That's gotta hurt.

Starting up a new department tonight. In poking around the news and archives I see so much amazingly messed up stuff that it's too good to pass up. I'm not talking about the typical shock Internet crap a la Jackass stuff. I'm talking "it really happened." And if it has some stupid historical connection, I'm there.

So, today's 1st gem is from Japan. Though these events occurred just a few months ago, it does connect with a short couple of posts I did about submarines colliding.

The Japan Times reported that on January 12th of this year a surfacing submarine collided with a Japanese fishing vessel. This tiny little story is telling in that the fishing vessel had aboard at this time a Maritime Self Defence Force officer charged with preventing submarine / fishing boat collisions. He was on the lookout for a sub when it happened.

And from the other side of the globe now, news of another sub/boat crack up. The Straight of Hormuz is the spot, the date, last Friday night. An American submarine, the USS Hartford and a surface vessel, the USS New Orleans, ran into each other around 1am.

Seems the collision was a vertical one, that is to say, the Hartford was under the New Orleans. No details if someone official was posted on the New Orleans to spot for submarines.