Here's How To End The Pirate/Captain Hostage Situation.......

[global1]

create a diversion - loud noises - whatever - but keep the pirates busy. In the meantime send in some Navy divers under the boat that they are in. Carefully drill a small hole in the side while the pirates attention has been diverted. Through the hole insert a small hose connected to a gas tank filled with a gas that will put them to sleep. When all on the boat are asleep - go in and get the captain.

[ddeclue]

1. Not likely to work. Would most likely kill people in a confined space.

or sink the boat.

[madaboutharry]

2. I saw this very method used

in a Pink Panther cartoon.

I don't mean to be snarky, I really don't. But I doubt this would work.

[bkkyosemite]

3. They have been talking all day on CNN as to how to end this pirate thing.

Arm the ships that go thru those waters and blow the sob's out of the water the minute they start for a ship. Enough blown up I think they will get the message. This is crap to put up with the garbage and CNN has no real answers even with their 6 guests lol.

[backscatter712]

4. The Russians tried this a few years back.

Unfortunately, the knockout gas they used killed a bunch of the hostages...

[ddeclue]

9. Exactly, because won't disperse evenly in the absense of proper ventilation

[Renew Deal]

5. I think they should capsize the boat.

With divers nearby. Save the captain and discard, arrest, terminate the rest.

[ddeclue]

10. It's a lifeboat, sinking or capsizing it will be damned near impossible

It's no doubt designed to have positive bouyancy even if entirely flooded and designed to be self righting as well.

[Renew Deal]

14. It's a rinky dink lifeboat.

They aren't very sophisticated. Much larger ships are easily capsized.

[ddeclue]

22. Sorry but you're wrong... it's got a lot of styrofoam filling the voids to make it bouyant.

and it's also gonna be designed to be self righting.

Doug D.

[Renew Deal]

24. Self righting is expensive

I doubt they have it on a lifeboat.

[billyoc]

25. That lifeboat wouldn't capsize in a hurricane. They're the most seaworthy vessels on earth.

[Bluebear]

6. Or, or, or, fire a rocket into the side, nothing too big, just enough to divert them...

[paparush]

11. LMAO! Wait, wait, I know ,I know..we get a large wooden badger..

[laconicsax]

7. Ooh! How about this?

Get someone over at the clandestine service to infiltrate the ship along with a couple cases of rum, party hats, balloons, streamers, etc. and a suggestion for a costume party. The costume party will serve as distraction for a SEAL team (dressed in silly costumes) to infiltrate the ship and get the captain out. By the time the pirates realize what's happened, they'll be too drunk to do anything about it.

Or maybe they could get another ship and dress it and its crew to look like the pirate ship and pirate crew and have it come alongside the pirate ship under the cover of darkness. When the pirates see it in the morning, they'll get confused. While hilarious mirror antics ensue, the hostage can sneak out the back.

[TK421]

8. Bribe them with rum......lots and lots of rum n/t

[backscatter712]

12. Arrrrg, matey!!!

You'd think rum would work on pirates. Hell, get them drunk enough, and it just might!

[TK421]

13. Bacardi 151 should do the trick

[MercutioATC]

15. ...and booty!

:)

[cascadiance]

21. Or bribe them with da splif!!!

Ya MAN!!!

[Politicalboi]

16. In the future

They should blow them out of the water no questions asked.

[dem629]

19. I actually agree with that, with one addition....

The gov't should tell these shipping companies to bring along an armed security team to fight off the pirates because we're not going to do it for them anymore. If the company complies and they are still hijacked, that's when we go over there and torpedo the ship.

[bkkyosemite]

27. Absolutely!

[dem629]

17. No way. Here's what you do....

Attach a long rope to the lifeboat, then attach the other end of the rope to another boat and tow them to Ireland. Once there, THAT's when you drill the small hole in the side of the boat, then, through the hole, insert a small hose connected to a keg of Guinness and fill up the lifeboat with beer, CAREFULLY, so as not to create too much of a head (the Irish HATE that), and once the lifeboat is full of Guinness, the pirates and the captain will be swimming around in it, and, sure, some of them might drown but some might also swallow some of the beer, making them drunk and incapable of fighting back (especially if they are dead) and then we'd be able to get some Navy SEALs in there to rescue the captain. How about that?

[Oregone]

18. I really don't fucking care...quite ambivalent about it

If you want to save the hostage, get the greedy fucking criminal insurance company to pay the ransom (and everyone will be safe). Hell, reward these men for their hard days of work. They are putting in more overtime than Bernie Madoff, hurting less people, and most certainly asking for less compensation. Im not sure why everyone is so concerned with saving and protecting the assets of these fuckhead insurance companies anyway. This is the biggest propaganda campaign Ive ever seen, and you are all carrying their water for free.

[rwheeler31]

20. I don't care what they do just get it off my tv.

[Oregone]

23. lol

I'm so sick of it after they've followed the other 250 hostage situations there with so much scrutiny. Never have we seen so much overkill since a cute little girl disappeared and Nancy Grace was on the scene.

[ileus]

26. doesn't blackwater (or whatever their new name is) need a new gig?

[xchrom]

28. naked girls -- sailing slowly by sunbathing.

there's your distracting.

[dweller]

29. NAVY SEALS ROC K !

where's Jesse when you need him?



dp

[Bonhomme Richard]

30. Lift it with a CH-53 Stallion and set it down on........

the deck of the USS Boxer.