Because one oil spill in the Gulf wasn't enough

[General Zod]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38429966/ns ... vironment/

Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, an oil platform hit by a tugboat is now spewing oil and natural gas near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday.

The oil and gas is shooting up 20 feet into the air, the office of Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said.

Crews don't expect to be able to cap the well before 6 p.m. ET, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft told reporters.

"We cannot catch a break," Deano Bonano, Jefferson Parish emergency management director, said in a note to parish officials.

Some 6,000 feet of boom were placed around the site, Thad Allen, the national incident commander for the nearby BP spill, told reporters.

The tugboat was pushing a barge when the collision happened, he added.

The well is in inland waterways on the border of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes, about 65 miles south of New Orleans; it's marsh area not accessible by road.

Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts was quoted as saying by WWL-TV in New Orleans that "there is a pretty good amount of oil flowing there." He did not have a more specific estimate.

Jefferson Parish officials said the tugboat hit the well before dawn. The tugboat captain immediately notified officials, and another boat later called in the leak.

Allen said the well is owned by the state of Louisiana.

Lovely. At least BP can say this one wasn't their fault.

[Stravo]

Considering the rash of accidents and natural disasters you have to ask yourself if Louisiana is somehow cursed. Jeez.

[Kanastrous]

Saw some MSNBC survey-type thing stating that Louisiana is the laziest state in the union (don't know the metric used).

Lazy, *and* unlucky. Great combo.

[General Zod]

Saw some MSNBC survey-type thing stating that Louisiana is the laziest state in the union (don't know the metric used).

Lazy, *and* unlucky. Great combo.

You mean this? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38382866/ns ... inessweek/

To be clear, by "lazy" we do not mean lacking work ethic or engagement. Rather, it is a measure of leisure time spent doing sedentary activities compared with activities that require more physical effort, such as exercising and even working.

[Kanastrous]

Yeah. Explains the almost incredible fat-assery one sees wandering around, down here.

Although in all fairness some of those people are probably tourists, or something.

[General Zod]

Yeah. Explains the almost incredible fat-assery one sees wandering around, down here.

Although in all fairness some of those people are probably tourists, or something.

I would expect the high levels of humidity play a considerable part.

[Kanastrous]

Maybe. Although given the choice between being slim and sweaty and being piled-up-rolls-of-fat and sweaty, I'd choose the former...

[Pelranius]

I thought Mississippi was the Union's most sedentary state?