| Vancouver Off-Topic / Current Events The off-topic forum for Vancouver, funnies, non-auto centered discussions, WORK SAFE. While the rules are more relaxed here, there are still rules. Please refer to sticky thread in this forum. |
 | | 
04-19-2009, 11:10 AM
|
#1 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: here
Posts: 5,793
Thanked 146 Times in 67 Posts
Failed 208 Times in 42 Posts
| Canada releases pirates, no laws broken
WTF BBQ. appeartly being a pirate isn't against Canadian law. who wants to start up on the west coast??? 
why TF are we even there if we can't do anything.
Nato foils Somali pirates' attack
Pirates have intensified attacks on shipping in recent weeks
An attempted attack by Somali pirates on a Norwegian tanker was foiled by Nato warships and helicopters after an overnight pursuit in the Gulf of Aden.
Nato said a Canadian warship caught the pirates before releasing them after the gang attacked the MV Front Ardenne.
The alliance said the pirates had been released because they could not be prosecuted under Canadian law.
On Saturday, Dutch commandos serving with the Nato anti-piracy operation freed 20 pirate captives from Yemen.
In that incident, too, the raiders were released.
American forces joined in Sunday's pursuit of pirates who used rocket-propelled grenades in an attack on the 80,000-tonne MV Front Ardenne.
Portuguese Lt Cdr Alexandre Santos Fernandes told AP news agency the raiders only stopped after repeated warning shots were fired.
He said the gang was interrogated and disarmed before being released.
A spokesman aboard the Canadian warship, the Winnipeg, Michael McWhinnie, said they had switched off all lights to hunt the fleeing pirates through the night.
"We blocked their path. We were faster and surprisingly more manoeuvrable than the pirate skiff," Mr McWhinnie told Reuters news agency.
Pirates have intensified attacks on shipping in recent weeks in one of the world's busiest sea lanes, despite patrols by the foreign navies.
In another incident on Saturday, Somali pirates seized a Belgian ship and its 10 crew, including seven Europeans.
Nato's success this weekend is the latest in a string of recent Western military operations against the pirates.
French and US troops have both taken action against pirates in recent days.
The French rescued three people from a captured yacht in an assault which saw one man killed.
Last week US troops killed three pirates and captured another as they rescued the American captain of a tanker from captivity.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently unveiled a plan to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean off Somalia.
| 
|  | |
04-19-2009, 12:24 PM
|
#2 | | Banned (ABWS)
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,201
Thanked 92 Times in 46 Posts
Failed 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
GO CANUCKS GO
| |
| | |
04-19-2009, 03:29 PM
|
#3 | | Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: here & there
Posts: 4,654
Thanked 298 Times in 131 Posts
Failed 9 Times in 5 Posts
|
Chuck Norris is face palming right now
__________________ Moderator Vancouver Automotive Chat | Vancouver Off-Topic
__________________ REVscene.net - Vancouver's #1 Automotive Forum and Classified's Site!
Interested in advertising with REVSCENE? Join our roster of Brian Jessel BMW, EBISU Robson, Blitz Gear, Soundworks, and dozens of the Lower Mainlands BUSIEST and most SUCCESSFUL small and medium businesses! Let us take you to the next level with our Incredibly affordable and effective packages Advertisement@revscene.net | |
| | |
04-19-2009, 05:14 PM
|
#4 | | Banned (ABWS)
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: vancouver
Posts: 3,303
Thanked 1,107 Times in 271 Posts
Failed 66 Times in 25 Posts
|
I heard somewhere that these pirates are hired for jacking the prices of fuel up. Equaling more profit for the government.
| |
| | |
04-19-2009, 06:16 PM
|
#5 | | I don't get it
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Van BC
Posts: 410
Thanked 245 Times in 32 Posts
Failed 76 Times in 9 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by pandalove  GO CANUCKS GO | This.
__________________
XBL : OffSea Quote:
Originally Posted by Los Bastardo
:fappery:
Fuck yeah! I love westerns. Lets see how Asia does them.
| Quote:
Originally Posted by rice cooker why are u fapping? | | |
| | |
04-19-2009, 06:31 PM
|
#6 | | MiX iT Up!
Join Date: May 2006 Location: vancouver
Posts: 8,146
Thanked 2,073 Times in 870 Posts
Failed 642 Times in 183 Posts
|
BOOM BOOM PoW!
__________________
Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for they left the only person who couldn't give up on them.
Make the effort and take the risk..
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| | |
04-19-2009, 06:33 PM
|
#7 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: here
Posts: 5,793
Thanked 146 Times in 67 Posts
Failed 208 Times in 42 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by KingDeeCee I heard somewhere that these pirates are hired for jacking the prices of fuel up. Equaling more profit for the government. | they don't need oil, the pirates are racking in 100's of millions of dollars of Ransom. they have seized like 500 ships in the past 2 years, and got paid to release them by the ship's companys.
| |
| | |
04-19-2009, 07:52 PM
|
#8 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: .
Posts: 349
Thanked 5 Times in 4 Posts
Failed 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
.
Last edited by Corey Darling; 03-09-2025 at 06:10 AM.
Reason: .
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 08:05 AM
|
#9 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Surrey
Posts: 12,760
Thanked 689 Times in 376 Posts
Failed 61 Times in 38 Posts
|
Canucks FTW!
