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2009-01-10 Africa Horn

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Posted by tipper 2009-01-10 07:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 That Darwin guy is one busy dude...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-01-10 09:59|| 2009-01-10 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Slightly ~~better~~ ~~funnier~~ different version from The Mail Online:

"However things went badly wrong for the pirates soon after the drop - they squabbled over how to split the money and then a wave washed off their getaway boat and drowned five of them. . . . [A]s they made off they continued to row about the payout.

'Two of them swam and survived. One is still missing. The weather was so terrible that it blew the boat over, then sank it. We got five dead bodies and we are still searching for the missing one. The waves were disastrous,' said Farah Osman, an associate of the gang.

It is not known what happened to the money or those who survived."

Hee hee hee.

Re the "terrible" weather - the pictures of the money drop show clear day, calm sea. Maybe ~~a submarine~~ karma rose up out of the sea to smite them?

Life is hard. It's harder when you're ~~an idiot drowning pirate~~ stupid. May it happen to ALL of them. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-10 10:29|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-10 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 are they their own worst enemy or what.... I think they are about to get some lessons in modern seagoing warfare

Posted by Davey Jones 2009-01-10 10:35|| 2009-01-10 10:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe the Saudis don't much care for paying ransom. I can think of ways to make a speedboat capsize, if I knew where and when it was going, so perhaps the Saudis could too. Personally, I think ALL the pirates should suffer fatal accidents when leaving, since nobody seems willing to cause them fatal on-purposes before that.
So where's the sympathy meter? Broken and at the shop?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-01-10 10:38|| 2009-01-10 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 6 dead, 4 missing, everybody's cut goes up X10?
I'm sure it's just that ol' insh allah...

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-10 10:53|| 2009-01-10 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Arf! Arf!

Posted by Seals 2009-01-10 11:29|| 2009-01-10 11:29|| Front Page Top

#7 They evidently didn't take the "Safe Boating" Course sponsored by the Somali Coast Guard.

Posted by Tom- Pa 2009-01-10 11:32|| 2009-01-10 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I love a happy ending.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-10 11:41|| 2009-01-10 11:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Coming soon to Discovery Channel, new episode of "Most Dangerous Catch." Except these guys ARE the crab pots.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-01-10 12:38|| 2009-01-10 12:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Read elsewhere that the money went down with them.
Insh allah, indeed.

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-10 13:59|| 2009-01-10 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 if there ever was any Money...

Posted by Abu do you love 2009-01-10 15:39|| 2009-01-10 15:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Pictures of the money drop taken by the US Navy:

Posted by Injun Angulet2150 2009-01-10 16:51|| 2009-01-10 16:51|| Front Page Top

#13 The pictures!!!

Posted by Injun Angulet2150 2009-01-10 16:55|| 2009-01-10 16:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Copied as is...

Five Somali pirates were drown in the sea after having taken fabulous amount of money from a Saudi tanker they have hijacked some two months ago off the coast of Somalia.

The pirates were coming towards the shore of Haradhere in Mudug region after having taken 3 million dollars from a Saudi oil tanker which they have set free on Friday afternoon they were on board two speed boats singing in colorful tone, and exchanging some ridiculous words unfortunately one of the boats carrying 9 Somali pirates capsized and five of the pirates who were not simmers were drown in the sea the while the other four swum to the shower said Ali Yussuf a resident of the pirates invested town of Haradhere speaking to Somaliweyn radio shortly after the tragedy occurred.

The resident also added that there are some great swimmers in the ocean with their boats ransacking for the remains of their fellow pirates drown in the Indian Ocean before making us out of they gained through unlawful means (ransom).

On the other hand some reports we are getting from the ground says that pastoralists traveling along the shore have slowly collected dollars floating on the surface of the sea, and some brought by the ebb tide to shore.

http://www.somaliweyn.org/pages/news/Jan_09/10Jan18.html

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-10 17:54|| 2009-01-10 17:54|| Front Page Top

#15 that's good, that's the way the sharks like their meat: poor "simmers".

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-10 18:01|| 2009-01-10 18:01|| Front Page Top

#16 "...while the other four swum to the shower" said Ali Yussuf..." Well, at least those four made a clean getaway...

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2009-01-10 18:55|| 2009-01-10 18:55|| Front Page Top

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