Jul 4, 2006
Shiver me timbers
BY DERRICK SOBODASH
J
ohn Pas again came to the rescue with another excellent CNN story while I was grading papers.
In the latest attack, pirates on an unlit speedboat off Indonesia’s Sumatra island followed the 26,989-gross-tonnage Japanese ship and tried to board it from the stern, said Noel Choong, chief of the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur.
The pirates were thwarted again … how are a bunch of jolly men aboard Spanish galleons supposed to stand up to machine gun fire? 
