Cruise Ship Carrying 4,000 People Crashes Into San Francisco Pier -- Hahahaha!

 A Princess Cruises ship carrying nearly some 4,000 people careened into a San Francisco peer this week while attempting to dock, in what the company described as an "unexpected contact" with the Pier 27 dock at the Port of San Francisco.

"Unexpected contact."  The captain is employed to prevent an "unexpected contact."

Ruby Princess cruise ship slammed into Pier 27 in San Francisco. Sources say the bar pilot “tried docking on a 3 knot ebb current, which is insane.” Bar pilots are captains who board cruise/cargo ships and tankers to guide them through the bay’s sand bars and into port.

"I noticed we were spinning pretty quick, to be that close to the dock, and I was mid-ship, portside, looked out the window and we smacked into the dock," Sacramento resident and passenger Paul Zasso told ABC7.

Another passenger said that while the effects were minimal, "you could definitely" feel it. "It wasn’t like things falling off the shelves or anything like that, kind of like when you get the tugboats coming up against us. So yeah … it was different," Jeremy Jordan told the outlet.

“It was so funny, because one of the dock guys, you can hear him yell out like ‘whoa’ and then you can kind of hear it just slowly going in,” Mr. Jordan continued. "It’s ironic, because I think it was yesterday the captain was talking about how he goes into docks and how unpredictable the currents are. So yeah, it’s a challenge for them to be able to do that."