million.

    But once aboard, the scrappers will face unimaginable horror: a demented, disease-ridden population of rats that have been feeding on each other and breeding.

    "There will be a lot of rats, and they eat each other,” Belgian-based salvage hunter Pim de Rhoodes told the tabloid. “If I get aboard, I'll have to lace everywhere with poison."

    The ship was built in 1976 and primarily toured Antarctic waters. It was abandoned in a Canadian harbor in Sept. 2010 by its indebted owners.

    In January of last year it was sold to the Dominican Republic for scrap, but the tow line broke while en route. After harnessing the ship again, the Canadian government elected to cut it loose in international waters, saying it posed no threat to other vessels or offshore oil drilling platforms.

    But the Irish coast guard chief Chris Reynolds said the danger is real.

    “There have been huge storms in recent months, but it takes a lot to sink a vessel as big as that,” he told The Sun. “We must stay vigilant.”[/rquoter]

    Folks, this is real.
     
    #1 JuanValdez, Jan 23, 2014
  2. Nick

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    And how do they know about the rats?

    Reminds me of the scene from the latest Bond movie...

    "My grandmother had an island when I was a boy. Nothing to boast of. You could walk along it in an hour. But still, it was - it was a paradise for us. One summer, we came for a visit and discovered the whole place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and had gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum, and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait. The rats come for the coconut, and... [imitates metallic scuttering.] They fall into the drum, and after a month, you've trapped all the rats. But what did you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, then one by one... [imitates rat munching sound.] They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what - do you kill them? No. You take them, and release them into the trees. Only now, they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they will only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors; this is what she made us."
     
    #2 Nick, Jan 23, 2014
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  3. B-Bob

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    EDIT: Nick beat me to the question.
     
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  4. SwoLy-D

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    OH, RATS. :(

    Canadian, eh? Rats...

    [​IMG]
     
    #4 SwoLy-D, Jan 23, 2014
  5. Haymitch

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    I thought of Javier Bardem in Skyfall as well.

    Anyway, I'm sure they could turn this into a reality show of some kind. Maybe have 3 teams of 5 people with minimal supplies who must locate the boat and kill off the rats using only rusty machetes. I'd watch it.
     
    #5 Haymitch, Jan 23, 2014
  6. Mr. Brightside

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    They should blow it up before it reaches land sort of like Bruce Willis (in the 1998 classic) movie Armageddon.
     
    #6 Mr. Brightside, Jan 23, 2014
  7. Ziggy

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    Let these rats loose in the city so they eat the other rats and you get less of a rat problem.
     
    #7 Ziggy, Jan 23, 2014
  8. Buck Turgidson

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    Round up cats from shelters and drop them onboard...solves 2 problems.
     
    #8 Buck Turgidson, Jan 23, 2014
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    I'm half-expecting them to discover just one rat left once they get on board.....

    [​IMG]
     
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  10. B-Bob

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    I think I would prefer this to a cruise liner full of people and backed-up toilets.
     
    #10 B-Bob, Jan 23, 2014
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    Bring that boat my way. I'll stop at Home Depot and turn that ish into a 5 star experience.
     
    #11 cheke64, Jan 23, 2014
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    It was probably a 5-star experience before desertion! It was an Arctic/Antarctic cruise vessel and they are pretty much like floating hotels for people on adventure holidays. Crazy that a ship can be abandoned to float around like that and not have to be scuttled.
     
    #12 srrm, Jan 23, 2014
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    Have none of you, especially those in Katy, evacuated yet?! THE DANGER IS REAL!!!!!!!!!!
     
    #13 leroy, Jan 23, 2014
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    Nuke from orbit.
     
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    On board that ship is where they should film the next season of Survivor. I'm sure they could use it for some kind of reality show.
     
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    Trade it for that stash of p*rn DVD's? :grin:
     
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  17. Yonkers

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    Anyone think of Dishonored?

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uQyl0ammNac" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
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    Anyone think of 1984, by George Orwell?
     
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  19. DaDakota

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    It will turn away, British food sucks.

    DD
     
    #19 DaDakota, Jan 23, 2014
  20. Two Sandwiches

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    Round and round. What goes around, comes around, Canada.
     
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