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Post by OldHippieDude on Feb 4, 2014 19:39:09 GMT -5
Castaway's relatives 'relieved' he's aliveFamily members of Jose Salvador Alvarenga said on Monday they were relieved their brother had been found alive. The relatives were speaking from their home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, D.C. The fisherman — thought to be from El Salvador — washed ashore on the Marshall Islands and told authorities there that he had been adrift in the Pacific Ocean for more than a year. He was found in a disoriented state on a remote coral atoll where he had been washed up over the weekend in his 22-foot fiberglass boat. A police patrol boat took him to Majuro, the capital of the islands. According to reports, Alvarenga told authorities he had set sail on a shark fishing trip from Mexico in late December 2012 — some 6,200 miles away — but was blown out to sea. He also said that he had survived by drinking turtle blood and catching fish and birds with his bare hands. More Here with Photo
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Post by OldHippieDude on Feb 4, 2014 19:45:24 GMT -5
Makings of a great "true-life" docudrama! Wow!
Forget it, Tom Hanks! Your beard would work, but you're too damned old and balding now, for this part!
Peace,
OHD
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 21:51:33 GMT -5
Quite a story alright.
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Post by Sauerkraut on Feb 11, 2014 14:17:00 GMT -5
I still wonder how true it is, something to me does not sound right. Floating 'round the ocean all that time-
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 16:36:27 GMT -5
Saw a news report on this that said analysis of the sea currents speed and directions supported his claim.
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Post by Affirmative Action Jackson on Feb 13, 2014 4:54:18 GMT -5
Would have been a lot easier if he had just crossed at the Arizona border like the rest of them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 14:49:58 GMT -5
Yeah, but this way he'll have book rights and will never have to work again.
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Post by OldHippieDude on Feb 13, 2014 21:30:15 GMT -5
Would have been a lot easier if he had just crossed at the Arizona border like the rest of them. He's obviously a 'Spaniard,' and they're not the ones trying to get in. The native Mexicans, actually native Americans, their forbears mostly "renegades," pushed farther south, are the ones sneaking stealthily across the border. NDNS don't have beards like this dude! Peace, OHD
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Post by Porky on Feb 13, 2014 21:56:07 GMT -5
The native Mexicans, actually native Americans, their forbears mostly "renegades," pushed farther south, are the ones sneaking stealthily across the border. Peace, OHD You're incorrect on that, OHD. Native Americans and Native Mexicans are two entirely different type of people. At your age you should know that already.
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Post by OldHippieDude on Feb 21, 2014 21:24:10 GMT -5
The native Mexicans, actually native Americans, their forbears mostly "renegades," pushed farther south, are the ones sneaking stealthily across the border. Peace, OHD You're incorrect on that, OHD. Native Americans and Native Mexicans are two entirely different type of people. At your age you should know that already. No, not "entirely." Their only real difference is which tribe of "Indians" they are descended from. Granted, Aztec, Maya, Inca, and other indigenous, major "tribes" of Mexico are quite a bit different from say, the "Southern Plains Indians," here in the U.S., nonetheless, they are still native Americans. Here is a prominent example: The Chiricahua Apaches lived mostly in the U.S Desert Southwest and in Northern Old Mexico, and many thousands were pushed farther and farther south, because of the European push westward, all the way into Mexico. Those tens of thousands of Chiricahua Apaches have multiplied over quite a few generations, and have become many millions of 'Mexican Indians.' The same holds true for other tribes, including many thousands of so called "renegades." Of course, millions have Spanish (Spaniard) ancestors as well, as a result of inter-marrying/inter-breeding with the "Mexican Indians" after the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Peace, OHD
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Post by Rusty on Feb 21, 2014 22:24:46 GMT -5
Pork,aren't you part American Indian?
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Post by OldHippieDude on Feb 28, 2014 14:16:27 GMT -5
Pork,aren't you part American Indian? I've never met any white man in OK who wasn't "part Cherokee." Consistently from their GG Grandmother, and she was a "Cherokee Princess." Peace, OHD
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Post by Porky on Mar 1, 2014 22:41:25 GMT -5
Pork,aren't you part American Indian? Yep, very much so and something I'm very proud of.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2014 17:13:19 GMT -5
I have some Cherokee from my mother's side of the family. But no there was no "princess" in the line despite OHD's asinine claim.
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