Football swept away by Fukushima tsunami found in Alaska, and returned to owner - Polidicks

[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59801000/jpg/_59801545_014578747-1.jpg[/img] David and Yumi Baxter alerted US officials to the discovery of the ball [quote] A football swept away by last year's tsunami and found on a remote Alaskan island is to be returned after its teenage Japanese owner was identified. Sixteen-year-old Misaki Murakami's name was written on the ball that was swept out to sea in March 2011. David Baxter found it more than a year later on Alaska's Middleton Island, 70 miles (112km) from the mainland. Mr Murakami told Japanese media he was sure the ball was his and would be happy to have it back. "I'm very grateful as I've so far found nothing that I'd owned," he told broadcaster TBS on Sunday. Mr Murakami lives in the town of Rikuzen-takata, which was very badly hit by the tsunami. On the day of the disaster the school boy was at home sick, but fled to higher ground when the earthquake struck, Kyodo News reported. His home was then swept away. The ball - given to him by his classmates in 2005 when he moved schools - was found by US man David Baxter on a beach in Middleton Island. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Mr Baxter's Japanese wife translated the writing on the ball, which included a school name and a "good luck" message. "This may be one of the first opportunities since the March 2011 tsunami that a remnant washed away from Japan has been identified and could actually be returned to its previous owner." The couple reportedly plan to send back the ball to Mr Murakami. They also found a volleyball but have not been able to identify the owner. NOAA has been monitoring floating debris from the tsunami over the past year. The shrimping boat Ryou-Un Maru, which was traced to the Japanese island of Hokkaido, also drifted to Alaska. The US Coast Guard sank the crewless ship, which was first spotted off the coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia on 23 March.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17810123[/url]

but that's a soccer ball.

No its a hockey puck

Wilson!

[QUOTE=zerothefallen;35685677]No its a hockey puck[/QUOTE] No it's a basketball. :v:

Stop.

It's a golf ball xDDD

It's a ban if you all don't quit it

that's a dodgeball! [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Craptasket))[/highlight]

I was going to ask what was significant about it, until I saw it was leaving gift from friends.

[QUOTE=Source;35685852]Wilson![/QUOTE] [i]My name's Voit, dumbass.[/i]

Its a [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Starpluck))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Source;35685852]Wilson![/QUOTE] Castaway 2 should feature Tom Hanks finding Wilson on a beach somewhere, and returning to reconqure his island.

[QUOTE=Source;35685852]Wilson![/QUOTE] [IMG]http://img1.uploadplaatjes.nl/20120423/542616.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Icyanimal;35685560]but that's a soccer ball.[/QUOTE] The funny part is the American football is not even a ball. It's like us Americans stopped giving our babies those shape inserting toys a long time ago, and now we have this :v:

[QUOTE=The Baconator;35687049]The funny part is the American football is not even a ball. It's like us Americans stopped [b]giving our babies those shape inserting toys[/b] a long time ago, and now we have this :v:[/QUOTE] I had to read that a second time, oh god

This man got his balls handed to him.

There's a picture with the kid holding the soccer ball somewhere on the internet, I'm too lazy to find it right now someone else do it.

What if the ball is radioactive?

what if the ball didnt float xD

first boats now this

[QUOTE=Petrussen;35688973]what if the ball didnt float xD[/QUOTE] It would sink xDDD

[QUOTE=usaokay;35689083]Americans call it soccer; other countries call it Football. For Football in America, other countries call it, "American Football." There's a difference, which is why people are mocking you and rating you dumb. If you were joking, then you're silly.[/QUOTE] But this is in America.

[QUOTE=zakedodead;35689950]But this is in America.[/QUOTE] The topic itself is about something in America but the OP probably isn't American.

[QUOTE=zakedodead;35689950]But this is in America.[/QUOTE] But the article is written by the BBC. You know, the [B]British[/B] broadcasting company.

[QUOTE=Jsm;35693904]But the article is written by the BBC. You know, the [B]British[/B] broadcasting company.[/QUOTE] But it was about America, they should be tolerant of other countries cultures.

That's insane.

[QUOTE=zakedodead;35693974]But it was about America, they should be tolerant of other countries cultures.[/QUOTE] It has nothing to do with tolerance at all. In a (British) English dictionary football refers to the game that ball is used for. So it makes sense for someone taught English in this country to use the correct word for it. Not to mention I think the BBC style guide has something about this.

[QUOTE=zakedodead;35693974]But it was about America, they should be tolerant of other countries cultures.[/QUOTE] Yes lets piss off all our readers by calling a football a SOCCER BALL

America fucked up and did that retarded thing of renaming Gridiron to Football for no reason. [editline]24th April 2012[/editline] I blame the same jackasses who decide we were too good for the metric system.