There was a priceless feature on Channel 4 this evening about people in Somalia who make good money ($200 a day was mentioned) by posing as pirates for gullible Western TV crews. It's more or less the perfect crime. Fair play to the lads is all I can say.
If these TV people want to see real pirates, they should try sailing round the coastline in a luxury yacht or something. I suppose what would be even better if it turned out that these people are actually real pirates who are creating a cover story for themselves, i.e. no cop in the world would want to risk arresting them and charging them with piracy now.
Must stop scanning headlines
3 hours ago
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I saw someone doing a presentation about an "undercover gangs" show, where he suggested that while film crews weren't exactly involved in fakery, they certainly didn't do much digging into whether people claiming to be gang members actually were.
Have always been a bit suspicious about collusion in Somalian cases where a few locals in a small boat have stopped a tanker towering above them and very hard to slow down, let alone stop, by threatening them with a machine gun.
Also you have to take into account that the pirates were quite innocently fishing until big industrial scale fishing boats ,operating internationally scooped their fish. There have also been stories of the dumping of toxic waste in the sea off Somalia.
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