Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 19, 2012
June 18, 2012
June 20, 2012
Transcript:
Death of a ghost ship! The Japanese fishing ship Ryou Un Maru was swept from the coast of Japan during the March 11, 2011, tsunami and drifted across the ocean to the coast of Alaska where it was sunk by the US Coast Guard in April 2012! Killer gardener! The man who held the position of head gardener for the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was also the Royal executioner! Sold! Don Sammons, the lone resident of Buford, Wyo., USA, sold the entire town at auction on April 5, 2012, for $900,000!
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Kali39 over 12 years ago
Killer gardener: This makes sense. After all, how else can you get free poison?
black_knight15_au over 12 years ago
Was he also the undertaker? Could explain why those roses always looked good….
linsonl over 12 years ago
I recently read a book where the head executioner also tended the gardens…..wonder if that’s where tha author got the idea?
Stephen Gilberg over 12 years ago
It’d be especially appropriate if he used a scythe.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 12 years ago
……so, 67 years after WW2 and the U.S. is STILL blowing the living poopie out of Japanese ships. Just for old time’s sake (that’s sake ,not rice wine- sake)they should have had a submarine sink it with a torpedo
Max Starman Jones over 12 years ago
The town of Buford is more than just grazing land. The Buford Trading Post has actually cleared more than an million a year in profit. Buford is on a busy interstate, and a favorite stopping place:
http://www.bufordtradingpost.com/?page_id=12