Gulf Oil Cap back in place / Cleanup worker commits suicide? - Polidicks

[quote]A containment cap over the underwater gusher in the Gulf of Mexico resumed siphoning oil and gas to a surface vessel Wednesday night, according to BP. The cap was removed Wednesday morning after an undersea robot accidentally bumped a vent on the device, shutting it off and forcing the company to remove it at 9:45 a.m. BP said the device was reinstalled and functioning again by 8 p.m. The delay in containment efforts came after a day of record crude collection from the cap system. After the underwater collision Wednesday morning, BP noticed "a discharge of liquids" rising through the vent that prohibits hydrates or ice-like crystals from forming in the cap, said Adm. Thad Allen, the government's response manager. Allen said BP removed the cap at 9:45 a.m. to analyze the liquids and to check for hydrates, which could block oil from reaching the surface vessel collecting the gushing crude. Meanwhile two people involved in the oil disaster response were reported to have died in Alabama, Allen said. According to the Baldwin County Coroner's office, William Allen Kruse, a 55-year-old boat captain working on clean up, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the wheelhouse of his boat. The Gulf Shores Police Department is investigating the death, though Coroner Stan Vinson said "at this time we have no reason to believe there is any foul play involved." The other death was described by Allen as a swimming accident.[/quote] [URL]http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/23/gulf.oil.disaster/index.html?hpt=T1[/URL]

Yeah I heard about this, I don't understand why you would commit suicide over a oil spill. He was cleaning it up and not involved with it happening too.

Why would he commit suicide?

First robot suicide.

I guess he couldn't take the crude pressure he was under.

[quote=explodingguy;22843002]i guess he couldn't take the crude pressure he was under.[/quote] haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw.

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;22843002]I guess he couldn't take the crude pressure he was under.[/QUOTE] I think you got your puns mixed up.

No foul play my ass, it was a cover-up. :tinfoil:

Good about the cap. I sort of expected it to mean the plan totally failed like all the other plans, but I guess if I actually thought about it more I'd realize that it should be replaceable.

I guess you could say that wasn't too [I]slick[/I] of him.

Ya know, I actually have to give BP a thumbs-up. They fixed the cap really fast. But it WAS their fault in the first place, so whatever.

How was it "fast"?

[QUOTE=JDK721;22843120]I guess you could say that wasn't too [I]slick[/I] of him.[/QUOTE] He was just slick of life.

Why are news puns not bannable? This shit is just not funny.

Obama shot them.

So the worker 'capped himself off over an oil spill? Jesus, I don't mean to sound crude, but he's a fucking idiot.

[QUOTE=Penguiin;22843685]Why are news puns not bannable? This shit is just not funny.[/QUOTE] It's one of the main reasons I come to this section. Quit being a hardass, boohoo people are making jokes. I don't think banning people for trying to be funny would be a good thing.