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Those crazy pirates

  • 25-03-2011 03:49PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭


    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).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭Tahuti


    It seems like a fair deal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    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 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    would anybody really care if we nuked somalia:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    would anybody really care if we nuked somalia:confused:
    PETA?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    would anybody really care if we nuked somalia:confused:

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    would anybody really care if we nuked somalia:confused:

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,931 ✭✭✭Alkers


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    would anybody really care if we nuked somalia:confused:

    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    prinz wrote: »
    Yes.

    hippy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭blaze1


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Roomic Cube


    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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    hippy

    :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    hippy

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    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:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,612 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    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:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    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:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭Tahuti


    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...


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