[muir_redwoods]

Bad day to be a pirate. Great day to be a US Crewman who can tell his grandchildren that he helped catch pirates.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I keep thinking about that FEDeX commercial where the pirate is in the job interview...ROTFL

[hedgetrimmer]

Great day to be a US Crewman who can tell his grandchildren that he helped catch pirates.

In the grand tradition of Stephen Decatur and the United States Navy.

For hundreds of years, Barbary pirates had been the terror of the Mediterranean. In 1804, Decatur himself had given these guerrilla sailors their first taste of failure. On Feb. 16 of that year, pirates had captured the U.S. frigate Philadelphia. With a small ship and even smaller crew, Decatur slipped into the harbor and scuttled the Philadelphia, burning it without the loss of even one of his men. The British admiral Lord Nelson called it "the most daring act of the age." In negotiating the peace treaty, Decatur put an end to the extortionist tributes that had been demanded from all ships by the pirates.