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Retired Brit tourists fought off Somali pirates with deckchairs
Daily Mail ^
| 5th May 2011
Posted on 05/06/2011 8:23:09 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:23:13 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Better not let Chuck Schumer find out about this. Deck Chair control would really hurt the Cruise Ship business.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:26:40 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
To: george76
Never bring a gun to deck chair fight!
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:27:09 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: george76
“terror struck just one week in, when the MSC Melody was off the coast of Somalia, a spot haunted by pirates”
So,they were surprised when the pirates showed up?
Perhaps they expected Al Gore or the Wicked Witch of the North.
At least they had prepared themselves with the latest in self defense deck chairs.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:29:32 PM PDT
by
TxDas
(This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
To: george76
I honestly thought this was satire when I read the headline.
Somewhere, there is a Somali with a headwound having to explain to his buddies he got owned by a chair.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:30:23 PM PDT
by
Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: george76
...when the MSC Melody was off the coast of Somalia, a spot haunted by pirates,...What were they thinking? Off the coast of Somalia. That's like parking your car to listen to the radio and look at the stars while sitting in the middle of a ghetto in a big city.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:32:55 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: george76
Here's the latest in deck chair weaponry!
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:33:30 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: george76
A luxury cruise sailing off the coast of Somalia? What could possibly go wrong? /rhetorical
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:38:30 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(I asked the bartender for a bin Ladin, she said 'what's that? I said 'two shots then a splash.')
To: george76
Better off with a shotgun. God approves of shotguns. Really.
/johnny
To: george76
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:41:33 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Jack Hydrazine
Now, if her fellow Brits would fight Islamism as strongly in her homeland, all would be well.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:42:07 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Palin/Bachmann, unbeatable.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
“as they helped to beat off the outlaws”
Something, uh, got lost in the translation from British to American.....
I think those tourists were in no mood to offer the Somalis any spotted dick;)
To: george76
when the MSC Melody was off the coast of Somalia, a spot haunted by pirates, that's like the German lady that jumped into the pool of the polar bear den at the zoo - and is surprised when she gets attacked.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:43:40 PM PDT
by
maine-iac7
(watch the otherhand)
To: george76
All it would take on these ships is one armed guard - I do not get it
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:45:21 PM PDT
by
maine-iac7
(watch the otherhand)
To: george76
Clearly chairs need to be regulated.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:45:43 PM PDT
by
Flavius
(What hopes for victory, Gaius Crastinus? What grounds for encouragement ?)
To: Frank_2001
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
Yeah, they beat off the outlaws and in return the outlaws ejaculated loudly with their AK-47s!
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:48:33 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Frank_2001
I dunno, Frank. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with these guys.
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posted on
05/06/2011 8:49:43 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Truth is the first casualty of American journalism.)
To: george76
Real heroes. And a lot better to get hit with some shrapnel than to be captured by Somali pirates.
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posted on
05/06/2011 9:00:13 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: george76
Deck chair control now.
The full story at the link is worth the click to read btw
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posted on
05/06/2011 9:12:38 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
(Spend yesterday's money good, today's money ok. Never spend tomorrow's money)
To: Jack Hydrazine
That had never crossed my mind. Me thinks some of you are plowing far too deeply into these stories.
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posted on
05/06/2011 9:17:41 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
(Spend yesterday's money good, today's money ok. Never spend tomorrow's money)
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