Pirate Shoot-Outs

I know that real-life, modern-day piracy is a serious issue that bears no relation to the Robert Lewis Stevenson/Monkey Island kind. So I KNOW this is a callous thing to say. Nevertheless: it's hard not to experience a feeling of profound awesomeness when you read a headline like "3 Pirates May be dead in shootout." And as if that weren't enough, the article itself features comments from a "pirate spokesman." That's right: a pirate spokesman. Is a cooler job than that even theoretically imaginable?