Pirates in the 21st Century?

My thoughts on all the pirating going on.

Oh the news! Every morning when I awake its turn on the coffee pot, feed Kittuni, take my shower,get dressed, and then finally I turn on the morning news and watch my invisible plants grow. Whew...life of a woman, but lets save that for another time.

Well a couple of days ago I almost choked on my delicious dark elixir (my coffee) when the reporter on channel 13 announced that modern day pirates from Africa had taken over a ship.

Now I don't know about anyone else, but when I think of Pirates, I think of Black Beard, Captain Hook, and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. All the makeup, striped shirts, a patch over the eye, and of course the almighty hook! Steeling woman and anything of any value at all.

With seeing the news the past few days all they are talking about is the Pirates from Africa taking over huge modern day tanker ships. I am a bit confused by all of this. Arrrr... matie is there any gold on that ship or woman we can rape or capture? Crazy stuff our world is going through. How on earth did they breech the ship in the first place is my question. How can someone just walk onto a monster ship and take over the massive thing? These tanker are not small in any respect.  They must employee hundreds if not thousands.

There must be many many pirates to succeed in this venture is all I can say or they have giant weapons. Where did they come from? The Pirates that is, did they just wake up one day and after watching a movie from years past decide there new found job was to be a Pirate? Where did they find all the other pirates to join in their adventure? Maybe I am a bit slow, but none of this makes much sense to me.

And now we come to the folks trying to capture those darn pirates, It seems many countries was in on this chase, but only one made the cut. The Indian Navy!  Wow, what an incredible feat they have accomplished. No one else seemed to be able to control these sea Jekyll's, but they sunk their damn ship! How proud all Indians are for this feat and as they should be.

Who knows maybe we should take some tips from them to help us conquor Iraq and Afganistan. It only took them a couple days to rid the Indian Ocean from these vilians, maybe with a month we could have world peace.

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Comments (15)
#1 by  joystick7
Nov 20, 2008
Yup.. that's makes every Indian proud!
#2 by  Glynis Smy
Nov 20, 2008
I just read about this on the news, Bluebeard did come to mind. It is a sad world. Interesting article.
#3 by  Debra Mann
Nov 20, 2008
Yeah, it's really bad, mainly in Somali waters.
#4 by  James DeVere
Nov 20, 2008
It's just evolution. j
#5 by  thestickman
Nov 20, 2008
"...They must employee hundreds if not thousands."

You might be confusing a military transport with this civilian oil-tanker vessel. I think an oil tanker might carry 20-30 crew members, -all or mostly all, being non-military types. The first sight of a sword, machete or AK-47, they surrender and order the others to do so too.

I am a bit surprised though that they gained access to the ship. It's pretty tall. They (pirates) must have feigned being stranded or helpless, and were brought on-board. Still, this is pretty tragic and am surprised that Commodities Markets have not panicked (as they do every time a camel farts or stubs his toe on a rock over in those oil-producing countries) and raise the price of a barrel of crude by another $20.00... :(
#6 by  Christine Ramsay
Nov 20, 2008
Quite a humerous look at a growing problem. I too can't understand
how a ship of that size can be taken. I wonder if we'll ever find out. I didn't know a pirate ship had been sunk.

Keep writing
Christine
#7 by  Morgana
Nov 20, 2008
Wow, I didn't hear the news on my side of the world
#8 by goodselfme
Nov 20, 2008
Wow. Great article. Thanks
#9 by  Will Gray
Nov 20, 2008
Very interesting article. I am going to look into it. I had no idea this sort of thing was going on today! Thanks!
#10 by  Inna Tysoe
Nov 20, 2008
I know what you mean--I thought of Bluebeard myself when I heard the news, lol.

Inna
#11 by  R J Grant
Nov 20, 2008
Well, I guess it all comes down to who\'s waters the pirating is taking place in and who\'s ships are being taken.

With all the saber rattling in Asia and the mid-East some one must be able to enforce a \"no float\" zone i.e., Unregistered traffic is subject to destruction by warships or fighter aircraft. Zero tolerance. Pirating would end in two days. As I recall the Saudis have a rather large air force and plenty of fuel.

I do not think it is a U.S. issue. Let someone else step up to the plate for a change.

Grant
#12 by  ur guide
Nov 20, 2008
A very nice piece of article.

But, i would like to appreciate the strategy which these pirates apply.....as conquering vast ships is not a joke..
#13 by  DVL
Nov 21, 2008
To be honest i did laugh when i heard it on the news, simply because eye patches and hooks came to mind. But really its not that farfetched, ships transport so many valuable things. Nice article :D
#14 by  Lauren Axelrod
Nov 21, 2008
Pirating has been happening for years with large and small vessels it just doesn\'t make it to the news. This was interesting my friend
#15 by  Patrick Bernauw
Nov 25, 2008
Good article! Enjoyed it very much!
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