[Clive]

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[dighton]

Piratical ping.

[sheik yerbouty]

Now they're jacking ships.

[NYer]

AHOY, MATEY!

[Jonathon Spectre]

Hoist the black flag!

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..most of the attacks occur in waters above Angola or Mozambique...

I wonder why he doesn't just come right out and say where it's happening? I'm assuming, off Somalia, and perhaps Liberia and Sierra Leone, on the west side?

[Redcloak]

PING!

[Jhoffa_]

I will never understand this..

Why risk millions when you can hire a security team for your vessles?

I mean, how hard can it be to keep a bunch of amateurs from climbing onto your boat? And can't the boat itself be equipped with devices to help foil this kind of behavior?

Even cars have lojak systems.. Come on!

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Calling Presley O'Bannon

[JohnBovenmyer]

Send in some Q-ships and give the pirates a fatal surprise!

[quebecois]

Two points:

1) Africa is clearly drifting backwards to its pre-colonial level. After seeming to have disappeared from the civilized world, slavery and piracy have returned, like zombies from the grave, to haunt this unfortunate continent.

2) Clearly, the US Dept of Transportation should oppose all efforts to arm ship crews. Guns, after all, do not deter crime and generally result in accidental deaths and injuries.