Pirates' preferred means of punishment was keel-hauling, which meant tying their victims to a rope and dragging them under the ship. There's no evidence this was done much, if at all. Pirates made their victims walk the plank. Besides, what crew would stand for their captain burying the treasure they'd won together?ДЈ. Since pleasure right now was their only real desire, they'd take any treasure they got to a pirate-friendly port and spend it all on liquor and women as quickly as ever they could. Pirates didn't expect to live very long, considering the business they were in, so planning for the future wasn't high on their list of concerns. This probably happened occasionally, but was the exception, not the rule. Pirates buried their treasure so nobody else could find it. Jack Sparrow could never have become a captain of a real pirate ship he'd've been killed by his crewmates for a coward.Дў. _Sure, they preferred to take their prizes without a fight, but when they fought, they were ruthless-the better pirates were, anyway. Pirates only fought as hard as they had to. So I'm here to dispel some of the more popular myths about pirates, and to confirm a few as well. Well, I enjoy Talk Like a Pirate Day as much as most other geeks, but I think it's important to add a dose of reality. They make it easy to see past the fact that they were stealing gold and other valuables by making the people they were stealing it from seem worse than them. Hollywood and pirate novels would have you believe that pirates were swashbucklers living a life of pleasure on the seas, fighting only when they had to. When I say 'it,' I mean the romanticizing of pirates. So call it the fault of Robert Louis Stevenson and Johnny Depp. Then Disney went and adapted one of their amusement park rides into a movie, and the result was actually good. Treasure Island's popularity spawned a genre of pirate novels, and those novels were made into pirates movies, which gave rise to comic books and Halloween costumes.

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