13 months lost at sea....

[CeeCee]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/04/doubts-raised-over-castaway-13-months-lost-at-sea-claim/


Im wondering why nobody is asking about the young boy, Im getting the feeling this guy might have had something to do with it and concocted this story.

 

[Vivjen]

Lots of questions being asked in UK too....sounds a little fishy to me.
:lame:

 

[That Guy]

Read that he reported the boy died because he couldn't or wouldn't eat the raw birds. Being a saltwater baby, have read many lost-at-sea accounts. Some are fabricated for various reasons but many are true tales of survival. Time will tell about this latest...

 

[Vivjen]

Then eaten them...

 

[That Guy]

Watched Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" on the toob recently. Great stuff!

 

[Anne]

Then eaten them...

omg, I wondered about that, too....

 

[SifuPhil]

Do you think he has been drifting across the Pacific since?

He might have holed-up in Hawaii for all that time - it's almost smack-dab between Mexico and the Marshalls.

He just looks a little too healthy.

 

[Warrigal]

According to news I heard this evening his internal organs are swollen from too much ingested salt.
He's perhaps not as well nourished as first glance would suggest.
Let's wait to hear what the doctors say.

 

[SifuPhil]

The doctors can tell me his condition, but they can't tell me what happened on his voyage.

GUILTY!!!!

 

[Warrigal]

What's the charge?

 

[SifuPhil]

What's the charge?

He tried to molest the kid, the kid refused, kid went over side. Guy went to Hawaii, hung out for a while, came up with the idea of being lost at sea, piloted boat to the Marshalls, voila.

 

[Warrigal]

He tried to molest the kid, the kid refused, kid went over side. Guy went to Hawaii, hung out for a while, came up with the idea of being lost at sea, piloted boat to the Marshalls, voila.

I think the appropriate sign off is QED, except it isn't. :bigwink:

 

[Vivjen]

According to news I heard this evening his internal organs are swollen from too much ingested salt.
He's perhaps not as well nourished as first glance would suggest.
Let's wait to hear what the doctors say.

You are right of course; but speculation is always rife..

 

[SifuPhil]

I think the appropriate sign off is QED, except it isn't. :bigwink:

Too formal for this occasion, I think ...

Besides, voilà is often used in magic acts, and what could be more magical than a guy showing up in such excellent health after being adrift for 13 months? I haven't seen that report on his internal organs yet, so I'm holding that judgement in abeyance.

(How's THAT for a word? )

 

[That Guy]

Jeez, I hope whenever I wash up on shore after too long at sea that none of you skeptics have the misfortune of finding me. Sometimes. SOMETIMES! Things are exactly as they appear.

 

[SifuPhil]

Jeez, I hope whenever I wash up on shore after too long at sea that none of you skeptics have the misfortune of finding me. Sometimes. SOMETIMES! Things are exactly as they appear.

... but far more often they are not ...

Besides, if YOU washed up on shore your board wouldn't be far away, so that would make your claim legitimate.

 

[That Guy]

 

[Sid]

Sometimes. SOMETIMES! Things are exactly as they appear.[/QUOTE]\

Yes they do. To me this appears to be not so.

 

[That Guy]

There have been occasions of people faking stuff like this to what end I'm not sure. Hopefully, the truth will be known. Maybe not...

 

[SifuPhil]

There have been occasions of people faking stuff like this to what end I'm not sure. Hopefully, the truth will be known. Maybe not...

Short of a confession or some eyewitnesses showing up I doubt we'll ever know what really happened.