On Oct 29, 8:27*am, wrote:
On Oct 29, 1:12*am, Dennis wrote:





wrote:
:I found this site with 12 gage pepper shells for loading into a hand
:held flare gun:
:http://www.ammunitiontogo.com/catalo...12-gauge-speci.
..
:This would avoid buying a "real" gun for defending ones sailboat from
irates. *Thoughts?

If you want to **** them off so badly that they rape you to death this
is probably a good tactic.

* * * * Hm, being gay isn't part of the pirate image. *:-) * I thought rum,
buggery and the lash was the British navy, which some became pirates to
escape. *However, these are Somali pirates... *"For children, a woman; for
pleasure, a boy..."

* * *The use of nonlethal weapons against those with lethal weapons is
rarely a good idea.

* * * * I recall it recently did work; some ship with a sonic weapon
succeeded in driving pirates off with it. *

Dennis

It's been a few years since I've been in the Gulf of Mexico but to my
knowledge we have no Somali pirates.

None around Texas at any rate.

True. If someone wants your boat there it's probably drug
runners.....they'll kill you anyway, so you might as well get in a few
shots.