Mmm. Tired.
Mar. 29th, 2006 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heywilmaAn hour and a half to finish off this news story. I am trying to make a soccer-ball-fell-into-the-river sound melodramatic. Names will be used in this, whether you like it or not *coughKathyJulescough*
In the meantime, a little something for Lucy, since she asked.
I swear it didn't look this fuzzy last night.
Eta: the story.
Players were relieved as a stray soccer ball was rescued from the Brisbane River yesterday, at Mowbray Park, East Brisbane.
The soccer players, made up of a group of eight teenagers, were taken off guard when one of their members overshot the soccer ball, and watched in horror as it rolled down a small hill and into the river.
Attempts to rescue the ball proved futile as the current of the river carried it further from the shore.
It was fortunate, one of the witnesses commented, that a man was able to retrieve the ball with his fishing rod.
“We were waiting for the current from the City Cat to carry it back to us,” Kathy Rine, 18, said. “But it just sort of floated closer, and [the fisher] could reach it with his rod.”
A smattering of applause followed the rescue.
The soccer players were able to look back on the event with some humour. “It was funny how once everyone saw where the ball was going, they all started to run towards it, like by some miraculous means they’d be able to catch up with it,” another witness, Jule Lian said.
The soccer ball is expected to make a full recovery.
In the meantime, a little something for Lucy, since she asked.
I swear it didn't look this fuzzy last night.
Eta: the story.
Players were relieved as a stray soccer ball was rescued from the Brisbane River yesterday, at Mowbray Park, East Brisbane.
The soccer players, made up of a group of eight teenagers, were taken off guard when one of their members overshot the soccer ball, and watched in horror as it rolled down a small hill and into the river.
Attempts to rescue the ball proved futile as the current of the river carried it further from the shore.
It was fortunate, one of the witnesses commented, that a man was able to retrieve the ball with his fishing rod.
“We were waiting for the current from the City Cat to carry it back to us,” Kathy Rine, 18, said. “But it just sort of floated closer, and [the fisher] could reach it with his rod.”
A smattering of applause followed the rescue.
The soccer players were able to look back on the event with some humour. “It was funny how once everyone saw where the ball was going, they all started to run towards it, like by some miraculous means they’d be able to catch up with it,” another witness, Jule Lian said.
The soccer ball is expected to make a full recovery.
