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Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« on: March 15, 2013, 12:05:58 PM »
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/15/nuclear-submarine-fire/1990663/

We will remember discussing this at the time.  He was sent to prison for 17 years and ordered to pay $ 400 million in restitution.  This should cover the cost of the overhaul.  I wonder when we can expect the check.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 12:40:47 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on March 15, 2013, 12:05:58 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/15/nuclear-submarine-fire/1990663/

We will remember discussing this at the time.  He was sent to prison for 17 years and ordered to pay $ 400 million in restitution.  This should cover the cost of the overhaul.  I wonder when we can expect the check.

He set a second fire later?  wtf?
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 12:47:21 PM »
They ought to put him up against a wall and shoot him for sabotage.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 01:04:41 PM »
I wonder how those "anxiety attacks" are going to play out in Club Fed.

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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2013, 03:45:20 PM »
Quote from: Boomhauer on March 15, 2013, 12:47:21 PM
They ought to put him up against a wall and shoot him for sabotage.

But then how would he pay back the 400 million???    =D
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 04:01:23 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on March 15, 2013, 03:45:20 PM
But then how would he pay back the 400 million???    =D
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2013, 05:41:28 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on March 15, 2013, 03:45:20 PM
But then how would he pay back the 400 million???    =D

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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2013, 06:20:09 PM »
Launch him out a torpedo tube  >:D
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2013, 06:25:15 PM »
he cost us 400mil, now he will be costing us 120k/year.  when does the payback start?
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2013, 06:27:52 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on March 15, 2013, 06:20:09 PM
Launch him out a torpedo tube  >:D

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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2013, 07:31:59 PM »
BS Sentence, they won't get ten thousand of the restitution. Charges should have been attempted murder and I'm not convinced that the hull is 100%, I'd keep the case open until the boat is razorblades since I think the guy would be culpable to any future loss of the boat that involved hull breach.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2013, 08:04:43 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on March 15, 2013, 06:20:09 PM
Launch him out a torpedo tube  >:D


Far too quick. By the time the tube was flooded and equalized he'd be dead.
Torpedoes are launch by impulsing the water filled tube with 3000 PSI air. All that would come out the tube would be chum.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2013, 08:56:10 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on March 15, 2013, 08:04:43 PM

Far too quick. By the time the tube was flooded and equalized he'd be dead.
Torpedoes are launch by impulsing the water filled tube with 3000 PSI air. All that would come out the tube would be chum.

I'm good with that.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2013, 12:14:04 PM »
I wouldn't want to ride in a sub whose hull had been subjected to all that heat.  I suspect there were some wackiness occurring at the waterline, where the water absobed a lot of the heat that the air would not.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2013, 01:22:34 PM »
Quote from: French G. on March 15, 2013, 07:31:59 PM
BS Sentence, they won't get ten thousand of the restitution. Charges should have been attempted murder* and I'm not convinced that the hull is 100%, I'd keep the case open until the boat is razorblades since I think the guy would be culpable to any future loss of the boat that involved hull breach.

*Should be sabotage.

And yeah, I wouldn't trust the pressure hull anymore either. Hate to say it, but better to just scrap the entire hull.  =|

Pull everything that can be pulled and use em for spares or install them into a new sub.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2013, 01:43:31 PM »
At the very least, they should take the arsonist down with them on the first post repair test dive  :P
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2013, 06:08:40 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on March 16, 2013, 01:43:31 PM
At the very least, they should take the arsonist down with them on the first post repair test dive  :P

strapped on the the outside of the hull? >:D
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2013, 06:19:03 PM »
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strapped on the the outside of the hull? >:D

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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2013, 08:30:40 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on March 16, 2013, 12:14:04 PM
I wouldn't want to ride in a sub whose hull had been subjected to all that heat.  I suspect there were some wackiness occurring at the waterline, where the water absobed a lot of the heat that the air would not.

I read somewhere that the plan was to replace a section of the pressure hull.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2013, 10:44:03 PM »

Honestly, not sure why they didn't toss in sabotage as well as attempted murder, arson, destruction of government property, etc.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2013, 11:08:27 PM »
I say attempted murder having been a team leader, scene leader and repair locker leader who would have to go in a confined space and make it stop burning.

The criminal not being an enemy agent I can't quite get on board with just shooting the guy but I'd go for some cruel and unusual punishment. Spend the next ten years in a collar and a leash on the sub cleaning toilets, floors, and just generally being the object of everyone's bad moods.
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2013, 11:16:00 AM »
Quote from: French G. on March 16, 2013, 11:08:27 PM
I say attempted murder having been a team leader, scene leader and repair locker leader who would have to go in a confined space and make it stop burning.

The criminal not being an enemy agent I can't quite get on board with just shooting the guy but I'd go for some cruel and unusual punishment. Spend the next ten years in a collar and a leash on the sub cleaning toilets, floors, and just generally being the object of everyone's bad moods.

Shackle him in the engineering space as a "radiation detector" ?   =|   >:D
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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #22 on: March 17, 2013, 12:42:43 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on March 17, 2013, 11:16:00 AM
Shackle him in the engineering space reactor core as a "radiation detector" carbon-based neutron absorber ?   =|   >:D

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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2013, 05:13:18 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on March 16, 2013, 10:44:03 PM
Honestly, not sure why they didn't toss in sabotage as well as attempted murder, arson, destruction of government property, etc.

Because this nation has gone soft.

We don't shoot spies and traitors anymore. Look at the Hassan debacle and how that trial is going.

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Re: Setting fire to a nuclear attack sub gets you 17 years
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2013, 09:30:59 PM »
Quote from: Boomhauer on March 17, 2013, 05:13:18 PM
Because this nation has gone soft.

We don't shoot spies and traitors anymore. Look at the Hassan debacle and how that trial is going.



But that was just an instance of workplace violence by a disgruntled employee.  [popcorn]
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