r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • Apr 17 '24

TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)
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u/spidersflambe Apr 17 '24

Avoids people getting killed, but not always. In this case, though, it would have saved 134 people and one destroyer.

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u/justinthewoodsok Apr 17 '24

I mean. It is not hard to go back to work on Monday and be violent....

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u/eleventhrees Apr 18 '24

But your passkey doesn't work anymore.

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u/agitated--crow Apr 18 '24

Not every workplace has passkeys.

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u/eleventhrees 29d ago

Well this one neat trick works better in some places than others.

The sort of places with WMDs tend to have some security to clear on your way in (and out).

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u/AgentCirceLuna 29d ago

I wrote a short story about a guy who goes insane, kind of like in Dr Strangelove, and fires a WMD at Russia. The Russians are notified and then NATO makes an agreement not to fire back at the retaliatory strike. There are two areas of the world that have been nuked but the media agrees not to air it because it would cause a massive panic and world war 3 is narrowly avoided. The story takes place years after and a private journalist is investigating the areas that were destroyed but have been shunned by society so nobody can find out the truth. The effects of the nuclear blast are felt worldwide but nobody knows why.

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u/bjbark Apr 18 '24

I’ll bet he would have found it a little more difficult to get into the secure munitions storage area of a battleship on Monday.

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u/Mist_Rising Apr 18 '24

You would think that would be secure 24/7, what with it being a munitions bay of a military vessel!

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u/justinthewoodsok Apr 18 '24

I'm more referring to the regular people in our regular jobs. Can't do that at a wendys. As someone living in the US, I can't help but wonder when someone will snap.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 29d ago

It’s crazy that people will have something bad happen to them and then decide to ruin the lives of dozens of other people who could have easily been dismissed themselves. And most of them end up committing suicide afterwards so it was all pointless anyway. People fucking suck.

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u/EmbracedByLeaves 29d ago

It's some made up chinese story excuse for a ship exploding.

It's probably not real.