Vandals flood historic WWII submarine in New Jersey.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/vandals-flood-historic-submarine-plaques-stolen/2018/08/15/2d6cce2c-a077-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?utm_term=.01df5c53c6be
Vandals have flooded a World War II-era submarine that has been part of the New Jersey Naval Museum since 1972.
Submarine Memorial Association vice president Les Altschuler tells The Record locks were cut and hatches were open on the USS Ling between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Four bronze plaques honoring submarines and crews that were lost during the war also were stolen.
Never forgive these fuckers for disgracing the people who fought so can live in freedom.
Unfuckingbelievable. How can people be so disrespectful?
It might be some dumbass teenagers, but in this day and age, I wouldn't be surprised if it was some Neo-Nazis or Imperial Japan apologists.
How the hell would you fence historical bronze plaques lol.
Probably just threw them in the river. I'm sure they trashed the inside of the sub with the aim of damaging the conservation.
Raw materials possibly, copper has been a pretty pricey commodity for the past few years. Some thefts have been documented stealing copper tubing and grates from AC units as its easy as pie to steal that stuff.
Can we sink them too?
This is a pretty odd target for some bored teenagers or crackheads. I hope it wasn't political, but I fear it was.
I've read in to this a bit. The museum has been leasing the land from a media company for $1 a year. An investment group bought the land from the media company and evicted the museum. The submarine is stuck in mud and can't be floated because it won't clear a swing-bridge that is no longer operable, so they've been trying to figure out how to move the ship for like 2 years.
The police say someone with thorough knowledge of the ship must have done this because every hatch was cut open, including the bilges. It sounds like the landowners did this to force the museum to cut the ship up in order to get it off their land. Pretty fucking disgusting.
Apparently there are also plans to demolish an old building and replace it with a luxury apartment nearby, suddenly what seemed absolutely senseless makes complete sense. Its all about land and money and real-estate developers wanting to get rid of an "eyesore" quicker than those that care for the ship can actually manage.
On the bright side some seem optimistic about being able to pump the water out, if they can get approval to.
Source? Sucks ass if true.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/hackensack/2018/08/14/hackensack-submarine-uss-ling-flooded-intentionally-memorial-plaques-stolen/989139002/
Additionally it seems like the landowers are now legally in possession of the sub since the museum missed the deadline to remove it from the property.
Jesus Christ, what a bunch of fucking awful disrespectful cunts.
this is some Mafia shit that you would see in fiction. Seriously.
IMO the Navy should be stepping in to help preserve the ship, since it's a memorial being vandalized and targeted maliciously. Would be hilarious if they posted guards on it and supported restoration efforts.
Unfortunately for the Ling, the Navy is not above the law and unless a judge rules otherwise it is now property of the investment group. If it was still the property of the museum, you have no shortage of Navy volunteers to restore her, especially because it's Chiefs season. The USS Midway was restored and refurbished in a similar fashion.
Pretty sure this isn't just some run-of-the-mill brats getting around an old WWII submarine and deciding to have a go at it with an angle grinder. If you've never been on a submarine, they are big. One doesn't simply just walk up to a submarine and decide to vandalize it by flooding the whole thing with several feet of water. This was a deliberate planned attack to make the submarine as unrecoverable as possible.
This is some fucking mafia shit.
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