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Google Earth Finds Woman Trapped On Deserted Island For 7 Years

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theabortionator
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http://news-hound.org/google-earth-finds-woman-trapped-on-deserted-island-for-7-years/

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Total nans fest but still a cool story.
Mar 19 2014 3:16PM
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ThatCOprep
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A kid from Minnesota found your SOS on Google earth. I could just imagine going through google earth and seeing that.
Mar 19 2014 3:23PM
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JAHBRADOR
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INB4 Rybak.
Mar 19 2014 3:30PM
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theabortionator
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I need to make myself a website and get some epic stories rolling. I think the idea was awesome. Could have been done a little bit but still pretty solid IMO.
Mar 19 2014 3:34PM
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.Hugo.
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That would probably actually be one of the best feelings in the world
Mar 19 2014 3:40PM
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soulskier
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That is quite awesome
Mar 19 2014 4:18PM
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CaptainObvious.
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"Tom, I've called this '505' number a hundred times and it doesn't do anything."

"Why would someone just write 505 on an island."

"I dunno. Fuck this shit, let's go play shuffleboard."
Mar 19 2014 4:19PM
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theBearJew
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I feel like this story is fake. But hope its true.
Mar 19 2014 4:42PM
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iLLbiLLy
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fake
Mar 19 2014 4:45PM
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statuswhitegirl
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amazing
inb4 becomes a movie
Mar 19 2014 4:45PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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don't be ridiculous....it's 1000% fake.
Mar 19 2014 4:53PM
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louie.mirags
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Agreed..
Mar 19 2014 5:02PM
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JAHpow
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Rybak is from Wisconsin.
Mar 19 2014 6:07PM
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FreedGucci
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Holy shit if this is real...
Mar 19 2014 6:12PM
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feihlination
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so fake its almost legit again.
Mar 19 2014 6:17PM
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JAHpow
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Fake bro

http://wafflesatnoon.com/google-earth-finds-woman-deserted-island/
Mar 19 2014 6:24PM
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FreedGucci
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:(
Mar 19 2014 6:29PM
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soulskier
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I wish you could just let me be happy in my ignorant bliss...basement dweller
Mar 19 2014 7:27PM
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theabortionator
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Of course it's fake but I still think the idea is awesome. I've been wasting my trolling on forums. I need to take it to where the whole intranets can see and share across the facebook.

Can't believe nobody thought of this before.
Mar 19 2014 10:16PM
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.Rybak.
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im from wisconsin.... get it right nerd.
Mar 19 2014 10:24PM
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.Rybak.
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I'm from wisconsin get it right nerd. But i understand you euros think all americans are the same.
Mar 19 2014 10:25PM
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Ballsdeepinmud
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It was written horribly.. She fast forwarded like 7 years.. A plane dropped a package and was like some kid found you?
Mar 19 2014 10:27PM
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FerrisBueller
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turns out its fake
Mar 19 2014 10:36PM
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.Rybak.
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because then they could just get her hopes up and leave her there a little longer.
Mar 19 2014 10:51PM
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BROLF
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Im the kid from Minnesota who found her
Mar 19 2014 11:14PM
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Rafiki
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if the story was true, it may not have been a seaplane. and i doubt mystery island has a runway
Mar 19 2014 11:24PM
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Rafiki
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well google earth provides coordinates of wherever you are, in this case where the SOS was found. it would have been way more practical to bring the kit and drop it where the SOS was just out of chance the person there was still alive, rather than scouting, then switching planes
Mar 20 2014 12:53AM
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Spagett+
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So fake and gay. Google earth was launched in 2001 yet the event was said to have happened in 2007. At the end of the story the lady says she has never heard of Google earth meaning
A)The lady lived under a rock before she was stranded on an island
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B)The story is fake as fuck.
Mar 20 2014 1:03AM
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feihlination
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while we are at true stories, i worked 36 years in search and rescue for google earth and that is exactly how it works.

in the package is basically a little bit of salt to lure in wild goats, a pink barbie walkie-talkie with around one bar of battery (to really promote urgency) and a shower gel so these hobos can clean themselves up before they are even close to our pickup plane.
Mar 20 2014 7:41AM
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Substitute
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47 chromosomes.
Mar 20 2014 9:32AM
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theabortionator
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The point wasn't to be funny, it was to troll the fuck out of people. It could have been done much better but the concept was solid. Beyond that it was slacking but still good enough to get shared across facebook and get a bunch of people to be like "OMG THAT'S AWESOME"

I need to come up with stuff that caters to more people. Now I know that people love hope, and rescue. I'm hittin the drawing boards.
Mar 20 2014 10:36AM
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Substitute
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Do it
Mar 20 2014 11:06AM
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.nasty
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they have, it's called 4chan.
Mar 20 2014 12:14PM
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theabortionator
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The island story not a place where people troll things.
Mar 20 2014 1:55PM
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