The street map of Southampton would have come in jolly handy on that Atlantic crossing.
Rather surprised that you chaps gave him a US visa!
a US visa, hot dogs, beans and a bag of biscuits...? All you need!
All he had to do was go to the embassy and say,”No habla englais!”..............
I’ll give him points for determination, but not smarts...
He just needs to fly to Mexico and walk across the border.
Crazy is not illegal. 14’ is fine, but he’s gonna need a BIT more rations and water than that...
"...He didn't have a life jacket, just a buoyancy aid and the vessel didn't have any lights... He would have died, he was severely sea sick, he had the first signs of hypothermia and his boat was filling up with water."
Well, there's no sense in being hypercritical. Next time he'll do better. He'll have beer.
I admire his pluck.
Inasmuch as this fellow may have what we call a big brass pair, they are worthless as floatation devices. /snark
Anyone with a 14-foot dinghy has my respect.
Darwin foiled again by nosey nanny-state do-gooders.
ping!
About 1970 a US airman at Mildenhall stole a C-130 and decided to fly back to the States. The plane did not have enough fuel but that was ultimately of no importance since rumor control had him being shot down by a British fighter over water.
Long ago I heard a lecture by a British Army paratrooper captain who with a sergeant crossed the Atlantic in a rowboat. They were a bit better prepared.
Personally, I think they were effing crazy.
Obviously... a prospective U.S. democrat..
What’s the problem? He actually had a legal permission to enter.