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"As soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney they move on as quickly as they can"

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"Not every member of the merchant navy can be Captain Phillips, and so as Somali pirates continue to be a maritime threat, protective forces have turned to a new force of weaponry: Britney Spears. Specifically Spears’ chart-topping hits Baby One More Time and Oops! I Did It Again, which according to a representative of the merchant navy, are the songs the pirates presumably “hate the most.” As soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney they move on as quickly as they can .“These guys can’t stand Western culture or music, making Britney’s hits perfect,” Scottish merchant navy officer Rachel Owens told the U.K. Mirror. “They’re so effective the ship’s security rarely needs to resort to firing guns — as soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney they move on as quickly as they can.” Navy members use the pop tunes, which are played at extremely high volume, when initial warnings fail to have an effect on the pirates. “The speakers can be aimed solely at the pirates so as not to disturb the crew,” Owens said, noting that pirates will often wear earplugs to avoid hearing the songs. “Playing loud pop songs has been proven as one of the most effective ways of fending off attackers,” a spokesman for the British Association of Private Security Companies confirmed to the Mirror, adding that there is a choice of music made available to each security detail. It’s not the first instance of armed forces using pop music as a weapon: Chilean dictator reportedly used the songs of Julio Iglesias to torture political opponents in the 1970s, and the U.S. army reportedly used Western music — including songs by Spears, as well as Eminem — as an offensive tactic in the War on Terror. And according to Steven Jones of the Security Association for the Maritime Industry, the pirates should consider themselves lucky to have to suffer only Spears — he can think of at least one other pop star whose tunes would be considerably more potent. “I’d imagine using Justin Bieber would be against the Geneva Convention,” he joked to the Mirror."

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/10/28/the-ultimate-weapon-against-somali-pirates-britney-spears/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


[Edited on October 28, 2013 at 4:34 PM. Reason : u]

10/28/2013 4:31:35 PM

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"Chilean dictator reportedly used the songs of Julio Iglesias to torture political opponents in the 1970s"

lol

10/28/2013 4:38:51 PM

Did the CIA blast something when they were trying to capture Noriega?

10/28/2013 4:41:27 PM

^Yea it was Van Halen and various other "Heavy Metal" bands from that era

10/28/2013 4:43:53 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkWRP67Es0

10/28/2013 4:46:28 PM

Who is Brittany Spears?

10/28/2013 4:58:09 PM

Mylie Cyprus

10/28/2013 8:10:18 PM