Sunday, January 11, 2009

Funniest story of the day


The AP reports that five of the Somali pirates who freed a Saudi oil supertanker drowned with their cut of a $3 million ranson when their small boat went under in a storm in the Gulf of Aden. The Sirius Star had been seized by pirates in mid-November and was carrying crude oil valued at $100 million. On Friday, the ransom was dropped by parachute from a helicopter (see photo), and the pirates scattered, but witnesses saw a boat with eight of them aboard go down in the storm. Five drowned, and their cut of the ransom went under with them. Ah, karma.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Pammy Murphy said...

Karma is a wonderful thing and not to be messed with...

January 11, 2009 at 12:21 PM  
Blogger PRIguy said...

It would be even funnier if the other pirates drowned trying to recover the money! Now THAT would be karma!

January 12, 2009 at 7:40 AM  
Blogger Ellipses said...

Arrrr!

January 12, 2009 at 8:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How long before we get a TV movie about this?

January 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM  

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