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2010-04-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-
US Navy Frigate Captures 5 Pirates and Mother Ship
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Posted by Sherry 2010-04-01 09:41|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Sink the ship, hang the pirates.

NEXT!
Posted by mojo  2010-04-01 10:30||   2010-04-01 10:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Experts say piracy will continue to be a problem until an effective government is established on Somalia's lawless shores.

The Somali government is incapable and has therefore abdicated its authority to whomever will do it for them.

It ain't hard. Sink the friggin' pirate ships and be done with it. Get to work.
Posted by gorb 2010-04-01 10:50||   2010-04-01 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 They still have yardarms?
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-04-01 10:57||   2010-04-01 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Dollars to donuts says that if they don't the Chiefs will have the BM's (Boatswains mates) rig one in a hurry.
Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-01 11:15||   2010-04-01 11:15|| Front Page Top

#5 these pirates will be brought to US and tried in fed court, the case tossed because they were not properly mirandized, restitution of 7 figures paid to each pirate for false imprisonment and they will move to minneapolis and bring in 150-200 additional family members to live on the dole with them.
Posted by  abu do you love  2010-04-01 11:33||   2010-04-01 11:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Some guys were so stupid that they opened fire on a USN frigate from a skiff - how on earth did we miss electing them to Congress?
Posted by Matt 2010-04-01 11:53||   2010-04-01 11:53|| Front Page Top

#7 these pirates will be brought to US and tried in fed court, the case tossed because they were not properly mirandized, restitution of 7 figures paid to each pirate for false imprisonment and they will move to minneapolis and bring in 150-200 additional family members to live on the dole with them.

Plus all of them will get the nationality (without taking the oath) and all of them will vote Democrat.
Posted by JFM 2010-04-01 12:02||   2010-04-01 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Seychelles will take them off their hands. According to yesterday's story, they look forward to either putting pirates on trial or blowing them out of the water.
Posted by tu3031 2010-04-01 12:14||   2010-04-01 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 I look forward to anytime after November this year when people say "What's a Democrat"?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-04-01 12:17||   2010-04-01 12:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Could these priates be probing the US Navy defenses for someone?
Posted by Gromoling the Weasel7090  2010-04-01 13:24||   2010-04-01 13:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Begs the question, is it better to be blown in the water or out?
Posted by Unique Battle 2010-04-01 13:32||   2010-04-01 13:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes.
Posted by gorb 2010-04-01 13:45||   2010-04-01 13:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Correct!
Posted by tu3031 2010-04-01 14:05||   2010-04-01 14:05|| Front Page Top

#14 More from Yahoo news..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100401/ap_on_re_af/af_piracy

From this article Last May, pirates chased a U.S. Navy warship and fired small arms at it. The ship, which had recently served as a prison for captured pirates, increased speed and evaded the attack.

Was the the USS Sir Robin?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-04-01 14:43||   2010-04-01 14:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Don't send them to the Seychelles. It might tip over.
Posted by Skunky Glins****  2010-04-01 18:03||   2010-04-01 18:03|| Front Page Top

#16 Good Lord...first we had three SEALs to court martial, now we have a whole crew....

Glad I'm not the Attorney General!
Posted by Kelly 2010-04-01 18:16||   2010-04-01 18:16|| Front Page Top

#17 End of that captain's career.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-01 18:19||   2010-04-01 18:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Should have sunk the mothership and then moved along. No need for prisoners.
Posted by rjschwarz 2010-04-01 19:54||   2010-04-01 19:54|| Front Page Top

#19 MAN I wish we still had a couple of Missouri-class battlewagons. Can you imagine what a skiff or a dhow would look like after being run over by a BB? No shots would have to be fired. The toothpicks that float to shore somewhere wouldn't even be noticed.
Posted by Old Patriot  2010-04-01 20:26|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/  2010-04-01 20:26|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm assuming it wasn't this mothership:
Posted by xbalanke 2010-04-01 21:09||   2010-04-01 21:09|| Front Page Top

#21 True - a mothership is acceptable only if they got George Clinton and Bootsy Collins popping out of it.

Tear the roof off the mutha... /P-Funk
Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-01 21:12||   2010-04-01 21:12|| Front Page Top

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