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Judge Jeanine: For Carnival, punishment should fit the crime

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    What happens when your dream vacation becomes a nightmare?

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They're regular people they work hard they saved for their dream vacation.

But what do you do when the dream turns into a nightmare.

When your held captive on a virtual cruise from -- hell.

Hello and welcome to justice -- judge shouldn't hero.

It's Sunday morning day three of a four day cruise.

Fire erupts and all the power goes out.

And for the next five days 4200.

People on carnival's cruise ship triumph are adrift on a ship.

Without power.

That means no hot water no electricity.

No running toilets and no real food.

So much for the unlimited -- -- So what stunning looking for answers.

What is the history of this ship.

Did -- have any previous problems.

Alas.

Just a few weeks earlier the same ship -- engine room problem that caused sits cruises to be canceled.

And lest I forget.

This is a carnival cruise line.

Engine fires.

Not really uncommon.

Last year the Costa Allegra a fire in the engine room causes it to go adrift.

2010.

The -- Fire in the engine room adrift.

The Ecstasy the tropic -- the star princess the royal princess.

Each with their own problems.

Yet my drift.

So there was no why why was there are no emergency plan in place.

Passengers report total chaos.

Walking on urine soaked -- -- crested floors.

-- -- -- and onion sandwiches.

I brought them here for you.

-- and onions.

So I say why wasn't food air dropped for these people.

We do what for foreign countries all the time.

-- -- Hoarding food and their bags into their backpacks and running away with food.

And then those who -- shortages and all of a sudden they kept stopping serving you food -- go up mid you know they need be waiting in line for hours on end.

Wanted to take so long to get a generator.

Another cruise ship was able to drop off some hamburgers and chicken for which it's reported many on the ship became sick.

And over which fights erupted for the food.

What was there -- no provision.

For wheelchair bound passengers.

Since the elevators didn't work they were held captive on the floor that they were.

And we're focused but clearly tonight.

On our guests and getting them on their journey home.

Really.

When the power went out if you were so focused on getting your -- home the ship was a 150 miles from Mexico.

500 miles from Alabama.

The math is simple since the cruise is over the next day go to Mexico.

Get them home.

But the decision was made to go to Alabama.

Could it be because it was cheaper to go to the states.

Then you only have to bust people home.

And they had about a hundred buses vs paying for air fare from Mexico.

Plus why put more miles on the ship.

To -- -- this series catastrophe really.

So they're just very lucky we didn't end up burning in the -- has no one no alarms went off they told us to go back to bed while the fire burning.

But isn't it interesting that the last night the passengers receive for their last supper steak and lobster.

So for -- rare closeup.

Carnival Cruise Lines doesn't allow that old can't chip and onion sandwich.

The makeshift tests the -- are down.

The deck is pristine.

No longer smelling out feces and urine.

You're aren't strong enough to burn your rise.

And the feces cresting on your toes.

But then they had the music play -- So what is the real course the ticket language virtually limits the ability to recover and even say you.

Maritime law bars passengers from recovering damages for emotional distress.

So unless you've been physically injured no damages.

So -- -- congress needs to get involved.

Because the rights of cruise ship passengers are almost nonexistent.

At a time when the business is literally exploding.

So what's that is say this will be investigated.

Yes but -- home.

Oh yeah the Bahamian government aren't they the once and gave us the Anna Nicole's Smith investigation.

Isn't that where an attempt was made to -- John Travolta.

Right after his own son died.

I've always believed the punishment should fit the crime so here's my sentence.

All exacts.

A carnival.

Including the CEO will be sent insists files.

-- jail so.

Porta potty.

And a smelly one at that.

Conditions of their incarceration.

That they walk in feces and crusted and urine soaked rocks.

That they have no shower no water that they keep the old -- -- onions and -- sandwich.

And they're fine.

101000 dollars times 4200.

People.

And by the way then includes the crew members who literally.

Prevented an all allow mutiny.

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