American white trash also has some desi in it. Apparently.
Um...no. It was over in Australia not over here. The people kicked off were Australians from Melbourne.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...y/news-story/6447a7650227e67c79de3c7f7d5962f5
Patriarch of ejected cruise ship family slams Carnival comments as ‘lots of bulls***’
THE cruise company that saw
a large Melbourne family offloaded from one of their cruise ships on Friday morning following violent brawls has announced it will offer compensation to passengers after “unprecedented onboard events”.
All guests have now disembarked from Carnival Legend in Melbourne following completion of their 10-day South Pacific cruise.
“We just disembarked from Carnival Legend in Melbourne. It was the holiday from hell. I would never travel with Carnival again,” Bec Dunn posted on the cruise line’s Facebook page.
Earlier on Saturday, witnesses said a large family had “picked on Aussies” and “strangled and punched” passengers for three days before Carnival Legend called police and offloaded the relatives.
A bloody clash at 1:30am on Friday forced Carnival to the “unprecedented” eviction of the 26-member family, after calling NSW Police and docking at Eden on the NSW South Coast.
Video footage taken by some passengers on the 10-day South Pacific cruise shows skirmishes on the pool deck in broad daylight in the days leading up to the final, bloody conflict. Video shows young adults fighting with ship’s pursers and other staff on deck.
Women and men push and shove with the Carnival Legend officers dressed in white uniforms.
NSW Police said six men and three teenage boys were removed from the ship at Twofold Bay in Eden. A further 14 passengers, including women and children, then also voluntarily left the ship. No one has been charged following the incident.
As the family was offloaded on to police boats on Friday morning, passengers rained down a barrage of insults from above on deck, yelling “Get off” and “You’re not heroes, you’re deros”.
One of the evicted members of the family held up a derisive finger in response.
The cruise company’s executives later confirmed that one family had been involved in ongoing incidents.
In a statement today Carnival Cruise Line announced guests will be offered a 25 per cent Future Cruise Credit as “a goodwill gesture”.
“We sincerely regret that the unruly conduct and actions of the passengers removed from the ship in Eden yesterday may have prevented other guests from fully enjoying their cruise on Carnival Legend,” said Jennifer Vandekreeke Vice President Australia Carnival Cruise Line.
Carnival Cruise Line said it was conducting “a full investigation to ensure that a situation such as this never happens again”.
BOOTED FAMILY BREAKS SILENCE
The patriarch of the family, which had more than 20 members onboard, has broken his silence to slam Carnival Cruise Line.
David Barkho, who was not on the cruise, reacted angrily on Facebook after Carnival executives described it as an “unprecedented” removal of one family, including Mr Barkho’s 20-year-old son George, from the cruise liner.
There is no suggestion George Barkho was involved in any of the alleged incidents.
Mr Barkho told news.com.au that he would be seeing his lawyer on Monday about the allegations. “It is in the hands of my lawyer,” he said.
Mr Barkho refused to comment on allegations made by other passengers.
On Facebook, he posted comments about a Carnival Cruise executive’s media conference, describing it as “lots of bulls**t”.
Mr Barkho had earlier told Melbourne radio station
3AW he got a 1:00am call from George, saying he had been injured and needed help.
“He said, ‘Please, Dad, please, call the Federal Police’,” Mr Barkho said.
“I could hear a lot of screaming, crying in the background.”
Mr Barkho said George had seen “a lot of people bleeding, a lot of people down on the ground”. A photo supplied to the radio station showed George being treated for an apparent cut on his head.
Mr Barkho also claimed security staff deleted images of the violence from George’s phone.
David Barkho, top left, with son George.
Source:Facebook
PASSENGERS DESCRIBE CRUISE SHIP ‘BLOODBATH’
Passenger Lisa Bolitho told AAP that the family had engaged in “very violent ... full-on attacks” before the late night “bloodbath” which had them evicted off the ship on Friday morning.
Ms Bolitho said she and others had “all made several complaints saying kids were scared. “They saw people getting strangled and punched up,” she said.
Ms Bolitho’s son Jarrah was targeted by the family, and had to flee with his mother, the pair locking themselves in their cabin. “I was watching the fight and one guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you want to go too, bro?’” Mr Bolitho said. “My mum had to drag me away from it all. They were trying to pick on any Aussie they could find.”
Ms Bolitho was critical of how the ship’s management handled the family, saying the captain told concerned passengers, “What do you want me to do about it — throw them overboard?”
“We were saying, ‘We want them either locked up or taken off board’,” Ms Bolitho said. “It never happened and there was another four occasions. We dropped them off at Eden yesterday, but that was after three days of violence,” Ms Bolitho said on Saturday.
She said security staff ended up “jumping” the family, and had no choice but to do so. “They deserved everything they got — they were the aggressors,” she said.
