ALCOHOL MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED
On Pool Float, Jerry Whipple Drifts One Mile Into Gulf Of Mexico Before Coast Guard Rescue
(Thanks to Omaha Bridget)
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On Pool Float, Jerry Whipple Drifts One Mile Into Gulf Of Mexico Before Coast Guard Rescue
(Thanks to Omaha Bridget)
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I'll bet he's glad it wasn't shark season.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | June 24, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Just doing his small bit to clean up the oil slick.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | June 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM
what's to investigate. he were drunk.
Posted by: queensbee | June 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM
charmin'
Posted by: Bill Hudgins | June 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Too much squeezing the Charmin.
Posted by: Braniff | June 24, 2010 at 01:13 PM
I wonder what kind of dreams that he had as he was a-float-in. It's a good thing he didn't end up being fish bait.
Posted by: Theresa | June 24, 2010 at 01:15 PM
Guy falls asleep while alone away from his wife/girlfriend and drifts out into the ocean, very content. Woman finds him and decides "He must be drunk." Guy now has reason to get drunk and go floating in ocean ...
Posted by: JEC | June 24, 2010 at 01:17 PM
Did he wake up oily?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2010 at 01:51 PM
I hope he used lot's of sunscreen.
Posted by: nursecindy | June 24, 2010 at 01:59 PM
Wait; a boater finds a guy drifting in a life jacket a mile offshore, and instead of loading the guy into their boat, they call the Coast Guard to come and get him?
That's cold.
Posted by: bonmot | June 24, 2010 at 02:07 PM
Bonmot - never pick up hitchhikers. You might spill your drink.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2010 at 02:18 PM
Bonmot, maybe he looked dead on the float and the boaters didn't want to contaminate the crime scene. Or maybe I watch too much tv.
Posted by: nannie | June 24, 2010 at 04:04 PM
The embarrassing part was when they dumped him in the tub of Dawn detergent, got him all de-oiled, and found out he wasn't a contaminated manatee.
Posted by: padraig | June 24, 2010 at 04:25 PM
Bonmot, give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe the boat was a kayak or scull.
Posted by: Elon | June 24, 2010 at 04:33 PM
Dreaming he's sleeping on a waterbed. A really, really big waterbed.
Posted by: Steve (The Flash) | June 24, 2010 at 04:46 PM
Being out there that lone, he must've had to pee really, really bad.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2010 at 05:26 PM
...g...lonG....guh...!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2010 at 05:52 PM
This has "bachelor party" written all over it.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 24, 2010 at 06:24 PM
Actually, Meanie, so does Siouxie.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2010 at 06:28 PM
I thought that cake tasted especially good.....
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | June 24, 2010 at 06:36 PM
Annie, he's a guy. Near water. Alone. No-one to say he'll have to scrub the shower thoroughly.
Posted by: JEC | June 24, 2010 at 07:41 PM
Blink, blink?
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | June 24, 2010 at 07:51 PM
Hey, I've slept through worse. But that's not what I told the guy.
Posted by: Tash | June 24, 2010 at 09:11 PM
Whenever you see a story like this, whether it is someone adrift in the ocean, flying thousands of feet in the air attached to balloons, stuck on a mountain, lost in the desert in a broken down car, etc it is always a GUY. I think it is part of a conspiracy. I think the liberal MSM doesn't report it when it happens to a WOMAN. I mean, c'mon, you know this happens to women all the time.
Posted by: Dirk | June 24, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Actually Dirk it doesn't. A woman wouldn't do this because 1.It might be on the news and there we would be in our bathing suits with thousands of people watching. 2. Too much sun causes wrinkles 3. We're too busy watching our men so they won't kill themselves doing something dumb.
Also bonmot it sounds like he could use a good lawyer. Know any?
Posted by: nursecindy | June 25, 2010 at 12:33 AM
So, if a man is alone and adrift in the middle of the deep blue sea, is he still wrong?
Discuss.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | June 25, 2010 at 08:30 AM
Yes.
End of discussion.
Posted by: nannie | June 25, 2010 at 08:33 AM
Quite so.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | June 25, 2010 at 11:08 AM
*snork* @ discussion;)
Posted by: Betsy | June 25, 2010 at 11:10 AM
p.s. also if he's drunk (or sober) in a crowded room, family gathering, bowling alley, backyard BBQ or meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Posted by: Betsy | June 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM