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August 09, 2005

That's using your noodle

A teenager used a floatation noodle--like one you'd use in your backyard swimming pool--to rescue a man who'd swamped his canoe on the St. Croix River.

Pretty quick thinking.

And a good thing for the drunk guy in (or out of, as the case may be) the canoe.

Yes, drunk apparently.

Very nearly another Darwin Award winner.

There really is no limit on stupidity, is there?

Posted by Carey Kish at 07:55 AM

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Unbelieveable. The summer we were in Fairbanks, we watched as two drunk guys capsized their canoe in the Chena River (think glacial melt) and then one proceeded to drown in front of the staff and patrons watching from the deck of the restaurant. Only time I've seen someone die in front of my eyes. He came up once in the "dead man float" position and the body wasn't found for another two weeks, miles downstream.

Posted by BB
August 9, 2005 10:24 AM