I wonder if there's more than meets the eye?
My brother knows the family of the last young man that died. It is totally out of character of what they say happened to him.
It just seems too suspicious for this to keep taking place.
There have been rumors that this is the work of a very strange serial killer who drowns young men in cold rivers in Midwestern college towns. It seems to me that for a serial killer, drowning is a method that isn't very foolproof and leaves a lot to chance. But this is a very sad and mystifying story.
"It just seems too suspicious for this to keep taking place."
That's what I've been thinking for years, too. However, I've been in that area (family lives in LaCrosse) and just walking along the riverbanks while you're sober is a, "sobering" experience. It would be very easy to fall in if you were that wasted.
And I agree that people will do stupid things; especially young men that feel they're invincible. I just thought the comments by the Mayor were pretty stupid.