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Subject: TWL: Japanese trawler story
Thataway@XXX.XXX
Date: Sat Dec 01 2001 - 20:07:44 EST
I don't know if this is really true, but it is a story I found when doing a
search on "trawlers":
According to Reuters, the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler was plucked out of
the Sea of Japan earlier this year clinging to the wreckage of their sunken
ship.
Their rescue 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 its 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 frightened cow rampaging within the 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.
Bob Austin, Pensacola, FL
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