Angry Little French Pirate Storms Reporters' Boat

Photojournalists Jim Cole (AP) and Vince DeWitt were treated to the French version of Woody Harrelson on Sunday, when French President Nicolas Sarkozy became enraged at them for doing their job. He had previously issued a request to be left alone, but like an arrogant little Frenchman, he gave it in French and then expected it to be understood in New Hampshire. Fortunately, for our own amusement, some of the reporters didn't get the interpretation until it was too late.

As Sarkozy and his family were riding in a boat on Lake Winnipesaukee, he noticed the two photographers snapping shots of him and his party. He was overcome with Napoleonic rage, and had the boat steered towards the journalists, so that he could jump onto their boat and scream at them up close. Of course, having not understood enough French to get the jist of "leave us alone", the reporters were clueless about the angry spitting and "sacre bleu" half-naked Frenchness now on their boat.

Eventually, one of the women on the boat was coaxed into doing something outside of her 35-hour workweek, and explained in English why Niccy was pissed. It's a good thing she wasn't in a rush to help, because the idea of a little French guy with no shirt on jumping into someone else's boat to scream at them because he forgot to bring an English interpreter with him to America is just too funny. Look at his angry Frenchness. HA!