Pirates attack cruise ship
 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9932838/

Arrrrrrrr; it would be priceless if they had a graphic of some dude with an eye patch firing a grenade launcher from an inflatable raft.

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Heh. When I heard this on the news an hour ago, I immediately thought of OOT.

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Over/under on the time it takes til we're sailing on armed cruise ships? [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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This is exactly what I expected when Party cut off the skins.

-Michael

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WTF kind of cruise was that?

We're going on an East African cruise. Madagascar, Tanzania, the Seychelles and Somalia! I'm really excited!

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Somalia is really a messed up country. A Somali company once contacted me asking me to propose a solution for building out some infrastructure in Somalia. It had one unusual challenge, no functioning national electricity grid exists, so to avoid having to maintain generators the solution had to work without electricity. What surprised me, sort of, was that the people I discussed with had extensive technical knowledge and seemed to be excellent businesspeople. Bad luck for them to grow up in such a messed up-country.

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There are more weapons an a cruise ship than you would think. A crew of 10-20 officers and 50 secuity personell may have to control a population of 2k+ in an emergency.

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Oh man. That's just scary.
Such a scary world we live in nowadays.

Cruise ships truly need their own clans of ninja to defend against pirates.

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Over/under on the time it takes til we're sailing on armed cruise ships? [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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There are more weapons an a cruise ship than you would think. A crew of 10-20 officers and 50 secuity personell may have to control a population of 2k+ in an emergency.

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Yes, their combined maneuverability, other methods they have and firepower meant that the pirates had little chance of actually succeding in a fight. I guess they tried to scare the ship into surrender.

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Quick someone raise the fox news terror update alert system. Sound the alarms.