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House Spotted Floating Down Ohio River
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Posted on 06/17/2004 9:28:46 AM PDT by esryle
LaGRANGE, Ky. -- Tuesday appeared to be an average day on the Ohio River northeast of Louisville until a house floated by.
The unoccupied two-story house floated atop 24 55-gallon plastic barrels.
The house had a bedroom upstairs and a living room downstairs, as well as an attached kitchen. It was filled with household items and debris, North Oldham Fire Chief Rick Albers said.
Inside the house, authorities found 4-year-old mail addressed to a man from Frankfort, Ky.
Officials suspect recent storms may have swept the floating structure away from the banks and down the river.
Firefighters and the U.S. Coast Guard moved the floating structure to shore and tethered it to trees.
TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: floating; floatinghouse; house; thatsdifferent
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To: aculeus; dighton; general_re; BlueLancer; Constitution Day; chance33_98; Lijahsbubbe
Brilliant officials alert: they ruled out someone tossing it off a bridge. Rather presumptuous of these folks, dontcha think? They probably ruled out terrorism, too.
To: Thinkin' Gal
Great way to avoid property taxes, move the house.
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posted on
06/17/2004 11:59:59 AM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(What do they call children in Palestine? Unexploded ordinance)
To: Professional Engineer
maybe bryan should take a look at this? LOL!
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posted on
06/17/2004 12:04:24 PM PDT
by
msdrby
(Great things come at great cost. - John Nash)
To: MotleyGirl70
Those are some brillant officials they have working there in Kentucky....someone didn't use an square/clovehitch knot....Where's my copy of Chapman's . 8)
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posted on
06/17/2004 2:05:14 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: skinkinthegrass
Geeeez, I'm a (former) Girl Scout Leader, I'm sure I could have come up with something to keep
my houseboat from floating down the damn river. Hahahaha.
Girl Scouts not only sell cookies ya know! :)
To: esryle
Officials suspect recent storms may have swept the floating structure away from the banks and down the river. Unless June is spawning time for houses, in which case it may be working its way upstream to its ancestral breeding grounds.
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posted on
06/18/2004 4:08:40 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
To: esryle
House Spotted Floating Down Ohio River
This is news? Now, if it had been spotted floating UP the river ...
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posted on
06/18/2004 4:12:26 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: esryle
For Sale: Quaint 2 story home, attached kitchen, lovely river view, just steps from the Ohio River, needs a little TLC. Make offer!
To: MotleyGirl70
Girl Scouts not only sell cookies ya know!...knot manuals, too?...24-55 Gal. Barrels attached to the bottom of a house and floating down the Ohio River...it seems Capt. Bob's backyard project got away. :)
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posted on
06/18/2004 5:23:24 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
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