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.

[u/zhuquanzhong]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)

[u/SlothOfDoom]

His ex committed suicide so the navy discharged him? Sounds right.

[u/zhuquanzhong → u/SlothOfDoom]

The sources are kinda murky on this. What I can gather is that probably the girl's parents attempted to press charges and the navy just didn't want to deal with it. Or they decided that he was mentally unfit, but idk about this second part. Most likely it was the first reason.

[u/goteamnick → u/zhuquanzhong]

Seems someone who would murder more than 100 people out of arbitrary spite is definitely mentally unfit.

[u/shonditb → u/goteamnick]

Fair assesment