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Old 06-27-2003, 10:09 PM
chique chique is offline
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What? WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! TURN THAT NOISE DOWN!

Some chick fell into a river last night near Brainerd, MN. She spent three hours trying to get out of it. Local authorities did their best to find her, to no avail.

She thinks that had they used a vehicle someone quieter than a freakin' Hovercraft (!) they might have been able to hear her hollering for help - she was only 100 feet away from the boat, after all.

Dunno whether to laugh or cry, man.....
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Old 06-27-2003, 10:12 PM
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OMG it must have been cold? Had she been drnking?

Of course she'd been drinking, what else is there to do when school is out....
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Old 06-27-2003, 10:30 PM
Guinastasia Guinastasia is online now
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Wait-did she get out?
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Old 06-27-2003, 11:30 PM
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Woman is fine, just understandably unhappy.

I found an article in the Brainerd Dispatch. http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stor...627030024.html
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<snip> What started as an early morning swim in the Mississippi River today turned into a search for a Brainerd woman swept into the river's current.

The search ended about three hours later in Baxter when the woman pulled herself out of the river and flagged down a passing motorist.
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