As a 10-year-old boy, Max Vredenburgh threw a message in a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean in 2010. His message included his home address, in the hopes his message would be found.
He had to wait nine years, but he finally heard back. The now 19-year-old college student from Massachusetts says he completely forgot about sending the message in a bottle until his dad sent a photo of the letter -- and the reply -- in a group text."My parents always saved things from our childhood, so I didn't think much about it," he told CNN on Monday."Then I read the letter from the recipient, and my heart just dropped.
— māx November 8, 2019 Vredenburgh wrote the original letter August 21, 2010. He and his father threw the bottle into the ocean at Long Beach in Rockport, Massachusetts.Read MoreHe wanted whoever received his message to know a little bit about himself. "I like apples," the letter says."I like the beach, my favorite color's blue, I like animals, I like cars, and I like outer space.
The Police will be proud
YoU ThReW RuBbIsH tO ThE OcEAn?
3 years after that he got a citation in the mail for littering.
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wow love these stories
Sail Boats too moved with Ocean Currents to distant shores.
This is A Lesson Which Teaches Whatever You Do Does Come Back To You. Gud Or Bad Deed. It's Came Back When The Boy Forgot . After 9 Long Years. So People Do Gud Deeds. Let The World Trouble You , Let It Hate You. But One Day All Will Be Well. The Truth Will WIN .
I can't get the video to play. What does the bottle look like, and the written story doesn't mention anything about the French letter writer.
So kid littered in the ocean 9 years ago and it stayed in the ocean the whole time...
Hope it wasn't a plastic bottle
This is so awesome!!!
The police are attacking the university. We need help
He started going crazy and they cut the story short lmao 😂
Hey CNN what about the CBS/ABC EPSTEIN STORY? Why aren't you reporting on it? I would encourage your followers to go to other news Outlets to get real news..
The American Zionist capitalist empire is an apocalyptic beast that swallows and devours other emerging economies and entire peoples starve to death with their neoliberal policies of dispossession and plunder
Max should grow up now!
Charge him for polluting the ocean
They told him that he was the last living relative of a dead Nigerian prince, and if he’ll only send them his social security number...
A boy threw a bottle in the oceans
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