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730127

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730127

Text

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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.

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“730127,” Archive Home, accessed June 13, 2026, https://mail.pkman.org/archive/items/show/195.

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