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| El Salvador castaway vows will not return to sea Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 06:52 PM PST  By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A fisherman from El Salvador who says he spent 13 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, surviving on turtle blood and fish and birds caught with his bare hands, vowed he would not venture back out to sea as he left hospital on Tuesday. Jorge Salvador Alvarenga, 37, was found in January on a remote coral atoll in the Marshall Islands, saying he had survived at sea for more than a year. "No. For the moment no," Alvarenga said, telling reporters he will not return to the sea as he left the hospital with family members, stopping to raise his hand in a victory sign. Another fisherman who had set out with Alvarenga died weeks into the ordeal. Full Story | Top |
| 'Catch me if you can' biker nabbed by Texas police Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014 12:41 PM PST By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A motorcyclist who taunted San Antonio police for a week with a Facebook video of himself driving recklessly through traffic along with the message "catch me if you can" was caught while sneaking out of a friend's house, police said on Tuesday. Police took Alberto Rodriguez, 27, into custody on Monday for suspected motorcycle theft and in connection with several outstanding arrest warrants. "When we pulled up on the house, our man ran out the back door and was hiding behind an air-conditioning unit," San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters. Officers recovered a stolen motorcycle during the arrest but said it was not the one that was seen in the video. Full Story | Top |
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