SFist: Your Cosco Bucan Oil Spill Roundup

suckafree

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:12:56 -0800

the owners of the ship apologized yesterday and said they would do whatever it took to help clean it up. they are not the liable one's in my opinion. it is the fucked up organization that is the ship pilot bar association and their protection of this fucktard john j. cota!

Kay

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:30:49 -0800

Oh, and this press release indicates that the pilot and crew were tested within the "required" 2 hours of the crash: http://www.uscgsanfrancisco.com/go/doc/823/181798/ procedural fuckup?

Kay

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:48:29 -0800

Have there been any press releases from Cosco Busan admitting responsibility and offering to pay damages?

Propaline

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:35:08 -0800

I don't think we should pay for this. Tell Arnold to seize the Cosco Busan, otherwise the owners may never be found and held liable. Sell it at auction (eBay?) to pay for the costs to clean up our beloved bay and help restore effected animals. I cried over the endangered brown pelicans and murres who died a terrible death from this mess. Should we pay for this and let the owners get away with no liability? I think not. Tell Arnold to seize the Cosco Busan: http://gov.ca.gov/interact

ej

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:13:20 -0800

We are the "city by the bay", we live in "the bay area". The bay defines who we are as region. And now the bay that we love and defines who we is threatened by this oil spill. If anyone expects that people won't be upset or outraged by this would be sorely mistaken. We have a duty to be outraged. We have a duty to pressure our politicians to do everything in their power to see that this is cleaned up as quickly as possible. We have a duty to support the efforts to clean this up whether it be our time or our wallets. Not in our bay.. Unacceptable.

wsanders

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:46:28 -0800

Sorry for the intemperate post, I saw all the burning torches and pitchforks and thought this is SFGate. BTW the Exxon Valdez was 11 million gallons, about 200 times larger than the size of this week's spill.

elihu_hernandez13

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:39:07 -0800

Here we go people.....Exon Valdez Part II

wsanders

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:31:00 -0800

US out of Iraq! Bring them home to kill container ship drivers!

mariconsoy

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:46:56 -0800

We could use water boarding on the pilot, since it's not torture, just "extreme duress" in the latest "newspeak" from the white palace. Use plenty of oil in the water they pour down his throat. Speaking of medieval, WBing was used as early as the Spanish Inquisition. WB was a popular torture back then, since it left no messy body parts and blood to clean up.

suckafree

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:19:13 -0800

does the pilot bar association carry insurance for their drunken members that should have been retired/fired long ago?

Cior

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:18:57 -0800

Unconfirmed, but the SF Sailing mailing list I subscribe to named the bar pilot as John Cota.

ej

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:55:33 -0800

"SF will get litigous on the agency" Litigous... SF should get down right medieval on this agency! This is completely unacceptable. The response is unacceptable. That this happened is unacceptable. The driver who apparently wasn't even on drugs or drunk has no excuse besides being completely incompetent. The knuckleheaded asshole of a company who continued to employ him should be sued out of existance. MEDIEVAL San Francisco!

ej

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:49:31 -0800

"sf will get litigous on the agency" LITIGOUS! SF should get down right MEDIEVAL on this agency!