Shipping Co Requests Arming Vessels

[Windwalker]

Kerry wants to talk with the pirates to bring them into line. Transportation department recommends squirting them with a hose?? Guns vs fire hose - .

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/05/piracy.hearing/index.html

 

[cekim]

Kerry wants to talk with the pirates to bring them into line. Transportation department recommends squirting them with a hose?? Guns vs fire hose - .

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/05/piracy.hearing/index.html

Have they tried using a bull-horn to insult their mother's?

 

[Windwalker]

Kerry talks and tosses marshmallows. DOT gives advice where they have no/little expertise. You want defensive advice? - go to DOD. The fire hose would be effective, if combined with high-speed, hard projectiles. The hose would help clean up the mess...

 

[Prepper]

I wouldn't mind the fire hose idea so much if they brought the water to a boiling temperature before squirting it at the pirates. Wow.... I'd pay to see the video of that.

 

[Zappa]

They should hire this guy.

 

[Skeeterhunter71]

The firehose is good for washing the blood and guts of the dead pirates off the deck.

 

[Pilgrim]

"now go away or I shall taunt you a second time"

 

[Pete85]

Maybe they figure Kerry talking to them is enough to make the pirates want to kill themselves?

 

[JoeyD]

It would be fun shooting them with a fire hose after I caught them, but guns are needed to fight them.

 

[yanici]

I can't, for the life of me, understand how anyone can possibly expect another person to squirt a fire hose at someone that's firing an AK or some other weapon. The ship and the cargo doesn't even belong to this person that is supposed to put their life out there with a hose for protection. Time to anti-up and provide trained, paid security people to ride these ships.

 

[Delta L Varmint]

They should hire this guy.

Is that the Hebrew Hammer?

 

[Zappa]

Is that the Hebrew Hammer?

Sure Is!
The Israelis already proved how effective they are at defending a ship against pirates, ask the Italians, they'll tell ya'.

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

There was a time when it was official Navy policy to use high pressure STEAM hoses (as ONE part of the strategy) to repel boarders. This was portrayed in the movie The Sand Pebbles.

Regards
John