{"id":2473,"date":"2013-12-03T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/12\/03\/sir-is-this-your-high-speed-ferry\/"},"modified":"2013-12-03T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T07:00:01","slug":"sir-is-this-your-high-speed-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20131203-01\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Sir, is this your high-speed ferry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clippervacations.com\/vessel-information\/\">Victoria Clipper<\/a> is a high-speed ferry that runs primarily between Seattle and <strike>Vancouver<\/strike> Victoria, BC. Early Sunday morning, a man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/article\/Police-suspicious-person-aboard-Victoria-Clipper-5025789.php\"> scaled a fence and drove off with one of the boats<\/a>.\n The issue was <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2022377087_stolenclipperxml.html\"> resolved without major incident and only minimal damage<\/a>, which means that it is now open season on jokes!\n &#8220;Why yes, officer, this <i>is<\/i> my ferry. I must have left the registration in my other pants.&#8221;\n According to the vessel superindendent, &#8220;There is a joystick and he thought it was like an Xbox,&#8221; ending up driving the boat in circles. You can see the GPS track <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirotv.com\/gallery\/news\/photos-police-coast-guard-respond-stolen-victoria-\/gCGHM\/#4184047\"> here<\/a> (photo 19).\n Of course, if the thief had had a Kinect, he would have used the voice control. &#8220;Clipper, go to West Seattle. Clipper! Go. To. West. Seattle. CLIPPER!&#8221; (Waves arms frantically.)\n Or maybe the Clipper would have responded, &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Clipper! It looks like you&#8217;re trying to go to West Seattle. I can help you with this. Is this a personal trip or a business trip?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Even the Seattle Police Department joined in the festivities, using a popular hashtag for the incident. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Man arrested after commandeering Victoria Clipper:     <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OTm3qZjImY\">https:\/\/t.co\/OTm3qZjImY<\/a>     <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ShipGotReal&amp;src=hash\">#ShipGotReal<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> &mdash; Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeattlePD\/statuses\/407232123360141312\">December 1, 2013<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victoria Clipper is a high-speed ferry that runs primarily between Seattle and Vancouver Victoria, BC. Early Sunday morning, a man scaled a fence and drove off with one of the boats. The issue was resolved without major incident and only minimal damage, which means that it is now open season on jokes! &#8220;Why yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Victoria Clipper is a high-speed ferry that runs primarily between Seattle and Vancouver Victoria, BC. Early Sunday morning, a man scaled a fence and drove off with one of the boats. The issue was resolved without major incident and only minimal damage, which means that it is now open season on jokes! &#8220;Why yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}