I'm surprised the box held water long enough to make it to the North American coast.A Canadian beachcomber made an unexpected find along British Columbia's Pacific Coast on April 18. Debris from Japan's tragic tsunami a year ago have only recently begun washing up on North America's west coast. Like on April 18th, when Peter Mark found a white container with a Harley Davidson inside of it.
The now rusted and seaweed caked boulevard cruiser sported license tags from Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas most ravaged by the tsunami. Mark, who was riding his ATV on a remote stretch of beach on Graham Island off the coast of British Columbia, spotted the large white box laying in the sand. It was damaged, but still contained the motorcycle, some golf clubs, a few tools and camping gear. Based on video footage of tsunami wrecked Japanese moving vans, the box looks like it was part of one of the vans.
He says he's trying to find the original owner to return it. I'm not sure how it works in Japan or Canada, but here in NY if an insurance claim was paid on the bike, it would go to the insurance company. However, shouldn't he get rights under salvage laws?
Either way a crazy story.
*Also the first comment was priceless.
