# Yarggh!  Pirates!!

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [April 8, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835 "2009-04-08T09:35:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/41 "2009-04-13T08:25:00Z")

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Can they take out Johnny Depp too while they’re at it? I hate that guy.

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**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/42 "2009-04-13T08:25:40Z")

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It seems pretty simple to me. You fire a shot at a cop, they usually return fire on you. A pirate fires a shot or takes a ship/people hostage, our Navy blows your ass out of the water.

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**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/43 "2009-04-13T08:27:49Z")

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It’s not that easy to tell who the pirates are. They don’t exactly wear eye-patches and fly the Jolly Roger anymore…

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**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/44 "2009-04-13T08:30:42Z")

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Im impressed they shot 3 guys and didnt injure the hostage. I wish i could see a video of how it went down.

the boat is bobbing up and down, the hostage is probably moving around, as is the snipers boat/helicopter…

pretty impressive imo

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**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/45 "2009-04-13T08:31:53Z")

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> [@Avatar](#):
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> It’s not that easy to tell who the pirates are. They don’t exactly wear eye-patches and fly the Jolly Roger anymore…

lol.

My g/f said i cant believe there are still pirates… :lol: i said yea, next time we go out on my boat, i’ll show you some… they always have peg legs, a parrot, a hook for a hand, and an eye patch.

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**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/46 "2009-04-13T08:32:37Z")

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> [@Avatar](#):
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> It’s not that easy to tell who the pirates are. They don’t exactly wear eye-patches and fly the Jolly Roger anymore…

Well that sucks, I expected all of them to have eye patches, a hook for a hand, a wooden peg leg and a parrot on their shoulder… :fail:

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/47 "2009-04-13T08:32:59Z")

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> [@Willybeen](#):
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> Im impressed they shot 3 guys and didnt injure the hostage. I wish i could see a video of how it went down.
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> the boat is bobbing up and down, the hostage is probably moving around, as is the snipers boat/helicopter…
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> pretty impressive imo

And all three snipers fired simultaneously. Just imagine the kind of skill and coordination that is involved. Those guys are badass.

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**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/48 "2009-04-13T08:44:38Z")

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> [@Avatar](#):
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> And all three snipers fired simultaneously. Just imagine the kind of skill and coordination that is involved. Those guys are badass.

Exactly, super impressive.

Imagine being the prisoner on the boat. In a second all the pirates just drop to the ground and bleed out. I would just stand up and give a :tup: towards the Navy cruiser.

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**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/49 "2009-04-13T08:47:07Z")

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> [@mike125k](#):
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> Well that sucks, I expected all of them to have eye patches, a hook for a hand, a wooden peg leg and a parrot on their shoulder… :fail:

not gonna lie, they would be pretty bad ass if they did.

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/50 "2009-04-13T08:47:36Z")

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Note to self: Navy SEAL snipers are bad ass.

Shocker.

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**Author:** ![Viper966](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/viper966/32/7268_2.png) [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/51 "2009-04-13T08:50:28Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> I just don’t understand why when the US, UK and France, who make up the three most powerful Navy fleets in the world, are all having their citizens taken hostage this is allowed to continue. Send a fleet from each country and within a month there wouldn’t be a pirate left. If the news can find them and do interviews they can’t be that well hidden.

ummm its a big ocean…

and there are a lot of boats on it…

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**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/52 "2009-04-13T09:00:06Z")

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F land IM ON A BOAT

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**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/53 "2009-04-13T09:00:57Z")

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It seems like helicoptors might be better than boat patrol because of the huge area and the speed of helis.  
Or we could just stop buying so much off shore shit, balh, blah, blah, lol

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**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/54 "2009-04-13T09:04:33Z")

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[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/ap\_en\_tv/tv\_spike\_pirate\_hunters](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/ap_en_tv/tv_spike_pirate_hunters)

Now your favorite reality show coming soon. :picard:

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/55 "2009-04-13T09:04:50Z")

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Despite what has been done in the past few years, the US military is not a private security force for various multinational corporations.

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**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 10:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/56 "2009-04-13T10:05:35Z")

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> [@Viper966](#):
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> ummm its a big ocean…
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> and there are a lot of boats on it…

Ya the Navy can not protect and run escorts to all our merchant ships. It would be the same of asking the marines in Iraq to protect your transportation company there.

I just am entertained that now Somalia and shit is saying how we were out of line and how they will make sure the US regrets this. They take an American ship and hold the captain at gunpoint for 5 days and try to get ransom money and are now pissed that we shot and killed their pirates who are just terrorists.

Personally, if this becomes a larger problem, merchant ships need to have laws lifted and allow them to be armed. I am sure a 50 cal strapped to the front and armed guards onboard ships will do a lot more at preventing this.

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/57 "2009-04-13T10:10:11Z")

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> **[LOON WATCH: Right-wing fail in pirate standoff](http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/13/719443/-LOON-WATCH:-Right-wing-fail-in-pirate-standoff)**
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> Here's how desperate Republicans are to find a winning issue: conservatives from Newt Gingrich to Glenn Beck to the rest of Fox News all bet against the Obama administration's ability to rescue ...

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/58 "2009-04-13T10:18:57Z")

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Via NY Times. How can this not make you excited. I would love to see a video of this:

> Two of the captors had poked their heads out of a rear hatch of the lifeboat, exposing themselves to clear shots, and the third could be seen through a window in the bow, pointing an automatic rifle at the captain, who was tied up inside the 18-foot lifeboat, senior Navy officials said.

> It took only three remarkable shots — one each by snipers firing from a distance at dusk, using night-vision scopes, the officials said. Within minutes, rescuers slid down ropes from the Bainbridge, climbed aboard the lifeboat and found the three pirates dead.

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/59 "2009-04-13T10:19:55Z")

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> [@boxxa](#):
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> Via NY Times. How can this not make you excited. I would love to see a video of this:

America fuck ya!👏

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**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/yarggh-pirates/65835/60 "2009-04-13T10:21:34Z")

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^^^ Yup, you know you’re fucked when Navy SEAL’s parachute onto a Navy ship to snipe you.

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