"You kids, get off my... Boat?"

Can you really be considered a 'pirate' if you are foiled by leisure furniture? At worst, maybe a ruffian or brigand...

They're going to charge him for the cost of the chair.

And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those darn.......pensioners?

Thats it, im equiping my boat with these anti-pirate devices called "chairs" right away! Who needs a couple navy seals when you got chairs!

@BeerManMike: Just equip the Navy SEALs with foldable deck chairs. Double whammy.

Whats the point of having a luxury cruise go by Somalia anyways? Is that really a desirable destination? Hey look kids! That guys face was eaten by flies!

i'm on a boat! i'm on a boat!
everybody look at me 'cause i'm standing on a boat!

@Radi0logy: In many cases, it's that the waters off of Somalia are simply in-between destinations the cruisers do want to visit, like, say, Cairo and Dubai.

Wow, a deck chair is all it took? Either the pirates are pretty weak or that guy has hellishly good aim.

Yarrr!! He only wanted to have breakfast with Minnie.

I'm assuming he thought it was a disney cruise.

@Radi0logy: By the third time that the activities director starts a Macarena dance-off, fending off Khat-infused pirates starts looking damned attractive.

I smell an action movie...

"Captain, I have horrible news. We lost two deck chairs."

@strathmeyer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@solareclipse2: LOL that's the first thing I thought.

@WarOtter: a knave, perhaps?

Damn, I can't read the link here but that rocks.

How unpolitically correct of this passenger. He should have negotiated with this misguided man and given him the chance to mend his ways. Or, the passenger could have just admitted that whatever led the pirate to take the actions he took, it is ultimately the passenger's fault and the pirate should be allowed to do whatever makes him feel better.

@pb5000: It may have been one of those Martha Stewart chairs that take fingers off.

@gStein: "I'M SAILING! I'M SAILING!!!!" -- Bob Wiley

@WarOtter: Ohh! Ohh! SCALAWAG!

Does he get a free late night prime steak for his heroics?

@pecan 3.14159265: ...that's what we in industry call "synergy"...

This is why I carry a deck chair with me at all times. I've been 100% plunder-free for the last 26 months.

I don't blame this passenger at all for dealing with this Jack Bauer style.

@RandomHookup:

My deck chair has also left me plunder-free. Unfortunately, my model has done nothing to protect against pillaging.

@pb5000: Well, he threw the chair, then raised the alarm to alert the captain...it's not like he turned into a kung fu master and fought off pirates with a deck chair. That would have been awesome though.

There goes the cruise industry. "Pirates! Oh noes!!!"

@pecan 3.14159265: That should be Youtube'd, stat.

@ElizabethD: Well, only if you're going near Somalia. The only thing Alaskan cruise goers have to worry about is bears and yeti.

@gStein:

And right as he grabbed the chair, this is what went through his head:

Aww shit, get your towels ready it's about to go down (shorty, yeah)
Everybody in the place hit the fucking deck (shorty, yeah)
But stay on your motherfucking toes
We running this, let's go

I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
Everybody look at me 'cause I'm sailing on a boat (sailing on a boat)
I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
I'm on a boat
Take a good hard look at the motherfucking boat (boat, yeah)

@pecan 3.14159265: Bears take at least a Laz-e-Boy to ward off.

"Hey. You ever notice whenever someone throws a chair a brawl jumps off? I bet you wouldn't even need to hit somebody with the chair."

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@Radi0logy: The boat was 500 miles away from Somalia.

@Radi0logy: oops, sorry, actually more like 600 miles.

Rush Limbaugh wants you to imagine the hue and cry if a REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT had thrown a deck chair at a somali pirate.

@kateblack: Thats only as if they haven't learned to fire guns yet, too.

@Trai_Dep: Nonono... it went like this:

"You kids, get off my lawn chair !!!"

@pecan 3.14159265: After what I have seen this season, that should be Tony Almeida style.

Tony kicks ass!

@WarOtter: Imagine going back to shore and explaining this to your pirate buddies...

@dohtem: Very true. Tony's pretty badass when he needs to be.

@Rectilinear Propagation: Funny! Funny stuff! Forgot all about that episode until you reminded me!

@pecan 3.14159265: But they pitch fastballs using gnawed-off seal heads and boy do those sting!

@docrice: You rang?

@HiPwr: I'm sure he will be prosecuted by the UN's human rights courts.

These comments are all far more hilarious than the actual story. Congrats to everyone for making me Lol and make my husband think I'm nuts.

@HogwartsAlum: Fox News is blocked for you? Where do you work, the DNC?