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Old 05-04-2012, 09:44 AM   #10
Skunkhome
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Re: Bike and Tsunami

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Originally Posted by Water Warrior
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Originally Posted by Skunkhome
You have to wonder how a Harley happened to wash up on the shore in BC. I would expect it to be on e bottom . What is buoyant enough on it to keep it up in the transpacific currents? I guess stranger things have happened but.
The bike was in a container with some other stuff that belonged to the owner. The container just floated across the Pacific to our shores. An unmanned Japanese fishing boat was nearing our coast a couple weeks ago and causing a navigational danger so the navy sunk it. This is just the beginning of things from Japan.
Oh! That clarifies a lot. That really takes a lot of the mystique off the bike. Now I am kinda non-plused about it.
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