CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 03/28/2012 11:04 AM, Travers Naran wrote:
>> On 26/03/2012 6:19 PM, chuckers wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:52:10 AM UTC+9, Wasabi wrote:
>>>> Japanese fishing boat found adrift off British Columbia (Canada)
>>>> Took a year to drift across the Pacific after the tsunami!
>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/03/23/bc-fishing-boat-tsunami-debris.html
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> The original owner of it was on the news last night (or at least, the
>>> lower half of him was in order to protect his identity.) It would
>>> cost him WAY too much money to retrieve it and I think is said he was
>>> going to let it drift. He did hope that someone could make use of it
>>> but after a year at sea with no maintenance, it is (as can be seen
>>> from the photo) a bit rusted over.
>> 
>> Interesting...
>> 
>> http://www.theprovince.com/news/wants+salvage+Japanese+ghost+ship/6362762/story.html
>> 
>> 
>> The Canadian & Japanese governments are dithering while someone wants to
>> actually salvage it.
> 
> Yeah, yeah, yeah ... boat, salvage, fisherman, Canadians helping Japanese
> ... now let's go look at the news story that is at the top of the "Most Viewed" list:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/79pg2js
> 
> I did a TinyURL for a reason ... so you'd have to go look at the page. It
> is okay to click the link.  Or, it was when I made it.


I didn't dare click; was it about Kim Kardashian getting flour-bombed?