Those crazy pirates

biko

This may not be well know but a Danish family out sailing in the Indian Ocean was kidnapped by Somali pirates a few weeks back.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12840582

Kidnappings like this happens a lot, EU's anti-piracy naval force said recently that pirates were holding a total of 31 vessels and 688 hostages.

Now the leader of the pirates says the rest of the Danish family can go free, but only if he gets to wed (and keep) the 13 year old daughter Naja :eek:
http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/article1525611.ece In English.

Piracy is a highly lucrative trade in Somalia, where gangs can often demand millions of dollars in ransoms.

Anyway, here's hoping they'll manage to get away without having to marry off their daughter to some pirate king, who I bet is no Errol Flynn or Jack Sparrow (not that they'd be into underaged kids).

Tahuti

It seems like a fair deal.

prinz

The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me. Then there's the pirates to consider.

Something should really be done about those animals.

Overheal

Hell, if you want to exemplify countries the UN has an interest in intervening with...

mikemac

I remember a story a year ago.
Somali pirates attacked a Russian ship but they failed and got captured.

The Russians were then asked to hand them over but they couldn't locate them
Strange how they managed to lose their prisoners

Pretty certain they were executed or fed to the sharks.
The Russians, no messing around with them

Wibbs

I don't know why a few nations don't get together and sail a few small merchant ships or yachts in the area, loaded up with guns and angry men who know how to use them. Kill a load of the pirates and hang their skins on the mast. And if one of yours is kidnapped, then don't even negotiate, just wipe out the village they're being held in. Sure you'd lose that hostage(s), but I reckon that'd shut them down quick enough.

Sykk

Scumbag paedophile.. I hope he, and the rest of the pirates die a slow and painful death

Pauleta

feelingstressed wrote: »

I remember a story a year ago.
Somali pirates attacked a Russian ship but they failed and got captured.

The Russians were then asked to hand them over but they couldn't locate them
Strange how they managed to lose their prisoners

Pretty certain they were executed or fed to the sharks.
The Russians, no messing around with them

I say they made them walk the plank

thebigbiffo

would anybody really care if we nuked somalia

Overheal

thebigbiffo wrote: »

would anybody really care if we nuked somalia

PETA?

wes

thebigbiffo wrote: »

would anybody really care if we nuked somalia

The rest of the world, as even letting off a few Nuclear weapons, can **** up the environment.

MrStuffins

YOU WOULDNT STEAL A HANDBAG!!!!

YOU WOULDNT STEAL A CAR!!!!

YOU WOULDNT STEAL A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL AND MARRY HE......... oh wait, what?

Sonics2k

thebigbiffo wrote: »

would anybody really care if we nuked somalia

Somalians.
But they're all pirates, so who gives a crap what they think.

stovelid

Plenty of pirate ships.

Plenty of countries with heavily armed navies and air-forces that could do with some regular target practice.

Everybody is happy.

Alkers

feelingstressed wrote: »

I remember a story a year ago.
Somali pirates attacked a Russian ship but they failed and got captured.

The Russians were then asked to hand them over but they couldn't locate them
Strange how they managed to lose their prisoners

Pretty certain they were executed or fed to the sharks.
The Russians, no messing around with them

There was a case where the Russians captured a load of pirates then "let them free" in the middle of the ocean in a rowing boat with no motor, miles from land. Legends

ectoraige

Wibbs wrote: »

I don't know why a few nations don't get together and sail a few small merchant ships or yachts in the area, loaded up with guns and angry men who know how to use them. Kill a load of the pirates and hang their skins on the mast. And if one of yours is kidnapped, then don't even negotiate, just wipe out the village they're being held in. Sure you'd lose that hostage(s), but I reckon that'd shut them down quick enough.

The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia have warships loaded up with guns and angry men who know how to use them. I guess the corpse-skinning and village-destroying parts of the operation are still stuck in committee though.

tallaghtmick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehweLPluNpY

prinz

thebigbiffo wrote: »

would anybody really care if we nuked somalia

Yes.

thebigbiffo

Overheal wrote: »

PETA?

wes wrote: »

The rest of the world, as even letting off a few Nuclear weapons, can **** up the environment.

Sonics2k wrote: »

Somalians.
But they're all pirates, so who gives a crap what they think.

hippies. hippies every last one of ye. cut yer hair and get a job ffs.

thebigbiffo

prinz wrote: »

Yes.

hippy

blaze1

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feelingstressed wrote: »

I remember a story a year ago.
Somali pirates attacked a Russian ship but they failed and got captured.

The Russians were then asked to hand them over but they couldn't locate them
Strange how they managed to lose their prisoners

Pretty certain they were executed or fed to the sharks.
The Russians, no messing around with them

Russian Justice. Stern. Stern but fair.

old hippy

thebigbiffo wrote: »

hippy

:mad:

mikemac

http://www.seasafari.ie/

Way offtopic but if you ever do this and it's good craic, they'll take you out to view an island in Dublin Bay where they used to hang pirates and leave them as a warning
Near Dalkey
Interesting I thought

prinz

thebigbiffo wrote: »

hippy

I think that's a first for me on boards.

mikemac

Simona1986 wrote: »

There was a case where the Russians captured a load of pirates then "let them free" in the middle of the ocean in a rowing boat with no motor, miles from land. Legends

I think you got the story correct and I got it wrong

The Russians didn't execute the pirates, the pirates just claim that happened. But it's being disputed

It was reported they let 10 pirates off in the Indian Ocean in a rubber dinghy with no motor and hundreds of km from land
Death by sharks or to die from dehydration under the blazing hot sun.

