It sounds like an Onion headline, I know. How many corpses are floating around out there?
Now I have this mental image of them fishing the corpse out of the water and one of them saying “Throw it back. It’s too small.”
A number of missing persons cases have been solved by just searching nearby waterways.
He will be taken to his burial in a hearse of a different color.
Years ago my elderly father and his fishing buddy were out on a large local lake spending a quiet afternoon. They were heading to a particular area near the shore when they saw a body floating towards the edge.
They didn’t have cell phones even if they were available at the time.
I can’t remember how it all turned out but I seem to remember my father stating that they just scooted on out of there.
Isn’t there a “fact” from several decades ago that something like 80% of dead men pulled out of the water have their zipper down?
When Catfish Noodling Goes Wrong.
I can say I’ve been there & done that. Well, it was the other dive team on the call but we found someone we weren’t looking for & never did find the person we were called out for. The person who was found was part of a group that was intentionally jumping off a bridge into a canal for some summer fun. The group split in two & each thought the victim was with the other group & no one realized this person wasn’t accounted for.
I also know of a dive team that intentionally sank a car into the river for training purposes; they couldn’t find their prop car but did find a few others that they didn’t know were down there. When one drives a car off a boat ramp, it may float for a bit & get carried downstream a bit before it fills with water & finds it’s resting place on the bottom.
You don’t wanna know.
Watch it, Buster!
Adventures With Purpose often finds multiple submerged cars that aren’t the car they’re looking for. Only occasionally is there a body in them. I think their high score was over 50 found in one stretch of a Pittsburgh river. I forget which river.