Do I smell a cover up?
Well, it finally happened. After all the close calls a BC ferry finally sank. The Queen of the North rules no longer. I can't say that I'm all that surprised. Being that the fleet is 40 years old give or take a few years, who could be? I'm just more than a little surprised at the excuse. And that's what it is, an excuse, not a reason. I just can't believe that this ferry hit a rock in a stretch of water it has been traversing for decades. It seems a little mysterious to me. It seems like an excuse to cover a major failure on their part. Maybe not, but it's just not adding up correctly in my mind.
posted by Jenevieve @ 10:00 PM
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We have a rule in Computers, Hanlon's or Heinlein's law, and it goes a little like this: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
What part of this says Cover Up vs just plain old greed, stupidity and negligence? I'm thinking we match up a newby pilot, a cheapo GPS and a company thinking that a water highway system can be maintained independently outside of a federal-scale highways organization, and suddenly we have accidents all over the place.
Every time we sail the water highways for thrice the price, times where our cars don't end up as expensive pulloting reef projects, that's a good day.
I'm now taking odds until the first rail acciden---hey, wait a minute: didn't we already have one there, too?
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