boat people

[gene]

I ran across this in my readings this past week and got a chuckle out of it. I thought the boat people, and others, might enjoy it also:


Letter to the Times, June 17, 1978:

   Sir,

   It is not only dates that make nice patterns of numbers. Some years ago I was bringing a Destroyer home from the Far East and was required to report my position twice a day.

   One evening, I saw that we would be passing close to where the Greenwich Meridian cuts the Equator so arranged to arrive there dead on midnight. Once there I altered course to due North and stopped engines so my position signal read:

   At 0000 my position Latitude 00°00′N, Longitude 00°00′E. Course 000°. Speed 0.

   I had considered saying I was Nowhere but thought (probably correctly) that Their Lordships would not be amused.

   Yours faithfully,

   Claud Dickens

[baileyuph]

Interesting, what is the probability of that happening again!  Everyone has to be somewhere sometime.   :)  Aviation people appreciate the same phenomenal, I am sure.

Doyle

[Grebo]

Spooky.
I guess more chance it happening at exactly a million to one than not quite a million to one.  :D


Suzi