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A British vacationer is being hailed a hero after he thwarted gun-toting pirates attacking a cruise ship — by throwing a deck chair at them.
Wyn Rowlands was celebrating his 62nd birthday with a dream cruise onboard the MSC Melody near the Seychelle Islands when he spotted armed pirates in a speedboat trying to clamber on to the vessel. Quick-thinking Wyn, a retired engineer from Bangor-on-Dee, picked up a deck-chair and flung it down at the gang before raising the alarm.
The ship’s captain, Ciro Pinto, was then able to out-manoeuvre the pirates to prevent them boarding the cruise ship.
The MSC Melody and its 1,000 passengers and 500 crew were 600 miles off the coast of Somalia — notorious for pirate attacks — when the incident happenedon Sunday evening. “Mr. Rowlands was on deck with his wife when he saw the pirates approaching and firing automatic weapons,” a spokeswoman for the MSC Melody told Sky News Online.
“He is understandably very proud that his rapid response helped save the day.”
Ha! Take that scoundrels!
#18 Senor Fusion,
Got any proof for that claim?
#27 Hugh Ripper
Everything is built on the “might is right” principle – whether you like it or not; good or bad. Good or bad does not decide military victories – bullets and bombs do.
You are bringing only negative examples such as Nazi Germany to support your viewpoint; but if you look into history lots of “good” forces were using their might to crush the “evil” ones (Hiroshima and Nagasaki?).
And as for “culling” the weak – we don’t have to cull the weak just because we can. But when these “weak” attack us; we don’t have to imagine up so called injustices to let them get away with it. A pirate is a pirate – no mitigating circumstances should prevent our bullets from piercing their foreheads…
#32 I’ve no problem with hunting down pirates.
What I have a problem with is blaming the victim of aggression, which is what your fascistic ‘might is right’ principle does, and the morality of statements such as “The weak and the meek will (and should) perish.”
I used the Nazi example because these are principles that the Third Reich was founded on.
Adam Curry was bemoaning the fact that these poor Somalia pirates are just victims that deserve out sympathy and help rather than out scorn. He yacked about the fact that they have no government and no way to defend their coastal waters.
Yea…. I’m sure all the money these pirates are raking in are going to fund schools, roads, health care, and defense.
Further, I’m certain that those pirate warlords would be the first the turn their guns on their own government should it attempt to tax them to help pay for things like schools, health care, etc.
They are nothing more than criminals taking advantage of their fellow countrymen’s misery and should be treated as such.