There is an element out here that can't abide with the odds and they have no problem adoptin' a more larcenious attitude ta make things fall in their favor.

On April 27, 12 fishermen from a trawler of the Hsinhuatai Co. in Keelung City, Taiwan Province, that had sunk near the island of Tungyin because of an engine breakdown were rescued by fishermen of the Haifeng Brigade of the Huangchi People's Commune in Lienchiang County, Fukien Province.

to rot in Hell

We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.