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Somali Pirates Attack Wrong Ship

WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
They attack a cargo ship with a security detail and get lit up.

See video in story.

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/these-somali-pirates-attacked-the-wrong-ship/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=partner&utm_term=kj&utm_campaign=kj
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Other than the needing a taller rest, it seems to be a successful evolution.[:)]
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,378 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    looks like crack whore just dropped to number two on the list of worst jobs to have Somali Pirate going to number on with a bullet [:D]
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  • themountainmanthemountainman Member Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Warms me like a Disney feature. Thanks. I'll sleep well tonight.
    There are 3 kinds of people in the world. Those who can do math and those who can't. :?
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,283 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And that's how you deal with third world pirates! At 0:27 the guy with the camera depresses his barrel to far and puts a couple rounds in the railing! Whoopsie!
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So is the second boat at the aft of the boat the same one as the first that they shot at? If so, how in the hell did they not kill the buzzards when they were right next to the ship?? Looks like fun, but some pretty pathetic shooting....[B)]
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,694 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would love to be a security guard on one of those boats. I would like an M14 and lots of ammo.
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    I would love to be a security guard on one of those boats. I would like an M14 and lots of ammo.



    Two months ago I was offered this line of work. Two weeks training in TX then a six month stint on a merchant vessel. Pay offered was substantial, 70 dollars an hour but shifts are 12 on 12 off 7 days a week, living quarters stark at best. You are a subcontractor so no bennie's either. I thought hard on it but at 55 I passed, 20 years ago, hell yeah!
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  • mnrivrat48mnrivrat48 Member Posts: 1,707 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think they killed more fish than anything. Maybe they need the pirates to get a bigger boat so they can hit the damn thing.
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  • WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by interstatepawnllc
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    I would love to be a security guard on one of those boats. I would like an M14 and lots of ammo.



    Two months ago I was offered this line of work. Two weeks training in TX then a six month stint on a merchant vessel. Pay offered was substantial, 70 dollars an hour but shifts are 12 on 12 off 7 days a week, living quarters stark at best. You are a subcontractor so no bennie's either. I thought hard on it but at 55 I passed, 20 years ago, hell yeah!


    What was the name of the company? Might be something to look into.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,503 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Talk about a buzz kill, FCD...


    (But you're 100% correct. Understated, if anything.)
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,533 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Forgot to mention you most likely will get shot at also. Rockets included.
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    Bring your sunscreen!!! I'm sure this job ain't all it's cracked up to be!! Probably weeks and weeks (maybe even months or years) of boredom beyond comprehension, baking in the sun, or staring into the black of night. All followed by "maybe" (just maybe) an actual encounter with real pirates, 90% of which will probably run away with a couple warning shots...then back to the monotony. Living conditions (as noted) are probably about next to awful, and the crews of these ships are all 3rd world nationals. Gruel for breakfast, lunch and dinner and probably weeks spent anchored in ports.

    Looks fun and glamorous when you see a shooting video, but these are probably the highlight of several months of nothing-ness and isolation!
    That doesn't sound much better than the U. S. Navy.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mnrivrat48
    I think they killed more fish than anything. Maybe they need the pirates to get a bigger boat so they can hit the damn thing.


    If you look at the 20 - 30 second range, you can see where he is capable of hitting a much bigger ship. Looks like 2 or 3 rounds are deflected by the small gunwale strip on his own vessel.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • gartmangartman Member Posts: 660 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Before the shooting starts you can hear the command to fire warning shots. This would explain the apparently poor results.
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  • ChrisStreettChrisStreett Member Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Then, when ya take out a few of the "skinnies", what 3rd world craphole government is gonna try to prosecute you for dumping these up and coming college students?
    "...dying ain't much of a living boy"-Josey Wales
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  • bearman49709bearman49709 Member Posts: 503 ✭
    edited November -1
    2012, can't you post something a little more recent?
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wrangler
    quote:Originally posted by interstatepawnllc
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    I would love to be a security guard on one of those boats. I would like an M14 and lots of ammo.



    Two months ago I was offered this line of work. Two weeks training in TX then a six month stint on a merchant vessel. Pay offered was substantial, 70 dollars an hour but shifts are 12 on 12 off 7 days a week, living quarters stark at best. You are a subcontractor so no bennie's either. I thought hard on it but at 55 I passed, 20 years ago, hell yeah!


    What was the name of the company? Might be something to look into.


    Email sent.
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