I was staying in Spokane one night at a riverside motel. I was awoken by the sounds of helicopters outside my room as they were hovering over the Spokane River with searchlights. The next morning it was reported that some idiot decided to run from the cops and then took his chances by jumping in the river. This was in January and that water was freezing. Found his dead ass about 4 months later...
Did they ever find the rest of him?
Cold water has no mercy.
Years ago a FReeper described his barely surviving cold water experience in a canoe or some kind of small craft. Someone else was there to rescue him or he would not have told the story.
Probably had a heart attack the minute he plunged into that icy water.