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...waits for his next sortie, he tells the story of his last raid in February. A crew member on a Thai palm-oil tanker gave him the layout of the ship and an exact time and place to meet in the Malacca Strait. The captain contacted the boss of a Hong Kong triad who agreed to pay the captain and his crew $9,000 upfront and another $50,000 on delivery. The triad also hired a crew of bajing loncat and arranged fake papers for the ship under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west...
...Then they headed northwest, back past Singapore, skirting Melaka and Medan. Over the next seven days, while the captain sailed, the crew of 14 worked, repainting the entire ship and plastering a new English name over the Thai lettering on the bow. Off the Maldives, they rendezvoused with another tanker and the Hong Kong crime lord. The palm oil was pumped into the second boat and the first one auctioned, a Filipino outbidding a Thai buyer with an offer of $100,000. Their work over, the captain and his crew collected their payoff and caught a ride to Manila with...
...admits to "throwing a lot around" on women and booze after a raid: "We never count our money, we just take it out of our pockets and give it out." He also takes an obvious joy in flouting authority. Except for 1992 when a raid on a tanker belonging to former President Suharto's wife prompted mass arrests, he has successfully evaded his pursuers for 25 years. Says the pirate king: "Our culture is a water culture and there have been pirates here since the 12th or 13th century. You have to have courage and spiritual strength...
Gerry White of McCurdy Enterprises is preparing for that day and thinks it's not far off. He's planning to build a five-mile pipeline to carry water from Gisborne Lake to Newfoundland's southern coast, then pump it into tanker ships. White estimates it will cost less than a penny a gallon to get water from the lake to his potential buyers. Bulk water now sells for about 2[cents] per gal. in the U.S. At 66 million gal. a shipload, twice a week, that's a lot of pennies...
...last month a Eugene, Ore., judge handed down a prison sentence of 22 years and eight months to Jeffrey Luers, only 22 years old himself, not just for burning the SUVs but also for attempting to set fire to an empty oil tanker two weeks earlier. An accomplice, Craig (Critter) Marshall, 28, pleaded guilty and got 5 1/2 years in prison. "I think it's great," said Michael Morrow, head of the FBI's nine-agent office in Eugene. "It's just a matter of time before there are more arrests...