Sunday, March 25, 2007

Today's Gazette

What was this nut thinking.............................. Man on air mattress plucked off river ice above Niagara Falls

Associated Press

Published: Sunday, March 25, 2007

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — An apparent illegal immigrant was rescued from an ice floe about 1.5 kilometres upstream from Niagara Falls, authorities said.

Guards from Ontario Power Generation said they heard the man screaming for help at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday near the company’s water intakes near Chippawa, Ont.

Peter Larsen, a control dam operator at the intakes, said if the man hadn’t been discovered, “he would have gone through one of those gates and then very likely could have been swept over the falls

Rescuers inboats plucked the shivering man from the ice floe and got him ashore.

Authorities said the unidentified 42-year-old man had an inflatable air mattress with him and was apparently trying to get to the United States. The ice chunk he was on apparently broke loose.

The man was treated for mild hypothermia before being charged by Canadian immigration authorities.
.....................................................................................an air mattress YIKES

4 comments:

sandy19465 MSN said...

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les__f MSN said...

Sandy you have wrong,........we need to encourage them to try this method of entry,.and just discourage the night watchmen,from listening for screams................hahahahahaha but they neer did say what nationailty  he was,......probably a Mexican Tourist ,.just trying to get back home to the States,...........where he gets his credit cards from,.................................hahahahahah

edbro68 MSN said...

Sandy, Were the minutemen asleep?  Ed

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