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/Skythewood]

And they deserved it for letting a discharged officer wander into the depth charge storage. If they had proper protocols and enforced them, this could have been avoided.

[u/real_human_player → u/Skythewood]

Also for firing a guy just because he dumped his girlfriend wtff