Sean Penn to the Rescue...
While I would never think of smiting the victims of the recent hurricane, I do have a grin on my face when I read this little tidbit on the web.
Every now and then, just once in a while, irony is a clever deliveryman.
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Sean Penn's Rescue Bid Sinks
Source: Drudgereport.Com
From correspondents in New OrleansSeptember 5th, 2005
EFFORTS by Hollywood actor Sean Penn to aid New Orleans victims stranded by Hurricane
Katrina foundered badly overnight, when the boat he was piloting to launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.
Penn had planned to rescue children waylaid by Katrina's flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.
The actor, known for his political activism, was seen wearing what appeared to be a white flak jacket and frantically bailing water out of the sinking vessel with a red plastic cup.
When the boat's motor failed to start, those aboard were forced to use paddles to propel themselves down the flooded New Orleans street.
Asked what he had hoped to achieve in the waterlogged city, the actor replied: "Whatever I can do to help."
With the boat loaded with 6 members of Penn's entourage, including a personal photographer, one bystander taunted the actor: "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"
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Every now and then, just once in a while, irony is a clever deliveryman.
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Sean Penn's Rescue Bid Sinks
Source: Drudgereport.Com
From correspondents in New OrleansSeptember 5th, 2005
EFFORTS by Hollywood actor Sean Penn to aid New Orleans victims stranded by Hurricane
Katrina foundered badly overnight, when the boat he was piloting to launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.
Penn had planned to rescue children waylaid by Katrina's flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.
The actor, known for his political activism, was seen wearing what appeared to be a white flak jacket and frantically bailing water out of the sinking vessel with a red plastic cup.
When the boat's motor failed to start, those aboard were forced to use paddles to propel themselves down the flooded New Orleans street.
Asked what he had hoped to achieve in the waterlogged city, the actor replied: "Whatever I can do to help."
With the boat loaded with 6 members of Penn's entourage, including a personal photographer, one bystander taunted the actor: "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"
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posted by Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking at 9:29 PM
2 Comments:
Here lies the problem with these Hollywood activists...their intentions are to "help" (yes we know that is not the case or else they would do it without cameras or announcing to the world that this is what they are doing). But in this instance lets say Sean Penn makes it to some house where someone needed help...his boat springs a leak...whatever...then we now have to send people to save him...Hey Sean...stay the hell out.
Oh, and has there been any update on the Jane Fonda bus tour she was talking about a few months ago? Has she made to it Baghdad yet? Just curious.
It boggles the mind: you have the government of not only the city and state in question telling you to 'get out and let the professionals do their job" but the Federal government doing the same thing. But let's go help anyway.
I also found out about Jane's "Out of Iraq" bus tour, and official the "brakes have been put on."
http://grabthewheel.blogspot.com/2005/09/not-too-fonda-her-update-september.html
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