1 Topic by Little Paul (edited by Little Paul 18-Nov-2008 00:11:41)

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Topic: What the flush am I working for?

...so hard? Somalian pirates captured a Saudi oil tanker of 330 meters long worth 2 million barrels=1/4 of the daily production of whole SA or 107.520.000$ or 85.047.446

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

With a pirates hat, bird, and foul mouth? yikes.

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

I'll be the first pirate to talk normal though...

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

Send a fleet and eliminate them. Problem solved.

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

Best estimates is that the pirates in Somalia got $18M to $30M in ransom money last year.
There is also an estimate of 1000 pirates. Thats 18K to 30K each
Thats a lot of money in Somalia but I doubt that would go far where you live.

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

as if those 1000 pirates divide shares equally(and they pirate all day) tongue

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wtf can you buy with $18,000,000 in Somalia

"Jamal...pass me another dirty water & Coke"

"That'll be $56,000 man"

"Put it on me tab arrrr"

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Well if its anything like the pirates of old the shares were pretty equal.
Thats the thing about outlaws, if you appear to take more than you deserve you wont last long at the top.

Back on the Spanish Main Captains would get like 5 shares. It was only Morgan that managed to haul 1% on the raid on Panama City, and even that left quite a few men gunning for him after.

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are pirates still liable for summary execution?

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

Gaining control over a vast ship like that is 1 thing, getting away with it and selling its cargo is another tongue

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

They have done it before, according to the BBC news this morning they still have a number of ships and crew "held hostage". They're actually sitting in a port waiting for someone to either pay their ransom or take them back by force.

Personally I doff my hat to them.

(I wonder how much of their economy is made up of piracy? 90%)

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i'm a  sailor from proffesion, and somehow i dont share you rspons tongue.

Every small craft near somalia should be shot to the bottom by the warships, no exception made, they are not fishing over there anyway.

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

I don't get it why they just don't take over the ship by force, send some or several 1337 teams in
It surprises me they just sit there and do nothing...

What do I have to work with?

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

well, mostly because the crew would get killed that way

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The ships owners are private companies and should pay for their own protection.

The inmates are running the asylum

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The ships owners should install rocket launchers on their cargo ships, would cost them less.
And add 2 rocket launcher crew to every ship.

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If you don

The inmates are running the asylum

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

You can say the same when you get your expensive car stolen, oh police should do nothing, if you had used part of that money to protect your car it wouldn't  have happened!

What do I have to work with?

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LOL

Like the police actually do anything at the moment.
Besides eating donuts and making their quota of speeding tickets what exactly do they do?

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Odd, police here do as they are supposed to do...

Morbo: Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat.
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Re: What the flush am I working for?

rape and pillage?

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> Han wrote:
Like the police actually do anything at the moment.
Besides eating donuts and making their quota of speeding tickets what exactly do they do?>
>rape and pillage?>

If that's what they did, I would be training to be a cop right now.

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Re: What the flush am I working for?

It's just that pirated ships are a nice exciting news item, but no country is going to have their hugely expensive Carriers / Battleships / cruisers committed to patrolling friggin Somalian territorial seas. A token vessel, yeah, but, not the firepower and coverage needed.

Ships should just make a little detour and avoid the area. Or be somewhat vigilant and have some security people aboard. I'd be ashamed if i were the captain of that tanker and get my ass handed to me by 10 guys in a beefed up zodiac.

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ROFL

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"Every small craft near somalia should be shot to the bottom by the warships, no exception made, they are not fishing over there anyway."
- Except by the majority of small craft owners, such as Somali fisherman, who actually try to earn an honourable income. If you start killing them, you make the Pirates out as the victims and inevitably you will have another terrorist group on your hands. the last thing that region needs now is another large scale "freedom" fight.

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