You May Suck as a Pirate

Piracy has been more and more of a problem the last few years. The main area of issue has been off southeast Africa. Generally they attack a large cargo ship, which is lightly manned, from a small boat carrying from six up to a full dozen men. Whenever possible the navies of the world arrest the pirates, hopefully before, but sometimes after they attack ships. Rescues, like the one carried out by the United States Navy last week are not that uncommon anymore.

Early Thursday pirates attacked a ship off the coast of Mogadishu. This time it didn't go so well for them. When the pirates attacked the ship with small arms fire, they were shot back at and then surrendered when the ship's helicopter launched. Seems that they failed to notice that this was a Spanish naval vessel, the Patino (pictued above). To any pirates out there, you may want to be more careful than these guys, when picking a target.