Help, help!
Send Butter Cookies! Please!
and maybe...
one of those hot Mermaid chicks too.
Posted on 12/04/2008 6:01:39 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A Danish warship has rescued a group of suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden after receiving a distress signal from the ship, which was floundering in heavy seas, the Danish Navy said.
The Naval Operational Command said the Absalon was bound by international law to help the men and that Danish sailors had uncovered a number of weapons onboard the vessel similar to those often used in pirate attacks on merchant ships.
"Due to the weather, it was not possible to take the troubled ship in tow and it was destroyed in the interest of shipping safety," the Navy said in a statement.
The men were later handed over to authorities in Yemen.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
So, we rescue them, sink their ship, and then allow them to swim the 75 miles to shore.
This is a good plan.
Or hand them over to the Yemenis. Whatever.
Help, help!
Send Butter Cookies! Please!
and maybe...
one of those hot Mermaid chicks too.
Well, if it's done in the interests of Safety, maybe the US Navy could go looking for some rescues too.
Well, isn’t that cozy. Guess the boys served ‘em up some milk and cookies before they left.
They should have just left them alone to their fates.
That would be a Crime on the High Seas.
Due to the weather, it was not possible to take the troubled ship in tow and it was destroyed in the interest of shipping safety," the Navy said in a statement.
It sounds like it was handled pretty well to me. "So sorry about your boat and all those weapons mates. But, it's a Hazard to Navigation and has to be destroyed."
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Okay, maybe if they were only “suspected”. But I cannot understand why this piracy thing is still going on. A good portion of the world has become suicidal, with the rest of the world homocidal. Not a good combo.
So it seems.
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I was somewhat outraged by the title, but then I read the story.
Not a bad plan. Sink the ship, turn the pirates over to someone who will see that they are taken care of, and call it a “rescue,” so as to keep the UN happy.
And I agree about the “awkward stage” but the next phase seems to be looming...
So it seems...
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