Friday, November 09, 2007

Bring Home The Beacon

Just A Dry Run Today, Skipper

Investigators found themselves all at sea when they picked up a signal from ship's emergency beacon - from the middle of dry land in Belfast. The distress signal was tracked by investigators in Belfast among a mountain of old fridges and television sets in a scrap metal yard at Queen's Island. The beacon had been activated after it was dismantled from the vessel and dumped in the scrapyard.

FOOTNOTE: Was it the pre-Christmas sails?

4 comments:

Shrink Wrapped Scream said...

Well, if ever the poor thing was in distress..

The Egel Nest said...

Alternate Footnote:

Distress Beacon activated by television set who could not stand that overly talkative fridge one more minute...

Bradley
The Egel Nest

katherine. said...

wonder how long it took them to find it...

Catmoves said...

David, all ships have lives of their own. Deep water sailors know this and respect them for it. Often, the ghosts of other sailors walk the decks, even in bright sunlight. And that's my yarn for today.