A Chinese sailor lines up his ammunition - beer bottles - to defend against the pirates
Posted on 12/19/2008 6:41:42 AM PST by JoeProBono
The crew of a Chinese ship attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia have described how they used beer bottles and water cannon to fend off their attackers before they were rescued.
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A Chinese sailor lines up his ammunition - beer bottles - to defend against the pirates
99 bottles of beer on the wall
99 bottles of beer!
Take one down, and pass it around
98 bottles of beer on the wall!
98 bottles of beer on the wall
98 bottles of beer!
Take one down, and pass it around
97 bottles of beer on the wall!...
Good for them to put up a fight. Some would just surrender. Glad China is sending some ships to fight the pirates. Hope they are not as kind as the Indians and take no prisoners.
Wonder if the Indians decided to sink the 23 pirates they captured the other day. Feed them to the fish.
Looks like they drank the beer before using the bottles as weapons.
Works for me.
Then peed in the bottles to give them some weight.
No more guns for me, just beer from now on!
I think the lead content in the bottles would have provided enough mass for the bottles to acquire good momentum... no pee required.
This explains why there never has been a pirate attack on Lake Michigan. The sailboat on which I crewed was always armed to the gunwhales.
Look for a Jackie Chan movie out of this.
The drunken Kung Fu beer master.
They look a lot like Molotov cocktails to me........it’s a good thing.
I think that the only countries that should be over there trying to stop the pirates should be those that publically embrace torture. Can you imagine Somali pirates in some boat that can barely float seeing some battleship USS Waterboarder bearing down on them, with “Hope you can swim” painted on their anti-pirate missiles. Then if we could chum the water to attrack Tiger sharks to the area, we’d be all set.
Bottles used pictured here.
What a way to stand their ground...
It looks more like gasoline with the cloth wicks. Anyone for a Molotov Coctail?
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