Cruise Line Bans Idiot For Life

[Floyd R. Turbo]

They get too close to wild animals. They perch on statues. They pose at the edge of a cliff hours after a woman’s deadly fall.

Stories abound of tourists dangerously eager for the perfect photograph — and a group that caters to travelers has had enough.

Cruise company Royal Caribbean said this week it has banned a passenger for life after she was spotted “recklessly” standing on a balcony railing for a picture. The guest and her companion, who helped with the shot, disembarked in Jamaica “as a result of their actions,” the company said in a statement to media. The companion is banned, too.

A fellow passenger on the Allure of the Seas ship told CNN he witnessed the risky photo shoot from his balcony and brought it to the crew’s attention. He documented the transgression in a grainy picture of his own posted online that shows a woman gazing out at the ocean in a blue bathing suit, hands held above her head.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/10/20/cruise-company-bans-passenger-life-after-she-recklessly-stands-railing-photo/

[Aristus]

1. Good for them.

Getting put off at a port of call is an expensive way for one's vacation to go south.

"Don't do stupid shit" is advice that stupid people don't seem to want to follow...

[TygrBright]

2. "Rules Don't Apply to Me" is a distressingly common mindset. n/t

[sarge43]

6. People like that have usually getten away breaking society's laws.

They're at minimum surprised when they find out nature's laws are iron clad and non negotiable.

Sometimes they win a Darwin.

[struggle4progress]

8. "The laws of gravity are for suckers!"

[Ferryboat]

3. I work on the Washington state ferries

This kind of behavior is far more common than you would think. In the 20+ years I have seen people die because they didn't think of the consequences of their actions.

[Wounded Bear]

4. People don't understand what happens in a "man overboard" alert...

The whole ship basically stops what it is doing and focuses on a rescue/recovery effort.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Yep! On the final leg of a cruise this past May, a woman went missing off the Irish coast. Her

companions didn’t report it until the following morning. The ship reversed course in order to assist in the search effort. After several hours the Irish Coast Guard alerted our ship that search efforts had been suspended due to weather and failing daylight.

We later learned that the woman did indeed go overboard having committed suicide.

[aikoaiko]

7. Seems fair to me.