Article: AHOY, MATEY!(DAYBREAK)(THE SKINNY)(Column)

A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort recently.

Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 8-foot tall model with a yellow head and blue torso.

"We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water," said a stall worker. "It was a life-sized Lego toy." A woman nearby added: "I saw the Lego toy floating toward the beach from the direction of England." The toy was later placed in front of the drinks stall.

Erasing the past

In Berlin, a woman who'd been walking around with a pencil in her head for 55 years finally had it removed.

Margret Wegner, 59, fell ...

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