[Aargh!] Now we have pirates to worry about
As if there weren't enough problems, now we have pirates to worry about. Aargh! (I just love saying that).
With a barrel of oil below $50 and gasoline finally under $2 per gallon, Somali pirates are demanding $25 million in ransom to release an oil laden Saudi tanker. Aargh! and read more.
Anyway, with a hat tip to Jonathan Miller at Matrix who always celebrates Talk like a Pirate Day every September 19th and magically relates piracy with McDonalds, Starbucks and the credit crisis, here is a live piracy map from ICC Commercial Crime Services.
Blackbeard, one of the most famous pirates of all time blocked the Charleston Harbor back in 1718 and Queen Anne's Revenge on Daniel Island is named after Blackbeard's ship and features great food and lots of pirate memorabilia. But that's the romance of pirates much like Johnny Depp in his Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Aargh!