Gulf Oil Spill Humor: 7 Best Pranks And Satires

Treehugger:

Okay, so there's not much funny about the dire scenario continuing in the Gulf. But that hasn't stopped satirists and pranksters from dredging some dark humor out of the whole debacle. Here are the best ways to get a little catharsis out of the maddening affair.

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[Neil Plascencia]

10:03 PM on 05/26/2010

If I shorted Gulf stocks the day before this platform explosion and bought a company that puts out oil well fires the week before, I'd have the FBI at my door within hours.

Cheney's Halliburton bought a company called Boots & Coots which became well known for putting out some of the world's largest oil and gas fires. 8 days before the disaster http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6952547.html

Goldman Sachs shorted the Gulf Oil stocks the day before the accident http://www.examiner.com/x-8199-Breakthrough-Energy-Examiner~y2010m5d5-No-joke-Goldman-Sachs-shorted-Gulf-of-Mexico

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=49746450

Cementing of the oil rig well was finished only 20 hours before the explosion http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126536457

BP sent workers from the well head testing company home 11 hours before the explosion on April 20 -- "without performing a final check http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/20/bp-smoking-gun-oil-giant_n_583590.html”

A team from Schlumberger, which is highly regarded for their safety, asks a BP company man to use the Cement Bond Log (CBL) to dump fluid down the well and BP's company man refused. Schlumberger rep decides to leave citing safety issues but only if they called in their own transport as BP rep would not let Schlumberger leave on a BP Chopper.
http://adropofrain.net/2010/05/rumor-schlumberger-exits-deep-horizon-hours-before-blowout/