A funny story/urban myth ("The Lighthouse")

[nawk]

Just a little something I stumbled across on navyseals.com website.   Have a laugh.


This is the transcript of an actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995.

Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations on November 10, 1995.

Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

Americans: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

 

[gorf]

Awesome story.....the true ones are always the best!!!  ;D 

 

[Spazkatt]

Ever have vu deja? The feeling you've never done this before?   lol...

http://army.ca/forums/threads/4098/post-39738.html#msg39738

 

[bossi]

Here's the TV commercial:

http://www.punchbaby.com/clip_ads.htm

Captain - 28 January '04 
This is a pretty funny Swedish ad the script of which is lifted wholesale from an email which went around a year or so ago. The only two differences being that one, the email purported to be a transcript of a converstation between a US Navy vessel and a Canadian lighthouse and was plausible and therefore funnier. And two the email must have been a shitload cheaper to make.

 

[Ex-Dragoon]

For the record USS Abraham Lincoln is based in the Pacific and in October 1995 she was here:

http://navysite.de/cvn/cvn72deploy.htm

 

[buckahed]

In the 1930's it was a British battleship. That story is a lot older than most of us.

 

[winchable]

I'm guilty for posting that urban legend in the first place:

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm

 

[Fruss]

Still a very good joke..  old ot not, true or false!!!  Always makes me laugh!! 

Frank

 

[Yrys]

I KNEW I had read about it here

http://noolmusic.com/youtube_videos/us_warship_vs_lighthouse.php

 

[Luke O]

Too funny.  It would be pretty funny to actually see this happen.