Cruise Ship Hero Fought Off Pirates With Deck Chair
Wyn Rowlands was celebrating his 62nd birthday with a dream cruise onboard the MSC Melody near the Seychelle Islands when he spotted armed pirates in a speedboat trying to clamber on to the vessel.
Quick-thinking Wyn, a retired engineer from Bangor-on-Dee, picked up a deck-chair and flung it down at the gang before raising the alarm.
In unrelated news, the TSA has outlawed deck chairs and strollers from airplane flights, if they are larger than a 3 oz bottle.
Are you certain that Fox News isn’t plagiarizing The Onion? Because, really, nothing about that story makes sense. It’s hard to imagine that armed pirates would be frightened by one flying deck chair (assuming that they were armed with something more substantial than deck chairs themselves).
The report also says that once the alarm was raised, “The ship’s captain, Ciro Pinto, was then able to out-manoeuvre the pirates to prevent them boarding the cruise ship.”. How does a cruise ship out-manoeuvre a speed boat?