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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (12628)	9/18/1998 4:02:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

(True Story in "bad taste" ahead):::: It's not really a Darwin award, Alex, but somehow similar: Multnomah Falls is a very popular spot up the Columbia Gorge a ways; it falls a couple hundred feet into a pool, and cascades down into another. There's a walk by and a very nice old bridge. [This story is incredible, when I think about it, but it's true.] Somebody reports, in the morning, to the park office in the lot below, that there is a naked body in the upper pool. The manager says "Thank you." Somebody takes off to look, and comes back and tells the manager guy again, yah, there's a body floating in the pool beneath the falls up there. The manager says something like, "Jane you ignorant slut ~ it's a mannequin." How do you know? says Jane. "Because a couple of years ago some jokers tossed one off the cliff-top, scared the crap out of everybody, and we had to fish it out" says Dick. (This part does sound very Oregon.) People come to the window all day long, saying there's a body in the pool, nekkid, and the manager gets madder and madder and puts up a sign telling people it's a mannequin, and that they'll go get the damn thing out later, and please don't throw stuff in the pools, it's vandalism. At the end of their day shift, one of the workers goes up there again, climbs down to the pool, takes a look, and it's a naked dead human. They get, I don't know, 5,000 people a day up there. They call rescue to get her out. Story makes all the TV news, with rescue-crew interviews. (Where this manager is discussed ~ in awe.) I've always wanted to do a follow-up story on that guy, and his career, and what his resume says ~ stuff like that.