Kicker: Message in a bottle

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Last week in Scotland, a woman cleaning up a beach found a message in a bottle. Quite a creative one, written in crayon, as Jenny Smith told STV News:

JENNY SMITH: They were saying that they were on a ship, the HMS Wormit Primary, and that they were being made to do Maths and English, I think it said.

The writers were school kids complaining about schoolwork…while pretending to be trapped on a pirate ship.

Smith went the extra mile and tracked down the four students who wrote the message and launched the bottle back in 1984. One of them was Linda Bell:

LINDA BELL: It’s a bit disappointing that it took 40 years to go about six miles down the Tay…

Yeah, the bottle didn’t go far, but their friendships have gone the distance. The four remain friends all these years later!

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: True BFF’s!

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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