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Crews tow man in boat with suspicious device to shore (Near Surry Nuclear Plant)
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Posted on 05/20/2011 10:20:03 AM PDT by Stonewall1

SURRY, VA (WTVR) - Virginia Marine Police say they are towing the boat of a man with a suspicious device attached to himself to shore.

Officials say the man is in a nine foot inflatable boat that was in the middle of the James River, just south of the Ghost Fleet between Surry Nuclear Power Plant and Ft. Eustis. The man had a chain wrapped around his neck attached to a 2 foot by 1 foot black box. Virginia Marine Police's John Bull says the man, who was first spotted by a commercial crabber around 7 a.m., made no demands, appeared incoherent and disoriented, but at other times was also cooperative.

According to the Daily Press, Bull said the man provided no information other than to ask people to stay away from him.

"We don't know who he is, and we don't know how he got here," Bull said. "We don't know why he has a chain around his neck. We don't know why the chain is attached to a black box, and we don't know what's in the black box either. We are approaching this with an abundance of caution so that a very strange situation doesn't become more serious than it already is."


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To: DannyTN

Obama supporter who realized what Obama’s chances of being re-elected are.


41 posted on 05/20/2011 4:55:37 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Stonewall1

The Virginian Pilot had a picture of the guy in his raft on their website, they have since taken down.


42 posted on 05/20/2011 5:47:51 PM PDT by csvset
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To: DannyTN
Possibilities:
43 posted on 05/20/2011 6:05:53 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed: he's hated on seven continents)
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To: Alex Murphy

Someone ghot ahold of Hillary’s lockbox where she has the cajones of the feckless pubbies stored. I can see whyt the boat was towed rather than boarded.


44 posted on 05/20/2011 6:08:08 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Stonewall1
Video at the link.

Looks like a fat, drunk, liberal.

Man found alive but chained on raft in Newport News  

45 posted on 05/20/2011 6:37:50 PM PDT by csvset
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To: gieriscm

interesting


46 posted on 05/20/2011 7:00:32 PM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: Stonewall1
I think FreeRepublic needs to borrow from FaceBook and add a 'Like' response. Also, not like FaceBook, there should be a 'Dislike' response.

So many of these comments need a 'thumbs up'!
47 posted on 05/20/2011 7:43:34 PM PDT by Brizick (Repeal the 17th Amendment)
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To: Stonewall1
He might be distressed about the end of days ... May 21st.
48 posted on 05/20/2011 7:46:05 PM PDT by zeaal
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To: DannyTN

manchurian murder victim, drugged and set adrift?


49 posted on 05/20/2011 7:56:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (Osama bin SEALed - http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.htmlI stan)
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To: cherokee1

There is 24 hr. security around these military vessels while they are in port. They don’t play games with crazies in boats.
One warning shot across your bow..and if you don’t change course...kablamo!


50 posted on 05/20/2011 8:41:06 PM PDT by Yorktownpatriot
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To: Hardraade

Drunk on his butt?


51 posted on 05/21/2011 4:53:44 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: csvset
Looks like a fat, drunk, liberal.

And here I thought Ted Kennedy was still dead.
52 posted on 05/21/2011 5:37:40 AM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-eyed killer of the deep.)
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To: R. Scott

Lol. So it would seem...


53 posted on 05/21/2011 5:38:41 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: oneolcop

or Algore-worshipping eco-Nazi?


54 posted on 05/21/2011 5:52:13 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Stonewall1
The man had a chain wrapped around his neck attached to a 2 foot by 1 foot black box.

Anyone who ever lost their tacklebox overboard would have left the guy alone.........

55 posted on 05/21/2011 5:56:58 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (It's a beautiful day and I'm glad I can see it in color.......)
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To: Stonewall1

If he is a suicide bomber then more than likely he was high on drugs when they made contact with him.


56 posted on 05/21/2011 11:05:13 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Yorktownpatriot

You’re quite correct about security at normal Naval ports/ moorages. My point of interest was that the drydocks at both Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Newport News Shipyard are directly exposed to the river channel and the US Navy has to let normal pleasure boat type traffic pass by. It would be superfoolish on the part of the neighborhood patrols to not consider rubber duck boy as a test to find out just how small a floating piece-of-krap could drift by a drydock caison un-noticed. Probably worse would be the notion that ducky boy was doing a drift test-—as in how close would a mine naturally float to a caison. I can’t overemphasize how much damage might be done if a caison were to fail with a super carrier in drydock/overhaul. And if I were a cut throat hoodlum trying to figure out how to do some max damage for really low dollars this would be at the top of my list of possibles-—a blown caison would make the USS Cole incident look like a minor cut. This is the one place where our super carriers are vulnerable to the max-—un-armed, immobile, and in drydock. Just sayin’ and hope our guys are actually on top of it.


57 posted on 05/21/2011 3:53:36 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Hardraade

Captain Ahab?;)


58 posted on 05/21/2011 10:14:48 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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