Modern Day Pirates - What the Heck?!

Dec 04

Modern Day Pirates - What the Heck?!

This is something Adam and I have been wondering about recently - what the heck is up with modern day pirates?! They’ve been running around Somalia, going after oil tankers and cruise ships. Just recently a cruise ship outran them!

Seriously: we don’t know what to think of them. Obviously they’re no good. But otherwise,… a few questions…

What the heck are they going to do with all the people on the cruise ship?

How are they going to manage a full cruise ship, full of electronics and computers and GPS’s and other various technologies that it takes to run it?

What are they going to do with it when they’re done? Obviously they can’t really go anywhere with it without getting recognized…

What are they going to do with all that oil? No really,… who will buy it, aid the pirates, and end up incurring the wrath of who they stole it from?

And this is just silly, but really - what do these pirates look like? Are they “swashbuckling?” What kind of hats do they wear?

I think that modern civilization has so completely romanticized pirates that the term almost doesn’t even apply anymore. These people are hijackers…

Anyway - all this started from an article I found at The Daily Vidette at Illinois State University. Read it. It’s a good explanation of what’s going on today.