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As a final indignity perpetrated on the passengers of the disabled Triumph cruise ship after it reached port last night, a bus ferrying tired and disheveled tourists back to their homes broke down halfway to New Orleans this morning.
The Carnival Triumph pulled into the Port of Mobile at about half past nine, local time, bringing an end to the days-long, feces-filled journey. Sort of.
If case you haven't heard, there's a very smelly and disgusting cruise ship stranded in the Gulf of Mexico right now. It's still several hours away from limping into port, but CNN has got you covered right now with riveting wall-to-wall coverage of the slowest moving boat in the world.
The cruise company claims that conditions aren't so bad, even four days after the mid-ocean stall. But reports from some of the 4,000 passengers depict a travel agent's worst nightmare — something like the lawlessness of Somalia but maybe more like a floating Penn Station bathroom.
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