A drunken passenger attempted to break into the cockpit of a Virgin Australia flight from Australia to Indonesia on Friday, causing the pilot to issue a hijack alert.

Somali pirates have seized a Greek supertanker off the coast of Oman—just one day after seizing an Italian supertanker! "Don't forget us, news media!" they seem to be saying. "Egypt is a passing fad." [USAT. Photo: Getty]

The driver of a New Zealand train last week was surprised to find a cute house cat stowed away on board. When he approached, the cat viciously attacked him, sending the driver to the hospital and shutting down the train.

The MV Maersk Alabama was hijacked earlier this year, when snipers from the navy killed three pirates to rescue the ship's captain, Richard Phillips. Undeterred by this minor setback, the pirates had another crack today in the waters off Somalia.

Three or four men hijacked a Mexican airliner carrying 104 passengers. The plane is sitting on a runway at the Mexico City airport. A "square box" has been found onboard, and all passengers have reportedly exited the plane.

Somali pirates are dramatic to a point, but they lack that spy-novelesque element of international (supernatural?) intrigue. Luckily, there may be unknown pirate forces lurking in the seas off Europe—they've already grabbed one ship carrying...secrets???

The crew of the Maersk Alabama, the ship with 20 Americans aboard hijacked by Somali pirates this morning, has reportedly already retaken the ship from the scurvy buccaneers. Whoa, movielike, action film, what's happening?