PIRATES

History is littered with stories of buccaneers sailing the seven seas plundering and pillaging from unsuspecting ships and even land settlements.

There is a romance to the stories----no, not the raping bit----geez, that's not romance----

There is almost a standard to be kept
Sailing Ships
Flying the Jolly Roger
Wearing an Eye Patch
A Parrot on the shoulder
One hand replaced by a Hook
Yohoho and a bottle of rum

And of course, the Pirates Treasure----the Booty

It's always a chest full of gold and jewels and it's always buried on some treasure island
And there is always people searching for these buried treasures.

So forward to the 21st century

It is becoming a regular story in the newspapers of the world----Somalian Pirates
They attack all sorts of ships and end up with all sorts of booty.-----even a tanker full of oil to ransom back to its owners----

Now no one has mention pirates in this story but I just had to think----maybe

More than 130,000 inflatable breasts have been lost at sea en route to Australia. Men's magazine Ralph was planning to include the boobs as a free gift with its January issue. The cargo is worth about $200,000. A spokeswoman for Ralph said the container left docks in Beijing two weeks ago but turned up empty in Sydney this week. The magazine has put out an alert to shipping authorities to see if they have the container, but if they don't turn up in the next 48 hours it will be too late for the next issue, she said.-- AAP

Geez, what would you do with them.