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Somali pirates piss off Indian navy, get sunk

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Originally posted by: MrWizzard
Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
India has a naval organization? That's pretty impressive, considering they can't even fix my xbox...
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Indian Navy, "Hello thanks you for calling Indian Navy my name is Mike how can I service you today?"

Me, "HELP HELP I AM BEING ATTACKED BY PIRATES"

Indian Navy, "Ok sir I can help you with that can you hold on please for one moment".

Me, "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

5 minutes later

Indian Navy, " Thank you for holding, let me just verify the problem here, you are being attacked my pirates is that correct sir."

Me, "Never mind I'll call Sony!"
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lulz.
 
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From the BBC article:
When it demanded the vessel stop for investigation, the pirate ship responded by threatening to "blow up the naval warship if it closed on her", the statement said.

Pirates then fired on the Tabar, and the Indians say they retaliated and that there was an explosion on the pirate vessel, which sank.
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I don't think they realized that nations don't spend the big bucks on navies for looks. This wasn't a merchant vessel they were dealing with. It reminds me of that guy from Goldeneye screaming "I'm invincible!"...
 
Sigh... you guys are so damn clueless. Now the pirates are gonna ram their pirate ships into Dubai skyscrapers. You don't mess w/ the pirates!
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Originally posted by: NesuD
There weren't any Hostages in this case silly goose. The Pirates opened fire on the Indian Navy Ship. The Indians returned fire and gave them an object demonstration of a professional Navy in action.
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:roll: Yes because you know for a fact the pirates have already returned the oil tankers they hijacked along w/ all the hostages and got their loot from the Arabs. Where did you get the idea that I was talking about the event that happened in the OP? :roll:
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they weren't the same pirates....
 
Originally posted by: So
:laugh:

From the BBC article:
When it demanded the vessel stop for investigation, the pirate ship responded by threatening to "blow up the naval warship if it closed on her", the statement said.

Pirates then fired on the Tabar, and the Indians say they retaliated and that there was an explosion on the pirate vessel, which sank.
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I don't think they realized that nations don't spend the big bucks on navies for looks. This wasn't a merchant vessel they were dealing with. It reminds me of that guy from Goldeneye screaming "I'm invincible!"...
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Hahaha, wonder how that happened.
 
I am still wondering how the actual piracy process works, how do the pirates get on board in the first place? Do ships simply give up after a pirate encounter, it's not like they can sneak up on the merchant ships, are ships afraid of pirates' weapons?
 
I don't really understand why the Saudis aren't protecting their oil tankers. I mean, it's basically the most precious cargo on the water and they're not even giving it a destroyer escort? We sell them so much weapons and equipment, but they don't seem to use it.

Edit: @ Baked, I'm really not sure if you're being sarcastic.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Sigh... you guys are so damn clueless. Now the pirates are gonna ram their pirate ships into Dubai skyscrapers. You don't mess w/ the pirates!
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LMAO. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: Baked
Originally posted by: NesuD
There weren't any Hostages in this case silly goose. The Pirates opened fire on the Indian Navy Ship. The Indians returned fire and gave them an object demonstration of a professional Navy in action.
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:roll: Yes because you know for a fact the pirates have already returned the oil tankers they hijacked along w/ all the hostages and got their loot from the Arabs. Where did you get the idea that I was talking about the event that happened in the OP? :roll:
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they weren't the same pirates....
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Yeah Baked, I'm thinking that the chances are pretty much nil that the pirates are well organized enough that the dimwits who shot at the Indians were the same ones that took that oil tanker.
 
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: Baked
Good job India, you just cost all the hostages their lives and turned the pirates violent. Idiots.
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Baboo, we are having the somalian robber ship in our sights and we need to be firing and sinking them.
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I guess nobody thought this was as funny as I did. Just think of it being said in an Indian accent and hilarity ensues.
 
The ocean is a VERY LARGE place. Even with hundreds of destroyers it would be impossible to cover the millions of sq. km of surface.
 
Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
The ocean is a VERY LARGE place. Even with hundreds of destroyers it would be impossible to cover the millions of sq. km of surface.
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And, for the super-tanker, it's a HUGE ship (longer than the Chrysler building) with only 25 crew, some of whom were probably sleeping, and the rest working. The pirates are approaching in the dark, it's difficult to see small vessels...they grapple up using hooks and take the crew by surprise.

It is stupid that they're not using established guarded lanes or hiring a private security force.
 
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Why not put 20 heavily armed army guys on each freighter? 20 versus a small group trying to board in a localized spot. Death to pirates!
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The Geneva convention..... To be a "merchant vessal" it can only have a shotgun and pistol IIRC.
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Well, does this "Geneva Convention" thing that you speak of say anything about NINJAS??!

 
That's what I don't get...they got several hundred million dollars tied up in stock and the value of the ship, yet they won't spend a million or so on some private security to go with them? OK - so they're not allowed to keep heavy weapons on the ship - how about hire a few boats to accompany them and stock them up to the gills with heavy artillery?

I can't imagine that costing any more than the ransom that's demanded. Unless there's some kind of law preventing that, I don't see why they don't do that knowing that they're going through a known pirate infested area.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Good job India, you just cost all the hostages their lives and turned the pirates violent. Idiots.
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oh no they are firing at us! should we fire back? Nah...the pirates have a hard enough life as it is. Let's let them take over our warship so they can pirate other defenseless ships with even more ease

Baked, you really are a dumbass

edit: ok it looks like you were just doing it for the lulz
 
Originally posted by: DocHolliday
Originally posted by: zoiks
Originally posted by: Baked
Good job India, you just cost all the hostages their lives and turned the pirates violent. Idiots.
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Baboo, we are having the somalian robber ship in our sights and we need to be firing and sinking them.
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I guess nobody thought this was as funny as I did. Just think of it being said in an Indian accent and hilarity ensues.
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I read that in a Jerry Seinfeld accent.
 
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