Voice from Iran incident may be regional pest

[RamboLiberal]

Source: USA Today

The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler well known to Navy crews.

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In recent years, American ships operating in the Middle East have had to contend with a mysterious but profane voice widely known as the "Filipino Monkey," likely more than one person, who listens in on ship-to-ship radio traffic and then jumps on the net shouting insults and epithets.

Civilian mariners say the term stems from the fact that Greek merchant sailors perceive Filipinos to be a large portion of merchant mariners at sea.

Navy women — a helicopter pilot hailing a tanker, for example — who are overheard on the radio are said to suffer particularly degrading treatment.

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"For 25 years there's been this mythical guy out there who, hour after hour, shouts obscenities and threats," he said. "He could be tied up pierside somewhere or he could be on the bridge of a merchant ship."



Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-01-11-iranboat_N.htm

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I'll say it's possible. I remember back when CB was popular in vehicles there was this idiot who every day would be blabbering away for hours tying up the channel.

Of course the idiots in Bush Admin tried to hype this in to another Gulf of Tonkin.

[AzDar]

1. ...

:rofl: You can't make this shit up.

[seemslikeadream]

2. dang they got me

[seemslikeadream]

3. sorry georgie

I must have slipped up

[Bicoastal]

4. What?! We almost started World War III because of a HECKLER?!

Personally, I prefer these guys:

[Warren Stupidity]

5. There are folks here on DU who are still very very concerned

about this serious incident.

By the way, I've noticed that the very threatening white boxes that the terrifying Iranian homicide bomber boats were supposedly dropping off have fallen not into the ocean, but into the memory hole. What happend to those boxes?

I found a picture of one of them, being held by one of our presidential candidates:

[Barrett808]

6. These guys are the best hecklers around: Rifftrax

http://rifftrax.com

If you like MST3K, you'll love Rifftrax. Hilarious!

[HamstersFromHell]

10. Not to threadjack this, but...

...the other half of the old MST3K crew (Joel, Trace, Frank, etc.)are now involved with Cinematic Titanic

[Barrett808]

15. Just saw this yesterday

Looks promising!

[ohio2007]

9. wha-da-ya mean " we " almost started a war

the media loves to make sensational mountains out of speed bump molehills.

Could be a bored oil platform roughneck got his 15 minutes of fame imo

[ohio2007]

7. A merchant TROLL. the voice was booming and sounded like it was

indoors or studio like as opposed to an open to the elements speedboat.

I agree, it is possible and both sodes are no stranger to the trawling troll imo

[Andrushka]

8. Ahh, so now it's a "regional pest" is it?

Maybe they can spray some of this...



Coming from the supreme "regional pest" (sorry, but the US should get the hell out of the place), that's pretty rich.

[ohio2007]

11. Baghdad Bob ? nt

[TheMadMonk]

12. Tokyo Rose. Lord Haw Haw. nt

[daleo]

13. A regional pest?

Wasn't Bush in the middle east?

[Ian David]

14. Triumph The Insult Comic Dog? n/t