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Mr. Ted Owens  
To Saga Magazine

Amazing!!  
Answer.  
Book

Vancouver Jan. 27/73

Dear Mr. Ted Owens

On August 30, 1971 at 11:30 A.M. I was working on the deck of a ship loading lumber. I was knocked from the deck of the ship by a 4 ton load of lumber. The load of lumber struck me with such force that I landed on the dock rail 20 feet away and 20 feet down, then I bounced off the rail and struck the side of the ship, I bounced off the ship and landed another 20 feet down onto a log, I then fell off the log into the water and drowned, 15 minutes later my foreman jumped into the water, located me under the dock, pulled me out and restored my breathing.

All my ribs were broken, my ribs punctured my lungs, liver, kidneys and spleen, my neck was broken, my collar bone and shoulder blade were broken, all the bones in my left hand were broken. I was only 5 days in a hospital bed. On the 6 day I walked up and down 6 flights of stairs in the hospital. I had a very bad head injuries that destroyed all feeling of pain. I never had any feeling of pain during my accident or after. I still have no pain. I need your help in communicating with U.F.O. Space intelligence. I have to find out why I was brought back from the dead and I would like to know why I am suffering no pain. I have always been a bad boy and very puzzled.

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(My age is 60)

Sincerely yours,

Joe. J. Busing

Waterfront  
boss cited  
return to Busing

Longshore foreman Kenneth  
Lankstead, 40, was awarded  
the Workmen's Compensation  
Board's $3,000 silver bravery  
award Friday for his rescue  
of a drowning fellow worker  
last August.

While working aboard a  
freighter, he jumped 10 feet  
from a cabin number to the  
man's fall in 2 and then  
plunged into the water to res-  
cue Joseph Busing of North  
Vancouver.

Busing had been knocked  
from the deck by a sling load  
of lumber.

Lankstead, of 3013 Douglas,  
Burnaby, located Busing float-  
ing under the dock, pulled  
him on to a fender log, and re-  
stored his breathing.

Busing was treated in hospi-  
tal for head and chest injuries  
and is now a patient at the  
WCB Rehabilitation clinic.

Labor Minister James Cla-  
hol presented the award at a  
Bayshore Inn dinner.

Joe. J. Busing  
876 GRANVILLE ST.  
VANCOUVER 2, B.C.

P.S. This clipping is of my accident.  
The man who saved my life got  
a $1,000. reward and 2 medals.

Joe. J. B.