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Elderly cruisers fight off Somali pirates

I was offline the last few days, so I don’t know if this story made huge headlines. Just in case, here’s my favorite travel-related story in recent memory: British pensioners on a cruise ship bravely fought off machine gun-armed Somali pirates by hurling deckchairs and tables at them. The holidaymakers were enjoying a midnight Mozart [...]