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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction
with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the
moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
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Wow, that's some heavy firepower:
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
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We think that's a dinky ship... but the typical vessel has no defense against it...
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Professional Poster
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I think that learning some martial arts would stop pirates.
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XBL : Ze Veteran
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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The pirates opened fire (in the dark, of course) with AKs, but in their flight from the French, they dumped EVERYTHING (including food and water) overboard so all that's left is a dinky knock-off Boston Waler with an outboard and five very frightened men.
A regular freighter has NO defense against someone with a revolver, let alone automatic weapons, so the attack was not so foolhardy as it seems. There's no way for an unarmed, unfortified ship to repel boarders, and often ships at sea leave ladders and boarding platforms deployed so all they need to do is lower their boats for whatever they're going to use them for-leading to guys with AKs being able to take over huge ships with dinky boats and unmitigated gall...
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Glenn -----
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
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I found this story so comical.
Go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally Posted by ghporter 
The pirates opened fire (in the dark, of course) with AKs, but in their flight from the French, they dumped EVERYTHING (including food and water) overboard so all that's left is a dinky knock-off Boston Waler with an outboard and five very frightened men.
A regular freighter has NO defense against someone with a revolver, let alone automatic weapons, so the attack was not so foolhardy as it seems. There's no way for an unarmed, unfortified ship to repel boarders, and often ships at sea leave ladders and boarding platforms deployed so all they need to do is lower their boats for whatever they're going to use them for-leading to guys with AKs being able to take over huge ships with dinky boats and unmitigated gall...
Maybe next time the navy should just shoot some 120 mm shells at them.
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Clinically Insane
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Throw some chum over the side and tip their boat over.
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction
with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the
moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
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