Tbh, that's even more cruel then a quick bullet
Don't mess with the Russians!
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/63244,news-comment,news-politics,russian-navy-sent-somali-pirates-to-their-death-from-the-moscow-university

thebigbiffo

feelingstressed wrote: »

http://www.seasafari.ie/

Way offtopic but if you ever do this and it's good craic, they'll take you out to view an island in Dublin Bay where they used to hang pirates and leave them as a warning
Near Dalkey
Interesting I thought

where do they bring you if there's no craic

Cookie_Monster

Sykk wrote: »

Scumbag paedophile.. I

ah come on now, the guy is probably only 12 anyway. start em young don't ya know

twinytwo

feelingstressed wrote: »

I think you got the story correct and I got it wrong

The Russians didn't execute the pirates, the pirates just claim that happened. But it's being disputed

It was reported they let 10 pirates off in the Indian Ocean in a rubber dinghy with no motor and hundreds of km from land
Death by sharks or to die from dehydration under the blazing hot sun.

Tbh, that's even more cruel then a quick bullet
Don't mess with the Russians!
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/63244,news-comment,news-politics,russian-navy-sent-somali-pirates-to-their-death-from-the-moscow-university

dont mess with russia...

but i have to alugh at people who knowing there is a serious pirate problem decide to go out sailing..... can you get any slower

tallaghtmick

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

ah come on now, the guy is probably only 12 anyway. start em young don't ya know

sure if a 13 year old boy sleeps with a 14 year old girl hes a peedo and can be charged:pac:

Tahuti

tallaghtmick wrote: »

sure if a 13 year old boy sleeps with a 14 year old girl hes a peedo and can be charged:pac:

But there's no age of consent in Somalia, so it's not as if he's breaking the law...

blaze1

thebigbiffo wrote: »

where do they bring you if there's no craic

Hi-jacking irish ferries?

old hippy

Why do they call pirates "pirates"?

Because they arrrr.









Sorry, I'll get me coat

MrStuffins

old hippy wrote: »

Why do they call pirates "pirates"?

Because they arrrr.









Sorry, I'll get me coat

Might've been funny had you not failed massively!

kowloon

Wibbs wrote: »

Kill a load of the pirates and hang their skins on the mast. And if one of yours is kidnapped, then don't even negotiate, just wipe out the village they're being held in. Sure you'd lose that hostage(s), but I reckon that'd shut them down quick enough.

So we're agreed then, nobody p1ss off Wibbs.

kowloon

Tahuti wrote: »

But there's no age of consent in Somalia, so it's not as if he's breaking the law...

And to add to that, there's no law in Somalia.

The answer to this is the Q-Ship, a Great War concept used to lure in U-Boats.

You put fake superstructure on a regular ship, perhaps shipping containers or the likes. The pirates take the bait and draw in closer only for the shipping container to collapse open to reveal something that'll blow the feckers out of the water.

In no time every merchant vessel and pleasure cruiser is seen as a potential warship.

Drake66

How about the French, Spanish and Japanese pirate fishing boats plundering the inshore fishing stocks off the horn of Africa? Can we 'nuke them too? How about the Italian pirates dumping chemical and radioactive waste in the same waters?

MrStuffins

Drake66 wrote: »

How about the French, Spanish and Japanese pirate fishing boats plundering the inshore fishing stocks off the horn of Africa? Can we 'nuke them too? How about the Italian pirates dumping chemical and radioactive waste in the same waters?

Hey hey now! Nobody suggested we should nuke any pirates!

Only nuke the entire country that's all!

Manic Moran

feelingstressed wrote: »

I think you got the story correct and I got it wrong

The Russians didn't execute the pirates, the pirates just claim that happened. But it's being disputed

It was reported they let 10 pirates off in the Indian Ocean in a rubber dinghy with no motor and hundreds of km from land
Death by sharks or to die from dehydration under the blazing hot sun.

Tbh, that's even more cruel then a quick bullet
Don't mess with the Russians!
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/63244,news-comment,news-politics,russian-navy-sent-somali-pirates-to-their-death-from-the-moscow-university

You may be confusing with a much earlier incident from on or about the Soviet days in the Straits of Malacca. The story is that an amphibious ship, which, other than being painted grey, could be mistaken for some form of civilian cargo vessel, was instructed to prepare for boarding by some pirates the region is famous for (Before being overshadowed by those Somali upstarts). The pirates were advised that it was a vessel of the Soviet Navy and it would be a really bad idea for them to proceed with that course of action. Evidently believing the 'cargo ship' to be bluffing, the pirates continued to board, only to be met by Soviet Naval Infantry. (i.e. Marines). The pirates were then returned to the sea whence they came, exept slighly perforated.

Both US and French naval support vessels have been targetted by pirates off Somalia, and one rather careless group actually attempted to board a French frigate. Which didn't end well for them.

As for the Q-Ship idea, I've no idea why nobody's done this yet, but Blackwater/Xe did send MV MacArthur, which looks pretty civilian, into the area to see who/what would take the bait.

NTM