Posts Tagged ‘benzene’

PIRATES AND NORTH KOREAN SEAMEN DON’T MIX

October 30, 2007

So, apparently those pirates who hijacked a Japanese ship full of benzene off the coast of Somalia over the weekend are still steaming away for parts unknown–possibly the Island of Lost Meals–with a U.S. destroyer in some sort of pursuit.
Now comes word via your friends at Associated Press and CNN.com

BENZENE AND PIRATES …

October 29, 2007

Are a flammable mixture.
Sorry, but it had to be said–especially because, as I write this, no benzene, no pirates, and no hijacked Japanese-owned ships off the coast of Somalia have been harmed in the research of this item.

 

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