Pirates

I can't remember if I blogged about pirates before (my gut says yes, but my tags say no), but if I haven't, it is a shame. Commence Pirate Blogging:

Those of us who thought pirating on the high seas no longer exists were wrong. Like slavery, pirating is alive and well in parts of the world. The danger area, you can probably guess, is off the East African coast. In this case Somalian pirates have highjacked a Saudi Arabian oil tanker.

Yes, you read right, a hundreds of feet long oil tanker. You might be thinking, "A bit much guys?" And we'd be thinking the same thing. Apparently they take over ships large and small and demand ransom. Impressive, no?