Canoeist found after 5 years.

[Sam Slater]

Ha, I wasn't joking Fudgey!

There's no way he got swept so far down the coast that he wasn't spotted by sea rescue, or any coast guards who'd have been informed within the hour.

What? So he wakes up on some beach with a wetsuit on and walks into the nearest town where no one asks questions? On that first night of not knowing who he is, where does he go to sleep? Surely a man walking around in a wetsuit at 3am gets spotted by someone and calls the police?

He manages to find clothing and gets himself 250 miles south into London, not knowing who he is. I'm sure if I woke up on a beach, with a wetsuit on, I'd work out that it isn't normal, and should go to the nearest police station immediately.

What a corker of an excuse!

[fudgeflaps]

I think he might be a highly manipulative sort playing the insanity card.

[Sam Slater]

I bought tickets to see Lee Evans next year -not normally my cup of tea but it's for a mate- and I'm going to see Don Giovanni when the opera comes to Sheffield in March.

I'd give those tickets up for a ticket to this guys reunion with the wife. !laugh!

[fudgeflaps]

Just get a deckchair, some sweetie treats and a tipple and go pay a visit- just follow the fireworks and/or loud shouting!

Feel for you, Evans is a twunt!! !wink!

[mrmcfister]

Hi wife upped and left the country about 6 weeks ago..seems she left in a hurry..probably his return linked to that..

[colonel]

Indeed- to Panama apparently....

I can smell a huge, fat rat here....life insurance fraud is what some might say- though I can't possibly comment.

[fudgeflaps]

Too right, colonel, there seems to be a premeditaed precision about how he kept himself under-wraps; there is the possibilty of a life insurance pact to have them in luxury for the rest of their days without busting the gut for it. It's getting fishier. A few theories aired so far, all on the exotic side, but still completely plausible.

Talk about the long con?

[steve56]

His wife pissed off with 450,000 K life insurance .

[Steve R]

steve56 wrote:

> His wife pissed off with 450,000 K life insurance .

Wow, that's 450 million - I'll bet the premiums were a bitch!

[Deuce Bigolo]

She'll be hard to find now that she's changed sex and had a new face implanted