She's Leaving Home...

The year was 1966 and 17-year-old Barbara McVay decided she really needed to get to the U.K.

The problem being? She lived in Maryland, which in whatever way you try to swing it was tragically not in any way connected to the U.K.

So there was only one thing to do and that was to run away from home.

So lets see...

Why did she do it?

And what was her chosen mode of transport?

We know it's 1966.

The Beatles have an attraction with teenage girls...

The song "Yellow Submarine" had just been released.

This is starting to make some sense!

So Barbara slipped past officers guarding the British submarine, which was docked in Baltimore on a goodwill visit, she hid herself  inside a conning tower compartment of the HMS Walrus

I kid you not... goo goo g' joob!

Where she stayed for 12 hours before making her presence known, due to the fact that she was on the edge of fainting from carbon monoxide fumes.

The compartment would have slowly filled with water when  fully submerged.

As it was, they were only four hours into its trip when the crew found her.

So they turned the sub around and dropped her back off at Baltimore

Barbara told police:

"I like English boys, I couldn't go legally, so I had to do it illegally.

Right on Sista'!