Pirates!

[Craig]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 12:46pm

Cruise ship thwarts pirates off Somalia

MIAMI -- Pirates firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons tried to hijack a U.S.-owned cruise ship yesterday off the East African coast, but the vessel carrying many American passengers escaped, its owners said.


http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051106-082918-1989r

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:50pm

Oy- I saw that! What exactly is the world coming to?

Is this a new version of "Peter Pan?"

I am going on a cruise in December...of course not to Somalia but I think I am becomming a bit nervous.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:53pm

Oh, the RPG-toting pirate thing is real and not exactly a recent phenomenon. The South China Sea is especially bad.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:57pm

Wow, I just can't believe I never heard about those other incidents of people being taken hostage earlier this year. That's pretty bad. But I guess rich tourists on a cruise make for better news than a UN famine relief boat.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:59pm

And when smaller boats "disappear", there's often no one to report the crime as piracy.

[etoile]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 12:56am

Although they never would or ever should detail what security measures are onboard, I suspect quite a few "passengers" are packing more than a suitcase.

[justme2]

Posted: 11/7/05 at 1:21am

Ok, this is an inane website, but scroll down a bit to get to the graph showing the relation of Pirates to Global Warming...the site is stupid, but god were we laughing when we first saw it.

http://www.venganza.org/

I want the Pirate Graph t-shirt.