In article ,
Joseph Coulter wrote:
> Lloyd Parsons wrote in news:lloydparsons-
> B6065F.08511329042006@individual.net:
>
> > In article <1146286970.275989.198440@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
> > mgrahm@trib.com wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone else out see the story on Inside Edition about drinking on
> >> cruises? Below are links to the stories.
> >>
> >> http://www.insideedition.com/ourstories/reports/story.aspx?storyid=
> 167
> >>
> >> http://www.insideedition.com/ourstories/reports/story.aspx?storyid=
> 170
> >>
> >> I don't know, but what I say and I have heard from the stories is not
> >> what I have found on the past two Princess Cruises I was on. Has any
> >> one else found their cruises to be filled with nothing, but drunks.
> >>
> >> Michael
> >
> > I've been on Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Princess, Celebrity and MSC
> > lines and have never seen the stuff they showed on that 'report'.
> >
> > Sure a drunk here and there, but I never saw anyone pushing drinks to
> a
> > drunk.
>
> Read the report again and tell me if it doens't smack of sensationalism.
> If there was that much drinking, we would be hearing of more people
> dieing of alcohol poisoning. Yes the booze cruises in port seem to
> operate pretty much as described, but the excess reported, I haven't
> seen it even on Carnival. Of course if you hang out beside a bartender
> for the whole cruise, you may see something like that, but who does
> that? Oh yeah the reporter and the drunk.
Name me a 'report' that Inside Edition ever did that wasn't
sensationlized? It is their stock in trade. |