One complication of course for the ones thinking on just shooting the pirates is that the pirates have the crew of the ship as hostages, but then a thought hit me:
While the pirates may not be able to do anything with the tanks, the weapons are very likely to end in Somalia and used to kill dozens if not hundreds of Somalis. Knowing this, would it be justified to just sink the ship if there is no practical way to rescue the hostages?
The answer is right on the tip of my tongue. Don’t they carry a large piece of wood on board Danish warships? Say something like a 2"X12"? What is the word I am looking for? You know a large piece of wood you could have the pirates walk on. Now what is that word?
Gaaah! I hate it when I can’t recall a word.
You’re pretty right on the first one. But the second, it’s likely the hijacked ship was one of your basic ginormous cargo ships. They’re big and loaded with cargo, slow as hell, and have a crew of almost nobody. They’re easy prey to anybody with a couple of speedboats and a way up the side.
Your constant suggestions are always welcome.
In fact, I think I’ll create a political party, and part of my platform will be the philosophical statement that piracy should be punished.
Avast ye, maties! We be surrounded!
Step One, pay the ransom.
Step Two, move the ship out of th way.
Step Three, pummel the pirate port to dust.
Who’s for it?
It’s mind boggling that a pirate port is allowed to exist.
Well thank goodness Global Warming will be coming to an end soon!
I don’t understand this sentence.
What “pirate port”?
The little-known Somalian resort town of Tortuga, I guess.
I think he is referring to the town of Eyl, from the first quoted article:
It is not really a port, as seen in Google Earth, it seems that the only place to keep any captured ship is to keep it anchored close to the almost dry river mouth.
Missed the edit window:
One interesting bit:
Google earth community members made notice of a secret(?) airfield close to the town:
Well, I’m not supposed to tell, so all I’ll say is that it has “something” to with the upcoming US elections. . .
I understood the USS Howard was shadowing the ship.
They won’t be able to support the tanks in the field the way a nation would. I think they have 33 paper weights in the tanks. The rest of the cargo might me a lot more useful to them.
Are you sure it wasn’t the USS Moe or USS Curly? I think they were planning on sending the USS Shemp at one point, but it didn’t test well.
Pirates with tanks? Pfft, those things can’t float.
Nothing to worry about.
If they can sell the tanks to a nation, however, they will be very valuable paper weights. There are all sorts of reasons why this won’t occur, but the fact that the pirates themselves won’t have a use for the tanks isn’t one of them.
Well, they still can’t drive up the side of a tanker, so we’re still pretty much ok.
What tanker?