I was reading on Time.com the story about Pirates seizing a cargo ship loaded with Russian tanks and ammunition as it was headed to Kenya.  The story says that the pirates are demanding a $20 million ransom, and that one of the ship’s crew has died.

The story goes on to talk about how piracy is thriving in that part of the world, and to be quite frank I’m really quite surprised that the pirates manage to get away with it all the time!  With all of the sophisticated equipment “we” have, the satellite technology and all, just imagining that pirates could get away with a deed like that seems infeasible!  And yet, there it is; it happens.