Stopping the pirates

[AlpsStranger]

I mean, not to sound inhumane, but why not have a Q-ship every once in a while and make sure the fate of the pirates caught by the Q-ships is truly terrifying. Like chum for the sharks and one pirate is left alive, roughed and bloodied, handcuffed with a warning note stapled to his back, possibly with lurid details as to how his mates fared?

Pretty rough I know, but I don't think piracy deterrence is going to be a clean business. Make sure that the price of catching one of the "false merchant ships" is terrifying.

 

[Zkribbler]

I mean, not to sound inhumane, but why not have a Q-ship every once in a while and make sure the fate of the pirates caught by the Q-ships is truly terrifying. Like chum for the sharks and one pirate is left alive, roughed and bloodied, handcuffed with a warning note stapled to his back, possibly with lurid details as to how his mates fared?

Q-ships are so 20th Century. I vote for solar-powered zeppelins serving as floating hangers for drones. Also, littoral craft with attack helicopters.

 

[Leonel]

I hadn't heard about illegality. I have heard that, if you shoot a pirates, they will kill everyone on board.

On the other hand, I heard that early on, Israeli and Russians floated the pirate dinghies back into shore filled with chopped up pirates and, since then, they haven been bothered.

Man that was 9 years ago! I don't care anymore!