James Stout
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I'm sure you've... This is true.
I think that's inherently, like, the piracy isn't about that.
Piracy is about self-expression.
Yeah, see, well... Yeah, agree to disagree.
I like a diverse pirate outfit, personally.
In this case, a small vessel, right?
I think they had four or five...
Pirates, they had like pretty basic weaponry, right?
Like Kalashnikovs, I think.
They boarded the Maersk, Alabama.
The boat had a pirate alarm and they sounded the pirate alarm.
In this, you have to struggle to repress your like 18th century mind palace, right?
The crew sheltered in, they had like a safe room.
They went in the safe room.
Well, they captured the captain of the ship pretty quickly.
The ship didn't have any means of defending itself, other than it tried to, like, I'm not a massive boat understander, it tried to use its rudder to swamp the pirate ship as it was coming up.