Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 24, 2011
Transcript:
The village of Fudai, Japan, survived the March 11, 2011, tsunami relatively unscathed thanks to a $30 million, 51 foot tall floodgate and sea wall that took more than a decade to complete! Worth the weigh! Christopher Steele of Columbus, Ohio, USA, has collected 200 coin-operated antique scales- some of which are more than a century old! In November 2010 Andrew Linn was impaled through the mouth by a metal pole during a car crash- and survived!
Expect more seawalls to be built. It pays to look ahead.