'Mummy, can I phone the pirates?'

[muriel_volestrangler]

...
"Mummy, mummy," trilled a voice from the back. "I want to phone the pirates."

My daughter had heard me repeatedly trying to get through to the Somali pirates on board the Sirius Star.

They usually picked up the phone but put it down again when I said I was from the BBC. My obsession with getting through to them had reached the point that I had even saved their number on my mobile phone.
...
"Hello. Please can I talk to the pirates," said my daughter in her obviously childish voice.

I could hear someone replying and a bizarre conversation ensued which eventually ended when my daughter collapsed in giggles.

This was a breakthrough. Dialogue had been established.
...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7754622.stm

Do they teach you this in journalism school? :evilgrin:

[Ian David]

1. Oh, god help us if Howard Stern gets it in his head to talk to them. n/t

[pinto]

2. "Press P for Pirates". Great story.