Pirates....now with tanks!

[Felch]

It's not just the tanks. There was plenty of other gear on that vessel. And instead of defending it, in pirate infested waters, the owners sent out an unarmed crew and just sort of hoped for the best.

Brilliant plan.

[Winston]

In light of the pirate activity in the waters off Somalia, the world's largest container shipping line, Danish Maersk Line is currently in the process of weighing for and against abandoning all shipping through the Suez Canal, instead taking the southern route round Africa for all Far East consignments, reports Jyllands-Posten.

A formal decision is expected within days, possibly tomorrow. Maersk Line totals several hundred passages annually through the canal.

[Winston]

Sporadic rejoicing in the streets by Nigerian pirates reported.

[snoopy369]

Seems like at least the Suez Canal ought to be easily made safe ... just require people to stick to the northern side and put in a flotilla to destroy any ships not behaving themselves in between Somalia and that area, no?

[Asher]

Maersk has an ugly name with ugly ships.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Darius871
Such a cheap ripoff of Waterworld.

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Such a cheap ripoff of Waterworld

Ripoffs about ripoffs

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by Asher
Maersk has an ugly name with ugly ships.

Is Maersk a surname or does it mean something?

[onodera]

I guess Egypt has the most to lose?
Maybe they could send a vessel full of marines into Puntland and go My Lai on a couple of pirate villages? Reapeat for every new ship hijacked.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Supr49er
Is Maersk a surname or does it mean something?

Maersk (Mærsk) is the given name of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, the group's long-time CEO and chairman of the board, born 1913. He is Denmark's wealthiest man, and immensely respected in this country for his achievements in building the company which is also big in oil and gas drilling, consumer retail, IT management, manufacturing and shipyard activities.

[Felch]

Originally posted by Darius871
Ripoffs about ripoffs

Sporadic rejoicing in the streets by Nigerian pirates reported.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Darius871



Ripoffs about ripoffs

Also, did you hear that the Somalis stole an oil tanker?

Such a cheap ripoff of Waterworld.

[Darius871]

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Such a cheap ripoff of Waterworld.

Yeah, if they at least had chosen a ship with a decent oilspill record it could have made sense

[Darius871]

Originally posted by BlackCat


Yeah, if they at least had chosen a ship with a decent oilspill record it could have made sense

Was it really the Exxon Valdez in that movie? I remember the villain-guy having paying homage to a photo of the old captain, but it didn't stand out as Hazelwood.

Edit: haha, right you are:

Pop culture references

The 1995 film Waterworld anointed Hazelwood the patron saint of the movie's villain "The Deacon", leader of the "Smokers", a band of scavenging killers. They displayed his portrait prominently aboard their flag ship, the Exxon Valdez.


Joseph Hazelwood (left) as the patron saint of the
"Smokers" in the film Waterworld. Dennis Hopper
(right) saying, "St. Joe we're close, after centuries
of shame."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hazelwood

[snoopy369]

Wait, people actually watched Waterworld?????