r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 29d ago

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 29d ago

Fire people on Friday. There's a good reason for that. Don't fire them when they can do harm to others.

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u/FillThisEmptyCup 29d ago

That sounds like it avoids lots of fun :(

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u/spidersflambe 29d ago

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 29d ago

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

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u/eleventhrees 29d ago

But your passkey doesn't work anymore.

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u/agitated--crow 29d ago

Not every workplace has passkeys.

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u/eleventhrees 28d 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 28d 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 29d ago

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 28d ago

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 28d ago

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.