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Follow up to the Russians and Pirates story (Pirates Dead)

by Lawrh
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No grounds to prosecute in Russia so they stripped them of their weapons and Navigation Equipment, then set them free 300 nautical miles from land.

Russian Military Says Pirates Likely Dead - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010
  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Sounds fair to me.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      Sounds fair to me.
      Yes, the modern version of walking the plank.
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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        I'm still laughing to hard to comment
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    Unbelievable how a bunch of rag tag peasants can create such chaos to world shipping, like the saying goes "you live by the sword you should die by the sword".
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    • Profile picture of the author Domainoutlaw
      Well I guess you could say...there all washed up.
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by Domainoutlaw View Post

        Well I guess you could say...there all washed up.
        NO - they didn't wash up...yet. LOL.

        Really sounds like a few members of my Grandma's family lines over there might have been in on that one. LOL.
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    So they couldn't prosecute 'em so they killed 'em? Sounds like a new take on Western Justice, I wonder if our new government might take it up :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author garyv
      Originally Posted by stevecane View Post

      So they couldn't prosecute 'em so they killed 'em? Sounds like a new take on Western Justice, I wonder if our new government might take it up :-)
      They didn't kill them. They let them go. The Ocean did the rest.
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    I thought this is the twenty first century, not the seventeenth century.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by derekwong28 View Post

      I thought this is the twenty first century, not the seventeenth century.
      It is. Had it been the 17th, they just would have killed them when they boarded the ship.
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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        Lets see if I can make it through a comment without laughing at this again:rolleyes:

        First they could of killed the pirates when they took their ship back.
        Second they could of brought them back to Russia and sent them to Siberia, it's not like Russia has never put anyone in prison that weren't convicted of a crime first.

        Setting them free was a very compassionate act on their part, here I go laughing again
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