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Fears that a drifting Russian cruise vessel, full of rats, could reach UK shores
An abandoned cruise ship allegedly brimming with cannibal rats, which has been drifting in the Atlantic Ocean for around 12 months might end up in the shores of Great Britain. According to experts, the Russian liner Lyubov Orlova that once carried 100 passengers, might drift on the west coast of Cornwall, Scotland, or Ireland. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesToo. Many. Jokes……..
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds like the plot for a cheap horror movie.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Unless there was a large and accessible supply of non-perishable food onboard, there is no way rats could have survived this long. If there were no other food sources, cannibalism would have cut the population in half every week or so. It is also unlikely that they would have access to fresh water often enough to meet their survival requirements.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds like a job for the Royal Navy's new 45, testing their weapon systems.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm amazed by the irresponsibility of the Canadian government. They cut it loose and made it some other randomly chosen country's problem.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fortunately the salvagers will pounce before it becomes a wreck on some coastline.
This was a 'joke' article on CNN last week.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the RGs could use it for their Navy - at least it floats!
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hahaha. Lol. This story has been floating about for a while. The British Prime Minister's office spokesmen made a joke abut it last week. I have to say my mind is just reeling with jokes and bad puns. The story is a bit of a non-starter. The ship hasn't been spotted and is just as likely to be off Iceland, or Norway as Scotland.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0It would make good target practice for the Royal Navy's latest submarines.
This was in the news several months ago.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0At the rate it was drifting on the Gulfstream, it should have reached Europe, before last Christmas, if it were still afloat.
Surely a satellite could give its precise location if it IS still afloat.
l'm sure a friendly submarine would have sunk it in very deep water as it is/was a menace to shipping(plus the rats!).
They should have saved this one for April 1st.
So l sincerely hope that its been sunk.
3 mcarling (#)
Jan 28th, 2014 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:12 am
Perhaps it's just one giant cannibal rat that's left now and caught nibbling on its own foot............
@2 i believe there is a horror movie called Ghost Ship about this very subject.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0like the movie though, this story is not true. it is believed to have sunk last year.
Can't they find it on Google Maps?
Jan 28th, 2014 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Doesn't the Argentine navy need this sort of vessel?
Jan 28th, 2014 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Sounds like the plot for a cheap horror movie.”
Jan 28th, 2014 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yes.
poor innocent rats, they will face 60 million brits.
the horror, the horror...
@14 You could have made so many witty comments but that is the best you can do. You are just not up to the job.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm pretty sure that, if it is still afloat, they won't necesarily have drained off all toxic liquids like fuel and oil. That makes it a bit of an envornmental hazrd (not a massive one, but a leak is a leak). If it is still afloat it'll need boarding to some extent before sinking. I'd like to see the footage if anyone does decide to use it for target practice :D
Jan 28th, 2014 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mercopress knows perfectly well where it is as the rats have been replaced by trolls and post regularly
Jan 28th, 2014 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Soon to enter service with the Argentine Navy as the ARA Lyubov Orlova...
Jan 28th, 2014 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0apparently its looking for the pied piper..
Jan 28th, 2014 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if Lord Lucan has been sighted on it, he's been seen everywhere else!
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 014 paulcedron
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“poor innocent rats, they will face 60 million brits.”
Where as, if the ship ran aground in argentina those “cannibal rats” would go un-noticed.
They would just be adding to the existing implanted population, would they not?
Welcome home rodents!
Jan 29th, 2014 - 03:41 am - Link - Report abuse 022 Marcos Albatross
Jan 29th, 2014 - 06:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Welcome home rodents!”
LOL, great “own goal”, Marcos !!
Actually, the
“ rudderless drifting obsolete, vessel, on a course to nowhere, filled with starving cannibalistic rats”
is just an analogy for an Argentina with nobody at the helm and unable to pay for food or oil.
As the Joker said (probably talking about Argentina) “When the chips are down, these uh, these ”civilized people,“ they'll eat each other.”
Jan 29th, 2014 - 07:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sea Shepherd should commandeer it - it'd be right up their street for the places they sail. No more a pile of junk than their other vessels.
Jan 29th, 2014 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0The ship should be either sunk ...
Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or....?
Jan 29th, 2014 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thanks,
Jan 30th, 2014 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0or it should be salvaged, apparently salvage companies are already looking for it..
@7 @13 @18
Jan 30th, 2014 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes could this be apprehended by the Argies? A new flagship-UK craps itself with fright-because it floats, apparently.
mind you,
Jan 30th, 2014 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we could tow it to the south Atlantic,
and sink it just of Argentinian shoreline,
after all, it would give the rats a chance..lol
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