"Pirates may have captured couple, yacht"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/27/yacht.pirates/index.html
Okay I know judging from my title this article sounds like a joke, but no lie, those swashbuckling, eye-patch wearing, parrot-owning rascals of Davy Jones' locker do still exist. Sure, maybe their costumes have changed a bit, but the savage scallywags still know how to run the show out there on the deep seas. The first 9 months of this year alone have been dominated by more pirate attacks than all of last year combined, and the trouble doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. This time around though, naval forces worry that some sea scoundrels have made away with a British couple traveling on their yacht along the coast of Africa. Though the hijacking has yet to be confirmed, the couple has not been heard from since October 21st, with a distress beacon being signaled on October 23rd. Until word or sight of their safety arrives, the international military will be on the lookout, hoping for the best possible outcome. Hopefully they have met a better fate than the 533 other hostages that have been held captive by pirates this year. Of those, 8 were wounded, 4 killed, and 1 remains missing.
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