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| Luxury yachts offer pirate hunting cruises |
| 2009-06-24 |
| Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast. Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders. When attacked, they retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers, reports Austrian business paper Wirtschaftsblatt. Passengers, who can pay an extra £5 a day for an AK-47 machine gun and £7 for 100 rounds of ammo, are also protected by a squad of ex special forces troops. The yachts travel from Djibouti in Somalia to Mombasa in Kenya. The ships deliberately cruise close to the coast at a speed of just five nautical miles in an attempt to attract the interest of pirates. "They are worse than the pirates," said Russian yachtsman Vladimir Mironov. "At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these people are just paying to commit murder," he continued. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #6 Q-Ship? Drink up. |
| Posted by: Lagom 2009-06-24 19:39 |
| #5 Now THAT has to be hands down, the snark of the week! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-06-24 19:16 |
| #4 Of course the real money is in taxidermy. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-06-24 19:09 |
| #3 Sounds like someone got suckered by that hunt-for pirates-cruise web parody that was floating around recently. But that doesn't mean it's not a good idea. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-06-24 17:53 |
| #2 Think of it as "evolution in action"... |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-06-24 17:52 |
| #1 "At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these people are just paying to commit murder," he continued. Works for me. Wish I had the cash. |
| Posted by: Ebbert Mussolini2288 2009-06-24 16:36 |