For nostalgias' sake, from my scr & scrm archives (016)
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From sasha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fri Apr 18 10:17:37 EDT 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:03:33 CST
From: sasha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (sasha)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.russian.moderated
Subject: in the news
Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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I thought this curious item could be hard to find for most people, so
I reproduce it here without permission. I got it from a colleague with
the comment "Oceanography can be a risky business these days"
attached.
Sasha
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>From: Ackleson, Steven
>Sent: Monday, March 31, 1997 9:41 AM
>Subject: Cow Droppings in the East Sea
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>Earlier this year, the dazed crew of a Japanese Trawler was plucked out
>of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship.
>
>Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once
>authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they
>claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the
>trawler amidships, shattering it's hull and sinking the vessel within
>minutes.
>
>They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force
>reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its
>cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a
>Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily
>taken off for home.
>
>Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a
>now rampaging cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves,
>they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of
>Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
>Dr. Steven G. Ackleson
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