Kentucky Noah's Ark attraction sues over flood damage

[struggle4progress]

U.S. News & World Report

WILLIAMSTOWN, KY. (AP) ... the owners of Kentucky's Noah's ark attraction are demanding their insurance company rescue them from flooding that caused nearly $1 million in property damages. The Ark Encounter says in a federal lawsuit that heavy rains in 2017 and 2018 caused a landslide on its access road. The Courier Journal reports the attraction's insurance carriers refused to cover damages ...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kentucky/articles/2019-05-24/kentucky-noahs-ark-attraction-sues-over-flood-damage

[PoliticAverse]

1. "The ark was not damaged." - Well good because if your ark is damaged by a flood...

you are simply doing it wrong.

[COLGATE4]

2. Gives Irony a whole new meaning nt

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Seriously. nt

[malaise]

15. +1,000,000

We can't make up this shit

[delisen]

3. Te Ark's builder did not follow Noah's specs?

[True Blue American]

9. LOL

Ark can not float? Did they save the Dinosaurs on it?

[keithbvadu2]

30. Detailed instructions

[Croney]

4. In other news, owners of a life-sized replica of the Starship Enterprise

are trying to collect on insurance after gale-force winds hurtled the craft into outer space.

[atreides1]

6. Well

Since a flood is a natural disaster, then that would fall under an act of God, and most insurance won't cover that!

[TrogL]

7. Everybody's staring at me cause I'm ROFLing

...and I don’t dare explain why.

[True Blue American]

10. Join the crowd!:)

[mercuryblues]

8. Last I heard

they were going under anyhow, God just sped the process up for them.

[Liberal Veteran]

18. Yeah, I saw this line in the article which made no sense.

"The 510-foot-long wooden ark has been a popular northern Kentucky attraction since its 2016 opening. "

If by popular they mean a "boat shaped building" that has never met any of it's projections of attendance and has done fuck all for the local economy, then I guess it's popular.

[Girard442]

21. Boat-shaped building indeed.

Videoes of the construction releeased by the organization itself show the building to be made of concrete, supported by numerous pillars.

[gratuitous]

11. Who's responsible for the access road?

This lawsuit is over damages to their access road caused by heavy rain two years ago and last year (from my reading of the excerpt). Who's responsible for that access road? As I recall, The Ark Encounter was subsidized rather handsomely by the Kentucky Legislature with taxpayer funds. Did the public spigot get shut off? According to the excerpt, Ark Encounter is seeking punitive damages as well as compensatory damage. Would Jesus seek punitive damages, or would He settle for just being made whole? Punitive damages wouldn't seem to square with most readings of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew) or the Sermon on the Plain (Luke).

[Vinca]

12. Shouldn't they being suing the invisible sky guy who caused the flooding????

[smirkymonkey]

13. Well, that is some Ark there!

Should't God be responsible for this? I thought they were supposed to be able to endure a flood. Wasn't that the point?

I think they should pray about it. Maybe that will help.

[keithbvadu2]

31. Send them thoughts and prayers.

[Achilleaze]

14. How perfectly republican

If that ark starts to float away, they should be sure there are no republicans aboard to pollute the REDEEMED WORLD with their lying, cheating, greedy, anti-American ways.

[Liberal Veteran]

19. I rather doubt that thing could float. It's basically is a boat shaped building.

Titanic in its current state is probably more seaworthy than this thing.

[Blue_true]

26. ..

[DFW]

16. I'm sorry, but Noah's Ark suing over a flood?

It's hard to keep a straight face over this one.

Now I know the centurions felt after hearing the name Biggus Dickus.

[FakeNoose]

20. It's an amusement park, with rides and attractions, & probably corndogs

[DFW]

23. Yes, I saw

I guess this one was just too far from Mt. Ararat for even celestial entities to intervene.

If it's any consolation, I don't recall reading that insurance covered any of the damage to the original, either.

[HopeAgain]

29. Holy corndogs!

With Heavenly Mustard!

[mercuryblues]

33. Well, only 2 corndogs

2 kit Kats, 2 gummy bears, 2 elephant ears, 2 squirrel nuts, 2 cow tails and lots of suckers. They refused the 3 Musketeers, Jolly Ranchers and sugar Daddys

[FakeNoose]

34. +2

[mercuryblues]

35. LOL

you

[Blue Owl]

17. Geico could've saved them 15% or more on ark insurance

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. The "Genocide and Incest Park" is having trouble?

Color me shocked.

[struggle4progress]

24. Between grubbing for state handouts and grabbing at insurance pay-offs, they may rake in the cash

[Blue_true]

25. Headlines just make themselves.

They clearly didn't have Noah whisper in their ears about floods.

[struggle4progress]

27. "God told me to build the road there, wait for rain, and sue my insurance company!

If I can't save the animals, maybe I can at least save my bank account!"

[Cattledog]

28. "A great flood is coming": Noah

[mindem]

32. What's the problem?

All they need to do is to have thoughts and prayers and everything will be OK.