Geeklawyer can­not refrain from com­ment­ing on the news that pretty Prince William was involved in a raid on a sus­pected drug run­ning boat.

The involve­ment seems to have been some­what periph­eral: his role was described by an anony­mous crew mem­ber as that of “...a sort of look­out...”; a descrip­tion last used about the untrained crew mem­ber of the Titanic who per­suaded his chum to let him “have a go” because it would look good on his CV. Read­ing between the lines one assumes that the squad­dies felt that the wit­less one should be given a “make work” non-job to do that didn’t get in anyone’s way while the real look-out & crew got on with it:

“Sit here sir, keep a firm look out and don’t move or speak until we tell you that this is all over; then some­one will give you a colour­ing book and you can draw pic­tures of what hap­pened for our, ermm, ship’s log.”

The Royal Navy con­tin­ued it’s long stand­ing tra­di­tion of sink­ing boats sus­pected of fer­ry­ing dope around; mer­ci­fully Prince William was being fer­ried about in one of their heli­copters not a boat so he was in lit­tle dan­ger of being sunk by his own comrades.