You know a case is going to be fun to read when...

[suyongli]

• it involves "men of agreeable appearance and pleasant manners" stealing a yacht
• ...having disguised themselves as crewmen
• ...while the owner of the ship is at a RSL dance,

and also features:

• Frenchmen pelting yachters with potatoes, "with some degree of excitement and enthusiasm"
• and then consuming the contents of bottles of beer solely to be able to

Comments

[jerub]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[narwhale]

Please tell me one of the Frenchmen is quoted as having yelling "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"?

[suyongli]

Not so far, but I do have another 10 pages to read. In my reading since posting, the pirates have tried to trick the French cargo ship and also fallen and/or jumped into the sea - leaving the sails of the yacht half-furled and the motor running. Which then, predictably, results in a number of collisions.

Btw, did you get that stuff I sent for your moot thing?

[feast_at_heorot]

Oh no! Georgia beat me to it!
"I show my private parts to your aunties!"