Gulf oil spill: BP executive gets shrimper’s view up close

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Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer, has become a common face and voice at media briefings about the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

But perhaps he was lucky one shrimper didn’t recognize him.

Suttles recently told of stopping to buy toothpaste in Mobile, Ala. There, he ran into a “large man” in line at the check-out, who asked him if he was with the oil-spill crews, then warned him not to “mess up my shrimp.”

‘If you do, I’m gonna come find you,” he said the man told him.

Suttles said he was taking the message to heart.

-- Julie Cart