Oh those kooky pirates

[SilentHunter7]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090110/ap_on_bi_ge/piracy

Some of you may remember the Oil Tanker that was hijacked by pirates and held for ransom 2 months ago? Well the Saudis decided to pay up, and in their haste to get away, the pirates capsized their getaway boat, and it went down with all the money. Three out of the Eight managed to make it to shore, if you don't count the one dead body that washed up.

 

[vede]

Well, I guess this is one form of piracy where anti-piracy measures are okay...

Anyway, hilarious thing for the pirates.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Pirates were never really up to being criminal masterminds...

 

[sequio]

Pirates were never really up to being criminal masterminds...

I concur. YAAAARRRRRRGH.

 

[A Hot Hotpocket]

Well, I guess this is one form of piracy where anti-piracy measures are okay...

Anyway, hilarious thing for the pirates.

Not so much for them, seeing as how five of them died.

So hilarious for them? No.

Hilarious for me? Most definately.

 

[Ronwue]

I liked the uncle blaming the death of of his nephew on the naval surveillance. Well no shit Einstein. "Please mister military man. Wait here while I run off at a slow speed cause I don't want to capsize my boat" "Sure thing pal. I mean we aren't paid to catch you or anything. we wouldn't dream of giving chase"

 

[fluffylandmine]

All EA needs to do now is make is so that you can pirate, only your computer blows up and kills you 5/8 of the time.

 

[vede]

Well, I guess this is one form of piracy where anti-piracy measures are okay...

Anyway, hilarious thing for the pirates.

Not so much for them, seeing as how five of them died.

So hilarious for them? No.

Hilarious for me? Most definately.

Well, yes, it seems I mis-worded that.

When I wrote "for" I meant more of a 'involving the' or 'about the'.

 

[Cousin_IT]

while the macabre irony is amusing. They were 5 among "dozens" of hijackers.

 

[Jark212]

They only payed $3 million for the tanker...

 

[vid20]

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[WolfThomas]

What I didn't get about the pirate situations was, surely you could hire and arm a bunch of mercenaries to guard an oil tanker that you're going to take through the most pirate infest water in the world.

Don't need much just a .50cal machine gun, watch their dicky little boat turn up, cut it to pieces.