Hijacked French crew had been warned about pirates

[News Crew]

 Via AFP. (http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en)PARIS (AFP) — A French couple who set sail for Zanzibar with their three-year-old son were repeatedly warned to avoid the Somali coast before their boat was hijacked, officials said Tuesday.Somali pirates seized the Tanit yacht on Saturday, the third French sailing boat to be hijacked in a year.Chloe and Florent Lemacon had left France in July last year with their son Colin, then two years old, aboard the 12.5 metre (42-feet) Tanit and picked up another couple along the way."The crew was repeatedly warned by French authorities of the risks they were facing by sailing off the Somali coast, especially with a smaller sail boat," said foreign ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier.I just don't get some people, it's not as if it was an inside secret that there are pirates wandering around Africa on a scale not seen since the age of pirates in the Caribbean.   The only thing I can thing of is that this is stupidity at it's most impressive, read the full article HERE. (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_7_0_t&usg=AFQjCNGgenalfBHphPmyyo2j6zN758Qg6w&sig2=rv6xjTHTual4-Ag4H8mVNA&cid=1328147691&ei=9sHbScDYIYjClATOiqjKAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fafp%2Farticle%2FALeqM5jZWhmKyqfWiXy_weYdw9C2N2yYFg)

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[rupertlittlebear]

They were auditioning for the Darwin Award.

 

[Peter Willemoes]

Ye, true. must be candidating for the missing link rupert <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
"English..Spanish, FRENCH?! Their ships are TOYS!"
(Would go piratin´myself for a 42-feet delight like that...)

Is that "News Crew"-post an automated rss-feed or is it Thagarr gone undercover with a bottle of rum?

 

[rupertlittlebear]

Hope the French authorities move into action quickly

They clearly endangered that child.