Nude man rescued from Boston Harbor by state police

[unhappycamper]

http://www.wcvb.com/news/nude-man-rescued-from-boston-harbor-by-state-police/35905974



Nude man rescued from Boston Harbor by state police
Published 12:19 AM EDT Oct 18, 2015

BOSTON —A nude man was rescued by Massachusetts State Police after he jumped into Boston Harbor Saturday afternoon.

Police said the nude man was standing on Commercial Street near the Steriti Memorial Rink around 1 p.m.

When a trooper approached him, the man jumped a fence onto the baseball field next to the rink, crossed the outfield and jumped another fence, before leaping into Boston Harbor.

The State Police Marine Unit located the man about halfway between the Navy Yard and the U.S. Coast Guard Base in the harbor.

[merrily]

1. Poor soul.

Boston Harbor-not hospitable to sea life or other living things, even after the clean up.

Steriti Rink-named for the first kid from the North End to die in some war--Vietnam, I think, but I could not find his first name.

[HoosKiddingHoom]

2. PFC Stephen Steriti, 101st Airborne was stationed at Khe Sahn, in Vietnam's northern I Corps....

where he was killed on May 8, 1966, 20 years old. Khe Sahn was an insignificant outpost north of Phu Bai, in a hellish no-man's-land close to the DMZ, with no raison d'etre other than proving to the NVA that it could be held. Under nearly constant shelling (literally) day and night and under attacks where they fought for their lives, they lived in series of trenches, oftentimes being low on food, ammo, cigarettes and supplies, and living for months without showering. The base was abandoned on July 5, 1968. Just a few solemn words from an old ex-Marine who never went to Khe Sahn, but lost some friends there.

[merrily]

3. Thank you so much for that.

How did you find this thread?