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on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:01AM
from the if-it-walks-like-a-duck,-sinks-like-a-duck,-oh,-wait... dept.
from the if-it-walks-like-a-duck,-sinks-like-a-duck,-oh,-wait... dept.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
The duck boat that sank in a Missouri lake last week, killing 17 people, was built based on a design by a self-taught entrepreneur who had no engineering training, according to court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
The designer, entrepreneur Robert McDowell, completed only two years of college and had no background, training or certification in mechanics when he came up with the design for "stretch" duck boats more than two decades ago, according to a lawsuit filed over a roadway disaster in Seattle involving a similar duck boat in 2015.
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Duck Boat in Missouri Disaster was Designed by Entrepreneur With no Engineering Training
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Weasley on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:24PM (5 children)
Bacon, eggs, and a cup of coffee. You should reconsider your dietary choices.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:55PM (2 children)
Says the guy bucking for a heart attack...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:07PM (1 child)
Stress has far more to do with whether a heart attack occurs than diet does.
If you were not an imbecile you would know this.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday July 27 2018, @06:02AM
You sound stressed.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:50PM
So what, you just shove them up there?
You do realise that most ingested food stops being identifiable as individual food items before it wends its way very far through your guts, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:16AM
My mouth was full of those. But once in my gut what comes back is vomit. I will put that a lot closer to shit than what went tastily down the hatch.