Somali pirates in two skiffs fired on a French navy vessel early Wednesday after apparently mistaking it for a commercial boat, the French military said. The French ship gave chase and captured five suspected pirates.
Doesn't qualify them for the Darwin Awards, however. They were merely captured and not killed.
UPDATE: And then there's this story from the Daily Mail Online:
Thugs attack two transvestites... who turn out to be cage fighters wearing fancy dress
Two questions:Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men - when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress.
Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, singled out the two men walking along a street in wigs, short skirts and high heels.
Bare-chested Gardener was caught on CCTV confronting one of the men in a pink wig, black skirt and boob tube - then seen swinging a punch, a court heard.
But the other cage fighter, wearing a sparkling black dress and matching long wig, sprang to his friend's help, delivering two lightning-quick punches to the two stunned yobs.The cage fighters were then seen teetering away in their high heels, stopping only to pick up a clutch bag they dropped during the melee.
Gardener and Fender were left dazed and seen staggering to their feet after their failed attack.
1) What made the fools think transvestites might be easy targets? (Especially since they themselves were rip roaring drunk.)
2) Just why were these two cage fighters dressed up as women? The article gives no clue.
[UPDATE: Read somewhere...Ace of Spades?...that they were going to a stag party at which all participants were to dress in drag.]
Then there's this part of their sentence:
The pair were sentenced to a four-month community order, were electronically tagged and placed under a curfew between 7pm to 7am.
Friggin tag -and-release!
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Sometimes I actually like the news.
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