Ever since a third world country reinvented the classically romantic image of pirates on the high seas, the media has enjoyed an intense infatuation with the Somali ruffians who were able to hijack U-tankers and oil ships while fighting off the Indian army.

But those pirates are not playing around, and they don't look a goddamn thing like Jack Sparrow, either. Five sailors that were on the Japanese-owned cargo ship that was seized by the pirates and held for two months before the ransom was paid were finally able to make statements about their captors. And it doesn't seem like conditions have improved much since the scurvy days.

"I wish that no one else ever has to go through this — (hijackers) are not human but rather animals," said Alister Fernandes, one of the sailors, at a news conference in Mumbai, India.

"We were always … all 24 hours we were on gunpoint," said Fernandes. "We were all staying on the bridge (in the) navigation area. All 22 crew members were sleeping there, eating there. Only for shower and all, only two people were allowed — two people will go, then they come up, two (more) people will go."

To be fair to the pirate, these "inhuman" living conditions are probably not that different to their life at home…how many places in Somalia do you think have running water for showers?