How to solve piracy

Skillers · Sun May 10, 2009 4:31 pm

Win.

TLDR;

Cruise in Somalia with heavily armed ship. You rent the weapons (including RPGs and a minigun).

Not sure if it's true, but it made me lol.

Lord Metritutus · Sun May 10, 2009 4:48 pm

Even I am not gullible enough to believe this. Have you actually read some of this stuff?

Quote:

“We guarantee that you will experience at least two hijacking attempts by pirates or we will refund half your money back including gun rental charges and any unused ammo (mini-gun charges not included). How can we guarantee you will experience a hijacking? We operate at 5 knots within 12 miles of the coast of Somalia . If an attempted Hijacking does not occur we will turn the boat around and cruise by at 4 knots.

We will repeat this for up to 8 days making three passes a day along the entire length of Somalia . At night the boat is fully lit and bottle rockets are shot off at intervals and loud disco music beamed shore side to attract attention. Cabin space is limited so respond quickly. Reserve your package before the end of May and get 100 rounds
of free tracer ammo in the caliber of your choice.”

Skillers · Sun May 10, 2009 5:03 pm

The entire point of it would to be attacked by pirates, so those bits make sense in context.

It's not completely believable, but I could imagine it happening in the modern world, tbh.

Lord Metritutus · Sun May 10, 2009 5:08 pm

Skillers wrote:

The entire point of it would to be attacked by pirates, so those bits make sense in context.

It makes little sense to me. These are tourists renting weapons (an aspect, perhaps not too ridiculous until you consider the idea of someone who has never handled a gun before wielding a rocket launcher), not mercenaries.

Skillers · Sun May 10, 2009 5:33 pm

The bits you highlighted still make sense in context. And to fire a gun decently doesn't need that much training, AFAIK.

Lord Metritutus · Sun May 10, 2009 6:12 pm

Skillers wrote:

The bits you highlighted still make sense in context. And to fire a gun decently doesn't need that much training, AFAIK.

Fun for all the family?

Skillers · Sun May 10, 2009 7:29 pm

Mounted minigun can't be too hard to fire

Lord Metritutus · Sun May 10, 2009 7:32 pm

Skillers wrote:

Mounted minigun can't be too hard to fire

Good grief.

Hawke · Sun May 10, 2009 8:10 pm

Skillers wrote:

Mounted minigun can't be too hard to fire

Depends. Some can be really difficult to control, some can be easy to control.
Non-mounter miniguns, now there's something hard to fire.

azcn2503 · Sun May 10, 2009 8:50 pm

Mounted minigun just escapes my budget unfortunately. Do you think they would accept a 10 second burst for one third of the cost?

Hawke · Sun May 10, 2009 8:53 pm

You could get it for free if you aim it directly at the salesmen then collect your money afterwards.

Lord Metritutus · Sun May 10, 2009 9:27 pm

Shadowhawke wrote:

You could get it for free if you aim it directly at the salesmen then collect your money afterwards.

Plus a bonus if he has not yet cashed in any of the money other people have paid him.

DHR-107 · Mon May 11, 2009 1:29 am

xD

Epic Win.

Getting people to be mercanaries and making cash out of it is epic xD

azcn2503 · Mon May 11, 2009 9:31 am

Doesn't international law say that it is illegal to murder people? Even if you are on a deathboat?

Skillers · Mon May 11, 2009 11:11 am

International law also says it's illegal to pirate. They could probably chalk any kills up to self defence.

Wigouche · Mon May 11, 2009 12:14 pm

lol this ship is vigilantyisum (< so badly spent its epic im sure)whitch is also illigal lol

Skillers · Mon May 11, 2009 12:38 pm

True, I guess they're skirting a fine line in the fact they don't actively hunt the pirates, just bait them.

Ogris · Mon May 11, 2009 5:13 pm

It's a fake come on xD, it's meant as a joke, it wouldnt fly legaly. But hey, we ARE humans...

Skillers · Mon May 11, 2009 5:30 pm

I can dream

DHR-107 · Mon May 11, 2009 5:50 pm

Wigouche wrote:

lol this ship is vigilantyisum (< so badly spent its epic im sure)whitch is also illigal lol

Damn that Vigilantyisum

(I have no idea how to spell it, or whether it's even a word, but thats awesome).

Who cares if its fake, it would be so cool if it was real xD Fight for the defence of the boat!

I can imagine every theme park having something similar soon xD

Skillers · Mon May 11, 2009 6:03 pm

Vigilantism is how it's spelt ^^

Skillers · Fri May 15, 2009 11:20 am

I recently found the actual website this is from (its linked at the top of The INQUIRER) and it looks legit, bar the fact there is absolutely no contact method on the site.

My dream is broken :'(

DRAGON · Sat May 16, 2009 10:10 am

It's ok Skillers, play FarCry2

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