One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation.
Pirates still exist? This weekend the U.S. Navy chased down a pirate ship near Somalia in the Indian Ocean.
This reminds me of my days as a kid playing the computer game called Pirates, which I played for hours on my dad's Commodore 64. If I could find that game now, and a working Commodore, I believe I would still be addicted to it.
This pirate attack happened this year on my birthday. I've never stopped to consider all of the other things that are happening on specific days when I'm completely self-absorbed. I just imagine that the whole world has ceased activity in observance of my birthday. But, alas, the pirates of Somalia are still hard at work attacking ships with their cannons and having sword fights and stuff.
One of the boldest recent attacks was on Nov. 5, when two boats full of pirates approached a cruise ship carrying Western tourists, about 100 miles off Somalia and fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
1 comment:
I totally loved that game Pirates! It was awesome! I used to play it on my Atari computer all the time. It was the first non- arcade computer game I played. The *good* news is, you can download the game and an Amiga or Atari emulator that will let you play it on your P.C./Mac (or Palm/ Pocket PC cellphone).
It was a good way to kill an evening along with a 12 pack, back in the day. Nothing like catching the Silver Train *and* the Armada in Marcaibo, then winging on over to Kingston to divide the plunder(I was always British)! Yo! Me hearties!!! AAAARrrrrr!
Most of the modern day pirates operate off the coast of Venezuela and in Southeast Asia (Phillipines and Indonesia). The reason the U.S. Navy was concerned in the Somalia case was because of the proximity to M.E. oil and the potential threat to international shipping coming to/from the Suez Canal. American boaters get boat jacked quite often in the carribbean too.
I also liked Pirates of the Carribbean (The ride - the movie was O.K. too).
Chris
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