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| "Amorous" couple sparks rescue drama |
| 2005-07-29 |
| Scare quotes in title are mine, I thought a reuters article without scare quotes was somehow lacking. LONDON (Reuters) - A British couple who headed out to sea in a dinghy for an amorous liaison sparked a major rescue operation when their cries of passion were mistaken for someone in trouble, British police said Tuesday. A passer-by raised the alarm after hearing strange noises coming from the waters near a beach in Torbay on the southwest coast of England Saturday morning, prompting the coastguard to send lifeboats and police to the scene. "It was found that there was a partially-clothed couple in a small rubber dingy that were brought ashore and asked to put their clothes back on," a spokesman for Devon and Cornwall police told Reuters. "Our log actually mentions that 'they were having fun in their boat!', but doesn't say anything other than that." |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #5 Re #2; they spelled 'thingy' wrong... |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2005-07-29 14:43 |
| #4 ...their cries of passion were mistaken for someone in trouble... That noise? T'wasn't us... Didn't you see the humpback wales swimming by????? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-07-29 11:13 |
| #3 "Our log actually mentions that 'they were having fun in their boat!', but doesn't say anything other than that." "We saved the details for the big, embarrassing, international news release." |
| Posted by: BH 2005-07-29 10:10 |
| #2 a small rubber dingy Using marital aids, were they? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-29 09:59 |
| #1 Can't anybody gets a little piece in quiet. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-07-29 09:49 |