Suspicious news story

TriedandTested · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:05

Anyone find the circumstances of this all a bit 'odd'? It's about the somali pirates taking the oil tanker and their subsequent payoff.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7824353.stm

The body of a Somali pirate who reportedly drowned soon after receiving a huge ransom has washed ashore with $153,000 in cash, his uncle says.

Eyewitnesses in the coastal town said five of the pirates had drowned while trying to make off with the loot.

Three pirates managed to survive, but lost their share of the ransom when swimming to shore, reports said.

The drowned pirate was apparently the only one who managed to hold on to his share of the ransom.

That's quite amazing. They board a tanker, hold it hostage for two months, get their money and yet decide to swim ashore, they almost all drown and the only survivors who made it back to land lost all their money.

touch · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:08

news.bbc.co.uk said:
The pirates' boat capsized when they were hit by rough seas as they were heading back to their homes in central Somalia

They didnt try to swim ashore.

Joebob · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:09

Dark88 · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:10

poison laced cash clearly

JBuk · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:10

unlucky for them

TriedandTested · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:11

touch said:
They didnt try to swim ashore.

Oh. Missed that.

Still...suspicious!

Cosimo · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:12

Sounds like they’ve been had, good riddance

Teki187 · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:12

Was our reptilian overlords.

wez130 · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:17

no more than they deserved tbh.

qwerty · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:18

$153,000 in $20 bills would've weighed around 10 kilos.

Azagoth · 12 Jan 2009 at 17:30

Did you see how they received the ransom? It was like something out of a James Bond film. A twin engine Beechcraft (I think) flew low over the tanker and the ransom was pushed out and parachuted down to the thieves below.

frosty03 · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:04

Or there were submerged SEAL/SBS teams in the water waiting for them.... with lead ankle bracelets or a small dose of muscle paralytic...

ConTRo13R · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:07

They been done over clearly!

cymatty · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:10

I bet it wasnt even real money.

TriedandTested · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:19

ConTRo13R said:
They been done over clearly!

That's what crossed my mind the first time I read this.

Has there been news coverage of them leaving the oil tanker?

Goldy · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:19

I'm not even sure who the real thieves are, the pirates or the arabs who own the oil. yeh i went there

Cool drop off though!

ConTRo13R · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:20

TriedandTested said:
That's what crossed my mind the first time I read this.

Has there been news coverage of them leaving the oil tanker?

Not that ive seen...what a coincidence

Monkey Puzzle · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:24

Clearly the work of Ninjas.

platypus · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:32

This has been so well hidden from the news lately, it must have been a sas/seal incursion.

AtlanticP · 12 Jan 2009 at 18:34

frosty03 said:
Or there were submerged SEAL/SBS teams in the water waiting for them.

this tbh