Man Found Floating on Raft at Sea Between Denmark and Norway ("stateless American") (?)

FOXNews/AP ^ | April 23, 2006

[nuconvert]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like Mr. Williams has plenty to hide for some reason. Even the name sounds like it could have been pulled out of thin air.

[the invisib1e hand]

is this the guy who used to live at the airport in europe because, having no valid passport, they wouldn't let him leave? people from the shops used to feed him at night....NPR did a thing on him in the '80's (and that was around the last time I listened to NPR).

On the other hand, should you believe anything that some guy found floating on a raft tells you? If he said he was the Messiah, would it spark a religious debate?

[the invisib1e hand]

Even the name sounds like it could have been pulled out of thin air.

George Williams, eh? And I'm Bob Smith!

[Philistone]

That guy was Polish, I think.

[the invisib1e hand]

No sense of humor, I gather. What if he had looked at them, glanced furtively from side to side, and whispered in a conspiratiorial tone, "My name is Jimmy Hoffa!" Or, "I'm Elvis."

[bennowens]

Just out having a barrel of fun!

[TCats]

Dehydration and frostbite are the least of this guy's problems I suspect.

[Philistone]

Well if he said he was Jimmy Hoffa I'd want to know how he got out of the foundation of Giants Stadium...

[nuconvert]

I don't know. There was an Iranian guy living at Heathrow Airport and Spielberg made a movie about it called, "The Terminal". Never saw it. Don't know if he's still there or not.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Someone from Hollywood finally make good on their promise to leave?

[csvset]

Start spreading the news
I’m leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New york, new york

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I wanna wake up in the city
That doesn’t sleep
And find I’m king of the hill
Top of the heap

Those little town blues
Are melting away
I’ll make a brand new start of it
In old new york

If I can make it there,
I’ll make it anywhere
It’s up to you,
New York, New York

[AmericanMade1776]

Representatives from the Swedish border police in Gothenburg, Sweden take care of a man rescued from a raft in the waters off Pater Noster on the west Swedish coast, Friday April 21, 2006. Swedish authorities on Saturday were trying to solve the puzzle around a man calling himself a 'stateless American' who was found floating on a raft in the waters between Denmark and Norway Friday, claiming he had been thrown off a ship several days earlier. The man was found by a Norwegian oil tanker on Friday morning, floating in the Skagerak sea on a raft made up of four oil barrels held together by a frame of wooden planks. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Bjorn Larsson Rosvall)

[Ludicrous]

There's a mysterious girl who seems to be living in the office bldg where I work. She is frequently seen in the stairwells and camps out on the unoccupied floor which has been "being remodeled" for several years.

[AmericanMade1776]

A rescue vessel approaches a man found floating on a raft in international waters between Norway and Denmark, 60 kilometres off the coast of Norway. The man said he had been thrown overboard a British ship, Norwegian rescue officials said.(AFP/Bergesen Worldwide Gas/Scanpix

[cripplecreek]

I used to work with John Smith. As I always said "If that is your real name"

However It was a lot more fun working with Richard Burns.

[backinthefold]

Reading this makes me thing of a Tom Hanks movie, or two

[AmericanMade1776]

[SampleMan]

Alec Baldwin?