Navy: Submarine fire set intentionally so worker could leave early

[countrygirl_914]

Navy investigators have determined that a civilian laborer set a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early.

Casey James Fury of Portsmouth, N.H., faces up to life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson in the fire aboard the USS Miami attack submarine

Comments

[the_glow_worm]

I was going to crack wise, but it sounds like the man needs help and therapy, not imprisonment.

[zemi_chan]

mte.

[auralan]

Also to not be in high stress environments like submarines.

[countrygirl_914]

Well, he wasn't exactly in the submarine. He was a civilian worker working on it while it was in dry dock.

[ms_maree]

Submarines are expensive.

[saltdawg]

When I get anxious I grab Valium, not cigarettes and a lighter.

[keeni84]

So?

[flcadam]

Seems open and shut to me. This guy is going to go to prison for a very, very long time.

[tilmon]

As someone who has been medicated both for depression with anxiety and allergies, I gotta say, that shit will knock you for a loop. I mean the allergy medicine. Seriously, there's a reason there's always a warning not to operate heavy machinery.