Message Found In Bottle from '87 Gets Man Honeymoon Trip

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:07 AM EDT

Article Source: Local 6

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Message Found In Bottle Gets Man Honeymoon Trip

A message discovered in a bottle turned into a honeymoon trip for a Texas man.

John Reed was fishing on a Gulf Coast beach in 2003 when he found an old rum bottle that was sealed. Documents inside said the bottle was one of 12 tossed in the ocean in 1987 off Grand Cayman Island in a promotion for a rum maker, a resort and the Cayman Islands.

Inside were free certificates for a plane ticket, a hotel stay and rum....