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Rico's friend Kelley forwards this, by Jenny Depper at Yahoo.com, about how to fend off pirates:

Can Britney Spears ward off a group of swashbuckling pirates? According to the British Royal Navy, the answer is aye aye, Captain.
The Toxic singer's catchy early hits like Oops! I Did It Again and Baby One More Time have been used by naval officers to ward off Somali pirates off the east coast of Africa.
"Her songs were chosen by the security team because they thought the pirates would hate them most," Merchant Navy Second Officer Rachel Owens, who works on supertankers, told Metro UK.
Heavily armed Somali pirates regularly target cargo ships in the area and collected more than $40 million in goods in 2012 but, according to a report presented to the United Nations Security Council, pirate attacks are at their lowest since 2006. In the first nine months since 2013, only seventeen vessels have been attacked, compared to a hundred attacks in the same time period in the previous year.
"These guys can't stand western culture or music, making Britney's hits perfect. As soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney, they move on as quickly as they can," Owens continued.
Well, there you have it, folks. The former Mouseketeer's pipes are more threatening than an approaching naval destroyer and might be the catalyst for a dramatic drop in attacks. We bet her old mouse pal Christina Aguilera can relate, since her song Dirrty is regularly used as a method of disorientation in military interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rico says using their music surely falls under the 'cruel and unusual punishment' clause of the Constitution...