Message in a Bottle (A strange story)

http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20060623-0847

The dead can speak. At least, one dead man in Wisconsin did. When Josh Baker was 10 years old in 1985, he did what many kids do: He wrote a note, stuffed it into a bottle and threw it in a lake. Tragically, Baker died in 2005, leaving behind a grieving family and at least one best friend named Steve Lieder.

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This month, Lieder was chatting with friends near White Lake in Antigo, Wis., when he noticed a bottle floating in the water. He fished it out and along with his friends, cracked it open to read the note inside, reports The Associated Press. The note read: "My name is Josh Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95."

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After serving in the Marine Corps in the Middle East and surviving that conflict, Josh Baker returned home and died last year at age 20 in a traffic accident in California. Lieder gave the note to Baker's mother, who plans to display it in her home.

:wow: Coincidence can be amazing, can't it?

According to the article, the note in the bottle states, "My name is Josh Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95."

Then even later in the article it states that, "Josh Baker returned home and died last year at age 20 in a traffic accident in California."

Thenumbers don't match up....the damn media can't get any thing right!

Josh wrote the note in 1995 when he was ten. He died last year, 2005, at age 20. He was born in 1985. 2005-1985=20

The article does in fact say "When Josh Baker was 10 years old in 1985, he did what many kids do..."

Which conflicts with the date on the message as stated elsewhere in the article: "The date is 4/16/95".

I guess I should take a refresher in solving word problems in math! :blush:

they said it correctly and incorrectly. More and more places are cutting back on proof readers leading to more and more mistakes making it into print.