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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:53 pm

And lets propose that a mile over water is worth at least 10 miles on land. Extra credit also for emptying the leaky tub with a leaky bucket. Laughing

Great work YW,BW,JJ and all who contributed. Must be the greatest safari (Odyssey?) to date...

jump_4_joy

And lets also wish Okoma comes back for more Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:11 pm

^^^^^
Speaking of Okoma, I just heard form him. I have a feeling that he is actually starting to have second thoughts about not trying to recover the money himself. He did not say that he was going to actually try but the mere fact that he is still even talking about it is still a good sign I think. I will update the website with his latest when I get home this evening.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:20 pm

Oh my, I just pictured Okoma, ten years later, still sailing the seas and walking up and down the beach in the hope of ever recovering that trunkbox! Laughing

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 11

Give Okoma a reason to get back in the game. Let the money wash up on shore and then start moving away from where he is. Play it like someone else must have found the money. Of course, with the security precautions you had in place to make sure Okoma didn't just grab the box and run with the money, there is no way they can open the box without the special procedures you have. If the box gets back on land, Okoma may be willing to go after it. You could have the box be located in hotels and such so that Okoma will start snooping around these places in order to steal the box back from the person who 'found' it.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:41 pm

^ That could endanger the first person he sees carrying anything short of a trunkbox.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:54 pm

How about this?

You tell him, that you will come over to Nigeria next weekend to recover the money, and that he shall make all the reservations for you. Tell him, since you have been in the desert for months, you really really need some hookers and beer, and that he shall prepare everything for a good party in the best hotel in town. And since you have a good taste in women, he shall send you the pictures of the hookers upfront so that you can pick one. That might cost him quite another dollar ehhh Naira Twisted Evil

Not quite a Newb Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 58

I think should be detained somehow, and give the mugu a bit more time to get the box.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:58 pm

scuba diving........

hmm could be differnet.....

Being PADI qualified myself could be quite horrifying to think of the outcome of a mugu who can probably hardly swim, renting some scuba gear from some dodgy Lagos "scuba shop".........

and then trying to go for 30-60m on first dive..........

Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:11 pm

Yeah, but I note Tony calls is 'scubu' equipment so it's probably specially modified for mugus.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:20 pm

ah, thats ok then,

"scubumugu" - going to try to get that word into the next edition of the OED (Oxford English Dictionary)

just thinking, "scooby doo" (if you don't know go to google) meets scubumugu ------- scoobyscubumugu.. yikes! kids! whawhaidunno....

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 19

I think in a few weeks Troy should recover the Box and return with it to his home in London

Of course he will then issue a final goodbye insult

Unfortunatly he will have forgotten to turn off the GPS locator

The co-ordinates should direct our freind to somewhere interesting

New Scotland Yard Perhaps ?

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:47 pm

I think the Third Party Rule applies here... it applied to the FBI, after all.

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:51 pm

nope... never going to be a 3 party in this one

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:54 pm

I can't believe he is back for more. My sides hurt.

419Eater is my life Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 381

If the "scubu" stuff would look like the "risky free" he should better dive without it.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:47 am

The Submersible Lad wrote:

i had to use a friend cafe time to write to you.

Now that's really bringng a lad to his knees...

He doesn't need any scubumugu gear. A bit of garden hose, a couple of concrete blocks and some rope should do it.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 51

He says he needs money for scuba gear, but he doesn't know how to swim...It sounds to me like he's given up on the money and he's just trying to cut his losses

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:52 am

he's probably figuring the point of scuba, sorry, scubu diving is to sink, rather than swim... Confused

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:57 am

Maybe you could convince him to find it by snorkelling. He can put on a life vest and flippers and just float in the water with the mask and the snorkel. He can look for it that way. Think of how much time he could waste.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:14 am

Maybe some underwater sonar like they use for finding sunken ships?

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:22 am

Folllowing this on holiday in Oz, Hayley not best pleased!

Lol at the Risky Free breaking down!

CUL, keep it up.

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:31 am

Quote:

Maybe you could convince him to find it by snorkelling. He can put on a life vest and flippers and just float in the water with the mask and the snorkel. He can look for it that way. Think of how much time he could waste.

Think how much he would look like a seal to the sharks!

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:54 am

^^^ Poor sharks, they'd never get the bad taste out of their mouths....

Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:41 am

sounds like somebody needs to send him some links to scuba diving rentals in Lagos.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14

At this point in time, it would be perfect to suggest that he could get money to continue from a "Father Shivers" kind of modality. Say that there just happened to be a ministry that you had a friend in who donates funds to those whom join their church. Perhaps you can have good ole Okoma fill out 100 questionaire forms and stage some sort of public ritual to qualify for "funding".

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