Posted on 12/01/2008 8:20:08 AM PST by george76
Gunfire has broken out in downtown Harare when rampaging, unpaid soldiers attacked money changers and clashed with police.
Monday's violence is the second time in a week that soldiers have attacked money changers and stolen their cash in frustration after they have been unable to get their wages at banks.
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Has Zimbabwe issued a trillion Z$ note yet : )
oppression and corruption
I think a person could make a fortune as a guide for extreme sportsmen who are super-rich and want the excitement of a close encounter with a Zimbabwean thug squad. You could contract a helicopter to fly you in, properly armed of course, and then do a movement to contact on some of these terrorists. Then E&E back to the LZ. $50K. What do you think?
I think that it was done in the past in the region but the money went in the direction of the “sportsmen” : ) “Executive Outcomes”
The Soviet Union finally collapsed when the gov’t couldn’t pay its employees.
Zimbabwe is now doing the same. Expect Mugabe will be out of power shortly.
yeah but they were long term contractors for neighboring govts, this is purely sport...
Ha! Co-op with an Extreme fishing-Somalia package. No limit- get some spotter fixed or rotary aircraft up in the air.
Hey, that’s an idea actually. Then you could sell the whole allure of the pirate wars... Hell yeah! We’d need to get some pretty expensive stuff though, like boats that are big enough to withstand RPG and .50 cal rounds (and carry heavy weaponry) but fast enough to evade or pursue. We would need some surface radar, too. We could go around hijacking the pirates. Taking their guns and stuff.
rampaging, unpaid soldiers attacked money changers and clashed with policeThanks geo. Looks like the spin is in the headline -- the soldiers haven't been paid, and are clashing with police, as well as, what, robbing the guys with the foreign currency?
This is going places. get an old rust bucket and flag her out of Belize or something. Put up some fake shipping releases saying she is going to be hauling a load of genu-wine gold watches and platinum hood ornaments. Get a bunch of those cardboard cut-out chicks that they have at the liquor store in bikinis...put those up on the deck. Then weld up the deck so that any boarding party gets drawn into a series of alleyways with turns and choke points. Put up some firing ports all armored up looking out on those spots. hell yeah. rig up the whole floating farce with video cams and mikes and keep one pirate alive...detain him and on camera “Hey pirate you have been trolled, are you going to disneyland now?”
Go big budget with like automated banana peel launchers and pop up creature from the black lagoon animatronic things that grabs them while they are running around the deck.
If we build it they will come...we just need a lot of legal advice and then..you know.. make up a story when the inevitable happens and a foreign warship sends us down to Davey Jones and says “yeah we sank a pirate mothership today” : )
Oh lawdy. Imagine the sight of the Iowa off of known pirate ports/ manned fuel stations. Shock and Awe : )
that whole thing is genius!
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