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Stuck Cargo Ship Charted X-Rated Route Before Blocking Suez Canal

"Blocking the Suez Canal being a literal dick move," one person joked about the MV Ever Given's predicament.
Lee Moran
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Reporter, HuffPost

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The quarter-mile-long container ship that’s currently blocking the Suez Canal traced a distinctly phallic route in the hours before being blown off course and becoming stuck on Tuesday morning.

The route charted by the MV Ever Given in the Red Sea before entering the Egyptian waterway appeared to resemble a penis, testicles and butt cheeks when viewed as GPS data, per images and video shared online by the live boat tracking websites Vessel Finder and MyShipTracking.com:

UPDATE 2: Suez Canal Blocked by Huge container ship; Video simulation of the controversial trackhttps://t.co/3PXwGMuqdh #EverGiven #SuezCanal #ContainerShip #grounded pic.twitter.com/3QHetlOQxx

— VesselFinder (@VesselFinder) March 24, 2021

Disinformation researcher John Scott-Railton suggested the X-rated route of the boat – traveling from China to Rotterdam – was not intentional, describing it on Twitter as “innocent, but terrible luck.” Of course, other Twitter users had thoughts:

Blocking the Suez Canal being a literal dick move.

— Greg Johnson (@gregianjohnson) March 24, 2021

#EverGiven drawing a cock and balls before blocking the #SuezCanal is peak 2021. pic.twitter.com/aC7kzEkQmE

— Anna (@Gatsbyspants) March 23, 2021

No matter how bad shit gets for you today, no matter how hard things may seem... Know this: You didn’t accidentally GPS an enormous ocean cock-n-balls then get your giant cargo ship stuck sideways in the Suez Canal. https://t.co/HhlzI8vSvb

— ᴀɴᴅʀᴇᴡ ʙɪɢɢs (@biggsintweets) March 24, 2021

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