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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A look into the future of anyone who drives a boat up to a cargo ship!

CW: armed crew unloading machine guns on a dinghy

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's one of the more "friendly" videos i've seen.

what amazes me - at first - is how brave and dumb they must be for undertaking such an obvious suicide mission.

do you think they knew what they were up against? do you think they thought the boats were undefended? do you think they had a choice to go in the first place?

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Some of these pirates once tried attacking an actual warship, mistaking it for a cargo ship. So they don't seem to be the smartest or most prepared.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

Most desperate and possibly trying to pay ransom for their families.

I would imagine the ones that attack an armed ship don't make it back to warn the others.

And the ones that succeed probably didn't run into resistance.

Merchant Marine don't fuck around.

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

God I am ever amazed at the millions of videos on YT that I would've never seen on my life had people not linked them. Literally never would've imagined modern day pirates exist, that they're this dumb, and that some guy on YT just uploaded it and that it's still there.