Minneapolis Mayor wrote:DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, April 10, 2009
Modern-day piracy is growing quickly into big business - just take a look at the booming Somali pirate port of Eyl.
Big villas and hotels are sprouting, former subsistence fishermen are driving Mercedes-Benzes and gold-digging women are showing up. So are accountants. After Somalia's civil war began in 1991, the impoverished coastal people turned to buccaneering, with huge success.
"In 2008 alone, Somali pirates made $125 million," said Michael Lee of McRoberts Maritime Security. "These guys are the wealthiest in the country. A lot of the women in Somalia are flocking to the ports to get themselves a pirate."
Money can get Somali women to go Crazy

Nothing more than a Western portrayal of a criminal activity as something that is romantic and paints it as Utopian. The real world is very much different. These pirates spend the money as soon as they get it, and there documented reports of ex-pirates who have taken to beggary.
It is a filthy practice that shouldn't be written in such an over-the-top romantic tone:down: