PIRATES!

by Ipsilon on Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:46 pm

by omicron on Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:38 pm

Cool naval battles? Ipsy you need to research this a bit more.

This is their typical ship:


This is ours:

by Ipsilon on Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:02 pm

I don't know; what I've read suggests they have a few better things than rowboats...


....but still. PIRATES.

by TKEMotown on Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:45 pm

by omicron on Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:01 pm

I suppose the USN can always do THIS to them

"Hey, you scratched our anchor!"

Or more seriously, they can sic R2D2 on em.

by Thurston McQ on Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:24 am

by omicron on Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:57 pm

5 Somali Pirates Drown With Share of $3M Ransom

Apparently they didn't calculate how much 3M in cash weighs

by Ipsilon on Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:21 pm

That got a hearty chuckle from me, matey!

Arrr!

by Magnum on Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:07 am

by Ipsilon on Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:10 pm

Omi, the pirates have been escalating. They have bigger ships now.

And, there's this: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04 ... index.html

by Ipsilon on Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:58 am

by omicron on Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:44 am

And yet they try to take more ships.

Looks like they may have drawn a little too much attention to themselves.

French Navy capture 11 pirates

I was reading some threads on Fark, and some made a suggestion that one of these surface right next to one of those pirate boats and watch themselve shit themselves

by Ipsilon on Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:13 pm

The only thing that would make this cooler is if there were laser guns involved.

And it was happening in space.

by midnightman on Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:41 am