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| A boy and his bottle message |
No,
not the the movie or the song. But a real-life tale of a 9-year old boy
finding a real-life bottle with a real-life message.
The
youngster was walking on the beach near his home in Ireland and found
a 2-liter bottle with a message inside.
“The
message in a bottle had been pitched into the water in 2004 by two
Canadian
girls on vacation along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec.
It
had taken eight years to travel some 2,500 miles before washing
ashore
near
the tiny village of Passage East in County Waterford, Ireland.”
The e-mail address in the
message no longer worked, but as word of the bottle got out, the
two girls heard their bottle had been found...
Tuesday night, Oisin sat
down to chat with them in a much
more modern way—online,
via Skype.
"Bonjour!" he said cheerily, before showing them their old note
"Bonjour!" he said cheerily, before showing them their old note
and the crushed, green
plastic bottle he found it in. The young
women leaned in close to
their computer to get a better look.
The story links to another,
about a 98-year old message in a bottle being setting the world
record, but the link doesn't work. This one does.
