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Luxury yachts offer pirate hunting cruises
Posted by: rob_92183 on June 27, 2009 at 10:55AM CST
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.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3374702.html
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Posted by: Sassa on June 27, 2009 5:40PM CST
I think that's a great idea. We should use that in Racine. Rent a limo and cruise the bad streets.

Posted by: StormyKnight on June 29, 2009 10:33AM CST
It sounds like they wait for the pirates to fire the first shot. Well, I don't have a problem with that and I'm guessing that Somalia will soon not have a problem with pirates. The pirates would be stupid to continue to try to hijack ships if they risk their own lives trying to do so.
Arrrgggg......It's Davey Jones' locker for ya!!!

Posted by: roadmixer on June 30, 2009 2:28PM CST
it kinda sounds like fun. or we can pitch in and send bigfoot, he can cut pnd paste them to death

Posted by: DobberDeeDee on June 30, 2009 8:19PM CST
Hey, maybe that's why it's so quiet over there all of a sudden, or maybe some US sharpshooters had something to do with it.

At any rate, sounds like good target practice to me.

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