Another Passenger Missing From a Cruise Ship

[LiberalHeart]

MIAMI (AP) - Authorities are investigating the disappearance of a Florida woman from a cruise ship sailing along the coast of Italy. Family members identified her as 22-year-old Elizabeth Kay Galeana of Naples, Florida -- daughter of Frank Galeana, owner of the Galeana Automotive Group dealership in Florida, South Carolina, and Michigan.

More:
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=5214274

[gristy]

1. Breaking News!

Shall I tune into Fox?

[saigon68]

2. Is She Blond ?

If not I don't want to hear about it

[Ezlivin]

12. Yep. Natural blonde, too.

[LiberalHeart]

4. The family thinks it is.

Since it's the family talking about it to AP, I'm guessing this is another case of a cruise line keeping things quiet. This disappearance happened Tuesday and it's not till today that the family is calling some attention to it.

[Robbien]

7. It is strange that these stories are getting through though

The cruise lines usually have a tight rein on AP and UPI where these stories get the round file.

Maybe BushCo needs distraction stories and countered the ban on missing cruise ship vacationers.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Yep because everytime something happens in the world...

It's a conspiracy to distract everyone...:eyes:

[NC_Nurse]

3. Anybody read "Skinny Dip"?

by Carl Hiassen...great book. :-)

[Lindacooks]

5. Yes - I love Hiassen's books. That's what I thought of too!

Skinny Dip is one of his best.

[catnhatnh]

6. My brother is a "frequent cruiser" and thinks....

...this is the modern version of "no fault divorce"....(for both marriages and regretted encounters)...his best guess is all liners will be fitted with "balcony" cams soon....

[LiberalHeart]

10. Or chain link fences around the decks...

Probably suicide must be considered, too, in these missing passenger cases.

[Totallybushed]

8. OK, my

vacation dollar is going to the mountains next year.

Crap. Cruise ship or Deliverance? What a choice.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. I recommend Colorado.

Deliverance country is in the mid-south, think Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas. :evilgrin:
Duckie

[pitohui]

15. pretty sure it was set in georgia, bet i can find out

yep, deliverance was set in georgia

not kentucky, tennessee, or arkansas!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

19. Oh. But didn't they film it somewhere in the others?

I think I confused it with where it was filmed. :shrug:
Duckie

[Totallybushed]

17. But the South

is where I live.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. The south can be scary....but then again so can the wrong block in NYC...

And so can Indiana.
Duckie

[LuckyLib]

9. Never having been on a cruise, is getting rip-roaring drunk a

common thing among cruisers? Do they have a hard time hanging onto the ship's railing?

[catnhatnh]

11. Umm...yes and no...

most premium cruises include at least 24 hr buffets and gambling action with "free drink coupons" and some are Club Med type pay one price drink fests...but ALL include the element of "What happens on the ship, stays on the ship." type behaviour...and unfortunately, the chance for an "unfortunate" loss at sea...

[pitohui]

16. yes and no

getting drunk is certainly part of the cruise experience, as is puking, however, those rails are pretty high, don't see how you could go over unless you were doing something stupid or being "helped"

[LuckyLib]

18. Can't imagine 24 hr. food and drink. After reading David Foster

Wallace's piece on cruises (which is uproariously funny BTW), I'm sticking to more sane pursuits.