Teenager completes UK coast walk

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Source: BBC

A teenager who sparked a land and air rescue operation after stealing a boat has completed a sponsored walk around Britain to make amends. Seb Green was 15 when he and a friend sparked a search costing £20,000 when they got stranded near Weymouth Harbour, Dorset, in May 2004.

He has spent nearly a year walking 5,821 miles (9,367km) around Britain with his border collie, Flash.

Mr Green has raised more than £20,000 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance and Starlight Children's Foundation, a charity which grants wishes for seriously and terminally ill children and provides hospital entertainment.

"I don't think the £20,000 will make amends for the prank. "What the £20,000 will do is help brighten up the lives of seriously ill children and assist the air ambulance in saving lives."







Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/7782372.stm

[Diclotican]

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He might have doing some very dumb thing, and have in some pay a price for it. But at least he KNOW the country far better than most brits can claim to do, as he have traveled the country the whole area.. He might even have experienced a lot of thing that he maybe never would have been doing if he had not doing this...

And 20.000 pounds IS real money for them who are in need of it... Even that it doesn't sound that much, it is some real money

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not my native language

[nyy1998]

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but hey, the kid owed up to his mistake and did something about it, gotta give him some props