What He Thought Would Keep Him Alive: a Football Fish and God

(Newser) The young American paddling his kayak toward a remote Indian island whose people have resisted the outside world for thousands of years believed God was helping him dodge the authorities. God sheltered me and camouflaged me against the coast guard and the navy John Allen Chau wrote before he was killed last week on North Sentinel Island per the AP. Indian ships monitor the waters around the island trying to ensure outsiders dont go near the Sentinelese whove repeatedly made clear they want to be left alone. Police say Chau knew the Sentinelese resisted all contact by outsiders firing arrows and spears at passing helicopters and killing fishermen who drift onto their shore. Chaus notes which were reported Thursday in Indian newspapers and confirmed by police make clear he knew he might be killed. Read More