And the moral of the story is—Never jump in a river if you can’t swim.
He could swim according to his mother but she said he was scared of the river. The Mississippi is very high and swift now, not to mention cold.
Should be teach a black kid how to swim.
Pittiful. A teen not able to swim?
As bad as a teen not being able to read.
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...
Ghetto lottery Mom?