Ferries and passenger shipping

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by kladner

The other 4 shots are from the party on the fifth night.

Reminds me of a now 50-year-old movie entitled The Magic Christian, this being the name of a luxury liner. The role of Captain Klaus was played by Wilfrid Hyde-White. The cast has a number of other noteworthy members.

One scene in the movie has an ad for a proposed new car which (it seems to me) is eerily prescient of SUV's.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

Reminds me of a now 50-year-old movie entitled The Magic Christian, this being the name of a luxury liner. The role of Captain Klaus was played by Wilfrid Hyde-White. The cast has a number of other noteworthy members.

One scene in the movie has an ad for a proposed new car which (it seems to me) is eerily prescient of SUV's.

There was an obscure fellow name of Richard Starkey who played a minor role. I had not thought much about this movie since I saw it in my teens. One scene did stand out in memory. It involved the devotion to money.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by kladner

There was an obscure fellow name of Richard Starkey who played a minor role.

Any relation to Zak Starkey perchance?

I was at Oxford with a Paul Starkey but he's no relation to Zak.

[kladner]

I'm afraid I know nothing of Ringo's family tree.

[kladner]

https://www.wave3.com/2019/05/25/ark...-flood-damage/
They should be suing The Almighty®.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - In a case of irony, the owners of a giant ark in northern Kentucky have sued their insurance company over damage from heavy rains.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by kladner

There were lots of lasers.

Man, something is wrong with you in those pictures ...
You have stripes...

[xilman]

Originally Posted by kladner

I'm afraid I know nothing of Ringo's family tree.

I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves but I'm afraid you didn't pass the audition.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by xilman

I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves but I'm afraid you didn't pass the audition.

Life has its little disappointments.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by kladner

https://www.wave3.com/2019/05/25/ark...-flood-damage/
They should be suing The Almighty®.

Correction: damage at Noah’s Ark attraction story

In a story May 24 about property damage at a Noah’s Ark attraction in Kentucky, The Associated Press reported erroneously that flooding caused the damage. The damage was caused by heavy rains over a period of two years.
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The Ark Encounter says in a federal lawsuit that rains in 2017 and 2018 caused a landslide on its access road. The Courier Journal reports the attraction’s insurance carriers refused to cover the damage.

So the claim is that prolonged heavy rains caused a landslide that took out the access road, and that this was covered by their policy. (The ark itself wasn't damaged.)

Boy, talk about mixed feelings!

On the one hand, the Plaintiffs are YECs, who claim to believe that the earth is only about 6000 years old, that dinosaurs and humans coexisted, and who have been responsible for inflicting "creation science" and "intelligent design" as Biblical literalism masquerading as science on school children. Maybe they're a bunch of money-grubbing grifters, fleecing the gullible on an industrial scale.

OTOH, the Defendants are an insurance company that may be trying to weasel out of paying a valid claim.

The company is claiming the required repairs fall under an exclusion for "correcting design deficiencies or faulty workmanship." In other words, that if the road had been properly designed and built in the first place, it wouldn't have failed and the repairs would not have been needed. (I suppose they could say that, although Plaintiffs founded their ark attraction on rock, they founded their access road on sand.)

It will boil down to what a jury (or the judge) decides about what the policy means, and whether the kind of failure that occurred could reasonably have been foreseen.

Whatever the policy says, clearly it isn't like a homeowners policy. Homeowners policies generally don't cover damage resulting from movement of the earth, which this obviously was.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

Whatever the policy says, clearly it isn't like a homeowners policy. Homeowners policies generally don't cover damage resulting from movement of the earth, which this obviously was.

That depends on where you live. here in the UK it's common for homeowners to have insurance which covers "subsidence, heave and/or landslip". I do.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by xilman

That depends on where you live. here in the UK it's common for homeowners to have insurance which covers "subsidence, heave and/or landslip". I do.

Here in the good ol' USA, you can get such insurance. It's just not part of homeowner policies. Also, flood insurance is special. It's only underwritten by the government.