I know it’s wrong, but I can’t help but laugh:
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and a relative of one of the dead men said Saturday.
Pirate Daud Nure said the boat with eight people on board overturned in a storm after dozens of pirates left the Sirius Star following a two-month standoff in the Gulf of Aden that ended Friday.
Filed Under Front Page · · · · 
Print This Post
··
Comments
64 Responses to “Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You”Search
Our Sponsors
Poll
Loading ...
Ah, but this is an example of the fickle finger of fate or karma or just desserts.
I say we start a pool on the nationality of the next supertanker to be hijacked.
Since I started the pool, I get first pick: Kuwait
I don’t think it is wrong to laugh. They earned their way to Davey Jones’es locker.
Just read the news on Yahoo and am still laughing
Such a shame, considering all that Rush did to help them get a better price for their hijacked booty. Sooooo, anybody want to go skindiving???????/
– Ken
Ah, new Sea Kittens!!!
It’s a shame that they didn’t know which serial numbers went down.
Saudi to US “Would you please re-issue us serial numbers so and so”
Their peg legs get stuck in the boat when it flipped? They ought to pay the next ones in nickels; they’ll sink faster.
What about this?……..Pay the pirates their ransom, let the hijackers get back in their small boats and then after they’re far enough away from the ship, hijack them back with a larger ship with some fire power waiting between them and shore.
WOULD THAT WORK OR IS THAT PIE IN THE SKY?
What you do is this:
Agree to pay the ransom. Load up the bag with counterfit dollars and a few pounds of C4 with a remote detenator. And then “pay” them off.
A little bar-b-qued Seakitten?
Ronnie G
sorry to bust your bubble guys
headshaker;
Loving and foregiving others does not exclude the demand for justice. In this case, poetic justice, which is often funny. Not to cheer on for the deaths of others; but to see that evil has perished by their own device. The pirates got their ransom which threw them off balance and nature took care of the rest. I desire eternal blessing to these pirates as much as anyone else.
I haven’t seen anything in the Gospels about Jesus laughing at his enemies dying.
No. 13
I am not Jesus, therefore I think it is a hoot!
SOP where ranson is paid would be for an Apache helicopter to give them a short burst from a 20mm chain gun. Just a little boost into hell.
Shakes;
It’s only because Christians are cruel minded hypocrites.
Nobody else would think its funny that a bunch of guys hijacked a ship got drowned because the tipped thier own boat over arguing over the ransom.
Nobody but us Christians.
You caught us.
We’re so ashamed.
headshaker;
I haven’t seen in any of the gospels where Jesus laughed period. Let’s go Puritan!!!
Blah blah blah. Where’s jimb to apologize for Hamous et al?
I guess Captain Sanctimonious missed the first four words of this post.
I saw that. So you know it’s wrong and you do it anyway.
Point proven.
Thank you! OUT!
What point??? That I’m a sinner? That’s not exactly a news flash and you certainly didn’t prove it. You weren’t even the first to observe it today.
Gonna have to explain it, now that you’ve proved it.
Unles that your point is that you play “Holier Than Thou” better than any devout Christian Ive ever met.
You’ve proved that one.
A lot.
Should I close my eyes, click on headshakers site, and open them to see if he posted a sex-based thread after quoting srcipture and offering solomn prayer?
#23 Darren
I don’t post threads over there any longer. I have consiglieres
23 - you’d be right on in your assessment.
By the way, Shakey, “apologies” from “the apologist”, but BITE ME.
Jimb, do you think it’s OK to laugh at the deaths of human beings, albeit criminals? I don’t find it funny, I find it a tragic end to the lives of poor people who live in unbelievably horrific conditions and feel their only way out is to commit crime.
But that’s just me, the bad Christian wannabe.
Shakey, in all honesty, it turns me completely off when you lecture others about such things. You come across as sanctimonious and holier-than-thou as the most puffed up Pharisee I’ve ever heard of.
Just because you think the targets of your derision are Christian makes no difference. Nobody you have slammed today has ever claimed to be perfect.
Poetic justice is just that. Maybe it isn’t right to find humor in it, but at the same time, nobody’s throwing a party and dancing around severed heads here either.
I’ll offer you the same advice you’ve rightly offered me in the past: Lighten up.
I’m not sure you have this emotional imperative to slam Christians for every imperfection you perceive…
Besides, how did you know these particular poor, victimized pirates chose their way out of desperation?
And decided to fix it by becoming bloodthirsty selfish pirates who’s greed was so immense that they tipped over thier own boat and drowned while fighting over the the 6 million dollars they’d just ripped off.
No sympathy here.
They created thier own Karma.
And it was one He!! of a lot worse than Hammies.
#27 jimb
So it’s OK for Hamous and the other “usual suspects” to sit around and pass judgment on everyone else (you know, Liberals, Muslims, etc. etc. etc.)? But Christians are off-limits. Interesting™
I hate to say it, but seems like a __________ __________.
P.S. I don’t care what turns you on and off, that ain’t my job
You don’t even see the difference between what you do and what they do, Shakey.
#29 Sarge
No argument with you on that; I just don’t find it “funny”. That’s all.
Carry on. I’m OUT for the night.
God Bless.
#29 Sarge
No argument with you on that; I just don’t find it “funny”. That’s all.
Carry on. I’m OUT for the night.
God Bless.
So no, it isn’t one of your vaunted “double standards”.
#31 jimb
It’s criticizing and pointing out hypocrisy against certain groups of people. No, I don’t see the difference.
You’re inherently biased. End of discussion. Goodnight.
There’s certainly lots of judgment-passing going on but it ain’t from “the usual suspects”.
Well;
For the record, I wasn’t laughing at the greedy drowned pirates.
I was lauging at shaey.
