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It was a tragic tale. Enjoying a sunny day on the lake with his fiance, James Woodmancy waited to be tugged out of the water and onto water skis when, suddenly, the rear of the boat ran over him. Then, as rescuers tried to pull him onto the boat, his life preserver inexplicably came off. He slipped under the water and drowned. Or did he? State prosecutors, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers and an FBI agent aren't so sure. In fact, they're downright suspicious. "We never found a body," Sullivan County District Attorney General Greeley Wells said. Couple that with...

Mackerel catches fisherman By Roberta Mancuso May 03, 2005 From: AAP A QUEENSLAND fisherman suffered the ultimate revenge when a mackerel jumped into his boat and floored him – and then got away. In what he called a bad case of "fishy's revenge", Glen Hopper suffered bruised ribs, cuts to his face and arms and a dented ego when the 1.5m fish jumped out of the water and hit him on Sunday morning. "It felt like I'd just run into a brick wall, because I was going 20 knots one way and it was speeding the opposite direction," the 43-year-old...