How Conveeenient.
Why didn't Bernie Madoff think of this? What a maroon.
I hope they recovered the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
“This never happened to Johnny Depp-—! Glug, glug, glug...”
Don’t they teach Pirates how to swim anymore? What’s this world coming to??
Wonderfully ironic? Yep...
Moral dilemma: Had you been there, would you have thrown them a line?
My first thought is to not believe this. This was ransom from the Saudi tanker, right? After shaking down the richest muzzies in the world for millions of dollars wouldn’t you want to fake your own death and have your bodies and the money “disappear”?
They paid ransome, or funded terrorism?
How Conveeenient.
Why didn't Bernie Madoff think of this? What a maroon.
Maybe I have read too many novels,.....But, This looks like a cover story.
Maybe they shouldn’t have paid them off in pennies.
whatz 8 times 72 virgins?
Avast there Davey Jones, Somali pirates are bringing loot to store in your locker.
There's a moral to this story somewhere. /dirka dirka
They should sprinkle the ransom funds with anthrax, so that the pirates and all who share in their booty go away, miserably.
The mooselimb fools prolly died with happy thoughts: “At least I got me loot so I can have me pick of the hottest 72 of the stable of virgins in heaven waiting for me ... “
It's a shame they died in a storm... what will there families do that rely on their income?
It occurs to me that if one were competent, well armed, and had a decent boat with about ten friends (one of whom lived in the Cook Islands or some other tax haven) there would be a snootful of money to be made out of piracy, with nearly no downside to consider. All of it tax free.
I wonder that Western organized crime hasn’t gotten involved: it would have to be tempting, and it can’t be that difficult if these Somali punks can do it.
1. Whoever owned the oil may have made money as the price of oil increased while the tanker was being held.
2. Other "pirates" are probably making money off "robbing" the pirates. (Pretty common in the dope business too.)
Arrr... But the did get their 67 virgin’s matey in Davey Jones Locker.
Let’s see...We couldn’t gett’m...Who regulates storms??
Perhaps they put all the Gold Doubloons and Pieces of Eight on one side of the boat causing it to capsize?