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Shark Guided Out of Busan Canal After a Month; Perth Man Guided Off Broxden After Five Years

Both 'tired but grateful'; experts say methods were 'surprisingly similar'.

A canal, which unlike Broxden has a clear way out.

A canal, which unlike Broxden has a clear way out. Photo: Peter Aikman, “Low tide on the Tay Estuary - geograph.org.uk - 3027755”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

PERTH — A shark trapped in a canal in Busan for a month has been guided back out to sea, and in a heart-warming parallel, a Scone joiner has finally been guided off Broxden roundabout.

Gordon Tullis-McBride, who featured in Wednesday’s Perthetic after five years in the inside lane, was escorted off by a lorry driver called Davie, who flashed his lights and “just went for the M90, no indicating, very brave”.

“I’m on the M90,” Gordon said by phone. “I can see Bridge of Earn. I’m crying. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m going.”

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