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- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+103talk about a small lake
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+77The worst part is, he was serving in the marines in the middle east where he was shot at and risked getting blown up everyday. He came back and died in a traffic accident. That really has to suck.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+56I did this once, I found the bottle 10 seconds later as it washed back up to the shore....
"Doh!" - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+59"The worst part is, he was serving in the marines in the middle east where he was shot at and risked getting blown up everyday. He came back and died in a traffic accident."
That kind of thing always tears my heart out. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53Eleven years... in a lake? That's it? This is lame. Try decades or centuries in the ocean and you might have a story.
"In 1953, a bottle was found in Tasmania 37 years after being dropped overboard by two Australian soldiers. One of the finders recognized the handwriting of her son who had been killed in action in 1918."
"In 1914 while crossing the English Channel, a homesick British infantryman named Thomas Hughes wrote his wife a letter, sealed it in an empty ginger-beer bottle, and tossed it overboard. Two days later, he perished in battle. In March 1999, a fisherman found the bottle in a Thames River estuary. The fisherman was flown to Auckland, and personally delivered the bottle to Hughes' 86-year-old daughter. She treasured that note because it was the only letter she ever had from her father."
"In 1784, Chunosuke Matsuyama, a Japanese seaman was shipwrecked with 44 other sailors in a small island in the Pacific Ocean. On a piece of wood, he carved how he was starving to death, sealed it in a bottle and tossed it into the sea. Some 150 years later, the bottle turned up at the village where he was born." - dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42I'll send an S.O.S to the world!
- sych0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34I hope that someone gets my...
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33..messaaagge in a botttleee!
- Merlyn383, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32The first two, unburied, comments right now:
by Celeron 12 minutes ago
talk about a small lake
by royall64 5 hours ago
Must have been a big lake.
How stupid is it that I find this amusing? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Must have been a big lake.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25He never expected it to be on digg! He got his wish ;)
- goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Sounds like 3 versions of the same urban myth to me.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"Too much about this story reads "fake"."
Theres not much to the story. - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20You must never watch "Tom Goes To The Mayor."
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17It would've been better if it was a treasure map.
- skimitar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The article is wrong and the submitter is right - the note in the bottle was dated 16 April 1995 and the article 22 June 2006 - eleven years.
- Wahttehhog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18The news article says "Message in a Bottle Found 10 Years Later" yet the Digg topic is "Man Finds Message in a Bottle 11 Years After it Was Written."
- karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Ahh yes, the class on polluting your local rivers and lakes. Who says you don't learn anything valuable in school?
- ErrandboyOfDoom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I was wondering why the black guy was in drag.
- dhakbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16... yeah...
- shinigami2057, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11They should call The Police :)
- wburglett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11hmm, some lakes can be pretty large, or the bottle could have been temporarily submerged
either way, its kinda sad, i dunno y - pattykakes887, on 10/12/2007, -17/+27talk about a small world...
- Gaidorade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10maybe it's hype for that volvo treasure hunt?
- Hydroxyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Why do I know someone named Joshua Baker...
And it's scary, he was like 17 in 2001, when I was friends with his brother, and he was in JROTC.
They moved, and I don't know where... But this is kinda of freaking me out. - ericmoritz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I guess if your last name is Baker, don't name your son Josh.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wow... I have a friend named Joshua Baker who died in a traffic accident...coincidence begets coincidence.
- theuber1337, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Um.. don't you guys realize it was Lake Michigan; the biggest fresh water lake in the world. I live on the beach of it, trust me, that is damn impressive.
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8First of all, it's really, really difficult to seal a bottle against water for 11 years. Against Wisconsin winters, it's next to impossible. Especially for a 10 year old.
The message says, "If you find this, put it on the news." If it weren't for the supposedly extraordinary circumstances surrounding this story, it would hardly be newsworthy. However, local news outlets would pander to such a story - especially with a message such as that.
Although there was a graphic of a bottle in the water, it obviously wasn't The bottle in question. A graphic of the "actual" bottle would open the story to too much scrutiny.
Notice the tie-in to an unpopular war. Emotional appeal.
Finally, what are the odds of That guy finding That bottle? On the other hand, I see definite motivation for That guy to fabricate such an occurrence on several levels.
Sorry, I don't buy it. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9A year has passed since I wrote my note...
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Who would have thought.
A sing-a-long.
on digg. - chicomdk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6you know this is sad but at the same time it's kinda wonder full I mean you get a message from a long gone friend. I don't think it's fake many things could have made this happen. and the it would make me cry and feel joy about my friend all at the same time. I ve lost a many friends if something like this was to happen to me i would take it as a sign as they are in a better place and just checking up on me. So all you people who say this fake or stupid whatever
this gets my digg - Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And it's not like he was looking for the message either.
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Who dugg Wahttehhog down? What he says is true.
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The moral of the story:
Don't put stuff in a bottle and send it out to sea, you will die of unnatural causes before your bottle is found. - abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3iBottle
- theuber1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I do stand corrected, it is the largest fresh water lake in the US/one country; 22,300 square miles (57,750 square km). Superior is in Canada as well.
However that deters from the point that it is impressive to find that bottle by the friend 11 years later, so I don't see why a irrelivent factual error disqualifies my statement. - listentothis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3MyBottle: the un-tech version of keeping in touch
- Vector713, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3how amazing, and how sad :(
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"talk about a small world... "
More like small town (8500) with a small lake. Not that big a coincidence. - imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"on your side"
- dustedbunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ohhhL3ThaL
yes yes. And if we dig your story some more. It will end world hunger.
Loser. - emiliogtz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This really seems like an urban myth... but then again, that's just me...
- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4With 6.3 billion people in the world, there are going to be some 'freaky' coincidences. If you think about it, having two people with the same name dying isn't that unlikely at all. It's our brains trying to seek patterns. Still interesting though.
- patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I for one am still waiting for that message I wrote for myself to get sent back to my email address 20 years from now.
- Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What kind of school has kids throw bottles in a lake for a school project???? Sounds made up. I can see it now: Teacher tells kids to grab all the trash and bring it to the lake and throw it in...yeah right!
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Messages in Bottles" would be a good segment for Mythbusters. Almost impossible to seal a bottle that tight without using commercial methods.
- thebottlemom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is Josh's sister, Jess! If you don't know all the facts of the story keep your mouth shut and your opinions to yourself. For one, it wasn't lake michigan. He wrote it when he was 10 and it wasn't until 11 years after he wrote it that it was found. It wasn't floating in the lake for 11 years, it was at the bottom and was pulled up because of a lake project that was being done by the village! ATTN CAPTAIN MURPHY: You say you're from wisconsin, read the newspapers and watch the news, oh and make sure you get the next months issue of People Magazine!!! So, the way i see it, all of you non believers can thank my brother. He did go into the war and fight for your freedom while you were sitting on your butts complaining about e-mails! Have a great day and remember to smile=) Jessica
- CptMurphy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Okay, I really want to believe this 'cause it is an inspirational and hope-giving (if that's a word) story... plus, I admit, I'm from Wisco. BUT, upon a google search of everything from "message in a bottle" +antigo +wisconsin; to "joshua baker" +message in a bottle"; and just about every keyword combo I could come up with wouldn't even return the page linked to here. I really just wanted some local Wisco. news about it, since I figure something like this would HAVE to make the evening news (especially if it is 'news' in SC), if nothing more than a cred. check, but I get nothing. Again, I really want to believe it, and it is a pretty touchingly cool article if true, but my skeptic mindset just won't let me believe it yet.
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