Posted on 06/25/2009 7:45:29 AM PDT by Squidpup
Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast.
Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.
When attacked, they retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers, reports Austrian business paper Wirtschaftsblatt.
Passengers, who can pay an extra £5 a day for an AK-47 machine gun and £7 for 100 rounds of ammo, are also protected by a squad of ex special forces troops.
The yachts travel from Djibouti in Somalia to Mombasa in Kenya.
The ships deliberately cruise close to the coast at a speed of just five nautical miles in an attempt to attract the interest of pirates.
"They are worse than the pirates," said Russian yachtsman Vladimir Mironov. "At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these people are just paying to commit murder," he continued.
Privateers with a Capitalist solution = good.
Taking hostages (for ransom) is decency? Killing pirates is murder?
FUBO!!!
Sounds like fun....now where is a good travel agent?
They are worse than the pirates,” said Russian yachtsman Vladimir Mironov. “At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these people are just paying to commit murder,” he continued.”
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Interesting. Not certain it’s murder if you’re being attacked even though you put yourself in the position of being attacked. It’s more like war games although I think the pirates should catch on quickly.
Those crazy Russians.
Don’t ever mistake Russians for being rational.
I would argue that its vermin extermination, but Euroweenies are funny that way.
Getting rid of pirates by turning them into prey for sport. I just love this is so many ways...
“Taking hostages (for ransom) is decency? Killing pirates is murder? “
Probably heard there was a position in Obama’s cabinet.
Yup - it is a free market solution. Somehow I think shooting back would quickly solve the piracy issue.
Superb idea. Got to love those Russians.
“They are worse than the pirates,” said Russian yachtsman Vladimir Mironov. “At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these people are just paying to commit murder,”
Vlad is likely an ardent MSNBC viewer.
This is a case where neither side I agree with.
First, I don’t believe the pirates are ‘decent’ people as the Russian nutbag says. Because they take hostages. Too much potato vodka in that logic system for me, thanks.
I also don’t believe in taking pleasure at killing people even in self defense. It is a bad thing to develop a scheudenfreude de-sensitizing response to killing people. That is why military needs to handle stuff like this, they are doing a job rather than ‘sport hunting’ and ‘let’s see what they look like when we blow them up with this’. This is conditioning people to think real life is just a video game.
Why on Earth would you think that? Think of it like a police 'sting' operation, only with a lethal stinger.
This article is a take-ff of a JOKE wriiten several months ago by a travel agent.
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