Pirates!
Word that a cruise ship off the horn of Africa was attacked by pirates this weekend.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/07/D8DNQOJG2.html
I think the notion of actual piracy on the high seas has become so quaint in our eyes, we of the West, at any rate, that the occasion of this headline prompted a flood of bad pirate jokes. But these dudes were actually shooting at an ocean liner with RPG’s.
Time was, pirates were hunted down without mercy. Somehow I doubt that will be the case here.
Still, from an historian's perspective, I would have loved to be aboard just to get a sense of what it was like in 1760. Of course, I would have wanted a crew-served weapon alongside me.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/07/D8DNQOJG2.html
I think the notion of actual piracy on the high seas has become so quaint in our eyes, we of the West, at any rate, that the occasion of this headline prompted a flood of bad pirate jokes. But these dudes were actually shooting at an ocean liner with RPG’s.
Time was, pirates were hunted down without mercy. Somehow I doubt that will be the case here.
Still, from an historian's perspective, I would have loved to be aboard just to get a sense of what it was like in 1760. Of course, I would have wanted a crew-served weapon alongside me.