Causes And Conditions

Talk about cosmic justice, if 5 pirates did drown with their share of a $3 million ransom from a Saudi super oil tanker, then seeing is believing.

I would not be surprised if equivalent types of major criminal activities crop up in many more places around the world. Perhaps one could argue that the Madoff Ponzi scheme was similar. Certainly Madoff's crime was significantly larger, and similarly it hit right in the center of the elite.

Gulf News: 5 Somali pirates drown with ransom share

Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and port town resident said Saturday.