Want To Be A Pirate?

Damn your lucky! All I get are socks!
Hummm maybe lodog can get us some Arms before he leaves the Service?
I just got a woody reading about Looting and Pillaging!

 

limes
lemons
oranges
tangerines
grapefruits
bell peppers
cranberries
strawberries

hhmm.. vitamin C?

 

sure, where do i sign up?

 

Right here Gangsta Pirate!

 

woohoo! killing, pillaging, raping and looting!!!

nah, i'll just keep picking up chicks in bars...

 

Sara Rose? Where are you?
Till your 18th Birthday you can be the Cabin Girl!
On your 18th Birthday we give you a Cutlass and a Hot Pirate Outfit!
You can bring the Teddy Bear too.
Give it rides on the front (Bow) of the Ship!
Report to Lovelightlisa and she will be your very close guide!

 

oh yeah, we already have a forum. captain christines pirate ship or somesuch.

 

We do that too when we are in port!

 

Oh yeah?
Maybe we can take it over and make them walk their F&^%N Keyboards?

 

i think the crew is awol, cap'n sir!

 

Aaargh, I was doing something piraty. I just want to use words like saavy and say aargh.

 

NAIROBI, Kenya (Nov. 6) - The violent attack on a luxury cruise liner off Somalia's coast shows that pirates from the anarchic country are becoming bolder and more ambitious in their efforts to hijack ships for ransom and loot, a maritime official said Sunday.

Two boats full of pirates approached the Seabourn Spirit about 100 miles off the Somali coast Saturday and fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles while the heavily armed bandits tried to get onboard.

The ship escaped by shifting to high speed and changing course. Its passengers, mostly Americans with some Australians and Europeans, were gathered in a lounge for safety, and none were injured, said Bruce Good, spokesman for the Miami-based Seabourn Cruise Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corp.

The ship "took some fire, but it's safe to sail,'' Good added.

Judging from the location of the attack, the pirates are likely to have been from the group that hijacked a U.N.-chartered vessel in June and held its crew and food aid hostage for 100 days, said Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Program.

That group - led by Mohamed Abdi Hassan and a warlord nicknamed Dhagweyne - is one of three well-organized bands operating from Somalia's 1,880-mile coastline, the longest in Africa. Several other bands are in the country, Mwangura and U.N. officials said.

Somalia has had no effective central government since opposition leaders ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The leaders then turned on each other, transforming this nation of 7 million into a patchwork of battling fiefdoms ruled by heavily armed militias.

Somali pirates are trained fighters with maritime knowledge. They identify their targets by listening to the international radio channel used by ships at sea, Mwangura said.

"Sometimes they trick the mariners by pretending that they have a problem and they should come to assist them - they send bogus distress signals,'' Mwangura said. "They are getting more powerful, more vicious and bolder day by day.''

Somalia lies along key shipping lanes linking the Mediterranean with the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

There has been a sharp rise in piracy this year along Somalia's coastline, with 25 attacks reported since March 15, according to the International Maritime Bureau, a division of the International Chamber of Commerce that tracks trends in piracy. In 2004, the organization reported just two attacks off the Horn of Africa.

U.S. and NATO warships patrol the region to protect vessels in deeper waters further out, but they are not permitted in Somalia's territorial waters.

Maritime officials worry that the pirates could one day open fire on a chemical tanker, which would likely disrupt shipping in the region, Mwangura said.

Saturday's attackers of the Spirit never got close enough to board the cruise ship, but one member of the 161-person crew was injured by shrapnel, cruise line president Deborah Natansohn said.

"Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft,'' Good said, adding that the crew had been trained for "various scenarios, including people trying to get on the ship that you don't want on the ship.''

Passengers awoke to the sound of gunfire as two 25-foot inflatable boats approached the liner, the British news agency Press Association reported. Witnesses said the pirates were armed with grenade launchers and machine guns.

Edith Laird of Seattle, who was traveling with her daughter and a friend, told British Broadcasting Corp. in an e-mail that her daughter saw the pirates out the window.

"There were at least three rocket-propelled grenades that hit the ship, one in a state room,'' Laird wrote. "We had no idea that this ship could move as fast as it did, and (the captain) did his best to run down the pirates.''

The Spirit was bound for Mombasa, Kenya, at the end of a 16-day voyage from Alexandria, Egypt. It was expected to reach the Seychelles on Monday, and then continue on its previous schedule to Singapore, company officials said.

The 440-foot-long, 10,000-ton cruise ship, which is registered in the Bahamas, sustained minor damage, Good said. The liner, which had its maiden voyage in 1989, can accommodate 208 guests.

 

These guys needed some Pirates on board as passengers. Sigh
It shows these Pirates did not watch movies or TV much!
The Un Board Pirates would of let the others on board.
We can do so much better!

 

i love the pirates in that movie "the life aquatic"

 

aye aye capt'n. We'll teach those scurvy dogs a thing or two as we cut them from the sternum to the gullet. We can put the canoe in the ocean, and they will think we are poor innocent non pirate people who accidently drifted to sea. When they come to rescue us we will hijack thier ship!

 

can we be like the pirates in waterworld?
i want a friggin jet ski (though this time i promise to watch out for docks)

 

i just wanna go swimming

 

We will need a ladder next to the plank so that we can get back in after diving. Rope ladder or something that we can pull up so that others can't get in

 

ooooh yes!

 

can i be the ship's doc? i've always wanted to play doctor.