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The navigator of a US Navy fast attack submarine, who was listening to his iPod when he really should have been keeping an eye out for amphibious transport docks, helped land his employers with a hefty $86.9m repair bill. According to the Navy Times, the Los Angeles-class sub Hartford collided with with the New Orleans in the …

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  1. Dan 10
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    Oops

    What was he listening to?

    We all live in a yellow submarine?

    The Clash?

    Money, money, money,

    it's so funny,

    when it's not yours...

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    1. TeeCee Gold badge
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      Easy answer.

      Obviously it was something by Pavarotti^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPaganini.

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  2. Dave 64 Silver badge
    WTF?

    accounting error?

    "land his employers with a hefty $86.9m repair bill."

    versus

    "required $2.3m in repairs"

    I've been to some dodgy garages in my time, but a markup of $84.6m on a job?????

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    1. Steve X
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      It takes two to collide...

      That's $2.3m for the ship he hit. The other $84.6m are presumably for the sub he hit it with.

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    2. Trygve
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      RTFA more carefully...

      The thing they hit needed $2.3m of repairs. The sub they hit it with would also have needed some repairs, and large high-tech submarines are notoriously un-cheap...

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    3. BristolBachelor Gold badge
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      Defense accounting

      You are fogetting the Gary McKinnon factor (If Gorden Moore can have his name given to a mathematical function, why not Gary McKinnon?)

      The amount you charge (or claim to charge) does not have to be related to the actual costs.

      If you want to really beat someone, a bigger stick hurts more.

      The difference can be used to fund anything that you forgot to budget for, or don't want to admit.

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  3. Anonymous John

    We all crash in a yellow submarine

    Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

    We all crash in a yellow submarine

    Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Oops!

    I wonder what he was listening to.

    Yellow Submarine?

    Dock of the Bay?

    American Idiot?

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  5. @dartacus

    For such sub-standard procedures...

    ...it's no surprise that the Captain got the Das Boot.

    Sorry.

    G

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    1. Robin
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      re: For such sub-standard procedures...

      "the" das boot?

      You've been listening to too much The The on your iPod...

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  6. Wommit
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    Now we can see

    why the Iranians were so keen to take the sailors iPods from them.

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  7. Christoph
    Pirate

    Left hand down a bit

    Who let Mr Phillips have that iPod?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Someone else who remembers

      CPO Pertwee et al.

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      1. elderlybloke
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        Someone else who remembers -Mk2.

        Sus.Git,

        I do-way back when Ronny Barker was just getting started.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    What was he listening to ?

    Before crash. In the navy by village people.

    After crash . Another one bites the dust.

    BTW the orientation of both groups is similar.

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    1. Daniel B.
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      It was Deep Purple

      I don't know what he was hearing before the crash, but I'm pretty sure the iPod skipped to "Smoke in the Water" afterwards.

      Engines, full ahead!

      >CRASH<

      I didn't know that the navigator could get into Deep $h*t for listening Deep Purple....

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  9. Anonymous Coward
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    The iPod

    The new addition to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Obviously a WMD if there ever was one. Apple should ave to pay for the repairs.

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    1. Steve X
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      WMD

      Weapon of Musical Destruction?

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  10. The Indomitable Gall
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    Scuttling submarines...?

    There's an app for that!

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  11. LuMan
    Joke

    Sorry for this but...

    ..what's long, hard and full of seamen....?

    A submarine!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    OK... I get it.....I'm off...

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  12. Craigness
    IT Angle

    Any excuse...

    ...for an iHeadline

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  13. Anonymous Coward
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    Other musical options

    "Crash" by the Dave Matthews Band

    "I'm Sorry" by (I think) Doris Day

    "I Was So Wrong" by Patsy Cline

    I wonder if we can pay this off with an $84 million iTunes gift card?

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  14. Pirate of the Carib
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    The singer

    > "I'm Sorry" by (I think) Doris Day

    Brenda Lee!

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  15. John A Blackley

    As Wellington said

    I don't know what the enemy think of them but they scare the hell out of me.

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  16. Jason Yau
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    He was

    playing doodle jump really.

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  17. David Sidebotham
    Jobs Horns

    $84.6m?

    Now if that had been one of ours, the bill would have been £250m

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  18. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Not the smartest thing to do

    You are about to dock one of the world's largest and most heavily armed undersea vehicles with a surface vessel. Do you

    a)Monitor all sensors to make sure you're exactly where you plan to be remaining ready to slow your approach even further.

    b)Kick back and listen to some toons on your iPod.

    Obvious really.

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  19. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    I thought the military encouraged this nonsense?

    I remember watching video of an M1 Abrams tank crew explaining how the vehicle came with a line-in jack for their ipods so they could listen to music while tooling around the desert. Contradictions much?

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