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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: Message in a bottle: Don't litter |
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CNN link
This is just funny
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Message in a bottle: Don't litter
Monday, February 6, 2006 Posted: 1214 GMT (2014 HKT)
NAPEAGUE, New York (AP) -- A boat captain who sent a message out to sea in a bottle says he received a reply from Britain -- accusing him of littering.
"I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished," Harvey Bennett, 55, told the East Hampton Star.
The plastic bottle was one of five that Bennett placed in the ocean off New York's Long Island in August.
Last month, he excitedly opened a letter from England, and was stunned by the reply:
"I recently found your bottle while taking a scenic walk on the beach by Poole Harbour. While you may consider this some profound experiment on the path and speed" of "oceanic currents, I have another name for it, litter.
"You Americans don't seem to be happy unless you are mucking about somewhere," says the letter, signed by Henry Biggelsworth of Bournemouth, in the southern county of Dorset.
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joe_doufu
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it was probably meant to be funny. |
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Swiss James
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: Message in a bottle: Don't litter |
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I agree Joe- if only because of the name
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Henry Biggelsworth of Bournemouth
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laogaiguk
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ofcourse it was meant to be funny  Hence my original post. I probably wouldn't have thought up anything like that and just said hello, I'm so and so, this was found here, blah blah blah. |
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joe_doufu
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| LOL. Re-reading the article I see that the letter-writer named himself "Mr. Biggelsworth." If that's his real name he couldn't help but have a sense of humor. |
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