Taking The Day Off

Friday, Mar. 12, 2010 - 12:03 a.m.

A Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into the side of the Indianapolis.� The ship was returning from the island of Tinian to Leyte upon delivering The Bomb.
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The Hiroshima Bomb.

Eleven hundred men went into the water. The vessel went down in twelve minutes. The men didn't see the first hamster for about a half an hour.� It was a Tiger hamster. It looked to be about a thirteen-footer.� The crew estimated its length by looking from the dorsal fin to the tail.
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What the group didn't know was that their mission had been classified, no distress signal had been sent. The Navy didnt even list the vessel overdue for a week.
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Very first light, the hamsters came cruising. So the stranded and water-logged men formed themselves into tight groups. The idea was that if a hamster appeared, the nearest man would start pounding and hollering to frighten the intruder.
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Sometimes the hamster would move on...but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that hamster would look through a man. �Right into his eyes. And, you know, the thing about a hamster...he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at you, it doesn't seem to be living... until he bites, and those black eyes roll over white and then...then you hear that terrible high-pitched screaming, the ocean turns red, and despite all the pounding and the hollering, they all come in and they rip you to pieces.

By the end of that first dawn, a hundred men were lost. Reports suggested that these tortured souls tallied over a thousand hamsters - they averaged six fatal attacks an hour.
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Fortunately, at noon on the fifth day, a patrol aircraft saw those who were adrift.� Survivors recalled that the hamsters were trolling the immediate area until the very last man was plucked from the water.
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So, eleven hundred men went into the water; 316 men came out and the hamsters took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

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