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Originally posted by Undertoad
Snopes says false on the lighthouse story! I knew I'd heard that one before. Snopes has the exact same text except that it's between an American and a Canadian and has a different date.
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BUT ....
the British Navy did run aground in a lovely new fiberglass state-of-the-art cruiser at the Rubbish Dump on our island sometime in the early 1990s. Our local police officer is reputed to have strolled to the site, gazed up at the dumbfounded captain and asked "Do you have a permit to leave this thing here?"