Those crazy pirates

blaze1 · 25-03-2011 05:02PM

thebigbiffo wrote: »

where do they bring you if there's no craic

Hi-jacking irish ferries?

old hippy · 25-03-2011 05:02PM

Why do they call pirates "pirates"?

Because they arrrr.

Sorry, I'll get me coat

MrStuffins · 25-03-2011 05:07PM

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 · 25-03-2011 06:10PM

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 · 25-03-2011 06:24PM

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 · 25-03-2011 06:24PM

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 · 25-03-2011 07:43PM

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 · 25-03-2011 08:05PM

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

Those crazy pirates

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