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18 U.S. Code section 1661: Robbery ashore: Anyone engaged in a piratical cruise or enterprise who lands the vessel and commits robbery on shore can be considere
by junofan 3y ago
18 U.S. Code section 1661: Robbery ashore: Anyone engaged in a piratical cruise or enterprise who lands the vessel and commits robbery on shore can be considered a pirate and could be imprisoned for life.
- rendall 3y agoI wonder if piracy has just not been a danger for so long that some people think of it as some quaint activity of the past, like cavalry charges and top hats. "Thieves on a boat? That's not piracy. Elements of the crime require peg legs, tricornered hats and parrots. The law says if they don't raise a Jolly Roger, then it's not piracy."
- wmf 3y agoHey, don't forget Captain Phillips!
- tiffanyg 3y agoUh, it has remained a significant danger in various regions for centuries. Perhaps you are familiar with this "meme"? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-at-me-im-the-captain-now https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-at-me-im-the-captain-now From a 2013 "big budget" movie (Tom Hanks etc.) about a piracy incident during a period when the Somali coast was notoriously dangerous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Alabama_hijacking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Alabama_hijacking If setting out sailing etc., three regions, in particular, absolutely warrant a look into advisories etc.: the waters around Malaysia / south of China / etc., off the east / west coasts of Africa (more recently, west, but sometimes east), and certain areas of the Caribbean. The ocean is much like other regions with human traffic in the sense of there being "bad areas" ... but, it's also different in ways that kill people all the time. It's not worse than land, per se, but, definitely easy to get into trouble without at least a little education (generally, best to get from reputable people / services that exist in particular regions - of course, you can still get into trouble, but, much less so than people who just hop on vessels with no real experience for "an exciting adventure" ... too easy for it to get way more exciting than almost anyone raised on "Hollywood" movies wants in real life).
- rendall 3y agoIndeed. Note that piracy - robbery by boat - is associated with lawless regions. It will be hard for some people to accept that the Bay Area has declined so far. I was raised and worked as an adult in San Francisco. It has always had two faces: the truly friendly, groovy, nice side; and the truly dangerous, menacing, lawless side. There are people who firmly, even angrily, deny that San Francisco is any more dangerous than any major urban center, not to mention actually lawless. For them, perhaps it is not. But these are the same people who will deny that this kind of thing - robbery by boat - is piracy. Because to them, and this is my point, piracy only happens in lawless places (or the quaint past) and San Francisco is not lawless QED.
- CompanionCubee 3y agoIt's just sparkling robbery.
- ghusto 3y agoCute, but the normal definition above is what I immediately thought of too. After I started reading the article, I thought it was using the word "pirate" as clickbait.