Early in the morning of March 18 in Tainan, a man surnamed Liu was preparing to take his little fishing boat out to sea. As he untied his mooring rope in the dark beneath the Sea-view Bridge, he suddenly noticed a green canoe quietly approaching, which gave him goose bumps all over. Having gathered his wits, he took a closer look and noticed that the canoe had a rope attached that was floating along with it, so he guessed that what had probably happened was that the canoe had not been properly tied up and had got washed away by the flood tide. After Liu reported the incident, the police decided to treat it as a case of lost and found.
On the day of the incident, Liu rushed into the Hainan station of the Tainan City Police Department’s Third Precinct and told the police that he had come across a ghost canoe. He said he had been down beneath the Sea-view Bridge when he suddenly saw an unmanned canoe draped with seaweed coming toward him. At first he thought something weird was happening to him, and it was not until he gathered his wits that he realized it was a canoe that someone had lost. The green canoe was about 480cm long and 95cm wide and made of fiberglass, and it was marked with the number 211. Since the canoe was really too big, the police station had nowhere to put it, so the police asked Liu to look after it.
A police officer said that last year a member of the public had found an approximately one-meter-long radio-controlled helicopter, which was strange enough, but now somebody had found a canoe, and that would count as the strangest object to have been found this year.
Photo: Wang Chieh,Liberty Times, from a police video照片：翻攝自警方錄影畫面
(Liberty Times, translated by Julian Clegg)
台南劉姓漁民三月十八日凌晨準備駕駛小漁船出海，他在黑漆漆的觀海橋下解開繩索時，突然發現一艘綠色的獨木舟靜悄悄的靠近他，雞皮疙瘩爬滿身，定神一看後發現獨木舟還牽著繩索一起漂流，猜測應該是獨木舟沒有綁好，加上海水漲潮被沖走，劉男報案後警方將獨木舟列為拾得物受理。
事發當天劉男慌張的跑進台南市警三分局海南派出所報案，他向警方供稱他凌晨遇見幽靈獨木舟，當時他在觀海橋下突然看到一條披著水草的無人獨木舟靠近，原本以為遇上怪事，最後定神才發現這是有人遺失的獨木舟，綠色的獨木舟長約四百八十公分、寬約九十五公分，是玻璃纖維材質，獨木舟上有數字二一一的特徵。由於獨木舟實在體積龐大，派出所沒有地方收容，將獨木舟交由劉男代為管理。
警員說，去年有民眾撿到一架長約一公尺的遙控直升機，已經很怪了，沒想到今年竟然有人撿到獨木舟，這艘獨木舟被列為該所今年最奇怪的拾得物。
(自由時報記者王捷)
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