Oh Please Mr. Tiger, Don't Eat Me Up ....

This reminds me so much of the story of Brave Sambo (no, no ethnic slurs - its just the name of a story) ... where Sambo keeps meeting up with the tigers in the jungle and pleads his way out by giving them all presents until he has nothing left ...

U.S. Navy: Pirates Fire on U.S. Helicopter - Africa - FOXNews.com:

"The copter was flying on Wednesday over a Taiwanese-flagged fishing vessel, the Win Far, which pirates seized along with its 30-member crew in April and were holding south of the Somali port town of Hobyo.
The helicopter was about 3,000 yards away from the ship when the pirates opened fire with 'a large caliber weapon,' the Navy said in a statement. The helicopter did not return fire, it said."

You know it seems fair to me that if the pirates gave us their 'large caliber weapon' that we replace it with one of our own .... I'd suggest an MOB, but that would probably be over-kill.

Maybe just a nice 50mm thru the side of their ship -- just to get their attention -- something near the waterline...

of course, the Somalian government would probably go all up in arms over it --- but they don't seem to be doing anything to stop it in the first place.