This one, though, takes the cake for “strange-but-true” headlines.
On screen, Dick Van Dyke has been rescued from untimely death by
flying cars and magical nannies. Off screen, the veteran star of Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins had to rely on the help of a pod of
porpoises after apparently dozing off aboard his surfboard. “I’m not
kidding,” he said afterwards.Van Dyke’s ordeal began during an
ill-fated trip to his local beach. “I woke up out of sight of land,” the
84-year-old actor told reporters. “I started paddling with the swells
and I started seeing fins swimming around me and I thought ‘I’m dead!'”Van
Dyke was wrong. “They turned out to be porpoises,” he said. “And they
pushed me all the way to shore.” The porpoises were unavailable for
comment.
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