Those Somalian pirates that are just the hottest thing to happen to the women in Somalia since last monsoon season managed to do the unthinkable when they seized a Saudi oil supertanker earlier today. A supertanker…do you know how big those things are?

To give you an idea, it these puppies carry 1/4 of the daily oil production in Saudi Arabia, nearly 2 million gallons.

Unfortunately, the unintentionally hilarious pirate spokesperson was unavailable for comment.

Also unfortunate, but less hilarious, are the 25 crew members still aboard the ship that was captured off the coast of Africa. Oh, and they were carrying oil to America.

The hijacking of the vessel will add to pressure for concerted international action to tackle the threat posed by pirates from anarchic Somalia to one of the world's busiest shipping routes.

"This is unprecedented. It's the largest ship that we've seen pirated," said Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet. "It's three times the size of an aircraft carrier."

Goddammit. Just when our oil prices were finally stabilizing back to normal, the anachronistic pirates are going to foil all of the high tech supertankers with machetes. Is it wrong that I imagine it's just like the pirate scene out of Life Aquatic?