Maybe I’ve just been uninformed, but I thought pirates were a thing of the past. Sailing the high-seas, wearing parrots on their shoulders, saying “arrrgghhh!” a lot, etc. But if ye haven’t seen the latest news, PIRATES are making a comeback, and it makes you wonder, why can’t anyone catch them?

According to an article from BBC, all the pirates pretty much live in one area: PUNTLAND (in Somalia). When everybody knows this already, why hasn’t the government (any government) put a stop to it? Well I can think of at least two reasons: 1) The pirates took in over $30M last year ($10M more than the annual budget of Puntland). 2) The pirates help keep costs up. For example, when the pirates capture OIL TANKERS the oil companies have a perfect excuse to raise prices. 3) The sales of luxury items have sky-rocketed in Puntland.

So there are obviously many organizations that want to keep the pirates, um, pirating. The least phased by all this pirate talk is the DISNEY corporation. I’m sure all the pirate news won’t hurt their sales of their DVD’s this holiday season.

Think about it…