How do you take over an oil tanker?
You'd need scaffolding to get up to the top and surely they were spotted, you can't hide in the ocean. And if it had happended in the past in that area, why did the tanker not have armed guards?

Too many questions.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:31, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

They need to get these boats properly kitted out. Like something from a Bond film
The Exxon Valdez was a good example of a boat with Bond like weapons.

That one had the oil-slick.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:35, Reply)

You would only need a few armed guards to man an oil tanker surely?
What about coating the side of the ship in grease and then the pirates can't climb up.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:37, Reply)

That won't work.
They can appear from anywhere.

*Played Pop-Up Pirates just the other day with the nephew*
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:38, Reply)

Awww!

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:39, Reply)

Arrr!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:44, Reply)

Jimlad!

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:44, Reply)

I'll bet you love a good old
Jolly-Rogering.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:45, Reply)

I say Jeff.
Are you flirting with me?
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:46, Reply)

only about 15 times a day

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:48, Reply)

That's the flirtiest thing he's ever said to me.
Usually he just askes me what I've had for dinner.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:49, Reply)

And
What ARE you going to have for dinner?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:49, Reply)

Tuna, cous cous and asparagus.

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:50, Reply)

I thought you were vegetarian?

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 16:20, Reply)

In a Leslie Phillips style!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:49, Reply)

Back-tracking post is back-tracking.

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:49, Reply)

It's not back tracking!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:51, Reply)

Haha!
I'm off to the gym.

Bye.
( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:52, Reply)

gtfo

(PsychoChomp, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:38, Reply)

It's almost as if...
They wanted it to happen so the hapless souls aboard could suffer at the hands of the captors for weeks on end. It would generate vast amounts of media coverage as the negotiations tread the fine line between success and the inevitable armed confrontation of the ill equipped Omanese liberation army and the pirates. The grand finale would be a battle so huge that the wayward scud missle that is fired from Saudi Arabia at France in defiance of the imminent head scarf ban would cause an explosion so huge that dead people would be able to see it.

The result would be a cataclysmic all out war in the Middle East which would scorch the earth and eradicate the entire population. This would pave the way for a swift take over by the country best equipped to run an oil rich state effectively.Probably the Congo, Nigeria or Zimbabwe if I were to hazard a guess.

The whole sorry story would be filmed by E4 and broadcast in easily digestible 30 minute segments and would be called "Big Bother". The film rights would be sold to the highest bidder at a charity auction that would be hosted by the exhumed remains of King Henry the 8th and while the various dignatories in attendance would plead woefully to the camera's to "dig deep" and "lets show the world how much we care".

It's all so painfully obvious now that you point it out Blousie. It's sooo obvious.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:51, Reply)

Innit!

( girlinthehole, Wed 9 Feb 2011, 15:52, Reply)