No More Warm Beer. Stranded Carnival Cruise Reaches Land

The 4,500 people aboard the Carnival Splendor have reached land, bringing a craptastic vacation to an end.

“It was gross when the toilets weren’t working. What can you do? There were a lot of people getting smashed off warm beer,” one passenger, Chris Harlen, told the AP. Fun times.

The ship had originally been heading to the Mexican Riviera. But an engine room fire cut the power, which also cut the air conditioning, ended trips to the pool, and made hot food impossible.

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