Tuesday, July 3, 2007

From the what's the matter with kids today department:

Remember the man who seemed to have a little too much to drink over the weekend and went overboard from Carnival Liberty? The story got bizarre enough for us when the FBI told us that the man climbed into a lifeboat in its stored position above the Promenade Deck and began hacking away with an ax at the cables that were securing the boat (it probably seemed like a good idea at the time) before jumping into the ocean when the security staff told him to stop. The full story appeared in CND yesterday.

The Washington Post now reports that man was from the Washington DC area, and he has been a middle school science teacher there since 2002. We hope one of his former students is right when she said, "It doesn't seem like him." You can read the Post's take on the story on their site.