This time, the ship fired back. Attack foiled. Hmm, dumb luck perhaps? Maybe the pirates were so shocked, they said heck with this, and went off to find a safer (for them) target. I say congrats Maersk Alabama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/world/africa/19pirates.html?_r=1

Good job Maresk Alabama

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Good job my hiney: But a security team on board the Maersk Alabama responded with small-arms fire, long-range acoustical devices painful to the human ear and evasive maneuvers to thwart the attack, the Navy said in a statement.

WTF are they using that crap instead of something more lethal? Hang the corpses off the side as a warning to the next boarding crew.

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Nice. Its far better to fight them off than to be a victim.

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Oh, I thought they used real guns and bullets and other lethal stuff. Boring.