Traditional Pirate or Modern Pirate?

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by 7seconds

Im just saying the "pirates" now a days are just like gangs with boats, robbing people. It was like that back then aswell but more on a broad scale becuase of less police force and undiscovered places to hide etc.

dunno where you at but down here in FL ive been on boating trips/ beach trips and have never had a run in with pirates. oh and never heard of any when Ive been too the north sea in Germany, but Ill check next time I go

You'd compare about 20 square miles of a very busy harbor (with probably the country's heaviest DEA patrols) to 100,000,000,000,000 square miles of open ocean? Seriously, you think any of the worlds waters are patrolled 1/100th as heavily as that section?

One difference now, vs. then, is that now it is cheaper to get started. An outboard motor and a mounted gun. Another main difference, is that pirates now aren't executed on the spot, nor hung from a yardarm after a mock trial.