Like, holy shit
Right now, all newspapers, news websites, radio broadcasts and basically all forms of journalism manipulated by the Philippines (with the exception of Twitter) is buzzing with news about the latest Superferry 9 f-up. Normally, I wouldn't give a damn about stuff like this, however, I'm going to use it as an excuse in order for me to get back to writing after a whole lot of messing around in Gmod.
Anyway, according to the web article by Inquirer.net, 926 passengers were rescued, however, at least 30 are found to be missing. As usual, Superferry is doing its best to cover the shit up, which turns out to be a success, especially towards the poor, the meek and the gullible who thinks everything on TV is true.
What caused the sinking of the ship? To be honest, nobody has the answer yet, although people are already jumping to conclusions. Some blaming it on pretty obvious reasons - overloading, especially since the boat is filled with 847 fat-assed passengers who are illegal squatters in Manila trying to go home to the provinces. Others blamed it on the Abu-Sayaf terrorists, who are probably pissed and high after going through a day of Ramadan with nothing to eat but opium and crack. Some even went batshit about the situation - blaming ghosts of previous disasters of the ship (since the ship has gone through at least three accidents already).
All possible causes of the sinking.
That leads us to the things everyone should have done so they could have avoided the tragedy. And they failed, as usual.
First, if the accident is caused by terrorism, they should have properly inspected the ship before it weighed anchor and also, post some guards around the ship to watch for any suspicious people in ski masks planting C4s in the ship's boiler room. But hell, C4s are so 2004, like Counter Strike. IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) are the norm these days. IEDs usually take in the the form of cellphones, and since 1 1/2 in every two Filipinos own some sort of "cellular-signal operated telephone", it's very hard to spot a bomb in a crowd of fake Nokia chinaphones. Let's just hope the coast guard can train bomb sniffing dogs.
Secondly, if the accident is caused by overloading, then they should actually limit the number of passengers in the ship. I don't care if he is your nephew, your brother-in-law, or that faggot at the gaybar who threatens you for your balls. Essentially, Pinoys are bound with the retarded "everyone for everyone" theory. We're not Communists, damnit.
I'd enjoy booze for everyone, but I wouldn't share a hot chick with everybody else.
To calculate how the Superferry 9 sank because of overload, let's take the following formula: Weight of average Pinoy * number of passengers. Essentially, an average 30-45 year old Filipino male eats plenty of pork, beef and rice each day, which can be roughly estimated to be between 160-260lbs. Let's multiply 260 pounds to the amount of passengers, which is 926. That gives us 240,760 pounds of pure Filipino being carried by a badly-built ferryboat. Also, Pinoys act like magnets, only that they're magnets high in steroids. They are attracted to places with a lot of their same kind. If you go to a Garena room, all of the players will crowd in a particular area until it is so full the Garena administrators have to restart everything. Let's put that in the situation of a boat. One Pinoy goes to one side, one follows him, two follows them, four follows them, then eight, then sixteen, then the whole process goes on until all passengers are on the right side of the boat, which led to the sinking. And now those passengers are putting the blame on Superferry. Like, lol.
Imagine a crowd three times bigger than this in size and quantity on one side of a ferryboat.
Lastly, and concluding the two aforementioned above, the situation would have greatly been prevented if somebody actually gave a shit about the situation itself. Don't get it? Here's an eye-witness narration during the evacuation of the stranded people in the sinking Superferry 9:
Passenger: (to coast guard officer in a liferaft below) Help! We're out of lifeboats! Get to the coast and grab us some for the others!
Officer: (yawning) You can cram yourselves in a room just because there's plenty of you in there. Get used to it.
Passenger: (spotting a child being thrown by the waves below) Help! There's a child being overpowered by the waves below!
Officer: (yawning again) You can overpower a child in the streets and make him do shit. Get used to it.
And no, I'm not just pointing a finger at the coast guard. I'm also referring to the passengers themselves, for being so stupid about cramming themselves in a boat. They see a huge sea vessel - marvelling at its steel engineering, and conclude, "Wow, my tax dollars seems to have been put into good use. Let me just get my illegal children and family and cram them inside this boat. It'll be awesome!" While his plan is certainly not genius, you can clearly see the humor there.
Also, as a bonus, let's all listen to a very special song that the passengers were singing before the boat was being pulled into Davy Jones'.