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 08:31 AM
|
#10 | | Witness protection
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: GVRD
Posts: 14,427
Thanked 5,343 Times in 2,222 Posts
Failed 111 Times in 57 Posts
|
what happened to the gold old days where we would walk them off a plank?
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 08:37 AM
|
#11 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: vancouver
Posts: 3,734
Thanked 792 Times in 394 Posts
Failed 152 Times in 50 Posts
|
why capture then? just shoot them and sink their boats
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 08:47 AM
|
#12 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Japan
Posts: 6,745
Thanked 1,314 Times in 540 Posts
Failed 124 Times in 79 Posts
|
Wow. There's no way our PM can spin this to make it look good. What's the point of further efforts to apprehend them if only to let them go?
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 09:32 AM
|
#13 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: vancouver
Posts: 664
Thanked 6 Times in 3 Posts
Failed 4 Times in 3 Posts
|
Maybe they released them off a plank into the sea full of sharks?
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 02:07 PM
|
#14 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,388
Thanked 3,449 Times in 1,341 Posts
Failed 140 Times in 68 Posts
|
This situation reminds me of those people who complain that police aren't doing their jobs in catching criminals. Sure, the bad guys are caught, but then they get to walk away when the law is unable to press charges!
__________________
Do Not Put Aftershave on Your Balls. -604CEFIRO
Looks like I'm gonna have some hot sex again tonight...OOPS i got the 6 pack. that wont last me the night, I better go back and get the 24 pack! -Turbo E
kinda off topic but obama is a dilf - miss_crayon
Honest to fucking Christ the easiest way to get a married woman in the mood is clean the house and do the laundry.....I've been with the same girl almost 17 years, ask me how I know. - quasi
| 
| | |
04-20-2009, 02:10 PM
|
#15 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 7,760
Thanked 375 Times in 181 Posts
Failed 159 Times in 63 Posts
|
no worries, they'r gonna release them & then "accidentally" shoot a big hole in their ship
__________________
Ignorance is bliss
How I wish I can remain ignorant, why do I know so much?
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 02:16 PM
|
#16 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Vancity
Posts: 1,431
Thanked 123 Times in 25 Posts
Failed 5 Times in 4 Posts
|
Waste of tax payers money =P
Whats the point of doing this?? "They will be back out tommorrow"...=P
__________________
Supra's are Super!
S-exy
U-ber
P-owerful
R-aw
A-nimal
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 02:54 PM
|
#17 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bowen Island
Posts: 1,605
Thanked 525 Times in 148 Posts
Failed 313 Times in 50 Posts
| 
ARRRRRR! SHIVER ME TIMBERS!!!!
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 02:57 PM
|
#18 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: vancouver
Posts: 4,779
Thanked 129 Times in 31 Posts
Failed 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
At first I thought this is about Piratebay.org lol
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 05:38 PM
|
#19 | | The "You'd Know" Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Home
Posts: 20,931
Thanked 276 Times in 140 Posts
Failed 11 Times in 9 Posts
|
Should release the pirates to US Navy.
__________________
08 CBR600RR
03 IS300
Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. | |
| | |
04-20-2009, 09:45 PM
|
#20 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: here
Posts: 5,793
Thanked 146 Times in 67 Posts
Failed 208 Times in 42 Posts
|
I think they caught and released some more today... might have been the same story though, but I don't think so.
waste of time and tax payer money. sink the dam boats
| |
| | |
04-20-2009, 09:47 PM
|
#21 | | Orgasm Donor & Alatar owned my ass twice!
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 6,803
Thanked 91 Times in 38 Posts
Failed 17 Times in 6 Posts
|
Because the crew was on a NATO mission and not working under the European Union, the Dutch crew lacked the jurisdiction to hold the pirates, according to reports.
"If the Dutch navy had been operating under the EU, they could have turned over the pirates for trial. NATO has not provided that authority,"
From http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/...tes/index.html
Probably the same reason the Canadian Navy released them.
| |
| | |
04-21-2009, 05:59 AM
|
#22 | | Witness protection
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: GVRD
Posts: 14,427
Thanked 5,343 Times in 2,222 Posts
Failed 111 Times in 57 Posts
|
maybe they should recall the navy and send out a fisheries and oceans ship instead because apparently canada is following a 'catch and release' fishing program for pirates 
Last edited by thumper; 04-21-2009 at 07:42 AM.
| |
| | |
04-21-2009, 06:32 AM
|
#23 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 20,412
Thanked 7,481 Times in 1,449 Posts
Failed 2,380 Times in 472 Posts
|
[youtube]M8afSDTy7kU[/youtube]
| |
| | |
04-21-2009, 06:35 AM
|
#24 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Langvista
Posts: 7,936
Thanked 73 Times in 19 Posts
Failed 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
Oddly enough, our territorial waters don't extend to Somalia. If you were to start a pirate crew here, you'd be effed.
| |
| | |
04-21-2009, 08:13 AM
|
#25 | | Unauthourized Spammer
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: .
Posts: 494
Thanked 64 Times in 20 Posts
Failed 0 Times in 0 Posts
| | |
| | | |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | |
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 09:34 AM.
|
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!
