ACTUAL Pirating... in England.

The huge container ship MSC Napoli has been intentionally run aground off of the coast of England. Apparently the ship was damaged in a freak storm, ripping a hole and causing the ship to list. The crew was evacuated, and the ship was grounded on a sand bar.

One interesting side effect has been that over 200 of the 2000 plus containers aboard have started washing ashore. (Some have just been washing... Shampoo has already been seen bobbing in the sea.) Around 40 of these tractor trailer sized containers have hit the beach. Recovered items include BMW motorcycles, car parts, and oak barrels of wine.

People have been looting the beach, rolling away anything they can get their hands on. It's not totally illegal, either. There is paperwork that they have to fill out to make it legit. At that point, the original owner can attempt recovery.

This is a chance for someone to dust off an OLD set of laws and actually inhabit a position presumably given as a gag title. The Receiver of Wrecks will be evaluating salvage claims based on a set of laws dating from the 1300's.

And I thought that was Joan Rivers' job.