CCIP
11-24-10, 07:03 PM
First verdict of this kind in the US in 200 years. About time I say! :yeah:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11825293
And honestly, my biggest question remaining in this whole case is... what on earth were they thinking trying to hijack an OHP?!?!?! :damn: I mean I can't blame them for not knowing what it was, but to get even an idea for how dangerous it was? What could they possibly think a ship looking like it was? A really high-tech yacht? Geeeeeeeez, some people are dense.... Had they actually been shot up by Nicholas, this would've been a clear Darwin Award winner right there.
The fact they were 'promised thousands' for hijacking the ship also points to the fact that, sure, maybe they weren't 'real' pirates and someone just played a really silly practical joke on a band of really dumb guys who had little to lose. But at the end of the day, whoever put you up to it, you don't get to fire in the direction of a ship for the promise of cash and then call yourself something other than a pirate, in a court of law. And compared to what happened to those pirates that the Russians "let go" last year, these guys got off lucky. (Yes, I mean the ones that got released into the middle of the ocean in their dinghy without navigational equipment and drowned).
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I just realized that the action in question took place on April 1st. My suspicion that someone played a really funny hey-you-guys-should-attack-that-ship-over-there-it's-real-easy prank on these guys is rising...:88)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11825293
And honestly, my biggest question remaining in this whole case is... what on earth were they thinking trying to hijack an OHP?!?!?! :damn: I mean I can't blame them for not knowing what it was, but to get even an idea for how dangerous it was? What could they possibly think a ship looking like it was? A really high-tech yacht? Geeeeeeeez, some people are dense.... Had they actually been shot up by Nicholas, this would've been a clear Darwin Award winner right there.
The fact they were 'promised thousands' for hijacking the ship also points to the fact that, sure, maybe they weren't 'real' pirates and someone just played a really silly practical joke on a band of really dumb guys who had little to lose. But at the end of the day, whoever put you up to it, you don't get to fire in the direction of a ship for the promise of cash and then call yourself something other than a pirate, in a court of law. And compared to what happened to those pirates that the Russians "let go" last year, these guys got off lucky. (Yes, I mean the ones that got released into the middle of the ocean in their dinghy without navigational equipment and drowned).
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I just realized that the action in question took place on April 1st. My suspicion that someone played a really funny hey-you-guys-should-attack-that-ship-over-there-it's-real-easy prank on these guys is rising...:88)