How does he sit down with that stick so far up his——
I’m inherently biased how? Because only Christians are capable of being holier-than-thou? Or maybe I’m biased AGAINST you? Help me understand how the stone-throwing you are doing is any better than what you accuse others of.
Hey, this is like old times. I think I’m gonna tear up.
ROFL
Ok I just had to put on some Barry Manilow.
So–
In the movie, who would play the Lead Pirate?
I’m thinking Ben Stiller here, with Jack Black as the guy he argues with, and Jim Carrey as the guy who grabs for the cash and tips the dinghy over.
#39 -
I think the basic problem here is a broken Irony Meter and a Sanctimony Emitter working overtime.
HA!!!
I laugh at your feeble sanctimonious bloggings!
With no apologies!
I laugh at drowned pirates as well. Don’t want them to feel excluded.
You’re drunk! Go sleep it off!
I say keep drinking before the Headshaker Temperance Union bans alcohol!
We should stop laughing at the poor pirates……
And start laughing at headshaker.
#49 fat albert
I have been…for years.
Wow y’all had some great lines last night. I am still chuckling.
Ok, Shaker, lets talk about levels of “funny.”
#4) Pirates get killed when they make their escape after violently hijacking a tanker and making off with the ranson.
Funny, but there is funnier..
#3) A bleeding heart liberal pantywaisted apologist for the pirates/common thief is killed by the **** in the commisson of his crime.
Funny, but there is even funnier!
#2) That same bleeding heart liberal pantywaisted apologist actualy survies the commision of the crime byt the pirate/common theif but his wife and kids do not and they suffer a brutal death leaving the bleeding heart liberal pantywaisted apologist to pick up the pieces and drive on.
#1) Listen to the lifelong gnashing of teeth by the bleeding heart liberal pantywaisted apologist as he tries to reconsile his positions.
Anyone feeling sorry for these idiots is a, well, idiot.
David Numberman’s top five funny list:
#5) Somali pirates/common theives die making their escape with the ranson after violently hijacking a tanker
#4) A bleeding hear liberal pantywaisted apologist makes excuses for said pirates/common theifs and mournes their deaths.
#3) That same bleeding hear liberal pantywaisted apologist get robbed by the prirates/common thief that he just felt sorry for.
#2) That same bleeding hear liberal pantywaisted apologist get robbed, and just for good measure, KILLED TOO by the prirates/common thief that he just felt sorry for.
and the number one funny…….
#1) That same bleeding hear liberal pantywaisted apologist doesnt get robbed and killed but his family does! Hardy har har! And now said bleeding hear liberal pantywaisted apologist is left to gnash his teeth as he tries to justify his position.
Anyone who doesnt think these idiots got what they deserved, is well, and idiot.
to Headshaker (#8 and #26, etc):
Returning to the party a bit late, it did provide me the benefit of seeing how things developed (or devolved).
It seems to me that your basic premise is flawed. (And no, that isn’t a reference to the Bible verse, itself; don’t bother to go there.) The pirates (thieves) are already dead. My grasp on concepts spiritual is that the eternal fate of those souls is sealed, by their choices made while living. Perhaps your perspective is different. But it seems to me that prayers are better suited to the families, people, and/or culture from which these criminals came; in other words, those still living.
I do recall multiple examples throughout the Bible which involved certain particularly evil people being struck dead, or being killed (executed) under specific guidelines. Indeed, in some cases, the armies of God’s people were directed to conduct what would now be termed genocide.
Regardless, if a handful of pirates (thieves) did drown in a manner which is in some way related to their crimes (sins), then one might conclude that God could have chosen to rescue them but chose to do otherwise.
In that aspect, the whole thing is hardly more than what is commonly seen as a “stupid criminal joke” because of some criminal’s lack of preparation and planning.
Frankly, it seems to me that your overall attitude does come across as being rather sanctimonious, and dangerously close to some sort of moral equivalency for any person’s actions if some sort of sociological, cultural, or economic situation could be found to be a “justifiable” cause. That viewpoint leaves little room for personal responsibility.
my 2¢,
– Ken
The whole story looks like something that could be made into a parable, as a couple of people above have already said. Christ didn’t use humor in his parables as we all know. If the circumstances involved here were not so stupidly vaudevillian in nature, this would not seem as funny. As it is, you can almost imagine the pirates:
Achmed: AArrgghhhh, let’s divide the booty! Mahmood, bring the treasure barrel.
Mahmood: You’ll not be dividing anything. Last time you took half of my share.
Ali: Yeah, what he said, nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Achmed: Why, I oughta smack you, you knucklehead!
Ali: Nyaaaaahhhhh, whoop whoop whoop!
Achmed: Look over here.
Mahmood: Where?
Achmed: Right here numbskull! (poink - he pokes Mahmood in the eyes with the “split-finger” technique)
Mahmood: Ooowwwww!
Ali: (starts slapping his head and dancing) Whoa whooaaa-aaa-aaa. (boat tips over)
WhyyyIiiiaughta!
Putting aside the “WWJD” factor for a second, that’s pretty freakin’ funny wb.
I wonder if they will ever recover the funds from the sea.
Headshaker/equaliser? thanks for the bit from the Sermon on the Mount. It’s a beautiful scripture.
Did the money go too???
The thing that got me from the Article, was the family whining about the naval patrols…….. They didn’t play fair!!
#11 Sarge - looks like the reports of a scam may have been greatly exaggerated:
#61 hamous
Do they know if it was Achmed, Mahmood, or Ali, or was it one of the others?
#58 vlou: To that question, I believe I have the official response.
There was no recovery effort. Even if there was, there was no money recovered. And if there were any money recovered, it certainly did not find its way into the private accounts of any individuals involved, of which there were none, of course.
– Ken, ignoring the report of the $153K washed ashore, because this response is more fun!