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    Maybe they should have brought navigation equipment with them. How did they ever manage to navigate in the first place? Did they teleport onto the ship? Maybe next time they will keep their own boat in tow? Maybe they should have driven the tanker in a direction towards home?

    Yeah, leaving them was "not humanitarianish."

    But really, freaking funny.

    They have to be discouraged somehow, and every one of them that makes it home unscathed makes even more want to be pirates.

    Hopefully next, navies start marooning them on small islands or, even better, drop them in south america. Now that would be funny
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    Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
    Hopefully next, navies start marooning them on small islands or, even better, drop them in south america. Now that would be funny
    We can dump them in America or Australia, as we used to do with our undesirables.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
    We can dump them in America or Australia, as we used to do with our undesirables.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
    We can dump them in America or Australia, as we used to do with our undesirables.
    Thanks for the chuckle.


    Seriously though, the only points in history where Piracy has been marginalized are those eras where pirates were considered a common threat and EVERYONE dealt with them harshly. In those by-gone and less enlightened times that meant that most of them met Jack Ketch -- and it was a certainty for any pirate leader.

    Now the pirates can a) make a lot of money if the companies make the smart choice and pay rather than delay delivery of a valuable cargo, or b) get caught by naval forces and be 1) sent home to try again, or 2) incarcerated in a prison that provides a better standard of living than you had before you were a pirate and -- because of asylum laws and bureacracy -- may give you permanent residency as a free person in a country with a great standard of living. Into the bargain, they might even pay you for breathing as they do some of their own citizens.

    All of us .orgers should consider pooling funds to buy some zodiacs and kalishnikovs and base ourselves in Madagascar somewhere. We're clearly NOT the smart ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
    Thanks for the chuckle.


    Seriously though, the only points in history where Piracy has been marginalized are those eras where pirates were considered a common threat and EVERYONE dealt with them harshly. In those by-gone and less enlightened times that meant that most of them met Jack Ketch -- and it was a certainty for any pirate leader.

    Now the pirates can a) make a lot of money if the companies make the smart choice and pay rather than delay delivery of a valuable cargo, or b) get caught by naval forces and be 1) sent home to try again, or 2) incarcerated in a prison that provides a better standard of living than you had before you were a pirate and -- because of asylum laws and bureacracy -- may give you permanent residency as a free person in a country with a great standard of living. Into the bargain, they might even pay you for breathing as they do some of their own citizens.

    All of us .orgers should consider pooling funds to buy some zodiacs and kalishnikovs and base ourselves in Madagascar somewhere. We're clearly NOT the smart ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
    I just happen to know where we can get our hands on the proper tools befitting our new station. Say hello to my leetle friends...
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    I had no idea Liberace owned firearms.
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    I think we should pay the somalis to patrol thier own waters, anyone discovered using thier waters as dumping ground should be fined millions (whoever thier working for) to help pay for this service. We could also let them make hostages out of these people and give them the oppurtunity to ransom them back...

    I figure we need to give the Somali's some kind of alternative income.....

    As a final note it is obviously hysterical that some desperate poverty stricken men who turned to piracy as a desperate last hope are now stranded in the middle of the ocean without navigaytion equipment, I can only hope thier joined by a man attempting to steal bread for his starving family and some other assorted evil do'ers...
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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    I had no idea Liberace owned firearms.
    And I had no idea Liberace was a Mexican drug lord...

    Quote Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly View Post
    I think we should pay the somalis to patrol thier own waters, anyone discovered using thier waters as dumping ground should be fined millions (whoever thier working for) to help pay for this service. We could also let them make hostages out of these people and give them the oppurtunity to ransom them back...

    I figure we need to give the Somali's some kind of alternative income.....

    As a final note it is obviously hysterical that some desperate poverty stricken men who turned to piracy as a desperate last hope are now stranded in the middle of the ocean without navigaytion equipment, I can only hope thier joined by a man attempting to steal bread for his starving family and some other assorted evil do'ers...
    By all means feel free to send them along a monthly check. I rather prefer Louis's Kenyan solution, which I believe has been tried with no luck so far. Failing that, the Russian Nantucket Sleigh Ride option will have to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly View Post
    As a final note it is obviously hysterical that some desperate poverty stricken men who turned to piracy as a desperate last hope are now stranded in the middle of the ocean without navigaytion equipment, I can only hope thier joined by a man attempting to steal bread for his starving family and some other assorted evil do'ers...
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    Quote Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly View Post
    I think we should pay the somalis to patrol thier own waters, anyone discovered using thier waters as dumping ground should be fined millions (whoever thier working for) to help pay for this service. We could also let them make hostages out of these people and give them the oppurtunity to ransom them back...
    Yep, but you would need to send them money, ships, trainers, officers and a huge administration to keep an eye on all that. Actually why do I care, I live in a land-locked country.

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    Bumping this for fun :)

    Cross-read with the Israeli-murder-spree-on-international-waters-thread for a laugh...

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    since your going to bump it, make it relevant by explaining the fun............
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    If anyone has a legitimate reason to want this thread re-opened to discuss further developments in the Somali piracy news, please PM me or any member of the team.

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